Question 4: What did you learn about the relationship between workforce management and business results? The first lesson we learnt was the importance of treating employees fairly, especially in terms of wages. Employees who are content and treated fairly are productive and will evidently drive the bottom line of the company. Their productivity will be high, knowing their wage is reflective of their work and they feel valued in the company. Not only did employees experience pay dissatisfaction if they perceived their pay as unfair, they were also less motivated to achieve the organization’s goals. (HRM 212) In Quarter 6, we increased the wages for Level 3,4, and 5 workers. However, we received feedback that notified us that our Level 1 workers …show more content…
When companies train their employees well, they equip their employees with the necessary skills to perform well in their roles. This in turn translates into higher productivity because employees will be able to complete tasks more efficiently and effectively. The quality of work that employees create will also be higher because the training programs will teach employees how to perform well and fine-tune their skills and accuracy. For example, IBM's e-learning program for new managers, Basic Blue, costs $8,708 per manager. The company has measured an improvement in each new manager's performance worth $415,000. For every $1 that IBM invests in Basic Blue, it receives almost $47 (HRM 154). Therefore, if businesses want to gain a high return on investment, it is imperative that they also invest in training their employees. In our simulation, we had hired and promoted roughly 50-75 workers in each quarter of our first three quarters. However, we decreased the training budget each quarter, despite our increase in workers hired and promoted. This decrease in training investment led to a high accident rate and low quality index. When we spent larger amounts in training workers, and in the different training programs, there were direct correlations between increased training costs and the different outcomes intended of the
I would do this by stating that a compensation professional can be a full time employee that knows the company and what the company need, they can be cost effective, and there is a level of commitment. When discussing knowing a company, this also means knowing the customers and the competition. The compensation professional can learn who the customers are, what the needs are of the customer, and even why they actually buy or use the service. With the compensation professional being full time, the employee can do the research needed to find this information. They can also aid in the process of find the ends and out of the competition. This gives the business a competitive edge. In addition, knowing and understand the needs of the customer is the centre of a successful business. This information or knowledge, one can use
If I was a director of a program that supported low-income families, and there were 97 families that applied and I could only accept 35 families, I would do a lot of pre-screening to determine who the 35 families would be. First, I would review everyone’s application. It would be beneficial for me to have another person reviewing the applications as well, because sometimes certain things can be overlooked. In general, it is good to have a second pair of eyes to catch things. I am not sure what information would all be on the application, but I would be looking for families who have a great need for housing in that moment. For example, if there were families living on the streets—I would give them top priority over
District Attorney’s Office -Administrative Assistant. Handled all travel arrangement for attorneys and clerical staff: transportation, hotel, food, etc. Entered information in on a data base for all new employees also removed information when employees were dismissed. Submitted work time sheets for employees, distribute payroll checks to employees.
This week I have fully grasp the work that goes into being an RN, case manager and what it entails to fully review a patients’ stay at the hospital in order to discharge them in the most effective and efficient way. I understand the need for these professionals in the healthcare field, not only in the hospital setting, but in skilled nursing facilities as well, one reason being is that I believe someone has to advocate and review the patients’ needs before they are sent home. Just like last week I was able to sit in on rounds and observe a great deal of the doctor and case manager dynamic and how important it is for both to know the patient as much possible. Sitting in rounds every morning makes me realize how hard it is to make decisions for another
Mrs. Rodriguez, I do understand that you expect me to follow your instructions and I will put it in practice what you have instructed me to. I will only add a semicolon when combining two sentences or when listing things in succession. Thank you for correcting me when I added the word “ appear” when it was not needed. Also I appreciate the correction “ into” when I had incorrectly written “in.”
I work closely with other employees and Partner of the firm. All questions raised by employees on the files regarding the accounting and tax are answered by myself. If I am not sure I will consult with Partner. This allows me to regularly update my knowledge with any new update. Therefore, it is important that I develop and maintain a positive relationship with both employees and Partner. It also assists in the company to create a positive environment where I am available to answer the questions asked by employees and resolve the problems.
To meet the requirements desired by the President and Vice President of the Acme Corporation, I believe that they will only need four servers, considering it is such a small business of less than 20 people. All of the servers will be running Windows Server 2008 R2. The following servers will be: a file and printer server, an email and web server, and an SQL server.
As of next week, we will require that all employees at Semper Absum take a mandatory one-hour lunch break away from their desks. After hiring an efficiency expert, we were informed that many employees were not taking a lunch-break and instead were using work time to attend to personal matters. Statistically, employees who do not take a lunch break tend to be less productive during the rest of the day.
Kudler Fine Foods uses a loyalty program which, as it currently stands, serves to “increase the consumer purchase cycle as a means to increase the loyalty and profitability of its consumers,” (p. 1, University of Phoenix, 2007); management is proposing the implementation of a new multi-media shopping cart that will appeal to the high-end clientele as well as track more customer data and improve sales. The Media cart gathers key information that will enable the marketing department to customize better the shopping experience, making use of in-store advertising, and collect data related to consumer activity (Media Cart, 2010). Although the initial investment in the carts may seem high, the return on
1. A second contribution of the Aggarwal and McGill, (2012), research is to recommend the procedure by which automatic behavior significances from anthropomorphized brand primes, and it is a motivational process. Clients of popular products want to reach the main characteristics or attribute linked to the brand. Most Apple or Disney patrons would like to be imaginative, creative, and popular like these brands (Aggarwal and McGill, 2012). Apple or Disney customers might play the part of the consistency with Apple and Disney, and they could take on the characteristics. I find it hard to believe that an adult would take on a Disney character unless they are extremely immature. I can visualize people who are concerned with status, and Apple is one if the finest products for position. Only little kids would
By sending mail directly or making personal calls to all the doctors, administrators, and any other relevant personnel as well as visiting them if possible, we can establish a relationship with the customers at virtually no cost. However, the expected time commitment for the product is the most important part of our marketing strategy. Firstly, we will have to determine the persons to contact at the hospitals and nursing homes. Secondly, our team will have to determine when and how often we contact the target audience. Lastly, we will need to work on our communication skills and make sure that we are striking the right tone and positively convincing them to switch to our product. The response we receive is going to be our yardstick for determining
Jordan arrived at PAAL and quickly located and interacted with his staff. Jordan was prompted to change into his school clothes. Jordan needed assistance with putting his pants in the correct direction. When arriving to the house, Jordan requested a snack. Staff encouraged Jordan to prepare and eat his breakfast before obtaining a snack. Jordan independently arranged and ate his breakfast. Following his meal, Jordan completed his hygiene. While shaving Jordan needed prompting to keep razor on target areas as well as locating specified areas. When brushing his teeth, Jordan needed prompting to turn his brush and brush the top of his mouth. Jordan again requested and was given a snack.
Identify one major exclusion and one tax credit. Find the relevant Internal Revenue Code Section that provides for the exclusion or credit using IRS.GOV, copy the first paragraph, including the Code Section, and paste it into your post. Please answer this question for each: Did Congress enact this exclusion or credit for a social or economic purpose? Or both? For your third post this week, identify one of your colleagues' posts and respond to their observations with a concurrence or not; either way, support your position. Discuss which provides a greater tax advantage to the taxpayer, deductions or tax credits.
Being one of our brightest client’s we feel that our ability to communicate with each other on a more personal basis is acceptable. Resolving an open issue, by completely terminating all female technicians over the age of 45 and replacing them with male employees under the age of 25 will not be in your best interest. Therefore, I am brining to your attention our thoughts and concerns with your conclusions on this manner.
Most organizations do not follow-up on the benefits of training as regards staff performance. As a result of this they don’t take training and development as an important factor in organizational growth and survival. Most manages do not know how to assess the return on investment in training, nor are they equipped with the necessary management tools to monitor the decision making process of such investment. It has been discovered that training and development budget is the first cut when the organization is faced with difficulties because most of them are of the opinion that investment in the area of training and development is not linked to the bottom line of the business. Globalization and rapid technological development has changed the conditions for companies and increased competition in the world markets. The quality of a company’s human resources is the key driver for sustained top-level performance. It has become crucial to continually invest in human resource development in order to guarantee success in the global market. As earlier said, managers engage in minimal training thereby not giving quality training to their employees, this in turn affects the overall outcome of the training and the performance of the staff. Most organizations that have a competitive image see more reasons to train their workers than those who are on the lower rung of the ladder of recognition, but training and development is still needed to create a niche. In the light of the above,