competition from abroad as their products and services rapidly commoditize. As businesses become more complex‚ so must the HR organizations that support them. The design of the HR department must parallel the many dimensions of the business. If there are multiple products‚ customers‚ geographies‚ or service lines‚ then HR needs to support them all. As a result‚ today’s HR organizations face many of the same dilemmas as the businesses they work with‚ such as how to: 1. Build strong functional/product
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1. How do you conduct yourself as a ‘professional’‚ not just generally but with specific reference to ‘professionalism’ within the HR function? What improvements could you make? The term professional‚ like many words and concepts has many different dimensions and the meaning of which has changed over time. One definition might be getting paid to complete a specific set of specialised tasks. Another might be an uncompromising commitment to performing at the highest level at all times. Yet another
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Basic HR Audit Checklist Management Are HR goals in line with those of the organization? Are workweeks identified and defined? Are full-time and part-time hours defined? Are shifts defined? Is there open communication to and from the HR department? Hiring Do job descriptions exist for all jobs? Are job descriptions up to date? Are I-9 forms and acceptable documentation reviewed annually? Are I-9s and medical information kept separately from personnel
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Public Sector: Why HR is such a life or death issue The government accepts the need for better people management after a study showed a link with lower mortality in hospitals. Report by Gareth Huw Davies HUMAN RESOURCES may be coming into its own at last‚ as research shows that it could play a vital role in the reform of the NHS. Evidence to be presented this week at a conference attended by health-service executives will show that better HR‚ rather than more doctors‚ could be the key to saving
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business. Human resources intend to be one of the main competitive advantages of a company. At the same time more attention is paid to strategic issues of a company. HR is supposed to be one of the most important areas of a company functioning‚ which should be able to increase productivity repeatedly. During this period‚ functions of HR were significantly increased from common personnel management to motivation system development‚ career planning‚ conflict management‚ labor market research etc. This
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functional departments 3.Human resource professionals- a. should follow a business- like approach b. realize that line managers share their point of view c. insist on the primacy of HR policies d. try to get more authority over line managers 4. which area of the HR function is least affected by internationalization? a. compensation b. training c. succession planning d. equal employment opportunities 5. The basis for human resource planning
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and the owners clean up after them. Pajama day‚ TGIF parties every week and charity events on-site‚ Six weeks paid sabbatical available for every 6 years an employee works there (537 employees took sabbaticals last year). Free car washes and oil changes on-site. If an employee wants to buy a hybrid vehicle‚ Google will give her
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Chapter Two HRM Roles at Different Level The roles‚ functions and strategies of HRM are many and varied‚ and depend heavily on the nature of organizations‚ the vision and skills of practitioners‚ and changes in the external environments of organizations. These aspects will be discussed in greater detail in subsequent chapters‚ but such features as organizational size‚ history and ownership‚ government legislation and political factors have a significant impact on the ways in which practitioners
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ISSN 0976 – 6510(Online) Volume 2‚ Number 1‚ Dec - Jan (2011)‚ © IAEME ISSN 0976 – 6502(Print)‚ ISSN 0976 – 6510(Online) Volume 2‚ Number 1‚ Dec - Jan (2011)‚ pp. 01-14 ©IAEM © IAEME‚ http://www.iaeme.com/ijm.html IJM E CHALLENGES FOR HR MANAGERS IN INDIAN BPO INDUSTRY WITH RESPECT TO ATTRITION Hema Gulati Asst.Professor Department of Management DAV Institute of Management Faridabad‚ Haryana-121001 E-Mail: gulati_hema@yahoo.com Dr.Sunita Bishnoi Assoc.Professor Department
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efficiently. (The Times Case Studies‚ 2011) ALDI and HR Aldi has a very flat organisational structure. In the UK it is split into 5 regions (there are 62 internationally); each region operates individually‚ only sharing the purchasing function. Each region has 5 departments‚ and there are only 3 levels between the Store Assistants and the Managing Director of the Region. Organisational Structure Noticeably‚ there is no IT‚ Marketing or HR function in the structure. IT and Marketing are both outsourced
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