Week 4 Discussion Questions • What are main elements in calculating the cost of capital? How does an increase in debt affect it? How do you identify an organization’s optimal cost of capital? • The main elements in calculating the cost of capital are cost of debt‚ cost of equity‚ preferred stock and common stock. • An increase in debt indicates a higher risk which can increase the required rate of return which raises the cost of capital. Higher debt can also accrue additional costs. • By mixing
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Solution to the problems of Downsizing and Redundancy Time is changed. Trends are modified in almost every aspect of life. There was a time‚ when the person who lost his job due to downsizing found him helpless in finding the new one. He used to immediately approach the local unemployment office and start finding jobs on web or in newspapers. He is totally on his own in finding a new job. But now things are modified. Organizational restructuring has made it easier for the employees who are fired
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Employee Morale After Downsizing Downsizing has become a significant idea in today ’s economy and maintaining the trust of employees when something like this takes place has also become very serious business (Brockner‚ Konovsky‚ Cooper-Schneider‚ Folger‚ Martin‚ & Bies‚ 1994). The question is not whether a company should downsize their employees but how to do the downsizing properly so that as few employees as possible are injured (Brockner‚ Konovsky‚ Cooper-Schneider‚ Folger‚ Martin‚ & Bies
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The revolutionary trends of computerization have reached the peaks achieving global goals in all fields and sectors. The HRMS systems getting computerized are leading to a new and innovative way to approach to above said. With the major organizations hosting services of HRMS our project specifically aims to the total computerization of the HRMS. With the total automation of HRMS‚ the manual dependency is minimized to a large extent. It inherits all the properties of computerizing a system which includes
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division | subject: | RE: downsizing program | | | I appreciate the personal time and effort you have spent in thinking about the deep across-the-board-reduction. You have my support in the efforts of controlling costs to gain back investor confidence and bring the company back to becoming a sound investment. However‚ I do not wish to give my support blindly and so I have a few other ideas that you might have overlooked that I hope you would consider. Also‚ downsizing may be required to an extent
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HRM 400-100 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FALL 2012 PROFESSOR: DR. DENNIS KRIPP HOTEL PARIS CASE PAPER #1 The Question is: How can we create an efficient human resource management system that can help the Hotel Paris achieve its strategic plans and goals? In order to achieve its strategic plans and goals‚ there are some basic HR strategy processes that Hotel Paris pursue. First of all I’d like to summarize the hierarchy of links among the hotel’s HR practices‚ necessary workforce competencies
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development. It is the management of people/staff in order for them to make contributions to the objectives of the organisation. “HRM is the body of management activities and used in this way HRM is really no more than a more modern and supposedly imposing name for what has long been labelled personnel management” (Torrington et al‚ 2009). The best way to describe HRM is to look at what it aims to achieve i.e. its four key objectives: 1) Staffing – includes recruiting staff‚ up-skilling of staff
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HRM #3 CITI BANK 2012120110 Daun Oh 1. Why has Citibank introduced a Performance Scorecard? The Citibank introduced a new evaluating method to highlight the importance of a diverse set of measures in achieving the strategic goals of the division. As the Citibank’s major competitor have four hundred offices in California compared to Citibank’s eighty branches‚ the Citibank should set the differentiation strategy to focus on the long-term success. Given the characteristics
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Introduction The study of HRM evolves from the personnel management since from the industrial revolution age. During that time two types of perspectives are widely prevalent one is Pluralist and the other is Unitarist. There lies a significant difference between the two. As per Pluralist a multinational organization basically consists of large no. of subgroups where loyalty lies in each subgroup‚ whereas as per Unitarist it is a single entity which flourishes in harmony. In pluralist‚ the two
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professional helped guarantee that workers were treated with dignity‚ and helped them include significant aptitudes through work experience‚ work assignments and learning opportunity (Pride‚ Hughes‚ Kapoor‚ 2009). 2. Introduction Human Resource Management (HRM) is the
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