SEARCH RESULTS

some good generalizations, Schuler (1992) defines it as "all those activities affecting the behavior of individuals in their effor...

public sector has political pressures that the private sector simply may not face (Brown, 2004). Adding to the whole scena...

territory." Many of the authors agree with the assessment that as long as national cultures are different, cross-national differen...

berating workers as for refining the assembly line. Drucker (1998) and others point to the futility of such an approach, along wi...

employees feel valued. This basis has also been extended with theories such as Maslow, and his hierarchy of needs, Hertzberg hygie...

in a proportional presence that is different to another country. To consider this we first need to look at the evidence of HRM pra...

example, identified four stages: "Welfare period; Scientific management; Industrial relations; and Manpower planning" (Morrow, n.d...

development. While many employees join a company with some very good skills (which is why they were hired for a particular job), m...

In four pages HRM errors are discussed in an examination of employee mismanagement by a fast food chain that resulted in a high tu...

was indeed a luxury that the business could well do without in times of economic slowdown when the organization needed to reduce e...

horror as line workers at one plant halted the production line after discovering a quality problem. The speed of the production l...

who do not yet recognize that the competency-based business strategies of the today are dependent on people. It is scarce knowledg...

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

so competitive as it is today. In todays environment and in that of the future, organizations must operate as effectively and eff...

dissatisfaction. Employees also want to known why the merger is taking place (Katz, 2000). The need for this to take place effici...

viable. The human resources department is a department that can help to maximise one of the most important resources; human labour...

trade publications, scholarly journals and business magazines. We chose to research these items from all three categories, because...

that will have the greatest success. Organizational Structure In Singers heyday it was not necessary to operate at the grea...

as having input and value that can be added, rather than simply in the hiring and firing function that was associated with personn...

have to be leveraged. For industries such as oil and gas this also take technical know how and skilled labour across the spectrum ...

check, act; recognition of the need for continuous improvement; and the use of measurement to evaluate systems and practices and t...

its operations. This has led to the term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM), which is defined as "the effective applicatio...

and with regular supplies needing to be delivered there can be a high opportunity cost where stocks of goods are depleted, not onl...

was a role for Human Resources in this scenario. One technique used by Continental was to hire friends (Brenneman, 1998). This mig...

This 10 page paper looks at the topic of strategic human resources management, how it may take place and the different approaches ...

selection process, to ensure both that the right staff with the correct skills and characteristics are selected as well as to ensu...

Other issues impacting HRM in terms of multinational corporations and globalization include workforce diversity and demographic st...

to: directing staff in organizational structure, payroll and compensation plans and administration, assigning staff, maintain the ...

keyboards), employees breathing "stale air" indoors could suffer a range of respiratory issues - again, leading to an increase in ...

of certain groups among its employees. The proliferation of social media has opened up another legal area that HR must be carefu...