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Human Resources and Issues of Ethics

the same is usually thought of in terms of the equal opportunities approach, and tends to lead one to a view that everyone should ...

HRM and Staffing

employee, it is the company that suffers the consequences. Insightful HR managers understand the importance of strong and positiv...

HRM's Emergence

al, 1996). However, even with this it may be argued that there was still a level of control in the hands of the workers....

Effective Strategic Human Resources Planning

abilities. Of course it requires a full complement of management, accounting and sales personnel; it also employs many types of e...

Business in the United States

bunch of goods and services in an attempt to market to masses of people. Business Structures Whether a business is more of...

Microsoft's Operating Systems Dominance and the Emergence of Linux

According to one author, the clash between Microsoft and Linux is mainly a clash of ideals -- while Linux supporters claim that mo...

Analysis of SWA

near downtown Dallas (Hoovers Company Profiles, 2003). Because the airline operated from capital of Field, Southwest adopte...

HRM and Shortage of Labor

the automotive industry so while suppliers may be facing critical shortages in skilled labor, the major auto manufacturers themsel...

Corporate Value and Human Resources

During the past several years, sociologists and institutional economists have studied non-economic factors of regional competitive...

Gates How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews

as they did writing about Gates (Blankenborn, 1993; Manes and Andrews, 1993). Despite the focus mainly on Gates years with Micros...

Personnel Departments and Their Demise

within the larger organization, so that HR can plan for the types of individuals it will need to recruit and to retrain those that...

Human Resource Challenge and Business

In order to successfully staff a company, human resources managers today rely on four major areas. These areas are human resource...

Employee Recruitment and Selection Processes

able to truly make a difference comes in much higher, falling into Maslows third level in his hierarchy, that which he labels "bel...

Case Study on the Workplace and Drugs

by speaking with these individuals who seem to stay out late, arrive to work late and look disheveled, a new situation presents it...

Case Study on Workplace Drug Abuse

even though the clinic has endured periods of stress. Still, the counselors and other employees lean on each other whenever the cl...

Case Study on HR Planning Issues

with specificities. How does one go about designing a mission statement and objectives? A mission statement is simply a statement ...

Strategic HRM

and outcomes consistent with the strategy" (Twomey and Harris, 2000, p. 43). Twomey and Harris argue that in todays extr...

High Tech Companies and Human Resources

learning motto because their employees need to be on the cutting-edge. The only way to do this is through continuous training and ...

Strategic HRM and TQM

(1996). These authors argue there are at least "three dominant modes of theorizing: universalistic, contingency, and configuration...

HRM Changes

workplace conditions will not improve and even go so far to blame the problems on management. But according to a recent report, e...

TQM Implementation

levels of the company" (Agility Centre, 2002). TQM has also been referred to as a "Customer-Driven Quality Management" approach (H...

HRM and Policy Development

in areas that have been typically assigned to HR departments. This cross-over leads to better use of human resources. 2. Labor Fo...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Pollution and the Contribution of Human Habitation

In twelve pages this paper examines the devastating impact to natural resources as the result of human habitation and the pollutio...

Microsoft's Handling of Its Antitrust Lawsuit

In six pages this paper discusses how Microsoft CEO Bill Gates handled the antitrust lawsuit against the company in an analysis of...

'Flexible Firm' and HRM

In nine pages this research paper defines the term 'flexible firm' and considers human resource management's role and also discuss...

An Example Report on Airline Carriers

In this example paper consisting of five pages the purser of a major airline is employed in order to present a firsthand perspecti...

HRM Development

line managers to go around and those who remain have greater responsibilities. It seems that line managers have taken most of the...

New Millennium and Nonprofit Human Resource Influential Forces

argued that there may be some discrepancy when it comes to gender consideration. Social interpretation of gender dynamics as they...

Managers and Human Resource Management

In two pages this research paper analyzes a 'toxic' manager article in an application of human resource management practices and p...