Hrm/531 Week 3 Assignment

IBM Global Services, the technology services and consulting division of International Business Machines (IBM), is the world’s largest provider of systems integration and technology consulting. It offers services in areas such as application development, data storage, infrastructure management, networking, and technical support (Datamonitor Plc., 2007, p.4). IBM Global Services is also among the world leaders in providing business consulting and outsourcing services. IBM Global Services’ headquarter locates in Armonk, New York. The company has more than 190,000 employees around the world.

Previous experiences as a staff member: Sadly, I have never had the opportunity to be on a

During my co-op work placement, I was employed at Evichat Inc. in the position of Full Stack Developer. The total size of the company is 5 people. The Software Development team where I worked with was relatively small compared to other companies as it is an early stage startup. Throughout the work placement, I was worked on projects that involved integrating with third parties including Relativity and Clio, improving web app security with role based authentication and improving site SEO.

For the summer of 2015, I enrolled as a student in University of Maryland University College (UMUC) to start the journey of earning a bachelor's degree in Cyber Security. For the starting course requirements, Writing 101s was one of the three classes I had picked to begin with. When I first started off in this course, I considered my writing skills poor, with unorganized paragraphing and horrible grammar skills. Now, I am able to write great with more organized essays, proper sentence structures, and also gained researching skills for future research projects or assignments. This course has dramatically increased my confidence in writing and I feel that I am able to write at college level and not middle or high school.

Our company’s Continuity Management Program (CMP) dictates that the business adheres to an annual testing program. The program does utilize the guidelines from the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP). The Continuity Management team has written and scripted into our process to incorporate our Tabletop Exercise’s (TTX’s). Our annual process is to test each of our business units for resiliency. TTX’s allows for us to open up discussions and dialogues focusing on many different areas in the event we need to declare. Also, the exercises aid in discovering any gaps and working through each tier of the recovery process. Our business lines have Recovery Time Objectives (RTO’s) starting at 1 hour up to 72 hours. During the TTX’s we cover the business impact analysis (BIA’s ) and each of the RTO’s.

During this class there have been many interesting topics being discussed; topics that I didn’t even begin to think about. After reading Chapter 18 and learning about the importance of performance planning and setting performance objectives, it has opened my eyes up to a lot more ideas. Having a vision and plan to not only make yourself succeed, but those around you and the company is a part of managing performance and objectives.

I think we need to build better relationships with our customers. With our current customers, it seems as if we are constantly just a one-time kind of business. We do not want to be that, we want the customers to return because they trust us. Not because they consistently have problems even with our help.

Thank you for responding to my discussion board post. I’m glad you found all of the resources which I provide for use when scripting and programing helpful. I have used stackoverflow.com to be helpful as well in the past. I will added to my list of resources when I do scripting and programing in the future.

Black Diva beauty Supply will be selling retail cosmetics, toiletries and personal grooming products with products and services specifically targeted to the Montgomery community. Additional market item will be the hospital scrubs and uniforms since the area is surrounded my nursing homes and hospitals with 98% of the employees are female.

I have not had very much experience as an employee during my youth. My first time doing real world work was the day that I volunteered at my father’s office at the New York City Department of the Aging for two hours. It was apparently a day off from work because no one other than him, myself, and his supervisor were there, but I helped my father organize and file some papers. After my brief stint as a volunteer, my first, and only, actual job I was paid for was over this summer at the Eileen Abraham Insurance Agency. I got the job through a program called the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). This program helped young adults, like myself, get summer jobs around the city in various different fields. I specifically chose the Eileen

Once again, this week’s reading is very timely and coincides with current work situations. This week, it has become more apparent that the culture of where I work conflicts with my personal values. Over two years ago, I moved to the Boston area for this job and at the time I realized that there were geographical and historical differences than from previous places I had lived. I also expected social and economic differences. Being the newcomer, to the work situation and environment, there was the need for me to learn about the governmental rules and processes for how decisions are made. In addition, after a few times of being corrected, I learned to call Massachusetts a Commonwealth, not a State. For a time, I embraced the cultural differences and contributed any unease to my unfamiliarity with the area. Then, I started to notice some current organizational values that contrast with my beliefs. For instance, the organization I

Why is it important for an organization to have alignment between its strategy and structure?

As the clock strikes 6PM panic invades my mind. This panic is not due to the fact that I must complete an assignment on time because I already finished today’s assignments, but because I just realized that another day will cease to exist without me reading a Stephen King novel, playing video games, watching a movie, or going for a run to take in the sweet spring scented air. Although I am a very organized person, with my calendar and highly detailed to do lists, I still can’t seem to find a way to make my day fit everything I want to do. After writing and editing two sentences it is 6:15PM and I know not much time has passed but the highly predictable anxiety starts to set in every time I look to the clock on my left.

Because of my experiences at a government for six years, I am quite familiar with ins and out of legislation process, and few attorneys have such experience. With this background, I can attract clients strongly by differentiating myself from competitors.

Solutions Oriented – Standardly asking what others think, I have confidence asking what you would do. Examining data and scenarios is helpful, but exhausting effort to deliver results in a strategic plan provides vision. My roommate and I studied supply chain management, consistently allowing us to craft our own decisions regarding the issue of efficiency among our assignments. Developing strategies which could be implemented and altered depending on variation exhibited greater success and less disturbances. Evaluating evidence is critical, although I find that a tactical approach with future forethought generates value.