decreasing manpower and certain shortages of labour as well as aging workforces. To secure the companies’ competitive advantage and output capabilities and to vanquish these issues Demographic Management has to be positioned as a strategic objective within the companies. At present HR-Departments do not identify changes in demography as an issue affecting them. As a precondition for successful Demographic Management the employee structure must be analyzed and the intended future structure should be defined
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Features of HRM It has the following features: Pervasive force: HRM is pervasive in nature. It is present in all enterprises. It permeates all levels of management in an organization. Action oriented: HRM focuses attention on action‚ rather than on record keeping‚ written procedures or rules. The problems of employees at work are solved through rational policies. Individually oriented: It tries to help employees develop their potential fully. It encourages them to give their best to the organization
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06/08/2013 Along with the flourishing development of Human Resource Management‚ increasingly more enterprises have attached great importance to the relationship between employees and employers‚ which is‚ put into professional terms‚ psychological contract. This concept was first introduced by Argyris in 1960 and has experienced several changes over the subsequent 50 years. However‚ what are the key factors that affect changes in the
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Competitive challenges facing Management: Globalization Information Technology Reducing costs through downsizing‚ outsourcing‚ & off shoring Change in demographic (age‚ gender‚ education) Change in laws and regulations such as increasing employee rights in workplace Ethics and social responsibility Work-family balance Importance of service sector History of Management I- Classical Schools (Major Axiom: There is only one best way to do the job): Scientific Management (Frederick Taylor‚ 1900-
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Introduction Performance appraisal is often at the center of equal employment opportunity litigation involving promotions and terminations (Bernardin & Tyler‚ 2001). The recent heavily publicized Title VII cases against CocaCola‚ the Ford Motor Company‚ Boeing‚ Texaco‚ Circuit City‚ Publix Super Markets‚ Motel 6‚ Smith Barney‚ Home Depot‚ and Wendy’s‚ for example‚ all concerned (in part) the presentation of adverse-impact statistics related to promotions and a scrutiny of the manner in which performance
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NAME _________________________ DATE________________ This exam has two (2) parts – multiple choice and short answer essay. Circle the correct answers (2 points each). 1) The methods used to give new or present employees the skills they need to perform their jobs are called ________. A) orientation B) training C) development D) appraisal 2) The first step in a training program is to ________. A) assess the program’s successes or failures B) design
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To Fall In Love With Your Company Just imagine that your employees choose to give their incentive bonus back to the company to help pay down the corporate debt‚ or show up at 6 a.m. Sunday morning for a nonmandatory quarterly meeting. Even more than that‚ how awed you are to see off-duty salaried employees wash and clean the company’s facilities. Getting Employees To Fall In Love With Your Company written by Jim Harris is definitely a book that helps you to turn your company into the type of place
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Human Resource Management Chapter 13 Application Case 1. One way to cut the cost of the benefit package is by offering prevention programs to employees. The company can actually decrease the number of illnesses by offering a health care program that supports frequent checkups and immunizations. The number of serious illness would be reduced‚ therefore cutting costs in the long run. Providing health promotion programs also help companies prevent illness through educating employees on things
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Is ABC suitable for your company? --Using Estrin‚ Kantor and Albers’ contingency grid‚ If an organization’s score puts it in Quadrant three‚ Is ABC implementation recommended? Explain. Is their method "foolproof?" Abstract Nowadays‚ we know that activity based costing system assigns overhead costs to products or services products that using a two-stage process‚ which focuses on activities. ABC is a relatively new and very important topic in managerial accounting. ABC allows us to find a way
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IntroductionIn order to utilize the most effective tools for breaking into their own site‚ IT administrators must fully review and evaluate the sites issues of vulnerability. This requires gathering as much information as possible about the site as if you where an intruder. For this to be successful‚ an IT administrator must now consider his or her site to be the target host. Here the administrators have at their disposal such services as finger‚ showmount and rpcinfo to initially aid in this effort
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