Management and Hr Staff

The UK had recently emerged from the recession 2007-2009, the economy is now recovering. During the recession, many businesses had struggled to survive. The strategies that businesses had taken during recession may affect their long-term profits. For example, as people spend less during the recession, businesses try to reduce their costs and reduce prices in order to encourage customers to buy their product e.g. Primark, M&S etc and many businesses have also closed down branches in order to maintain their

It is essential for organisations to keep up to date and accurate records to ensure efficient

ONO is a large auto-supply company that does a large volume of business with only eleven employees. Absenteeism seems to have increased over the last two years and has had a significant effect on ONO. The information in the text shows that ONO had lost 539 employee labor-hours or 67.375 days to employee absenteeism last year. Because there are only eleven employees, this equals out to 6.125 missed days per employee. This is actually less than the United States average of seven missed days per year. Is absenteeism at ONO a serious problem? Whether or not a serious problem, the data from ONO, Inc. suggests there is enough to warrant an investigation and a new strategy to minimize absenteeism. As

reduced absenteeism. Absenteeism is a result of employee boredom with their job as they don’t feel personally connected to the company. Empowered employee feels valued and challenged which results in job satisfaction consequently absenteeism decreases.

Unit 38 Business and the Economic EnvironmentLearner name Assessor nameSameeha Hussain/Antonio ZarroDate unit issuedUnit DeadlineDate unit submitted by student27/01/1419/04/14 Criteria referenceTo achieve the criteria the evidence must show that the learner is able toAsst Task no. Assessor initial date when metPASS CRITERIAP1 Explain the effects of changes in the economic environment on a selected business P2 Identify how government policies impact on a selected business P3 Identify the impact of government spending on a selected businessP4 Explain how both fiscal and monetary policy decisions have affected a selected businessP5 Describe the impact of international factors on a selected business M1 Analyse the implications of

All of these factors have an enormous impact on my selected business (Barclays) as the economy goes from growth and decline. As well as many others, Barclays is majorly affected as it is in the financial industry. These different factors appear throughout what is called the ‘Business Cycle’. The cycle shows the fluctuation of the activity within the economy over a period of time and consists of 4 main stages; as well as many others,

As a manager in a Contact Centre, unplanned absence causes issues. I have collected the absence data across the four departments within the Contact Centre for the same time period in 2011 and 2012. (January – September)

Induction training is training given to new employees. The purpose of the induction training (which may be a few hours or a few days) is to help a new employee settle down quickly into the job by becoming familiar with the people, the surroundings, the job and the business. It is important to give a new employee a good impression on the first day of work. However, the induction programme should not end there. It is also important to have a systematic induction programme, spread out over several days, to cover all the aspects in the shortest effective time. The advantages of induction training are that they are cost-effective and to have the opportunity to learn whilst doing training alongside real colleagues. The disadvantages of induction

Legislation and Compliance – The company needs to collect data from our employees to ensure we comply with legislation and our industry requirements, for example a copy of an employee’s passport or visa to show right to work, evidence of a Doctor’s registration status. We also collect data pertaining to equality and diversity…

Below you will find an overview of some of the data that the HR function within British Gas Business collects. Within this report I will identify two reasons why British Gas Business needs to collect HR data, and the current methods in which we store the data. I will also briefly touch upon some key legislation which if compliant, will reduce any financial or legal risks to the organisation.

The below note will give you a brief information about the way the organisation’s approach to collecting, sorting and using HR data.

1. Why does this organisation need to keep employee records (identify at least two reasons?)

The “Great Recession” is commonly used to explain the massive economic contraction that occurred in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2007. However, the actions of the United States spanned to other nations, leaving massive effect on the global economy. One nation that took on serious financial burden during this recession was the United Kingdom. This nation first faced the effects of the Great Recession beginning in the first quarter of 2008. Overall, the initial mass effects on the nation can be attributed to the nation’s reliance on the financial sector. In fact, after partially stabilizing in 2009, the country struggled with a double-dip recession between 2010-12, and continues to struggle with some of these effects.

Another interesting process whilst searching for articles, I took the opportunity to subscribe to two HR Professional sites like CIPD (The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK), and HRInsider.ca which is a Canadian/US based firm in order to get some reports and insight to Organizational Behavior and Management, in particularly to absenteeism in the workplace. There are other websites like SHRM.org, HRM Asia, and Acas whereby one is able to get bountiful information on the topic.

“ABSENTEEISM” is one of the great disasters faced by all the organizations in this modernized world which results in turnover. So the firm has to reinvest so many amounts. People not only used to leave the organizations due to the personal reasons, the main reason is all about the industrial environmental factors “ABSENTEEISM” not only indicates the physical presence it starts with the “Mental absence” of an individual so the firm has to take this as a important issue before initiating any remedial actions through that and along with the participative management. There are so many factors that influence employees to take leave. This study ensures that it will reveal a clear good result for the absence. To avoid this problem, necessary steps should be taken and this also helps the management to know about the employee’s basic needs which are not fulfilled and what the employee’s expectation.