In relation to other companies, her company is a small one and therefore does not have specific contract administrators. The people in the company’s ‘home office’ all do multiple jobs and hold multiple job responsibilities and their primary focus is not the contracts that are basically kept similar for everything. In the case of Othello’s company developing a contract administration plan has taken his company to the next level. The last course he took was human capital management and ironically this was the major issue his company was dealing with. Many of the employees at the company are independent contractors who have their own companies.
But in Henderson printing, there is no compensation system and the owner of the company takes all decision based on its mood and his attachment to the employee. The third criteria is "attract and retain qualified individuals" (Long, 2013, p.12). It specifies that the individual's attribute to perform the required task must be in the company. In Henderson Printing, the employee or workers were working in the company and they were happy with the company, but they were not possessing the attributes to perform their work task and most of the production, customer satisfaction and marketing was handled by owner itself. The fourth criteria is "promote desired employee behavior" (Long, 2013, p.12).
Jim Gunn was the project manager and he reported to the Manager of Corporate Development. However, indirectly he worked closely with Mr. Hart and had to answer and report project progress up through him. Jim also felt a tremendous amount of pressure from the General Manager of the project who also reviewed and approved the project plan along with Mr. Hart. 5. No, the PM did not report vertically within the organization and he laterally reported into other managers with the bank.
Unit 2 1.2 To identify the standards that are required and expected within your role in the workplace and the personal standards you set yourself over and above that you need to start with what is expected of you. This takes several parts such as what is expected of you legally, by your employer, national occupational standards and of course by your client and your own standards. * The National Occupational Standards are a Government approved National regulator and set out required and measurable performance indicators for most work related roles available. They are researchable on the internet provide an in depth best practise role descriptions, guidelines and advise. *Codes of practise will be set at various levels such as Government, local and individual businesses.
Reichart is the assigned project manager for a computer program. Functional managers are charging direct labor time to his project but actually working on their own project with no relation to the Trophy project. This caused over cost in budget. When Reichart complained of this and tried to get support from upper management/corporate they told him not to poke his nose in the functional manager’s business. As time went on so did the project
Targets are the centre of their main drive of the organisation activities. Its communication system is top down, which means that only chairman is the only one to communicate the necessary information about the operational activities of the organisation. this structure doesn’t allow employees to be part of participative approach and employees become demotivated. The E.ON has a structure which is functional in terms of operations. The structure of E.ON provides flexibility in terms of decision making process, and the way the management operate, and each manager has some authorities to exercise within a particular division.
e) In the case of self-managed work teams, supervisory positions take on decreased importance. Answer: 3) Which of the following is not one of the key components of effective teams? a) team efficacy b) company reputation c) adequate resources d) member flexibility e) leadership and structure Answer: 4) Araceli is a team member in a large corporation. She never speaks in team meetings because she has seen members talk behind each other’s backs after the meetings.
Regular conflicts and disagreements have been seen in the meetings and there is no integrator to resolve these conflicts. Intergroup conflicts have been common due to goals incompatibility and task interdependence. For instance, Ralph Parker from Signal Processor Design team thinks there is no need for any digital signal processors or any strategic alliance with other companies for purchase of components whereas Dan Stella and Monica from Manufacture and Design team thinks otherwise. Power and influence is used each time to reach decisions. Hence it is a political organization.
There is no proper linkage between corporate HR structure and operations at the plant level. In other word there is no chain of command kind of linkage between them. It seems that operations office can do the HR functions by themselves like hire and fire which is in fact corporate HR department’s sole function. The leave reason seems to be written by the supervisor not the employee, this is not logical. 2.
Business Communications - Homework Task There are various types of information that are both used by and created by organisations all of which have their own purpose such as informing employees of internal activities or stakeholders of developments within the organisation. You have been placed in charge of improving communication of a large company in the city of London and have been asked to study a competitor in order to facilitate this. Using one of the companies from the list below think about the types of information that they produce why they may produce it and where they will get the information from. It is important that you look at all aspects to get a whole view on the communications the business uses and why. Companies you may wish to consider: * BP * Thorpe Park * Ford