Human Resource Management Definition of H.R.M: Human resources may be defined as the total knowledge‚ skills‚ creative abilities‚ talents and aptitudes of an organization’s workforce‚ as well as the values‚ attitudes‚ approaches and beliefs of the individuals involved in the affairs of the organization. It is the sum total or aggregate of inherent abilities‚ acquired knowledge and skills represented by the talents and aptitudes of the persons employed in the organization. Functions of H.R
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National Institute of Business Management Chennai - 020 FIRST SEMESTER EMBA/ MBA Subject : Human Resources Management Attend any 4 questions. Each question carries 25 marks (Each answer should be of minimum 2 pages / of 300 words) 1. How best one can utilize available training resources in order to achieve organizational objectives? 2. Describe the different forms of Worker Involvement in Quality Circle. A quality circle is a participatory management technique that enlists the help of employees
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Question 1 Analyse how BASF‚ by adopting a strategic approach to human resource management‚ seeks to proactively provide a competitive advantage‚ through the company’s HRM practices. Every organisation is concerned with competing effectively in the global market. BASF’s mission and values are set out in the case study (Mancosa 2014:38) as follows: Mission: To increase the satisfaction of customers‚ employees and shareholders. BASF makes sure that they add value‚ innovate to make customers more
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1 The Japanese Human Resource Management Before World War II: A Case of the Engineers Hiroshi Ichihara Faculty of Economics‚ Surugadai University‚ Tokyo I. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to analyse the characteristics of the Pre-WW II Japanese corporate management from the perspective of the human resource development. The essential framework of the Japanese-style human resource management before WW II constituted differentiated employment by a few ranks; then‚ different duties
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BBPP1103 – Principles of Management Multiple-Choice Questions Samples Set 1 1. Someone who works with and through other people by coordinating their work activities in order to accomplish organizational goals is ___________. a) a very intelligent individual b) a supervisor of production work c) a manager d) an operations supervisor 2. Managers who are responsible for making organization-wide decisions and establishing the plans and goals that affect the entire organization
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(1990)‚ "Green consumerism and the societal marketing concept: marketing strategies for the 1990s"‚ Journal of Marketing Management‚ Vol. 6 No. 2‚ pp. 87-103. Prothero‚ A.‚ Peattie‚ K. and McDonagh‚ P. (1997)‚ "Communicating greener strategies: a study of on-pack communications"‚ Business Strategy and the Environment‚ Vol. 6 No. 2‚ pp. 74-82. Roper Organization (1990)‚ The Environment: Public Attitudes and Individual Behaviour‚ Roper Organization and SC Johnson & Son‚ New York‚ NY. Schlegelmilch
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Golden Arch Hotels‚ as they are known (there are two)‚ are a high stakes experiment in brand leverage. After lobbying by Urs Hammer‚ Head of McDonalds in Switzerland‚ McDonalds has made the brave move to exploit their core competence (no‚ not making hamburgers - delivering absolute product consistency) to develop a holistically branded hospitality offer. Sitting incongruously in a lush green field‚ just minutes from Zurich’s busy international airport‚ the prototype Golden Arch Hotel offers business
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CASE STUDY #2 (read for Feb 26th) THE CROSS-CULTURAL ORGANIZATION: THE MULTICULTURAL MODEL Main problem = lack of transferability of American techniques to the rest of the world (Hofstede‚ 1980b)‚ mainly to European countries in this case Differences in power distance Different levels of achievement-based incentives Differences in work-related attitudes Objective focus on the management of differentiation across cultures in an international operation and to consider the issue of transferability
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (HRM) IN THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: THEORY AND PRACTICE. BY UKERTOR GABRIEL MOTI (P.hD.) Department of Public Administration UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA INTRODUCTION Human resource management (HRM) is universal in terms of strategies‚ policies and processes. The term has gradually replaced personnel management. Managing and developing human resources in the international (global) setting is increasingly recognized as a central challenge
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Human resource planning has many different purposes within an organisation‚ one of the most basic purposes is that it can be a tool that could be used to asses whether an organisation has the right amount of employees with the correct knowledge‚ skills and attitudes that are needed to carry out the job effectively while at the same time achieving the organisational goals. Since the 1990’s human resources planning has rapidly evolved. One such change being the move from manpower planning towards human
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