Human Resources Management
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT –BGB2013 – ASSIGNMENT
Instructions:
1. Attached herewith are course assignments throughout the semester. 2. Please HANDWRITE your answer. No typewriting will be accepted 3. Please observe the date line. Those submitted beyond dateline will be subjected to penalty by deduction of marks 4. Each assignment carries TWO marks except for ‘Talent Management: A Critical Review’ which carries FIVE marks.
Assignment | Date line | Talent Management: A Critical Review Please read this article and answer the following questions http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053482206000271 1. What is talent management (TM) 2. What are the problems with the definition of TM? 3. How to make TM strategic? 4. What is ‘talentship’ and resource-based view (RBV) 5. The researcher offers TM decision architecture. Please elaborate. (refer to page 148 of the article) | 01/08/2013 | | | Assignment No. 1 Downsizing As the largest employer in Ouachita County, Arkansas, International Forest Products Company (IFP) is an important part of the local economy. Ouachita County is a mostly rural area in south central Arkansas. It employs almost 10 percent of the local workforce, and few alternative job opportunities are available in the area. Scott Wheeler, the human resource director at IFP, tells of a difficult decision he once had to make. According to Scott, everything was going along pretty well despite the economic recession, but he knew that sooner or later the company would be affected. “I got the word at a private meeting with the president, Janet Deason that we would have to cut the workforce by 30 percent on a crash basis. I was to get back to her within a week with a suggested plan. I knew that my plan would not be the final one, since the move was so major, but I knew that Ms. Deason was depending on me to provide at least a workable
Instructions:
1. Attached herewith are course assignments throughout the semester. 2. Please HANDWRITE your answer. No typewriting will be accepted 3. Please observe the date line. Those submitted beyond dateline will be subjected to penalty by deduction of marks 4. Each assignment carries TWO marks except for ‘Talent Management: A Critical Review’ which carries FIVE marks.
Assignment | Date line | Talent Management: A Critical Review Please read this article and answer the following questions http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053482206000271 1. What is talent management (TM) 2. What are the problems with the definition of TM? 3. How to make TM strategic? 4. What is ‘talentship’ and resource-based view (RBV) 5. The researcher offers TM decision architecture. Please elaborate. (refer to page 148 of the article) | 01/08/2013 | | | Assignment No. 1 Downsizing As the largest employer in Ouachita County, Arkansas, International Forest Products Company (IFP) is an important part of the local economy. Ouachita County is a mostly rural area in south central Arkansas. It employs almost 10 percent of the local workforce, and few alternative job opportunities are available in the area. Scott Wheeler, the human resource director at IFP, tells of a difficult decision he once had to make. According to Scott, everything was going along pretty well despite the economic recession, but he knew that sooner or later the company would be affected. “I got the word at a private meeting with the president, Janet Deason that we would have to cut the workforce by 30 percent on a crash basis. I was to get back to her within a week with a suggested plan. I knew that my plan would not be the final one, since the move was so major, but I knew that Ms. Deason was depending on me to provide at least a workable