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    Duties and Responsibilities of COO

    What are the duties and responsibilities of the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Information Officer, Chief Finance Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer of consulting firms? Give specifics.

    Milinder Recycling Company

    The Milinder Recycling Company has experienced significant growth over the past two years. Due to this growth, the company is currently encountering problems in the following areas: Especially among new hires, there is an extremely high turnover rate. People who have worked for the company for short periods of time (sometim

    Workforce Effectiveness Safety & Security Issues

    Scenario: As the HR manager responsible for Safety and Security issues, you have been asked to develop a policy that will make sure the work environment is safe from a security standpoint, as well as from an injury perspective. You must also incorporate ways to keep your facility secure. You are responsible for a 400-person cal

    Process Analysis Process Selection and Design (Operations Management)

    Wally's Widget Warehouse takes orders from 7 A.M.to 7 P.M.The manager wants to analyze the process and has provided the process flow diagram shown below. There are three steps required to ship a customer order. The first step is to take the order from a customer. The second step is to pick the order for the customer and then the

    Managing Human Resources

    Jody who was from the Chicago office and was heavily involved in the procedure analysis just resigned from the company. You now need to either replace her or reallocate her work to others on the team. Your choices for internal resources include the following: Name: Neil Location: Little Rock, AK ? Already on the project te

    Human Resources assistance plan

    Analyze and post how the human resources assistance plan and aids you have been working on for a Sr. Credit and Collections Analyst and fit into the company's strategic plan

    Information and decision support

    Considering your business experiences and understandings, how important is a sound DBMS to your organization? How closely do your information technology professionals need to work with professionals from the various business functional areas (such as HR, finance, marketing and product development)? How much technical expertise

    Sexual Harassment

    Please see the case on Sexual Harassment and answer the follwoing questions to help me get started: 1. DO YOU RAISE THE ISSUE WITH YOUR C.E.O.? 2. IF SO, WHAT DO YOU TELL HIM? 3. WHAT DO YOU ADVISE HIM TO DO? 4. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THE JOURNALIST?

    Human Resources; Preparing for Interviews (Techniques)

    Problem: You need to select an interviewing technique, which will give you guidelines on information you need to know and the right types of questions to ask. Using your course materials and the Internet, choose an interviewing style and design 10 questions. Document your reasoning.

    You are the Director of Human Resources for the internet matchmaking company, "People, people who need people.com". In recent months, your company has been sued by three employees who were laid off based on information in their performance appraisals. These employees have alleged that their performance appraisals did not accurately reflect their work and were based on inaccurate interpretations of work performance by the managers who prepared the appraisals. One employee has won her case and two others are currently pending in court.

    You are the Director of Human Resources for the internet matchmaking company, "People, people who need people.com". In recent months, your company has been sued by three employees who were laid off based on information in their performance appraisals. These employees have alleged that their performance appraisals did not accurat

    HR Generalist Recommendation

    Discuss several specific actions the HR generalist could recommend or facilitate to support the managers in improving the value of the performance appraisal system.

    Policy for Internet Abuse

    Scenario: As one of four HR managers for the Home Company, you have been asked to prepare a policy and communication and education process for one particular area that requires attention, abuse of the Internet. Assume that this policy will address this subject, that have until now, been handled informally and inconsistently thr

    Training Plan

    Your manager has allowed you to hire a few consultants to assist you in pulling together the training plan. Research the Internet for examples of training plans. There are several elements of a training plan that need to be specified. Discuss those elements with your small groups. Your plan itself is due to management in a week

    International Human Resource Management

    In case of International HRM, there is a broad interpretations of the HR issues, in case of local HRM there are issue specific strategies that HR takes up. In case of International HRM, the stress is on comparing and contrasting the issues in different locations based on cultural differences, in domestic HRM the stress is on

    Human Resources-Training

    Scenario: After reviewing the following article select 2 responsibilities. One should be technical in nature and the other should deal with interaction skills. Follow the first 6 steps described in the article. Assume that the primary responsibilities of the Executive Assistant position will include: providing all administra

    Interviewing styles and questions

    Select an interviewing technique, which will give you guidelines on information you need to know and the right types of questions to ask. Using your course materials and the Internet, choose an interviewing style and design 10 questions. Document your reasoning.

    Challenges- Employee development Strategy

    You are the newly hired Human Resources Manager for Thompson-Pritchett, Inc., a customer service and sales organization that has been in operation for two years. You were hired to develop a fully functioning Human Resources department which will provide enhanced HR services for the 150 employees and the leadership team. Over the

    HR - motivators for employees

    Consider the following profile of Company and its employees. Describe what you would consider to be motivators to the respective employees as well as the types of HR process you recommend to Company from an HR perspective to keep them happy and motivated, especially in today tight labor market? Company - 70 yrs. In existen

    HRM Increases Effectivenss

    What three important points on human resource management, specifically, on the relationship among human resource management, organizational effectiveness? Why are they important?

    FLSA

    StopNShopNow, Inc., founded in 1991, is a family-owned corporation with 15 combination convenience store/gas station locations and approximately 150 employees. A store manager is responsible for each store location. All accounting, budgeting, payroll, human resources, bulk ordering, energy corporation franchising, and overhead c

    Human Resources-Building an Effective Team

    Background: You are one of four regional Human Resources Managers employed by Ace Consulting, an international consulting firm. You have been assigned to the International Sales division. Currently, one HR Manager is assigned to each of the four global regions: the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America. You report to the Corporate

    Human Resource practices as they affect a company

    Can you explain how HR systems relate to business strategy and ultimately to the performance of the firm. Provide an example of how specific factors can influenced HR practices in an organization (If you don't have an organization to reflect from, provide two examples of corporate factors and the corresponding HR practices they

    Business Sweet Treats Organizational Culture

    Based on your reading, respond to the following hypothetical (using your company) in a detailed substantial two-three page written response. Make sure that your response incorporates every item under the Writing Requirements section below as well as the material from the text. Your response should also address all issues relat

    BusinessSweet Treats

    According to Jones (2007), organizations have different cultures due to the interaction of four factors: people, ethics, property rights given to employees, and structure. How do the four factors noted above affect the culture of your particular organization? (provide specific examples for each factor)

    Strategies for improving quality and morale

    One of your new contacts from the teambuilding seminar has called you for help. She is the Human Resource Manager of a larger manufacturing company. Her division is divided into 7 departments and each department is dependent on the other for success. In today's morning production meeting, the superintendents expressed much co