A9: Commonwealth Worldwide Chauffeured Transportation
1. What type of employees would you suggest Dawson Rutter add to his company next. Why?
Dawson Rutter’s future employees I do not believe that a degree is important. What is important for this business is the ability to deal and work with people. Rutter needs to get people that have a natural draw for others. Driving record should also be something he should pay attention. He should also look for people with degrees for the upper management levels to run the business.
2. Which of the three broad HRM activities would you invest in most heavily in order to begin building the human capital commonwealth needs? Discuss
I personally believe that “finding people” should be invested in the most. If he truly wants to expand his company the company he needs to find quality people that will be able to manage the drivers and other aspects of the company. The people are in control of having this business either succeed or fail.
3. Suggest at least one idea for training, one for performance evaluation and one for compensation that might be used to develop and maintain a committed corps of limo drivers.
I think that having a company-driving test would be something that can be beneficial to success and preparation of the company. This driving test can also be used for the performance evaluation for the drivers. For those in management levels there could be a competition between managers that could act as an evaluation of who can obtain the most clients. This competition could eventually lead to different compensation prizes which would keep the motivation