Strategic Human Resource Management notes

Week 3: Workforce Planning Reading 5.2 in your text speaks to how one large company implemented a workforce planning and design process to move to a human capital perspective on strategic human resource management. What lessons can one draw from this process, and how does it compare to companies of which you are (or have been) a part?

Week 4: Labor Relations Discuss the role of unions in the history of American labor. Are unions today good, bad, or needed for companies? Defend your position. In your second post, discuss how Continuous Improvement is impacting healthcare, banking, retail and/or government. Merger of Lean and Six Sigma are interesting topics you can explore here.   • Professor & Class – Discuss the role of unions in the history of American labor. Are unions today good, bad, or needed for companies...

Week 1 - Webinar Collaboration Discussion Dear Class: This Collaboration Discussion thread pertains to the weekly reading and Webinar. For those attending the in-class exercise held during the second part of the class, please post a four sentence paragraph describing what you believed to be the most interesting or most informational part. For those students not attending, please write a 250 word paragraph describing a critical issue discussed during the webinar or included in the reading ma...

Working in teams of 3-4 students, present a Voice Recorded Power Point presentation (6 - 8 slides) including "notes" on the three topics taken from the end of chapter readings. The papers should analyze the reading and its connections to the concepts covered in the text in the previous weeks. Provide additional analysis that connects the reading to concepts (pro or con) from your own current organization (as chosen by one team member) or one in which a member was previously associated. W...

Week 4 - Webinar Collaboration Discussion Dear Class: Please post what you found to be the most informative or interesting aspect of this Week's discussions, reading or WebEx. For students attending on-site or participating in the WebEx, please post one substantive paragraph. For on-line students or those not participating in the WebEx, please post two paragraphs.   • Collapse SubdiscussionDarrell Gordon Darrell Gordon Nov 18, 2019Nov 18, 2019 at 12:40pm Manage Discussion Entry P...

Week 3 - Webinar Collaboration Discussion Dear Class: This Collaboration discussion thread is related to our weekly webinars and in-class exercises. For those attending the in-class exercise held during the second part of the class, please post three sentences describing what you believed to be the most interesting or most informational part. For those students not attending, please write a 250 word paragraph describing a critical issue discussed during the webinar. The purpose of this Collabor...

Week 2: Line/HR Partnerships Dear Class: You must post twice to this Discussion thread. Answer one question with each posting. State whether you are in a managerial position or are an hourly worker. I will be adding additional topics. 1. What role should line managers play in the daily operation of managing their staff? 2. What role should HR play? 3. How should both interact with each other? 4. Who should be most accountable for the successful practice of the above and why? 5. W...

Week 3 - Second Collaboration Discussion Dear Class; For the Second Collaboration Discussion I have selected two topics from our Week Three Lesson. The first is workforce design and the second is how jobs interface. To be successful with the design element, it is imperative that we understand at what points one job interfaces with another. These points of intersection become critical if the transition is not completed smoothly , i.e. parts or processes are faulty or have not been complied...

This document contains workings, explanations and solutions to the HRD4801 Assignment 2 (QUALITY ANSWERS) 2024. For assistance whats-app us on 0.6.8..8.1.2..0.9.3.4.... QUESTION 1 Bioware Corporation, a leading technology company specialising in software development and information technology (IT) services, has been experiencing rapid growth. The company, which has over 10 000 employees spread across the African continent, has identified the need to enhance its training and development programm...

Well-structured HRD4801 Assignment 3 (ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED. (DETAILED ANSWERS - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED!)..... QUESTION 1 Bioware Corporation, a leading technology company specialising in software development and information technology (IT) services, has been experiencing rapid growth. The company, which has over 10 000 employees spread across the African continent, has identified the need to enhance its training and development programmes to ensure that its employees keep up ...

This document contains workings, explanations and solutions to the HRD4801 Assignment 2 (QUALITY ANSWERS) 2024. For assistance whats-app us on 0.6.8..8.1.2..0.9.3.4.... QUESTION 1 Bioware Corporation, a leading technology company specialising in software development and information technology (IT) services, has been experiencing rapid growth. The company, which has over 10 000 employees spread across the African continent, has identified the need to enhance its training and development programm...

This document contains workings, explanations and solutions to the HRD4801 Assignment 5 (QUALITY ANSWERS) 2024. For assistance whats-app us on 0.6.8..8.1.2..0.9.3.4...

HRD4801 Assignment 1 (DETAILED ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references .......... QUESTION 1 Tongaat Hulett, a major player in South Africa’s agricultural and agri-processing sector, has been implicated in a severe scandal stemming from recent accounting irregularities and declining corporate governance ratings. The scandal concerns widespread irregularities in financial reporting that led to overstated profits and fraudulent activities. As a res...

Well-structured HRD4801 Assignment 3 (ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED. (DETAILED ANSWERS - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED!)..... QUESTION 1 Bioware Corporation, a leading technology company specialising in software development and information technology (IT) services, has been experiencing rapid growth. The company, which has over 10 000 employees spread across the African continent, has identified the need to enhance its training and development programmes to ensure that its employees keep up ...

Week 4 - Second Collaboration Discussion Dear Class: The Employment Relationship, discusses the importance of the agency relationship which is created between employers and employees. As an employer (from the company board of directors down to the team leader) each individual is deemed to be a, 'principal' and, therefore, responsible for the actions for all those individuals who are junior to him/her in the management chain. Consequently, it is extremely important that you understand the...

Week 1 - Second Collaboration Discussion Dear Class: This is our Second Collaboration Discussion topic. Each week I will post the topic that should be addressed in this discussion. To begin, I would like you to describe whether or not you have managed any other individuals either with your employment or through volunteering. Then describe the type of management style that you believe you have, i.e. autocratic, dictatorial, democratic and why you believe that is an effective way to manage. ...

Week 1 - Webinar Collaboration Discussion Dear Class: This Collaboration Discussion thread pertains to the weekly reading and Webinar. For those attending the in-class exercise held during the second part of the class, please post a four sentence paragraph describing what you believed to be the most interesting or most informational part. For those students not attending, please write a 250 word paragraph describing a critical issue discussed during the webinar or included in the reading ma...

Week 4: Labor Relations Discuss the role of unions in the history of American labor. Are unions today good, bad, or needed for companies? Defend your position. In your second post, discuss how Continuous Improvement is impacting healthcare, banking, retail and/or government. Merger of Lean and Six Sigma are interesting topics you can explore here.   • Professor & Class – Discuss the role of unions in the history of American labor. Are unions today good, bad, or needed for companies...

Week 2 - Critical Learning Discussion Dear Class: Please post what you found to be the most informative or interesting aspect of this Week's discussions, reading or WebEx. For students attending on-site or participating in the WebEx, please post one substantive paragraph. For on-line students or those not participating in the WebEx, please post two paragraphs.

Week 1: Human Capital Management How does a manager's mindset that sees employees as an expense to be controlled affect the ways that he or she sees their human resource strategy? How would this change if the manager's mindset saw staff as an appreciating asset to be invested in? Describe your experiences in an organization that saw either or both of these mindsets, and your perspective on working for that organization.