Category: Human Resource

Cultural differences that may challenge your current management style

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Assume you are currently a store manager at Wal-Mart and, because you speak Japanese fluently, the company has assigned you to manage one of their Seiyu-brand stores in Japan.
Determine the skills, strengths, or qualities that you possess, relative to the seven dimensions of the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Model, that would help you successfully manage your store.
Predict two cultural differences that may challenge your current management style and suggest the key actions that could help you address them.

 

 

Ptecting that employer from risk as it pertains to workers’ compensation

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When you consider the company you currently work for, or a former employer, what are your thoughts around protecting that employer from risk as it pertains to workers’ compensation and general liability matters? Some employers are at risk because they chose to take a calculated risk with certain cut-rate insurance coverages, some companies do not know they are at risk. Still others believe they are “too big to fail;” in other words, they do not think the penalty is enough to worry about. What actions would you take? Would you look to educate your company leadership, or would you simply do nothing if you noticed that the company was at risk in these areas? Why, or why not?

 

 

 

 

Workers’ compensation that front line supervisors’ need to understand.

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Many times the workers’ compensation coordinator is somewhere far away in another state, at the corporate office, or may even be a contracted service. Therefore, the EH&S Manager is the most knowledgeable individual in the plant.

With these variables in mind, develop a PowerPoint for important aspects of workers’ compensation that front line supervisors’ need to understand. The assignment is flexible so that you may choose what you feel is most important to the supervisors of the company, but the following questions should be answered:

What are the key points every supervisor should know about the company’s workers’ compensation program or laws?

What are some of the different types of coverage available?

What are the record-keeping systems and reporting requirements?

The pay structure

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Consider the company that you currently work for or one for which you have been employed previously. Describe the pay structure of the company, and discuss whether or not you feel it is/was fair to the employees. What, if anything, could be or could have been improved about the pay structure?

The compensation package

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Think about the CEO of the company you currently work for or one for which you have worked in the past. What are your thoughts about the compensation package that he or she receives or received? Do you believe that the work he or she does or did merits such a compensation package? Why, or why not?

 

 

Competitive advantage for an organization.

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Human resources are sources of competitive advantage for an organization. While higher productivity and efficiency of employees contribute to achieving organizational goals, overloading the employees with additional work without compensation leads to employee dissatisfaction. Heavy workload also adversely impacts the productivity of employees. This proposal analyzes this specific issue of forcing employees to work long hours without leave. This proposal also evaluates the possible consequences, and recommends solutions to this problem.

Background

Phoenix Advertising is providing services to a wide range of industries. Lately, focus has shifted to increasing profitability. In an attempt to show increase in profitability, branch is accepting any offer that can contribute to profit. This approach has created a problem as branch is accepting orders without considering workload on employees. Presently there is one manager, one administrative offer, and 10 employees handling advertising jobs. In past few months, employees are working 12-14 hours a day, seven days a week to meet targets. Specially advertising staffs are overworked. They do not get leave, and they have to work long hours every day. Phoenix Advertising is not paying any extra compensation to employees for putting extra hours. This situation was supposed to last for few weeks only, but it is dragging for past 6 months. Advertising staffs usually work 8 hours a day and 5 days a week. Hence, they work on average 40 hours a week. In changed scenario, staffs work 72 hrs and above per week. Employees are not unhappy about this situation. They do not get compensated for doing extra job. Their personal health and family life is also suffering. It is observed that average productivity of employees has come down significantly in past 6 months.

Major causes of this problem are:

1. No clear cut guideline about which projects to undertake. Presently branch is accepting any project which has potential to generate profit.

2. No clear communication from management to employee about how firm is going to handle extra work. Employees want to know if management is taking steps to handle this issue. The ad-hoc arrangement of overloading employees with extra work cannot work in long run.

To solve these problems. Following key stages will be developed:

1. Analysis of project. This analysis will include rate of increase in projects, total number of hours required to compete the projects, profit earned per project, and profit per hour.

2. Analysis of working of staffs. This analysis will unveil processes which can be improved.

3. Analysis of communication between management and staffs.

4. Exploring possibilities of use of technology to improve productivity

5. Training need analysis

Refraining from workplace commentary

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The Director of Human Resources at Green Branch Coffee was impressed with the first part of your executive report on ethics in the HR profession. She would like you to create a policy for employee use of technology because new sources of social media and more advanced electronic devices are regularly being introduced into the market. The newly designed policy will be part of a revision of the Employee Policy Manual. Green Branch Coffee wants to prevent another leak of customer data, and all locations will be closed for an entire day to train team members on the policy in an attempt to demonstrate Green Branch’s commitment to fairness and justice.

Add an additional 500 words to Part One of (Part One linked) the executive report creating an Employee Use of Technology Policy that addresses the following:

Refraining from workplace commentary on social media
Maintaining a professional image
What can be shared and what cannot be shared on social media
Harassment
Customer privacy and IT security

 

 

The advantages and disadvantages of internal versus external recruiting

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Thinking like a manager and knowing the advantages and disadvantages of internal versus external

recruiting, tell me which you would prefer to do when hiring. Pick one or the other. Why did you

choose the one you picked? What might be a few advantages and disadvantages of choosing this

policy? Please explain.

 

 

An executive report on ethics in the HR profession.

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The Director of Human Resources at Green Branch Coffee was impressed with the first part of your executive report on ethics in the HR profession. She would like you to create a policy for employee use of technology because new sources of social media and more advanced electronic devices are regularly being introduced into the market. The newly designed policy will be part of a revision of the Employee Policy Manual. Green Branch Coffee wants to prevent another leak of customer data, and all locations will be closed for an entire day to train team members on the policy in an attempt to demonstrate Green Branch’s commitment to fairness and justice.

APropose two strategies to open the door to public-private partnerships. Explain the main reasons why your proposed strategies would be effective.
Give three examples in which you have taken a leadership risk during the past year.
dd an additional 500 words to Part One of (Part One linked) the executive report creating an Employee Use of Technology Policy that addresses the following:

Refraining from workplace commentary on social media
Maintaining a professional image
What can be shared and what cannot be shared on social media
Harassment
Customer privacy and IT security