Assignment 2 (a)Outline the main forms of flexibility as defined in Atkinson’s (1984) model of the flexible firm (b) What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of the Atkinson model? ANSWER PLAN: Introduction/Background o What are the aims of flexibility o Guest (1987) de-centralisation helps to create flexibility o What are the main forms of flexibility that modern organisation need Body: 4 types of flexibility o Functional/Temporal/Numerical/Financial Body 2: Atkinson’s
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Case requirements Atkinsons Atkinsons have been trading as a department store on the Moor in Sheffield for over 50 years. Two of the directors are friends of your parents. They have asked you and a small group of your colleagues to cast an eye over the business and offer some impartial advice as to its future direction. You were provided with the publicly available statements of the group‚ data from FAME is also available on the internet through litsearch. . Whilst passing through the
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MSc – Human Resources Management Main Assignment “Flexible firm” as a Hotel’s Human Resource Planning Strategy Overview Human Resource Management (HRM) textbooks often begin their sections of “HRM practices / functions” by first introducing the topic of Human Resource Planning (HRP) and secondly the topic of Recruitment and Selection‚ while other topics such as Training and Development‚ Reward Management‚ Performance Management‚ etc‚ are introduced in later chapters. It is observed that this
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Miss Maudie Atkinson Miss Maudie is part of the world where “fragrant ladies rocked slowly‚ fanned gently‚ and drank cool water” (24.53) Miss Maudie lives across the street from the Finch’s. She’s a very optimistic person and is utterly obsessed with her garden. “Miss Maudie hated her house: time spent indoors was time wasted. She was a widow‚ a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men’s
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The Atkinson- Shiffrin model was founded by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin (McLeod). Atkinson’s and Shiffrin’s model focuses on how the human mind processes outside information‚ and stores memories (Hockenbury & Hockenbury 232). They determined that the memory process begins with sensory memory and then proceeds through a series of steps in order to be remembered. Memory can be defined as the mental processes that enable you to retain and retrieve information over time (Hockenbury & Hockenbury
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Journal Article Review Deveane Atkinson Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 305 Professor Joni Knapp 2013 Journal Article Review Introduction The article by Lloyd‚ H.‚ & Craig‚ S. (2007). A guide to taking a patient ’s history‚ appearing in volume 22‚ issue 13 of the journal Nursing Standard in 2007 explains certain process‚ approach and procedure in obtaining patients history‚ emphasizing on the importance of information order collection. This article also expounding on the triage process
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A proper flexible organization provides its work force arrangements where employees are given greater freedom to balance their work and personal commitments such as family‚ higher education‚ community activities‚ religious commitments‚ professional development‚ and general interests. Above is Atkinson’s model of a flexible firm. He argued that firms increasingly seek 4 kinds of flexibility functional‚ numerical‚ pay‚ distancing. Functional flexibility is a qualitative approach to work‚ and
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Flexible Benefits Introduction The "home" of flexible benefits is in the US‚ where the concept is strongly established. With a limited national health service‚ medical insurance is the responsibility of the individual and employees are typically offered healthcare insurance‚ covering private medical‚ optical dental‚ physiotherapy etc. through their flexible benefits scheme. Flexible benefits is an employee reward system‚ which allows employees to choose from a menu of optional benefits
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Question 1 Prepare a new contribution report for February‚ in which: * The static budget column in the contribution report is replaced with a flexible budget column. * The variances in the contribution report are recomputed as the difference between the flexible budget and actual columns. Answer Particulars | Static Budget | Flexible Budget | Actual | Variance | Unit (pounds) | 200000 | 225000 | 225000 | 0 | Revenue | 1600000 | 1800000 | 1777500 | 22500 U | Direct Material
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Smith Wholesale’s budgeted sales price is $40 per unit for a budgeted sales volume of 5‚000 units. The actual performance was 5‚500 units at an average sales price of $39.75. The total dollar amount of the flexible budget sales variance is a favorable variance of $. Smith Wholesale’s budgeted sales price is $40 per unit for a budgeted sales volume of 5‚000 units. The actual performance was 5‚500 units at an average sales price of $39.75. The dollar amount of sales variance to the difference in actual
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