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    Discuss the types of employee relations activities that are common across organizations, and any experience you have related to that.

    Business

    What are a few of the key points that you feel are centrally important to the strategic, performance, ethical, and/or social responsibility issues associated with outsourcing HR?

    When working in teams, is trust assumed or do team members have to earn trust?

    When working in teams, is trust assumed or do team members have to earn trust? Consider how trust is lost when working in teams and how to keep trust among team members. Explore Kudler Fine Foods and respond to the following questions: What is the difference between an issue and a problem? What are some of the issues at

    What is Web 2.0? How is Business Using It?

    You may have heard the Millennials generation using terms such as Wiki, Furl, Facebook, Flickr and wondered what are they talking about. These and more are components of Web 2.0, and no this is not a new Internet hardware architecture. Are companies using Web 2.0and if so provide examples. Need need at least 700 words

    Influence of Unions on Daily Life

    Although you may not be a current union member, think about ways in which unions have influenced your life. What have unions done to improve your life? What have they done to make your life worse? From an organization's perspective, does cooperating with unions help or hinder the workplace?

    Nine PMI Standards

    BPP's customer, Innovative Systems, has had very uneven results from the ad hoc approach it has taken to running its business. It is considering adopting PMI standards in organizing and managing its projects. Explain the idea of project management knowledge areas. 1. Describe the nine PMI standard project management knowledg

    PM standards information

    PM standards Project management is a relatively young practice, and the memory and terminology of many nonstandard PM models are still fresh and, in some cases, still in use. The use of a common base of concepts and a common language of terms is much to be desired in any complex environment. Fortunately, there are project man

    Decisions in Paradise

    Please!! All help will be greatly appreciated to get me started. Thank you in advance. CASE: For the Decisions in Paradise Part III complete the following items: a. Read the Business Scenario Decisions in Paradise. b. You are Nik, and your employer is the organization represented by Alex, Nik, and Chris. c. Use your

    Compare and contrast problem formulation and identification styles

    How can I investigate and observe the decision making processes in a telecom vendor such as Motorola and Cisco? I need to prepare a paper in which I compare and contrast the problem identification and formulation styles and to specifically discuss the strengths and weaknesses found in each style. I also need to consider the

    Wage & Benefit Issues: paid time off, pension offering, private pension funding

    Please help with the following study questions. Detailed responses are greatly appreciated by our study group. 1. Why do employees today place such a high priority on paid time off? Do you feel that companies are fair in their offerings for vacation/personl/sick time? Why or why not? 2. There are many nuances to the

    Staffing Trends Human Resources

    Human resources professionals are responsible for staying abreast of staffing trends. You are aware of JPS' desires to expand its business and hire more doctors. You must help managers develop hiring plans that make sense. Identify at least three medical specialties that have significant shortages and discuss efforts to improve

    Warehouses

    Why does inventory need to be stored in a warehouse? What different types of warehouses are there? How do customers influnce warehouse locations? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the different warehouse types? What are the advantages and disadvantages of warehouse locations?

    Communication differences between U.S. and Russia

    Globalization has been an area of focus for many different organizations (i.e., retail, manufacturing, fast food, and etc.). When organizations move into foreign markets they must adapt to communication, culture, and human resource issues. For this assessment, you are a HR manager and you have been tasked to transfer several man

    What actions can be recommended to management to try to remain union-free

    Top management has just learned that there now is another union organizing effort going on. This is the third time in four years that the hourly employees have tried to unionize; the vote margin is narrowing. As an HR manager in this union-free company with 500 plant, hourly employees in one location in a large industrial city,

    Human Resource Management: Employee Benefits

    Employee Benefits I need to create a draft and post a memo to upper management detailing the benefits available to employees in the positions of accounts receivable clerk and financial controller. I must include include health insurance, time off, retirement/savings plan, and one other work/life benefit. I must explain

    Recruitment and Selection Strategies in HRM

    Select a job for which as a HR practitioner, you may be required to hire an employee. You must be able to obtain at least the position description and person specification for this job. It could be a job, one you have found on an internet site; or one you have discussed with someone working in a particular organization. It is im

    6 Major Activities in the Implementation Stage

    - Describe the implementation stage for a project. - Include a discussion of the six major activities for the implementation stage as described within the text: (1) coding, (2) testing, (3) installation, (4) documentation, (5) training and (6) support. The discussion of these six activities should describe specifically how eac

    Human Resources: Leaving a Job

    What are some specific events that might cause you to leave an organization without having found a different job? Which dimensions of job satisfaction are most important to you? Would you accept less pay to work in a job with better co-workers or better benefits? Why? Does the specific industry, location of position, ability

    Human Resources: What are elements of MITRE's successful referral program

    Based upon your determination of the overall HR strategy at MITRE, how does it compare and/or differ to your current organization's (or previous organization, association, industry, etc.) strategy? Explain. MITRE uses a successful referral program as one venue to attract individuals. What are some elements of their success

    Supreme Court's stand on reverse discrimination and affirmative action

    What should these terms mean to the private sector HRM manager: "reverse discrimination" and "affirmative action"? What is the U.S. Supreme Court's stand on reverse discrimination and affirmative action? What do these terms mean? In what ways are anti-discrimination efforts and valuing diversity in the workplace related, and

    Strategic Issues for General Motors

    Need help in identifying several companies that have demonstrated strategic thinking about issues similar to those faced by General Motors (GM). Provide an overview of the issues, identify a total of five different strategies utilized by those companies to address them, and discuss the outcomes. Based on the five strategies, exp

    Discussion of Independent Contractor vs Employee Scenario

    A security alarm sales company has 19 employees. There is a 46-year-old sales person named Beth who is paid as an independent contractor. Beth is given set hours by the company that is in an at-will state. Beth injured herself on her way to a sales call when she stopped for lunch. Since she missed her appointment and did not not

    Negotiation Paper (for a salary or a job)

    I need help writing a paper on a negotiation about salary or job that articulates negotiation goals, negotiation strategy and expectations prior to the negotiation. Basic principals of negotiation must be described and referenced as to how they were utilized in the negotiation. Evaluation of the paper will not be based on succ

    Organizations become virtual and wired organizations

    What happens to people being placed at the heart of organizing when organizations become virtual? How does the trend toward wired organizations fit with the Relational Leadership model espoused by Kouzes and Posner, and Leadership Development as discussed by Tichey or the Army model of Be-Know-Do?

    Role of compensation and its influence on employee behavior

    You are an HR professional. Put together a memo-type document to supervisors that will help them come to the realization that frequent feedback and recognition has a more powerful impact than a review once a year accompanied by a merit pay increase. In the memo-type document, be sure that the supervisors get the idea of how resu

    Concepts of planning, organizing, controlling, and leading

    You have been asked by HR to produce and coordinate a job description for a service department line management position in the services department. You are happy for this opportunity because you have witnessed several of the workers on the line become newly promoted managers, only to fail and return to the service department. In

    Human Resource Management

    Help answer and briefly explain 1. Human Resources Management includes all of the following except: A. conducting job analysis B. production forecasts C. orienting and training new employees D. building employee commitment E. establishing pay structures 2. The specific HR course of action