Tutor: Jeff Meadowcroft ! An investigation into students’ experience of work life balance ! Rationale ! Although many empirical researches have explained vital elements of Quality of Work Life (QWL) in the past‚ however‚ the subject of work life balance has not been fully explored. Up to date‚ contemporary studies have become more closely focused on the Work–Life balance literature where individuals seek equilibrium in their management of work and life issues and organizations seek to understand activities
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efficiency. One of the responsibilities of the HRM is to recruit and hire the appropriate talent for any given open position within an organization; this is a very valuable service to a company that wants to be as efficient as well as profitable as possible. As a result of this lesson‚ I feel that I am far better equipped with the knowledge and understanding of how the role of the Human Resource Management department within an organization works. This information will prove invaluable in whatever
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innovative in their approaches to attract and retain these scarce skills. The first and far most important approach to attract scarce skills is recruitment‚ according to Swanepoel‚ Erasmus and Schenk (2008:257): “Recruitment can be described as those HRM activities that are undertaken in order to solicit job applications from people who have the necessary potential‚ knowledge‚ skills and abilities (competencies)‚ to fill positions as employees who will assist the organisation in achieving its objectives
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who in one way of the other‚ have helped me in my work during the industrial training. The outstanding characters of their assistance make it my pleasant duty‚ however‚ to express my special gratitude to the following: First of all‚ and in fact the foremost‚ I am most grateful to the C.E.O‚ Mr. Tobi Oduyale‚ for giving me the opportunity to carry out my industrial training at Winelight analytical systems‚ the knowledge gained and experience given to me is most appreciated. Secondly would like
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name was suggested. This paper will discuss how human resource management has changed over the years. The paper will also discuss how the changes in workforce has effected the human resource management of today. The effects of globalization in today’s HRM will also be looked after in this paper. The world has changed over the years and so has the jobs. New jobs have been created and now labor is taken differently by the employers. The economy has brought a big change in how people take the challenges
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INTRODUCTION OF LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA. The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is the largest life insurance company in India and also the country’s largest investor. It is fully owned by the Government of India. It also funds close to 24.6% of the Indian Government’s expenses. It was founded in 1956. Headquartered in Mumbai‚ which is considered the financial capital of India‚ the Life Insurance Corporation of India currently has 8 zonal Offices and 101 divisional offices located
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The corporate strategy guides organization’s positioning in terms of responsiveness‚ cost leadership and product differentiation. In broad terms‚ corporate strategy is concerned with the broad decision making like choosing the business network‚ capacity utilization etc. The corporate strategy dictates the detailed strategies for each functional area such as Human resource‚ Operations‚ Finance‚ and Marketing. The changes in corporate strategy has often lead to downsizing ‚unbundling ‚and increased
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research method is used with different approaches to interpret or understand various phenomena in a naturalistic way. The research method has a holistic approach in which‚ knowledge about a particular phenomena is gathered from different people’s experiences and is integrated to form a rich data in order to enlighten an in depth understanding of the subject matter. (Creswell‚ 2007) The participants involved in qualitative research need to be representative to the general population involved in the
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THE EFFECTS OF ON THE JOB TRAINING TO FOURTH YEAR HRM STUDENTS OF ABE TAFT. BASIT‚ KRIZEL JANE L. MARCH 27‚ 2013 I. Introduction: On the job training or OJT is one method by which students is given a chance to apply the theories and computations that they have learned from
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HRM 107 Presentation – Friday 8pm History and introduction How would you like to know that the $125 shoes that you bought last month only cost $5 to make? Sweatshops‚ child labour and poor working conditions‚ these are the strong allegations that Nike Inc. has been blamed upon where lives are at risk‚ all for the production of sporty shoes and equipment Nike since the early 1970’s has been accused many times for enacting unethical OHS matters in many of their factories worldwide‚ by opening
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