Hrm/531 Week 4

Creating a team out of individuals can be a challenging task for even the most seasoned human resources professional. Organizations necessarily promote both diversity (and thus individualism) and teamwork. What is an example of how diversity can affect teamwork from your own experience?

District Attorney’s Office -Administrative Assistant. Handled all travel arrangement for attorneys and clerical staff: transportation, hotel, food, etc. Entered information in on a data base for all new employees also removed information when employees were dismissed. Submitted work time sheets for employees, distribute payroll checks to employees.

It is a function of staffing, making sure that the company has the right number of employees with the right knowledge and skills in the right place in the organization. The recruitment department will seek to fill the vacancies within the organization. It will advertise vacancies, screen applicants, perform initial interviews, undertake necessary background checks, extend offers of employment and assist in the onboarding of new employees.

Jordan arrived at PAAL and quickly located and interacted with his staff. Jordan was prompted to change into his school clothes. Jordan needed assistance with putting his pants in the correct direction. When arriving to the house, Jordan requested a snack. Staff encouraged Jordan to prepare and eat his breakfast before obtaining a snack. Jordan independently arranged and ate his breakfast. Following his meal, Jordan completed his hygiene. While shaving Jordan needed prompting to keep razor on target areas as well as locating specified areas. When brushing his teeth, Jordan needed prompting to turn his brush and brush the top of his mouth. Jordan again requested and was given a snack.

Renting or buying married couples have only one question in deciding. Research is the answer. By the time it is done, both partners will be exhausted. There is one method the couple can try using. Its called price-to-rent ratio.

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

7. Narragansett’s production is relatively constant throughout the year, but if its sales production were highly seasonal, could the EOQ model still be used? If so, would modifications be required? Explain.

2) The system keeps track of removals from inventory on a continuous basis, so the system can provide information on the current level of inventory for each item

Lean Manufacturing system pursues optimum streamlining throughout the entire system by the elimination of waste (non-value added/ waste) and aims to build quality into the process while recognizing the importance of cost reduction.

The raw material located on the factory floor is used during the various manufacturing operations. The amount of raw material that gets used during the day is manually written on the raw material usage form given to the inventory clerk. The inventory clerk receives the form and enters the raw material usage into the inventory system. At the end of the each day, the manufacturing team will submit a form to the inventory clerk listing the number of sub-assembles, and ending products finished for that day.

* TOC, focus on constraints and increased throughput results in less inventory and different accounting system.

Wikipedia defines Lean as the set of "tools" that helps in the identification of waste and its elimination. The waste is also referred to as Muda. It says elimination of waste improves quality and thus reduces production time and cost. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lean_manufacturing)

Eventhough, several differences seem to appear, most practicioners perceive Lean and Six Sigma as complementary approaches helping to simultaneously target a range of process problems. Therefore, many companies consider Lean Six Sigma (LSS) as an approach allowing to combine both methodologies into an integrated system of an improvement road map. (Al Haik & Al-Aomar, 2006).

This will in turn help the company honor its promises to customers which will create customer goodwill. Again a lean production ensures the company reduces wastage to the bare minimum. (Wolfe, 2011) This is very helpful in pursuing lower costs. Key areas addressed by the strategy include stock holding levels, lead time minimization and reduction of stock holding costs for the company. Lower costs will enhance our ability to offer better prices than competition giving us a cost leadership competitive edge. Efficiency and effectiveness of sourcing and the elimination of waste in our goods inwards processes is also key in breaking the quality cost trade off which is central to securing a blue ocean space in the industry.

Lean manufacturing is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination. Working from the perspective of the customer who consumes a product or service, "value" is defined as any action or process that a customer would be willing to pay for. The goal of Lean is to becomes the creation and maintenance of a production system which runs repetitively, day after day, week after week in a manner identical to the previous time period. Lean is actually the set of "tools" that assist in the identification and steady elimination of waste. As waste is eliminated quality