Global Journal of Human Resource Management Vol.3, No.3, pp.58-73, May 2015 Published by European Centre for Research Training and Development UK (www.eajournals.org) HISTORY, EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE Kipkemboi Jacob Rotich1, Moi University, School of Human Resource Development, Department of Development Studies, P.o Box 3900-30100, Eldoret, Kenya. ABSTRACT: Various attempts have been made towards tracing the historical development
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Relief Operations Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Factors Influencing Service Process Design 5 2.1 Disaster Preparedness 5 2.2 Disaster Response 7 2.3 Collaboration during Disasters 10 3. Project Management and Humanitarian Logistics 10 4. Conclusion 12 Bibliography 13 Appendix 1 – List of figures 16 Service process design: Emergency Telecommunications Cluster during Humanitarian Disaster Relief Operations 1. Introduction On 8 November
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EVOLUTION OF HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS PAPER EVOLUTION OF HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS PAPER 2 THE PATIENT RELATIONSHIPS WITH HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY My grandfather would often share stories of the neighborhood Doctor coming to visit the family home and providing medical care or just stopping in to say hello. They were extremely thorough, knew the entire family's history and actually became a part of the family. Over the years, the Doctor's relationship has evolved from the family
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Stewhart showed how three deviations from the mean required some type of process solution. Finally in the late 1980s Six Sigma became closer to what we know it as today. A Motorola Engineer, Bill Smith, developed Six Sigma as a process for quality management. They came up with the idea or simply pointed out that the lesser number of mishaps at each stage of production would result in less defects. While this seems logical it had not been addressed before this point. At that time Six Sigma in its basic
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Knowledge Management and Information Strategy Assessment Table of Contents 1. Introduction: 4 1.1. Organization (IBM) brief: 4 1.2. Services provided by the organization: 5 2. Employee management in the organization: 5 2.1. Technologies invented and business: 5 2.2. Various collaborations: 7 2.3. Implementation of knowledge management strategy: 7 2.4. Post implementation analysis: 8 3. Potential application: 8 3.1. Communities of practices within the company: 9 3.2. Organizational
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Cash Management Trends in India Niraj Vedwa President Head – Global Sales and Marketing Nucleus Software (Original article published in gtnews.com) This article examines the cash management and payments developments in India, in terms of bank offerings and new corporate best practice. Traditionally having a paper-based clearing system involving not only high processing cost but security risk, cash management in India has certainly undergone a paradigm change. From a product-centric approach
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“try and change and improve the world.” In order to accomplish that goal, he and the team members need to work in coordination to accomplish that goal. So McGregor's Theory Y in Organizational Behavior is prevalent in the way they do business. Management at whole foods is really just the mechanism to help find and bring people into the organization that assist the organization in achieving this goal. He recognizes that employees that are engaged, have the ability to make decisions and are able
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are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit” (Strategic Management, 2009). Values are what make people and businesses operate as they do. They are the deciding factor in behaviors and plans. ExxonMobil is a market leader in petroleum because of their ability to focus on their core values and beliefs in the operating procedure. Evolution of Values To understand the origins and subsequent evolution of personal and workplace values, the meaning of values must first be understood
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Engagement Quality Review In: Business and Management Engagement Quality Review ENGAGEMENT QUALITY REVIEW Introduction Engagement quality review, also known as concurring partner review or second partner review, is not a new practice and was first mandated in 1977, but it has most recently been required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 for each registered public accounting firm to "provide a concurring or second partner review and approval of [each] audit report (and other related
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environment and the new production paradigm known as Lean Production or World Class Manufacturing (Hall et al., 1991). In addition there is the need to support and verify the performance improvement programmes such as Just-in-Time, Total Quality Management, Concurrent Engineering, etc. (Ghalayini and Noble, 1996). These programmes are characterised by their ability to pursue several performances at the same time, for example the increase in the product quality together with the lowering of the
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