“ Ace Institute of Management ”
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Assignment: 1
Case: The New Director of Human Resources
EMBA Spring 2013(2nd Semester)
Submitted By: Submitted To:
Raghbendra Kumar Shah Mr. Jayendra Rimal
Roll: EMBA 16 HRM Instructor
Date of submission: 10th March 2014
Question-1: Discuss the relationship between corporate human resources structure and operations at the plant level. What impact, if any, did that relationship have on the situation described by Newcombe?
Answer:
After thoroughly study of the case of Mount Ridge Engineering’s corporate human resource structure and plant
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Question-2: How should Newcombe have handled this situation?
Answer:
First of all Newcombe should investigate whether allegations made by Bud Johnson are true or not. A fair decision cannot be made without hearing from both sides in an unbiased manner. She needs to investigate if there were any fraction between Braxton and Johnson. After all investigations, if she finds that Braxton is to be blamed for all the mess, then necessary disciplinary actions should be taken against Braxton according to company’s policy. We can suggest some alternative solutions to Newcombe to handle this situation:
Correcting the leave reason for Johnson as per his request and don’t let the issue to go outside the organization.
Try to retain Johnson by incrementing reasonable amount in salary as he deserves higher salary as per his extraordinary performance.
Re-designing the termination form and process procedure. The HR department should be involved in the sign loop, employees should maintain the reason of leave and no revise of the termination form is allowed. For the process procedure, all termination forms should be feedback to HR department and the employees should have the interview with HR department as well.
Maintain a HR officer in each plant. If it is expensive, at least corporate office can train a person in each plant to
Given the circumstances the decision of removing Devine as Chief Operating Officer is an extreme and should have resulted as a last option. Training could have been an option or personally speaking to the managers as to why they do not want to work with Devine. The fifth step is to implement the selected choice, which in fact was implemented right away by the board without any prior thought put into this impactful decision. The last step is to evaluate the selected choice. Although Devine was given a project to work on after his position was taken away, he was later terminated. It is not rational in any way to first demote the Chief Operating Officer and then later have them terminated. The board does not know entirely what is going on day to day between managers and subordinates, so they make decision based on the information presented to them. In this case it is obvious that all the issues were only addressed from the managers, Weston, and O’Grady’s point of view. There was no importance given to Devine’s perspective, which is unjust.
I suggest him to modify the rules of compliance with his team and implement more monitoring and mentoring system among them, in order to figure out any problem and who is the responsible of making it.
After carefully going through the case I would like to critically analyze the role of coach P. as well as the two teams which lead to the mentioned problem. Thereafter I will consider merits and demerits of each recommended solution and based on the analysis suggest the solution which I believe would best fit the situation.
Bandag automotive is a family oriented business that has great potential for maximum growth. The only issue is that the human resource management function there is not operated in a productive way. Bandag automotive should focus on a brand new strategy to develop a more structured and organized human resource unit. The management function should be able to recruit great employees, handle payroll, administer benefits, and also provide services, such as help resolve work related problems. A new human resource management function
1. Executive Summary: Whenever there is a change n incumbency at the top management, new incumbent would like to have SWOT analysis of the organisation. Jessica Walker the new incumbent HR director of Sunshine Steels observed that HR services of the company were in shambles. Every HR expert would like to learn and rectify the deficiencies in the policies followed in the past. This case study is helpful in achieving both the objectives.
Maintain a HR officer in each plant. If it is expensive, at least corporate office cantrain a person in each plant to look after the HR function and report to the corporateHR Department.5.
An organization cannot put together an outstanding team of professionals without good Human Resources department, commonly referred to as “HR”. HR managers focus on a wide range of responsibilities
Today the problems have grown so quickly due to expansion that the companies HR department is having trouble maintaining internal control in some areas of the business. There is a limited time window that the company has to address many of these issues before the public becomes aware of them. Once the public becomes aware of labor issues or issues with benefits it can impact the customer’s loyalty to the brand.
Because it serves as the direct link to all the various operations that make up our company, Human Resources management is vital to our current and future success. For us to prosper and satisfy our customers, Forever 21 must have an effective Human Resource Management department, one that can provide proper knowledge, necessary tools, and effective advice to guide employees and administrators towards successful operation (Heathfield “What is Human…”). Since our debut, we’ve been continuously profitable. However, our downside is that we have been primarily focusing on targeting the customer, when we need to apply a different approach: we need to empower our employees and their passion for the job. Investing in our employees’ motivation will not only allow us to grow in sales, but also as an overall company.
Take action on plan, provide training and monitor staffs’ performance and record the performances monthly by HR manager.
He further states that in the old approach HR was a responsibility of Personnel Department which has now been replaced by making line Managers responsible for this function and there has been a shift from Pluralism (Trade Union to employer dealing) to Unitary or Individualism management (employee to employer dealing).
A review of the key policies and practices that Little Chef HR department use to achieve service quality
Human resource management (HRM) can be described as a process of managing people in a company with a structured and thorough manner (MSG.com). 'This covers the fields of staffing (hiring people), retention of people; pay and perks setting and management, performance management, change management and taking care of exits from the company to round off the activities ' (MSG). These functions relate to what used to be called personnel management, which theorists see HRM as the modern version of personnel management. As Aswathappa (2005) explains HRM can be challenging and stressful, also describing the function as being no comfier than when personnel management was in place. All these elements of HRM mentioned previously are jobs that Christine Williamson is responsible for managing in the human resource (HR) department. Mitchell (no date) states that Williamson believes the department still performs in a primarily personnel function with a limited strategic perspective. Armstrong (2006) explains personnel management includes being concerned with obtaining, organising and motivating the human resources that are used in the enterprise. These elements are a reflection of the jobs Williamson undertakes.
As storey (2001) explains that human resource management concept is typical approach to business which quest to achieve competitive advantage through the strategic disposition of dedicated and committed human work force using array of values, culture, personnel and structural techniques. In simple word Human resource denotes to employees that help to run and drives an organisation which is also the main workforce of any organisation or company, which includes all the jobs and duties linked to the organisation and management of each personnel forming strategic and management foundation of an organisation. When the basic principles of management were redefined the issues of human rights and welfare arises and was later studied and researched the major concern for an organisational success. This management of humans related rights and welfare was first named as ‘personnel function’ and later renamed as “human resources”. This purpose became the usual approach for the entire organisation to develop their qualitative and strategic planning. In ordinary meaning, HRM is a process of managing function dealing with humans as the business or organisation’s key resources, and by setting objectives in an effective way in order to gain organisational and individual goals.
Wong Gillmore was a very good branch manager in a bank. Everything was fine until one of her assistant manager Yvone Frechette has been promoted to a better job and larger branch. The problems are the employee in the bank was not sufficient to accommodate all of the customers and because of that the employees are overworked including Wong Gillmore. For me their biggest problem is their having difficulty in managing their time.