------------------------------------------------- ESSAY STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AT QUANTUM 1. Juni 2015 Jasmin Fink & Kerstin Grobe 1. Juni 2015 Jasmin Fink & Kerstin Grobe Introduction The following case study is based on an article by Deborah Barber, Mark A. Huselid and Brian E. Becker which was published in the Human Resource Management Magazine (© John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) in 1999. It describes the Strategic Human Resource Management at the Quantum Corporation, a company
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UST Global, India: delivering software service solutions Balakrishnan Menon Balakrishnan Menon is a Professor in the DC School of Management and Technology, Idukki, India and Research Scholar in the School of Management Studies, Karpagam University, Coimbatore, India. 1. Introduction When the founder Chairman of US Technology Private Ltd (UST) Late Mr G. A Menon wanted to set up a software company in Trivandrum, the capital city of the communist party dominated state of Kerala in the year
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Management 22 HR Policies of Airtel and Vodafone 27 Marketing Strategies 30 Positioning strategy comparison of Vodafone and Airtel 34 Use of social media marketing by telecom companies 35 Advertisement Trends 37 Advertising and Product Promotion Campaigns 38 Conclusion 40 Recommendations 41 References 42 Annexure 44 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The report talks about the Indian TELECOM sector. It starts off with an overview of Telecom sector talking about different policies of the government
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This article was downloaded by: [Academy of Management] On: 11 February 2014, At: 16:20 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK The Academy of Management Annals Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rama20 An Aspirational Framework for Strategic Human Resource Management Susan E. Jackson
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Human Resources Fundamentals • Administrative HR - Suppose you were starting a brand new organization. You probably wouldn't have an HR Department because your organization is just getting underway. Nevertheless, as you begin to grow, you and the managers you hire will need to be concerned about five broad areas that involve people, staffing, retention, development, adjustment and managing change. Together, these five broad areas constitute human resource management or the HRM system, and much
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COMPANY OVERVIEW Oracle is a provider of enterprise software and computer hardware products and services. Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. It has made its name in the software industry as the pioneer of relational database software, which lets businesses store and manage large amounts of data. Oracle began making software to organize data in the 1970s with their focus on relational database software. This software is used for storing data and relating different pieces
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Summary Managing People in a Global Context Book: Managing across cultures by Schneider & Barsoux, second edition Chapter 1: The undertow of culture Converging cultures? Before the impact of culture can be assessed, two convergence myths have to be challenged: 1. The world is getting smaller… • On the surface, we appear to be converging: television, books, movies, internet, eating habits etc. • However, it seems that the pressure for convergence or integration may in fact create an equal, if
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can be attributed to a lack of cultural sensitivity. Examples abound. Scott Russell, senior vice president for human resources at Cendant Mobility in Danbury, Connecticut, recounts the following An American company in Japan charged its Japanese HR manager with reducing the workforce. The Japanese manager studied the issue but couldn’t find a solution within cultural Japanese parameters; so when he came back to the Americans, he reduced the workforce by resigning—which was not what they wanted
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Part III: Staffing Recruiting and Selecting Employees After reading this chapter, you should be able to deal more effectively with the following challenges: ▪ Understand approaches to matching labor supply and demand. El n Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of internal and external recruiting. Distinguish among the major selection methods and use the most legally defensible of them. 121 Make staffing decisions that maximize the hiring and promotion of the best people. El Understand
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status report. David Well, Mike? How soon can we get our management team into place over there in Italy and phase out their current staff? I’ve heard how slow and inefficient Italian businesses are, and I don’t want to waste time getting our company’s policies in action. Maybe we can get a head start on the European competition with good old American know-how. It’s not going to be that
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