Problem One Cost Behaviour Required: 1. Which costs are classified as the following (no calculations required): a. Variable (per hour) Extras‚ Stage lighting b. Fixed Director costs/salary‚ equipment depreciation‚ royalties c. Mixed Actors‚ Supplies d. Step cost Food 2. The management has planned to film 800 hours and make 6 shows with an average of 3 actors and 2 extras for August 2009. Please calculate the cost of supplies‚ actors‚ and royalties for this month. (Hint: please use high-low method
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eResearch: the open access repository of the research output of Queen Margaret University‚ Edinburgh This is an author-formatted version of document published as: McGuire‚ D.‚ Garavan‚ T.N.‚ Saha‚ S. & O’Donnell‚ D. (2006): “The impact of individual values on human resource decision-making by line managers”‚ International Journal of Manpower‚ Vol. 27‚ No. 3‚ p. 251 – 273. Accessed from: http://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/265/ Repository Use Policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced‚ and
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FUNCTION I got an opportunity to interview Ms. Ranjani Srinivasan Manthri‚ Associate Manager Human Resources at Collabera‚ Bangalore. This is the set of questions and answers involved in our conversation. Q: What are the challenges faced by you‚ as a HR Manager? Ans: a) Providing the right support to the dynamic business b) Managing perceptions of employees c) At a ground level‚ managing the manager is a challenge in itself. Q: How do you overcome these challenges? Ans: Most of these challenges
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Case Study of IBM: Employee Training through E-Learning By Admin Tuesday‚ February 15‚ 2011 0 comments Tweet “E-learning is a technology area that often has both first-tier benefits‚ such as reduced travel costs‚ and second-tier benefits‚ such as increased employee performance that directly impacts profitability.” – Rebecca Wettemann‚ research director for Nucleus Research In 2002‚ the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) was ranked fourth by the Training magazine on it’s “The
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To: Ms PATRICIA CALDWELL FROM: ACHRAF CHAMSY HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TASK2 DATE: 08/12/2009 HR planning HR planning is basically developing strategies in order to match the size and skills of the employees to meet the company’s needs. The HR planning processes assists companies to recruit‚ keep and optimize the employment of the personnel needed to match the organization’s objectives and to meet the changes in the external environment. This process include carrying out
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offer the key ingredients for making Human Resources an active contributor for their organizational success. The areas which their virtual university focuses on are: • HR Practices • Organizational Behaviors • People Management • Performance Management • Recruitment and Retention • Training and Development HR PRACTICES These have a continuing and significant influence on employment productivity. And look at the best practices in the industry to cope with an increasing number of
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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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1. Which of the following statements about common law is true? a) It is a wrongful act‚ damage‚ or injury done willfully. b) It is enacted by legislation c) It is found everywhere but is not backed by the EEOC d) It is based on a history of court decisions and customs. 2. Right to work laws allow states to: a) Establish emergency strike provision when a strike threatens public welfare b) Maintain a list of arbitrators to in contract settlement c) Pay less than federal minimum wages d)
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performance‚ we found that most traditional HR metrics—such as employee turnover rate‚ average time to fill open positions‚ and total hours of training provided—don’t predict organizational performance. (One important exception is training expenditure per employee‚ as we described in our Forethought article “How’s Your Return on People?” HBR March 2004.) After selecting the HCM best practices that had been previously identified in organizational-development‚ HR‚ and economics
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changes by scheduling a mandatory company meeting. At the meeting‚ JetPack employees should be given a copy of the new policy. The new policy should be explained in detail and any questions from employees should be answered by company managers or the HR department. 2. What effect will a pay-per-performance salary policy have on employees? Explain. The Pay-per-performance salary policy will raise productivity among the employees at JetPack Electronics. It will also lower the labor costs at JetPack
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