The process of recruiting is therefore of great concern for managers in the field. However, up to this point, the organization has not had any centralized method for recruiting new employees. As part of the consolidation across stores, Tanglewood is now encouraging a systematic review of their recruiting policies that will ultimately result in a better recruiting system for store
Case: The New Director of Human Resource 1. After investigation of Mount Ridge Engineering’s corporate human resource structure and plant operation procedures, in my opinion currently the relationships between human resource policies and actual plant operations are very weak. Although we can say that the human resource department has established a fairly complete set of procedures and policies, the actual implementation of the policies at plant level operations do not seem to be thorough enough, no employee implement those rules. Especially, the staffing function is very weak. There is no proper linkage between corporate HR structure and operations at the plant level.
The managers monitor but do not get involved in day to day operations with drivers. An office would be different yet again with more a” democratic” or “people orientated” environment with leanings towards more collective goals and each individual contributing their efforts to the team objectives. 1.2 – The differing styles all have their place and trying to input one style into another would not necessarily work. You couldn’t put a people orientated style into a task orientated situation like the one above. Autocratic leadership can cause aggravation and discontent in the workforce.
There are not enough regulations and monitoring system for the daily accounting activities. For instance, management and auditors spend very little time reviewing the insignificance of petty cash account. So the five elements of internal control is not work well in this company. The control environment was not effective; there was no effective risk management, which helped the company to realize its objectives; control activities and monitoring are lack. Moreover, the CEO is ultimately responsible for the internal control who assumes primary responsibility for the system of internal control.
The subordinates are obliged to obey the superior’s orders. However the corporate values of Pharmaz headquarter differs as it practices empowerment whereby employees can executive certain decisions independently with less orders given. However in the Indian context, employees feels that empowerment are of too much expectations of them and feels that it is an indication of their work not being important, thus would not get the work done. Neils, an expatriate, who took up the finance director position in India, had different
This is largely because the nature of the project requires the co-operation of managers at very strategic level of the company. The Managers understand and have sufficient information on the strategic direction of the organisation. The writer was unable to arrange interviews with the management in the company, as information they have cannot be made public for confidential reasons. As a result it is deemed that the information gathering from other sources within the company would not be as reliable as desired for this topic. Informal primary research interviews will be arranged to gain general information on Woolworth's PLC's policies and operations with members of Woolworth's store staff.
Health Data Corp (HDC) marketing plan covers most elements of a marketing plan, but there are a few missing parts which listed below; 1. The lack of executive summary causes difficulty for understanding HDC business at a glance. 2. The product description is not clear. Currently, product description is inside of opportunity analysis and the absence of clear demarcation, what HDC wants to sell is not clear.
While The Behavioral Theory provided a revolutionary view of the internal characteristics of the firm, strategic and managerial considerations were not the focus of attention. The goal was not to explain market behavior, but rather to understand decisions and actions inside the firm. Cyert and March believed organizations were incapable of following specific, unified objectives. Such specific objectives are critical to the establishment of corporate strategy, and without this ability, managers could only marginally influence the direction of the firm. Any objectives agreed upon by a management coalition would inevitably be highly ambiguous goals, enfeebling the ability of a top manager or entrepreneur to truly control the direction of the firm.
While it may be necessary to use different measures for different employees, it is difficult to be objective when a manager can pick and choose what criteria they are using to evaluate. Personal feelings and bias can cloud their judgement and distort the evaluation. Rule of Law There are no laws requiring performance evaluations,
In their study, Cassell et al. (2001) found that few of the owners/managers of SMEs do not believe in the appropriateness and potential of benchmarking because the expected outcomes are not immediate and considerable time and resources are needed for completion of the activity. The survey conducted by Adebanjo et al. (2010) in both LEs and SMEs context reported that the organizations do not use benchmarking due to lack of resources, unavailability of suitable benchmarking partners, lack of understanding and technical knowledge of benchmarking activity, high cost and time duration, inability to assess the benefits of benchmarking, lack of top management interest and support. Panwar et al.