1. Discuss how a ROWE-type program would fit in organizations where you have worked or an establishment that you are aware of. Explain why it would or would not work.
A ROWE type program would both work and not work at my current company of Cooper Tire and Rubber Company. The success of the program would be based on the department and their functions. ROWE programs would not work in my current role as a Customer Service Coordinator. My current role is a customer facing position requiring me to physically be at work and available to the customer between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. in order to answer questions, process requests, and solve any issues that may arrive with shipments or the product. My position is highly concentrated in email correspondence; other positions within my department are primarily phone based. These types of correspondences require people in the department to be accessible to answer the phones or emails and also to provide information from or enter information into SAP. SAP requires the person to be hardwired into Cooper’s secure network. These two factors usually mean the person must be at the office to perform the vital duties of the job. Jobs that are customer facing or jobs that require personnel to be at a certain place at a certain time would not be ideal for ROWE. When performance is based upon time and place ROWE type programs cannot be utilized. Departments that would be considered time of day sensitive that could still utilize certain ROWE type
Evaluate the situation in which Mason and Shepherd find themselves with respect to their existing employers. What legal and ethical issues do you see and how would you advise them to proceed?
4. How does your view of behavior affect how you might address this consulting assignment?
a) Decide on a program/initiative that you think would be worthy of the team creating. Describe the program/initiative.
2. Explain how the compensation, staffing, and training strategies were aligned or integrated with each other to create an overall HR strategy for the Oakland A's organization.
Tire City, Inc. is a rapidly growing retail distributor of automotive tires. Although they have 10 shops located throughout the Northeast region, the bulk of TCI’s inventory is managed at a central warehouse. During the last three years, sales have been growing at a compound annual rate in excess of 20%. With such a great reflection of their excellent service and customer satisfaction in their net income, TCI’s central warehouse is “bulging at the seams”. TCI has decided to expand its warehouse facilities to accommodate future growth, and has requested a five year loan. We, MidBank, previously financed a project for TCI in 1991, which is currently being repaid in equal annual installments. TCI plans to
c. How should your recommendation be implemented? What implementation challenges do you foresee? How would you address those challenges?
Miller's Central Air, Inc. is an HVAC contracting company. Their offices are located in Lake Placid, Florida and Port St. Lucie, Florida. Miller's Central Air, Inc. is a family owned and operated enterprise. Miller's Central Air, Inc. was founded in 1995. Their services include installation, maintenance, repair, geothermal, air quality, home insulation, plus more. Miller's Central Air, Inc. performs duct work, duct cleaning, and dryer vent cleaning as well. The products they offer include air conditioners, air handlers, furnaces, heat pumps, home automation, air cleaners and filters, and more. Miller's Central Air, Inc. also caters the other products such as the all-in-one systems, ductless systems, geothermal thermostats and controls, humidifiers,
Incorporation (First and Last Q) to what extent did the grantee program models incorporate the Guideposts for Success framework? and To what extent did the grantees engage employer and other workforce development partners in designing and operating their programs?
3. You have been asked to advise a growing organisation which employs 75 people in office-based roles but which has no specialist, dedicated HR function. Managers are particularly keen to know how they can best evaluate the effectiveness of their HR activities and initiatives. Despite limited funds being available the organisation manages to provide some form of formal training and development opportunities for everyone each year, gives everyone an annual performance appraisal and seeks to involve staff through a consultative forum which all attend at least once a year. What advice would you give? Justify your answer.
Within this case analysis, we will examine Autozone's stock repurchasing program, as well as the mechanics behind it and the benefits it provides to the firm. Additionally, this report will analyze the alternative operating cash flow options Autozone should consider, detailing the benefits and costs of each option. A comprehensive examination of these operating cash flow alternatives will be presented, allowing for the determination of the most viable alternative for the use of Autozone's operating cash flows.
What post implementation and feedback mechanisms would you have in place to evaluate the effectiveness of the process? What measures would you use?
1.A. How would you describe the HR practices and beliefs of the program manager, the narrator of this case?
* unity of purpose and focus under a common corporate strategy (further supporting the firm’s strategy as it relates to acquisitions and divestitures);
Read the scenarios below describing two different approaches to downsizing. Analyze the downsizing practices utilized by each company, explain which activities/practices you believe would have been both effective and ineffective, and explain why. If you could
As of the past 3 decades, women have shown a commendable progress in the workplace. For instance, the average weekly earnings for women was 62.1 % that of men in the year 1970. The raw pay difference decreased from 37.9 % to 21.5 % by the year 2007. Despite the progress, the raw wage difference has continually been used to further public policy agendas without offering an explanation behind the difference (An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages between Men and Women, 2009). This essay discusses a case of Ledbetter vs the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company where Lilly Ledbetter, the only female production supervisor at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company’s plant in Gadsent, had worked for over