Pfeffer & Veiga: Putting People First for Organisational Success Introduction In the practice of management‚ managers are attempting to achieve the better business performance‚ by using diverse methods‚ such as outsourcing‚ expansion‚ as well as focusing on research & design and so forth‚ Pfeffer and Veiga (1999) in their article pointed out most managers had overlooked the role of people in the business success. Pfeffer and Veiga (1999) were convinced that people should rank top in the list of
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MEMORANDUM TO: Senior Partner FROM: One Stressed Student DATE: April 1‚ 2014 RE: Jenner’s possible defamation claim against Smith ! ! ! QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Under the law of defamation‚ can a former students statements made about their professor on a blog be actionable assertions of fact? 2. Under the law of defamation‚ do verifiable false statements that harm ones personality when posted on a blog constitute as actionable? BRIEF ANSWERS 1. A former students statements made
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1. Introduction 1.1 Study Background: In the present context of human resource management‚ assessing outcomes of performance appraisals has become one of the most pressing concerns on the human resource managers‚ policy makers and decision makers. It is because human resource managers want to see what impacts performance appraisals are leaving on their employees and then subsequently organizations. This indeed helps them identifying the variables who positively or negatively affect employee
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BA7301 ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING COURSE OBJECTIVES To understand the business process of an enterprise To grasp the activities of ERP project management cycle To understand the emerging trends in ERP developments LT P C 3003 COURSE OUTCOMES Knowledge of ERP implementation cycle Awareness of core and extended modules of ERP UNIT I INTRODUCTION 8 Overview of enterprise systems – Evolution - Risks and benefits - Fundamental technology - Issues to be consider in planning design
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0048-3486.htm Consequences of the performance appraisal experience Performance appraisal experience Michelle Brown Department of Management‚ Faculty of Economics and Commerce‚ University of Melbourne‚ Melbourne‚ Australia Douglas Hyatt Rotman School of Management‚ University of Toronto‚ Toronto‚ Canada‚ and 375 Received 7 August 2008 Revised September 2008 Accepted 4 July 2009
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recognized as a critical factor in the success of any business (Parasuraman et al.‚ 1988) and the banking sector in this case is not exceptional. Service quality has been widely used to evaluate the performance of banking services (Cowling and Newman‚ 1995). The banks understand that customers will be loyal if they receive greater value than from competitors (Dawes and Swailes‚ 1999) and on the other hand‚ banks can earn high profits if they are able to position themselves better than their competitors
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PAY SYSTEM Definition:‘Pay systems are sets of rules with which employers link pay rates not only to job descriptions‚ but also to any of a great variety of indicators related to issues such as employees’ competence‚ performance and career expectations’ (Brown et al. 2003:196) Equity theory: Inputs are defined as each participant’s contributions to the relational exchange and are viewed as entitling him/her to rewards or costs. The inputs that a participant contributes to a relationship can be
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Commissioned Paper On the Interface Between Operations and Human Resources Management John Boudreau • Wallace Hopp • John O. McClain • L. Joseph Thomas ILR Human Resource Studies‚ Cornell University‚ Ithaca‚ New York 14853 IEMS Department‚ Northwestern University‚ Evanston‚ Illinois 60208 Johnson School of Management‚ Cornell University‚ Ithaca‚ New York 14853 Johnson School of Management‚ Cornell University‚ Ithaca‚ New York 14853 jwb6@cornell.edu • hopp@northwestern.edu • jom1@cornell.edu
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Introduction Human resources are the source of achieving competitive advantage because of its capability to convert the other resources (money‚ machine‚ methods and material) in to output (product/service). The competitor can imitate other resources like technology and capital but the human resource are unique. According to Khatri (1999)‚ people are one of the most important factors providing flexibility and adaptability to organizations. Rundle (1997) argues that one needs to bear in mind that
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is further explained by Newman and Hogetts (2003) as functions of HR i.e. employment‚ training and development‚ compensation and benefits and human resource planning. McDonald’s‚ a fast food company has nearly 32‚000 restaurants in about a 120 countries with a workforce of 1.6 million. HR at McDonald’s is an independent department performing functions like policy making‚ job analysis‚ recruitment and selection‚ training and development‚ performance appraisal‚ compensation and benefits‚ In policy
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