Do Students Visit the Holman Library Information Desk? Introduction Making appropriate staffing decisions is one of the most important tasks for a manager or of any company. The decision a company makes about staffing their business can have dramatic effects on the quality of their work, their retention rates and level of customer service. Because of this, we would like to investigate whether a sufficient number of staff already exists at the Holman Library of Green River College. It is important to note that we cannot just look at one factor in order to conclude whether a company has sufficient staffing. In fact, the knowledge and skill of the staff, the type of problem that the staff has to solve, and the peak hours of the library, are …show more content…
To ensure randomness on our research, TI-84 calculator was also used to generate random numbers from 1 to 7 that are assigned to every 30 minute time intervals during the day. Procedure A number from one to seven was assigned to seven different 30 minute time intervals during the day. To avoid bias, a TI-84 calculator was used to select the timeframe of observations for each day from Monday to Friday. The first five numbers generated was the timeframes that we used for the observation. The randomly selected time(s) are summarized on Table 1.0 on the right. During the observation, an observer from the group stood in front of the information desk on the first floor of the Holman Library to count how many people came into the library using a tally counter, and how many people first went to the information desk for help by drawing tally on a sheet of paper at the same time. As for the data analysis, the criterion for significance for all data was set at α=0.01. Results The observation that were conducted from October 19th to October 23rd went very well. Sometimes a group of future students who enters the library for a tour would first visit the information desk to get more info about the library. We thought that since this does not happen at a daily basis, their visit would keep us away from getting the accurate result. We were glad that it did not happen during the observation. The bar chart above (bar chart 1.0) summarizes the data that were collected.
Identify two (2) types of staffing models that could apply to your chosen scenario and determine which model would be best suited for efficiency, productivity, and possible future growth. Examine the significant effect of each identified staffing model on processes that may be occurring within the organization (e.g.,
Tanglewood has organizational plans to staff open store associate positions on an ongoing, continuous basis. The first stage staffing plans must take into consideration is recruiting from the labor market. Tanglewood management team must clearly consider the different methods available as well as the associated cost benefits of each. This case study will provide Tanglewood with a recruitment guide for its open store associate position, describe the best targets for its recruitment, estimate the yields and costs of each method, and finally offer proposed recruiting messages. The organizational date provided was used to determine what Tanglewood’s best method for recruiting are.
Jenson interviewed business executives from diverse industries and organizational size, he stated that one of their largest challenges that leadership were concerned with was staffing – finding the correct personnel, keeping them, and ensuring they buy into the visual modality of the system. Having the right staff is important for any organization. With the right staff the company will retain loyal personnel who will not compromise the integrity of the business.
Staffing versus resources is the balance that all organisations face the challenge of meeting and with the current downward trend of budgets it is becoming increasingly the case that this is the main driving force for change of team makeup and of the people that are working within those teams. More is being expected of the individual members of the team in place and for managers to have to make their case for recruitment within a tight decision making framework.
Every business in the global market has to have some sort of staffing strategy in order to be successful. Tanglewood Retail store is one of the big and puplor retailers among 12 regions locally and ovbersees. After I examined the report that you provide me with, I have analyized the stafffing strategy decisions as below with my recommindiation.
The data will be collected everyday at 7 o’clock and noon by counting the amount of fish caught at each time.
The key to the success of any business is the strength of its staff or work force. However, to remain economical, a company's work force must be able to increase efficiency, lower staffing costs, reduce turnover and provide long term growth for the company. In order to achieve all of these goals, a company must have and implement a successful work force planning strategy. This can be difficult as many companies fail to see where there staffing short-comings lie, and therefore can not determine the best strategy for hiring, outsourcing and shifting staff positions. Since each company's staffing needs are different, a successful staffing strategy must have a broad enough outline to be applicable to any company while also being specific enough to accurately address that company's staffing needs. In 2001, Governor David Paterson, the New York State Department of Civil Service and the New York State Governor's Office of Employee Relations published a guide for work force planning for their state agencies titled Our Work Force Matters. This guide provides eight steps for the planning processes along with several strategies and
The three questions that need to be addressed within staffing planning are how many people should be recruited, what resources are needed, and how much time will it take to hire employees ( Phillips & Gully, 2015). In regards to how many people should be recruited, it has been suggested that by having more applicants, it allows an organization to be more selective. This can allow the company to identify the candidate who will be the best fit for the position as opposed to hiring the only applicant who applies. Phillips & Gully (2015) mention that staffing yields are the best source of information for determining how many people to recruit and it comes from data being collected during a company’s previous recruiting efforts. Also, one way is
“Number of programs”, “Number of program attendees”, “Attendees per program” are used to measure the capability of the library to offer a broad base of programs to the community. “Number of programs” is a good indicator to measure our ability to offer a large number of diverse programs. “Attendees per program” assesses the popularity of different types of programs currently being offered, which can help us identify whether the services we are offering is appealing to the customer. However, “Number of program attendees” is a weak indicator, since it variation could have very diverse reasons
The following will discuss the Human Resource functions of Tanglewood Stores. The paper will discuss the staffing strategies required by Tanglewood in order to maintain its corporate culture and niche market while remaining competitive. The paper suggests strategic staffing decisions regarding the nine staffing levels and four factors of staffing quality.
Staffing will be tailored to the specific needs of the client. We provide a sound approach, intelligent selection, management commitment, and good planning leadership to enable firms to achieve their strategic objectives within a logical and reasonable framework to minimize staffing issues. We help provide the human attributes that can enable an organization to flourish and maintain sustainability in an uncertain world.
Appropriate staffing can be the key to success for many organizations therefore, the human resources (HR) department must develop a staffing plan. In this paper I will develop a staffing plan for a new division at T-Mobile called Loyalty. Loyalty will consist of marketing, customer service, distribution, and accounting. Specific strategies to recruit the appropriate applicants including the legal compliance of said strategies will be developed in this paper.
Even though they were growing fast, they faced few problems which include staffing and decrease in sales. Staffing has become a major issue in the company, since there were locations that have buildings but no employees. This problem in hiring the right employees that meets criteria of the
Staffing has been an important aspect in all types of organizations’ development. More and more companies have noticed a good staffing plan could increase productivity and reduce operation costs in terms of lower turnover rate and transition costs. Good staffing could be able to minimize cost in order to maximize profit, because it could assist the company to stay more competitive within the industry. According to the definition by Dr. Green, “staff is the process of identifying work requirements within an organization; determining the number of people and the skills necessary to do the work; and recruiting, selecting and promoting the qualified candidates. It is the selection process of
Finally, for Wednesday the best shift is from 16:00 to 00:00. Because the customers expect the bags that are closest to the specific mean 70. For R- Charts, we assumed mean as 70 and found the upper and lower control limits for each days.