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    HR Depts. Dealing with Retrning Vets

    HR: The April 2004 issue of HR Magazine contained an article titled "Aftershocks of War," which said that soldiers returning to their jobs from Iraq would likely require HR's assistance in coping with "delayed emotional trauma." The term delayed emotional trauma refers to the personality changes such as anger, anxiety, or irrita

    Collective Bargaining Initiatives

    Evaluate the role that Human Resources plays in collective bargaining initiatives: a. Union organizing campaign b. Good-faith bargaining c. Participants in negotiations

    Age & Religious Discrimination

    As the new manager of human resources (HR), you remember that during the interview process, your boss (the chief executive officer [CEO]) specifically mentioned that he had heard something about the new Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) that some other local company CEOs had been dealing with. He asked you to describe for him, thr

    Human capital and compensation components

    What type of compensation component would you like to have through your employer that is not currently offered? Explain your rationale. Include both the benefits and disadvantages this component would bring to you as an employee and to the company.

    More internal analysis

    In order to fully prepare the presentation, strategic resources are necessary to obtain before starting your social networking Web site. A memo is necessary to outline the key resources and explaine their linkage to competitiveness. Prepare a memo outlining the key resources of a social networking Web site (Facebook). In the

    Evaluation of the New Health Medical Systems staffing strategy

    I need help with an evaluation of the New Health Medical Systems staffing strategy. The following questions should be addressed: To what degree does the staffing strategy align with the company's new strategic direction? What changes or additional recommendations would you propose be done to the staffing strategy in order to m

    Guillermo Furniture Store Scenario

    - Resource: Guillermo Furniture Store Scenario - Read the Guillermo Furniture Store Scenario. o How could Guillermo use budgets and performance reports in his decision-making process? o How might ethics influence his accounting decisions? o What accounting information is most relevant for Guillermo to consider when mak

    Operations Management Discussion Questions

    1. What skills do managers need today? Are these skills different from management skills of 50 years ago? Why or why not? Is a manager different from a leader? Explain. 2. What is operations management? What are some industries that might benefit from improved operations management? 3. How is flexibility in human resources

    Unreimbursed employee expenses

    In the current year Mary incures $3600 of unreimbursed employement-related travel and entertainment expenses. These expenses include the following: Airfair-$1500 Taxi fare-100 meals eaten alone while away from home-300 laundry-50 lodging-650 business meals with customers in which business is discussed-500 entertainment o

    Human resource development

    1. Explain the importance of identifying individual performance deficiencies and development needs in planning and developing training and HRD programs. 2.Describe the relative merits of using a trainee's coworkers as potential trainers. What should be done to ensure that a coworker is an effective trainer? Also, what are you

    Functions of Public Relations Paper

    Functions of Public Relations Paper *Select an organization with which is well known or you are familiar, and identify an issue within that organization that would have both organizational and societal implications. ?Explain the organizational and societal functions of PR. ?Identify an issue within that organization that wo

    Organizational Behavior: Example Question

    Question 1 1) Imagine that you looking to change jobs. You found a company that you are interested in and want to understand what the goals of the organization are. How would you determine what the goals of this organization are? Why do goals matter to you, employees, customers, and vendors of the organization? Ques

    HRIS Application

    You are an HR Consultant who was hired to provide some recommendations to an office on how to automate their HR functions. There are several issues facing this HR office for which you will provide technology recommendations. Based on the scenario provided in this assignment titled "Business Background," you will be providing som

    Create a memo that outlines the key resources

    Details: Abby Hunter, your former classmate and potential business partner, would like to know what resources you bring to the table and also what strategic resources are necessary to yet obtain. Create a memo that outlines the key resources and explains their linkage to competitiveness. # Objective: Select and test anal

    HRM function

    As organizations strive to remain competitive, there is much reliance on the management team and their ability to serve effectively in leadership roles. Managers hold a great deal of responsibility in terms of managing people and processes. The NL&C company president has just come to you, the HR Director, and asked that you

    Training Modules Analysis

    Analyze three training modalities. Describe a scenario that would be most appropriate for each modality and why. Include in your discussion of each scenario: · Content · Timeframe · Type of organization One advantage and disadvantage of each training modality

    HRM: How will you convince management to try your ideas?

    10. Suppose you are an HR professional who convinced your company's management to conduct a survey of employee satisfaction. Your budget was limited, and you could not afford a test that went into great detail. Rather you investigated overall job satisfaction and learned that it is low, especially among employees in three depar

    Fairness Issues

    Thanks for your help with this! A member of a restaurant's serving staff is chronically late to work. From the organization's point of view, what fairness issues are involved in deciding how to handle this situation? In what ways might the employee's and other server's ideas of fairness be different?

    Human Resource management

    The section on principles of justice used noncompete agreements as an example. How would you expect the use of noncompete agreements to affect voluntary turnover? How might the use of these agreements affect job withdrawal and job satisfaction? Besides requiring noncompete agreements, how could an organization reduce the likelih

    Job Withdrawal

    List forms of behavior that can signal job withdrawal. Choose one of the behaviors you listed, and describe how you would respond if an otherwise valuable employee whom you supervised engaged in this kind of behavior.

    Three Offenses for Immediate Dismissal by HR

    The progressive discipline process described in this chapter is meant to be fair and understandable, but it tends to be slow. Try to think of two or three offenses that should result in immediate discharge, rather than follow all the steps of progressive discipline. Explain why you selected these offenses. If the dismissed emplo

    McGregor's Theory X and Restructuring

    1. Managers who accept the assumptions of McGregor's Theory X are likely to design a very different work situation than managers who accept the assumptions of Theory Y. Discuss how managers who are committed to Theory X assumptions are likely to organize their work environment in terms of their relationships with their subordina

    Process of filing a discrimination complaint against employer: EEOC, litigation

    John is an employee in a private sector organization. He wants to file a discrimination complaint against his employer. Based on this scenario, prepare a paper in which you analyze and explain the entire discrimination complaint and civil litigation processes as it would potentially apply to John and his employer. In your pa

    PERT and CRM at Wal-Mart

    How does project management effect various department and organizational functions at Wal-Mart? In terms of conducting PERT and CRM in Wal-Mart, what are the limitations and/or difficulties?

    HRM

    4) a. What is the importance to have health care insurance? b. What are the benefits of health care insurance toward your family? c. Does any business is required to have insurance for their employees?