Performance management has several purposes, all intended to benefit both the organization and the employee and to ensure that any decisions resulting from the system are based on objective, reliable, and valid information. As such, performance management provides key information that should be strategically used with other HRM processes. The purpose of managing performance Prepare employees for future roles Ensure that right type of training is provided to the employees Compensating, documenting, and coaching employees Explain how a career development program integrates individual and organizational needs

The Vintage Restaurant, on Captiva Island near Fort Myers, Florida, is owned and operated by Karen Payne. The restaurant just completed its third year of operation. Since opening her restaurant, Karen has sought to establish a reputation for the Vintage as a high-quality dining establishment that specializes in fresh seafood. Through the efforts of Karen and her staff, her restaurant has become one of the best and fastest growing restaurants on the island. To better plan for future growth of the restaurant, Karen needs to develop a system that will enable her to forecast food and beverage sales by month for up to one year in advance. Table 17.25 shows the value of food and beverage sales ($1000s) for the first three years of operation. Managerial Report Perform an analysis of the sales data for the Vintage Restaurant. Prepare a report for Karen that summarizes your findings, forecasts, and recommendations. Include the following: A time series plot. Comment on the underlying pattern…

A researcher is interested in understanding how the flexibility of vacation policies at a company influence employee satisfaction with their job. Company 1, Vance Refrigeration, has a 2 week vacation policy in which employees can take those 2 weeks at any time during the year. Company 2, Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, has a 2 week vacation policy in which employees can only take vacation days during specific pre-approved times of year.  How could the confound be fixed for Scenario A? Be sure to tell me what technique you are using (constancy, repeated measures, randomization, elimination, or balancing), as well as how you would apply that technique to this specific scenario, and how that would fix this confound.

As you read about each​ study, (a) classify the type of research that it​ reflects, and​ (b) identify the kinds of conclusions that might reasonably be drawn from the results. The director of computer technology in Emerson School District wants to gather information about the use of​ technology-based instruction in language arts and literature classes in the​ district's middle schools and high schools. For her​ study, the director identifies five of the top teachers in these content areas. She visits and observes each​ teacher's classes on three different days and subsequently interviews each teacher. Then she summarizes the ways that these teachers incorporate the use of technology into their lessons and their​ students' activities. The director also summarizes​ teachers' beliefs about the roles of technology in​ students' learning and motivation. ​(a) Classify the research as one of the​ following:   ​Quantitative/descriptive   ​Quantitative/correlational…

Larkin Industries manufactures several lines of decorative and functional metal items. The most recent order has been for 1200 door lock units for an apartment complex developer. The sales and production departments must work together to determine delivery schedules. Each lock unit consists of three components: the knob and face plate, the actual lock itself, and a set of two keys. Although the processes used in the manufacture of the three components vary, there are three areas where the production manager is concerned about the availability of resources. These three areas, their usage by the three components, and their availability are detailed in the table. Resource Knob and Plate Lock Key (each) Available Brass Alloy 12 5 1 15000 units Machining 18 20 10 36000 minutes Finishing 15 5 1 12000 minutes A quick look at the amounts available confirms that Larkin does not have the resources to fill this contract. A subcontractor, who can make an unlimited number of each of the three…

Economic growth typically results in rising standards of living and prosperity. However, it also invites negative externalities such as environmental degradation due to overexploiting of natural resources. As such, the world is confronted with the dilemma of growth versus environmental sustainability. Developing a model explaining the disparity of economic development concentrating on drivers such as tourism sustainability, technological innovation and the quality of leadership would be important not only to facilitate future economic growth in developing countries, but also to the environmental and sociocultural sustainability which ultimately lead to global sustainable development. The present research objective is to develop and test framework of sustainable development by considering the elements of tourism, technological innovation, and national leadership. This further would facilitate growth, environmental and socio-cultural sustainability. Understanding the integration of…

If motor skills are classified according to the stability of the environment, bowling would be placed in the category of closed motor skills.   Question 20 options:   True   False

Just for learning process The stakeholders of a software company have four new security requirements that they are considering to include in the next release of their flagship product: Two-factor authentication (2FA), Captcha for Bot Detection (CBT), Password Expirations (PEX), and Role-base access control (RBA). Given the time constraints, they may not be able to include all, so they need to prioritize these  requirements based on three criteria: Maintainability (MA), Ease of Use (EU), and Integration Support (IS). They have the following pairwise preferences of the criteria: Maintainability is three times as important as Ease of Use Ease of Use is two times as important as Integration Support Maintainability is five times as important as Integration Support Based on the above information, do the following: Make a matrix capturing all pairwise comparisons of importance of criteria.  Using the AHP calculations, calculate the criteria weights and rank the three criteria.  Rank the…

Jointsoft is a great over-the-counter arthritis medication, but who will ever know about it? Unfortunately, many people with arthritis tend to be elderly and rather immobile, so advertisers of arthritis medications face limitations in ways to get their messages across. Currently, their best modes of advertisement are commercials on daytime TV, advertisements in select magazines, fliers in convalescent homes, and advertisements on certain Web pages. Marketing managers for Jointsoft are investigating these four modes of advertisement in four small communities (with a different mode of advertisement in each community). The marketing managers have selected 38 days at random and are looking at the daily sales (in dollars) in each of the communities on each of these days. Here is what they have to work with.     Groups Sample size Sample mean Sample variance TV 38 573.0 1777.7 Magazines 38 554.3 2761.0 Fliers 38 584.0 2445.4 Web pages 38 587.3 2943.2

Jointsoft is a great over-the-counter arthritis medication, but who will ever know about it? Unfortunately, many people with arthritis tend to be elderly and rather immobile, so advertisers of arthritis medications face limitations in ways to get their messages across. Currently, their best modes of advertisement are commercials on daytime TV, advertisements in select magazines, fliers in convalescent homes, and advertisements on certain Web pages. Marketing managers for Jointsoft are investigating these four modes of advertisement in four small communities (with a different mode of advertisement in each community). The marketing managers have selected 33 days at random and are looking at the daily sales (in dollars) in each of the communities on each of these days. Here is what they have to work with.