A presentation on human resource management
Presentation - 14 pages - Human resources
Human resources is one of the most valuable and unique assets of organization. The term human resources refers to “the total knowledge, skills, creative, abilities, talents, and aptitudes of an workforce, as well as the values, attitudes of an organization's workforce, as...
Case study: Leadership and management of Starbucks
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Starbucks' CEO, Orin Smith, and the Board of directors play a central role in the organizational context of the company since they can arbitrate between the internal and external constraints and thus decide what organizational structures and policies have to be implemented. Mission and goals:...
Ascendum Systems Pvt Ltd
Dissertation - 86 pages - Business strategy
India is poised to become a global IT superpower is not a revelation. Indians dominate the IT sector workforce, not only in US, but all over the world. In the last year or two, countries like Germany, France, and Japan have opened doors and are hiring hundreds of thousands of Indians in...
Recruitment and selection in a job placement consultancy
Tutorials/exercises - 43 pages - Human resources
Measures for attracting that manpower in adequate numbers to facilitate effective selection of an efficient working force. Recruitment of candidates is the function preceding the selection, which helps create a pool of prospective employees for the organization so that the management can select...
Are the migrant workers competing with locals in China's urban labour market?
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
At the end of the 1970s, the Communist Party of China (CPC) acknowledged that planned economy had not managed to increase the Chinese standards of living. Consequently, it started to reform the economic system in order to modernize it. The labor market was also not been excluded from such...
Mattel faces its social and environmental responsabilities
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
Today's business organizations constantly face internal and external pressures in addressing their social and environmental responsibilities. Since the 1960s, the society has expressed growing expectations for more responsible management of companies through the incentive of the social...
Nike: A case study (2006)
Essay - 10 pages - Business strategy
Nike is a brand of sportswear that originated in the United States and is now a globally recognized brand, probably the best known. The brand owes its success to Philip Knight and Bill Bowerman, co-founders of Nike; today, the brand is a multinational company with a turnover exceeding 10 billion...
Cultural question of wage discrepancies between professional women and men
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Women earn, on average, 20% less than what men earn in North America. It was not until 1920, across North America, that women were given the right to vote. Today, more women than men are enrolled in professional post degree programs in Canada and the United States. Today, women comprise 46% of...
Business ethics analysis: Interview
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
For this assignment I decided to interview a good friend of mine that has been in the workforce for almost 4 years. He prefers to stay anonymous, so I will only call him by his first name: Thomas. The interview has been done in French, in face to face. I took some notes and tried to...
Local and Expatriate employees in Human Resource Management - published: 02/09/2014
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Organizations consitute people of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. These people have to work together in order to fulfill an organization's goals. Human Resource Management, HRM describes the management of the workforce in the organization. It is accountable for selection,...
Question of wage discrepancies between professional women and men
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Women earn, on average, 20% less than what men earn in western nations. It was not until 1920, across North America, that women were given the right to vote. Today, more women than men are enrolled in professional, post degree programs in Canada and the United States. Today, women comprise 46% of...
Talent Management Strategy - Litech Video Games Company
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
The human resources office is the head control of talents in an organization, managing entrance, movement and exit (Trost, Plank 2014). The office should work towards achieving higher value (talent) for the corporations by using effective talent management strategies aimed at raising the business...
Local and Expatriate employees in Human Resource Management
Case study - 7 pages - Human resources
Organizations constitute people of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. These people have to work together in order to fulfill the organization's goals. Human Resource Management, HRM describes the management of the workforce in the organization. It is accountable for selection,...
Implicit Bias and Teamwork
Essay - 8 pages - Business strategy
Business is crucial in the country's economy, and every qualified person needs to be considered for a vacant position. In this instance, consider a company willing to take innovation and diversity as some of their main achievements to ensure the reputation and image of the company are built...
Multicultural management theory
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Cushner, McClelland, and Safford (1996) defined diversity as a notion needed to "to include differences based on gender, ethnicity, race, class, age, and handicapping conditions" (p. xvii). Diversity is not simply "a notion of "other" ... that all Americans are, to some degree, multicultural...
Francotours: A human resources strategy
Essay - 4 pages - Human resources
Organizational Development is a term used to define the growing process of an organization. An organization's successful development and evolution depends on its ability to create the following: a vision (or identity) that clearly defines its purpose; the leadership capacity to clearly...
What is the impact of human resources in the success of the Taiwanese high-tech industry?
Thesis - 6 pages - Human resources
The Taiwanese economy has always remained strong in the Asia Pacific region, despite the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. The high-tech industry in particular has not only survived, but also prospered during the Asian crisis. The economy has also to face a lot of constraints like the shortage of...
Toyota Motors Corporation: A plan for organizational performance Improvement
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Change is pervasive not only in people's individual lives but also in business organizations. Change is inevitable; it is also one of the constants in this world. Change will happen. Management theories emerged as a result of change - from the scientific management to centralized...
Engstrom auto mirror plant: motivating in good times and bad
Case study - 5 pages - Management
We all know that human resources management implies a lot of fundamentals for an organization. Human resources must understand the implications of globalization, technology changes, workforce diversity, changing skills requirements, the contingent workforce, decentralized worksites...
Economy of Morocco
Thesis - 10 pages - Economy general
Morocco is a country of 29 million people with low-middle income, and gross domestic product per capita, estimated in 2001 to be 1190 U.S. dollars. Agriculture occupies an important place in the economy, with a share of GDP which has increased by about 15% over the last twenty years, and employs...
Porcelain exports of France in the United States
Market study - 9 pages - Services marketing
The foreign trade of France refers to all trade in goods and services between France and the rest of the world. France is the fourth largest exporter, the first and second in services for agriculture and food products respectively. The French economy is very open to the outside world. It exports...
What do executives have to do in order to create a moral corporation?
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
What is morality in corporation? By definition, morality is the “principle concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior”. In corporations we can apply this definition to the interactions between employees but also toward the company's objectives. In...
Human resource management in context of change management
Case study - 8 pages - Human resources
Multinational Corporations operate in more than one country. They have production facilities in different countries around the world. Often they operate in countries which have entirely different culture than the culture of their home country. This impacts the company's human resource management...
Gelato's compliance with Civil Rights Act of 1964
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
In Heartland Corners, 75 per cent of the white population has completed high school compared to 25 per cent of the other minority groups. How is the information important in considering whether Gelato is in compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...
Discussion Essay-Should we Encourage Population Control by Limiting Family Size Given our Obligations to the Future Generations?
Essay - 8 pages - Educational studies
Increase in population has become the concern of many countries in the world. Statistics show that there has been a tremendous increase in population in the recent past. The increase in population has its positive and negative effects as well as the influence it has in the world. Availability of...
The Tethered Generation
Case study - 2 pages - Ancient history
Kathryn Tyler is a renowned author for the HR magazine. She has been an author since 1993 and has also taught in several universities; University of California, San Diego University. In the article, The tethered Generation, Kathryn Tyler (2007) used the marketing research reports and finds out...
Unemployment: brief study
Case study - 2 pages - Biology
It seems unlikely that we return to suffer the 25% unemployment of the Great Depression. We learned that the government spending - a means of generating demand that was unthinkable in the early 1930s - can stimulate a depressed economy and restore the high level of employment. The experience of...
Discuss the role of classification, measurement and inscription in techniques of recruitment and selection
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
Recruitment and selection in organizations have not always played a significant role. Indeed, some firms had no Human resources department twenty years ago. This fad for human resources management depends on many factors, either external ones or internal ones. Mr Beaumont in 1993 tried to...
Managing in a global context : How managers can overcome problems arising from cultural differences of employees?
Essay - 13 pages - Management
According to the United Nation Statistics in 2003, the globe constitutes of approximately 226 countries. All these nations have their own culture. this can be more or less similar from one country to another. However, it creates a multitude of differences between individuals that managers have to...
Inter cultural management
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
In the early 19th century, China was emerging as a new major economic power on the world stage. In 2006, her GDP made her the 4th largest economy in the world. Since the late 1970's, China has made the modernization of its economy the No.1 priority. She has gradually abandoned the plan for...
