Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Assignment B
Q1. Explain the steps you will suggest to design an effective salary system for a medium sized equipment manufacturing organization. Q2. Discuss the concept of relevance of employee discipline. Identify the important methods of grievance handling, with examples. Q3. Style Warehouse is a major retailer of mens business clothing. Despite the increasing size of the services sector, management of retail personnel is often poor and turnover is high. Further, training is non existent and the industry is increasingly competitive. Style Warehouse wishes to establish itself as a quality clothier with a high growth and earnings rate, as well as growth in its stock value. If you were the training manager of Style Warehouse: (a) What kinds of training programmes would you organize for the employees of the organization? (b) What approach would you follow for evaluating the effectiveness of training?
Case Study
Mariam has been a data processing supervisor for two years. She is in the process of selecting a candidate for a programmer trainee position she has created. Her plan is to develop the trainee into a system analyst within two years. Since this is a fast track, she needs a candidate whose aptitude and motivation is high. Fourteen candidates applied for the job in employment section of the human resource department. Six were women, eight were men. An employment specialist screened the candidates for Mariam using a carefully prepared interview format that included questions to determine job - related skills. Six candidates, three women and three men, were referred to Mariam. Mariam then conducted structured, in depth interviews and further narrowed the selection to one woman and two men. Her boss, a company vice president, agrees with her judgment after hearing Mariams description of the candidates. However, Mariams boss feels particularly unsure of the abilities of the female candidates. From the selection interview, past job experience and education, there is no clear indication of the candidates ability to perform the job. The vice president is insistent that Mariam should screen the candidate with a programmer aptitude test devised by a computer manufacturing firm. The test had been given four years ago, and some of the most successful current analysis had scored high on it. Mariam went to the human resource department and asked them to administer the test to the questionable candidate. The human resource manager informed her that the company policy had been to do no testing of any kind during the last two years. Mariam explained that the request had come from a vice president and asked that she be given a decision on her request by Friday. Questions (a) Identify and evaluate the stages of the selection process reflected in the case. (b) If you were Mariam, what would you do? (c) Suggest a selection process which such organizations as that of Mariams could adopt easily.
Assignment C
1. HRM is an approach to the management of: a) Organization b) Jobs c) People d) Activities 2. Management by objectives (MBO) was conceptualised by a) Reniss Likert b) Tom Peters c) William Collins d) Peter Drucker 3. Which historical group of thinkers underlined the importance of integration and involvement in HRM? a) The behaviour science movement b) The corporate culture movement c) The organizational development movement d) All the above schools 4. The functions performed by the Hr Manager are : a) Training b) Voluntary Integration