In this particular group project, we need to come up with a proposal and a decision on which two employees should be submitted for permanent layoff. It was painful decision who should go. As these approaches are painful to staff involved. Not only workers are laid off, but layers of management can be collapsed, resulting in new management structures. We must be careful with the decisions of layoffs, as it could lead to poor morale. Total of five employees have been assigned for our group proposal, and each employee has been given brief information about their background. As our group discussion took part, we all started to do our self-evaluations about each employee using his/her background information. As we have decided all will be examined based on their performances. After the meeting it is imperative that decision reached on the persons to be laid off must be in writing and mailed confidentially to keep all information classified. As I read through each employee’s background, I decided to specify their advantages and disadvantages by sorting them into pros and cons. I then evaluated and concluded my perspective of each individual. As we evaluated each employee, we collectively decided to let go of Donovan Taylor and Gabriella Santana. Some of the things we looked into before making the decision were the employees’ evaluations, education, experiences, and how they contributed to the company. When it came to Donovan Taylor, it was obvious that he has been with the
1. Propose three ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
During a meeting assumptions are thoroughly checked, all options are reviewed keeping risks and benefits in mind. Achieving the objectives and checking the confidence of the individuals, making sure the situation is recoverable is of utmost importance. These factors are kept in mind by 87% of the employees. The employer on the other hand is open to all further doubts brought about by his employees.
On the other hand, the success of the company is in large part due to the hard work of the staff who would lose their employment. In addition, it must be determined who would perform the work of the dismissed employees and if the company would be able to function without them. Moreover, the morale and productivity
As the Vice President of Human Resource for Moore Beer, Inc., it is my duty and responsibility to direct all of Moore Beer, Inc. employees in accordance with the company 's policies and procedures as well as abide by all the laws that are put in place to protect employee’s rights. Moore Beer, Inc. has suffered a decrease in sales profits, as a result the company is reducing its workforce. The President of the company asked me to look into the five employees listed below and decide who to terminate as well as provide the reason why the termination is necessary. My job is to terminate three out of the five employees.
Purpose: In Weeks 3 and 5, you submitted information to help you in completing the final project. Feedback was provided to assist you in maximizing points earned on this final paper. To properly complete this final project, you must include the feedback provided to apply to this final paper. The purpose of this assignment is to apply your critical thinking skills in completing the employee process from job analysis to compensation based on performance. You are now going to
At a time when many companies experience a difficult economic situation, they have to cut costs by laying off workers, and worse if your employees decided to leave for other competitors. Losing a talented worker is costly and to replace your top employee’s knowledge, experience and customer relationships is not something as simple as ones might think. So why do good employees quit? Even with high wages or great benefit, employees can still depart from the company if they do not get along well with their managers. So in order to keep good employees on board, the managers play an important role in knowing and matching their workers’ needs. In what follows, I going to analyze the case study: “Why are we losing all our good people?” which is about a fictional firm called “Sambian Partners”; what's really the reasons that is driving talented people out of the company and offering some solution to help Sambian stop the talent drain.
Chern’s needs to complete an internal assessment of the organizations current employees for training, reassignment, promotion and dismissal purposes. The internal assessment can help Chern’s determine if their employees fit the requirements for the managerial positions within the organization. By assessing their current employees’ abilities, willingness to learn and ability to adapt to new situations along with
The aim/objectives of this assignment are to explore employee relations in detail, including the psychological contract, differences between fair and unfair dismissals, redundancy, and the direct link to my organisation. Pershing is a medium sized financial services company, who has seen strong growth over the last two years during the economic downturn.
It takes some thought to distinguish the facts from your judgments, but the results are more meaningful to employees and more productive for you. Conversations based on evidence lead to employees owning the situation because they can focus on the evidence you have presented rather than your judgment” (Green, 2013). A good portion of the facts of the case study is based Kareem’s background information and the behaviors observed that caused the termination of Kareem. The information in between the reading and the reasonings given behind the termination results in it being judgment based. Although Thomas states that one of the key reasons that Kareem was terminated was due to his number declining subsequently of him being far from his work area, yet there is no solid evidence or pattern of behavior to back up his case. One of the first issues in this case was the lack of communication. As mentioned earlier, Thomas nor Janet took the time to provide feedback to Kareem (prior to the termination conversation) around his performance or the concerns that had been raised. It is imperative in a performance conversation, for there to be specific examples or data that can support the reasons behind the discussion taking
Looking at today’s economy people is willing to work any job with good pay and benefits. In today’s society there are employees who expect to get paid for less work. There are employers who will pay less for more work. I think that ever employee needs to be evaluated honestly on his or her work performance. I would also have employee meetings to collect important feedback. In order to receive honest feedback, I will allow the employees to submit their opinions anonymously.
All over the globe retaining employees is a most critical factor for the organisations. High employee turnover is more common in private sector as compared to public. In construction industry, to reduce employee turnover and to improve the productivity of an organisation, organisations have to be aware of the reasons why an employees quit the organisation?. Employee turnover can be explained as the expenses, in term of money, time, and quality of work, that an organisation bear while replacing an employee. If an organisation fails to satisfy the needs of its employees then it is obvious that the employees will look forward to fulfill their necessities. This chapter discuss the reasons why employees quit their jobs.
a good employer. Hence the employee retention rate is very low. The purpose of this report is to propose a
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
Sambian Partners is an architecture and engineering firm which believes in promoting an environment where the firm’s designers, engineers and client account managers collaborate to deliver top notch designs. The CEO believes Sambian Partners offer a good environment for its people to work and treat people right. The case describes how Sambian is facing a situation where its top talent is quitting. The CEO is surprised by these departures and is working with the firm’s human resource head to get to the root cause of these departures. The management wants to fix the root cause to stop this exodus.
Perhaps the most important changes, however, were the actions taken to adjust the human resources management practices to facilitate the achievement of the company’s new goals. The first step was to involve the workers in the decision-making processes at Continental. When Bethune arrived and determined that there would have to be layoffs, the employees were given input into the process and decisions. Communication with top management was implemented through a toll-free number established to handle employee complaints. To deal with the sixty calls a day that came in, a committee was created to respond to these problems with a solution within forty-eight hours. Moreover,