today; flexibility, family orientation, and fun. Southwest airlines philosophy is about the people. It has been consistently successful with great employees and less than strenuous union relations. The company’s success lies in the success of its employee culture and flexibility. Over 80 percent of its employees are unionized but by industry standards have been successful at working together. Although management does not have a formal
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FASTCAT PHASE II MNGT 433-Compensation & Benefits 4/22/2014 Logical Thinkers Consulting Company Damian Malagari Kerry Ahearn Melissa Hekl NgoanPhan Chau Tran Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 RECOMMENDED STRATEGY FOR EXTERNAL COMPETITIVENESS 4 Best Alternatives for FastCat 4 Pay Level and Mix of Forms 4 Integrating the External and Internal Structure 5 Preliminary Ideas 5 SURVEY DESIGN OF TOTAL COMPENSATION OF FASTCAT’S COMPETITORS 6 Selecting Benchmarks and Matching
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12 Recommendations ………………………………………………………………………….. 13 Conclusions …………………………………………………………………………….…... 14 Appendix …………………………………………………………………………………… 15 Executive Summary The closed case study is “Accelerated performance reviews may improve retention.” This case study speaks of the traditional way of performance appraisal versus a new way that organizations may revert to. It is common for new employees to wait at least a year in order to get a performance appraisal. This would give them ample
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business performance. Human resources activities are now being seen as falling into two categories: a) traditional operational administrative category – HR hires and maintains employees and then manages employee separations. This role requires HR staff to be administrative experts and employee champions b) more recent strategic category where HR is focused on ensuring that organization is staffed with the most effective human capital to achieve its strategic goals. this role requires HR staff to
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but the relationship between HRM practice like job analysis – employee Job performance remains unexplored. This paper, based on a study of employees of Pakistan Public sector regulatory authorities of telecommunication, oil and gas, power, media, security exchange, banking sector and organizations being regulated by these authorities is an attempt to develop and test a hypothesized model linking HR importance of job analysis with employee job performance. Survey results of 568 employees indicated that
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employees - Offer advice - Plan future workforce requirements - Appraising performance - Disciplining/counselling - Health and safety - Complaints Handling Outsourcing: using outside vendors to handle specified functions on permanent basis Employee counselling, recruitment, payroll, training, benefits administration 2) Strategic Category - Strategic partner ○ Help achieve strategic objectives Strategy: company's plan on how it will balance internal strengths and weaknesses with external
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Starbucks Executive Summary There is something about Starbucks that goes beyond caffeine. Starbucks has used their multi-cultural diversity to turn challenges into opportunities for success. Corporations such as Starbucks use Performance Management Systems (PMS) to monitor progress towards achieving a set of specific objectives and goals. Organizations commonly identify evaluating performance as the most demanding. Leaders are apprehensive discussing and providing feedback on behaviors because the
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abilities. Human Resource Development includes such opportunities as employee training, employee career development, performance management and development, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, key employee identification, tuition assistance, and organization development. 2. What is the difference between training and development? Training generally refers to teaching of new skill in professional field of the employee. Like an employee being taught to operate another machine, or to perform a new operation
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1993), where human resources (HR) and work practices are often considered central to the success of the Japanese automotive producers (Pil and MacDuffie, 1999). Such views raise fundamental questions regarding the role of labour in such manufacturing systems and, as a direct consequence, there has been increasing interest in the Human Resource Management of these organisations (Arthur, 1992; Osterman, 1994; Pil and MacDuffie, 1996; Whitfield and Poole, 1997). The concept of “high performance work practices”
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and Job Design Human Resource Planning Recruiting Employees Selecting Employees Orientation and Employee Training Management and Organizational Development Career Development Job Satisfaction and Employee Motivation Conflict management Performance Appraisal Systems Organizational Reward System Base Wage and Salary Systems Incentive Pay Systems Employee Benefits Labor Unions & Employee Relations Employee Safety and Health Syllabus Activities Glossary of Terms 1 6 7 9 12 14 16 19 22 25 28 32 35 39 42
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