Human capital as a factor in the performance of a company
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
The ultimate goal of a company is to ensure strong and sustainable growth. Growth is indeed a quantitative process characterized by the increase in size of the company in terms of products and results. It determines the survival of the company, and is also a means of measuring the goals achieved...
Human resources: The film analysis
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
The film depicts two HR realities. The first is that of the complex relationship between Frank, a young intern in Human Resources, who is dynamic, energetic, and his father who is both fearful and disillusioned with the job he has held since he was young. Frank is a victim of deceptive illusions...
Bringing emotions to work should be a pleasure, but in practice it is often a pain - published: 01/07/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Human resources
Companies have become aware, over the last several years, that emotions conveyed by employees, in facing customers, constitute key components of success. They determine the customer reaction. They influence his emotional state (fear, confidence, sympathy), and his will to buy. They determine the...
Oticon, a Danish Hearing Manufacturer, and the Human Resources Development - publié le 01/07/2010
Case study - 9 pages - Human resources
According Leonard Nadler , the Human Resources “refer to a series of organized activities conducted within a specified time and designed to produce behavioral change”. The main task of this function is to focus on employees within an organization: if the firm is able to create a good...
The link between professional and personal life
Thesis - 6 pages - Human resources
According to Anne Monjaret, author of The Feast and research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research, "A party held in the company is not an illusory phenomenon. Under the apparent frivolity attached to this concept lies a real and symbolic social efficiency. These parties play an...
Integration of parenting in HR policies: A challenge
Thesis - 6 pages - Human resources
In France as in most industrialized countries, major issues such as stress and equality between men and women highlight the difficulty in reconciling work and family life. This is particularly because of the emergence of new forms of organization of work and the increasing feminization of...
Human resource management (HRM) at IBM
Thesis - 7 pages - Human resources
Stress has become an integral part of business life today. Tension, pressure and constant anxiety are a few of the occupational diseases detected at PSA, Renault, EDF and IBM. These occupational diseases and cardiovascular diseases have been on the rise lately. To develop this subject, facts...
A different approach to training
Thesis - 8 pages - Human resources
Every government has an underlying duty to protect its citizens. Nevertheless, there are problems faced by the developed nations to bring in 100% employment rate for its people. As the ill effects of unemployment range from property crimes to national dissatisfaction, governments seek ways to...
The golden rules for an internship
Course material - 3 pages - Human resources
Through electing to do so or mandatorily, a company is obliged to accommodate young people to enable them to complete their theoretical training. The intern is not an employee. To avoid confusion, the employer must ensure that the cooperation of the student is not reclassified as a contract of...
Strategies used by companies to attract young employees
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Recent years have seen the inclusion of new management practices in the recruitment process. These changes, are a sign of awareness of the company's awareness of the strategic aspect of recruitment, and derive from an increasingly competitive labor market. HR marketing: This concept is then...
Workaholism
Essay - 2 pages - Human resources
Over the twenty years, stress at work and work-life balance has attracted the attention of a lot of observers such as employers, journalists, politicians, and health professionals. At the same time, a new kind of addiction has been identified, workaholism. The term workaholic refers to a person...
Human resources - case studies of Club Med, Tic-Tock and Fred Bailay
Case study - 7 pages - Human resources
This document is a presentation of some points of the human resources' strategy of three big companies : Club Med, Tic-Tock and Fred Bailay. Extracts of the document : "What are the causes of the heavy turnover among GOs? From the perspective of Club Med's management, does the turnover...
Intercultural management - interview of an expatriate
Essay - 7 pages - Human resources
In the actual business environment, expatriates are a highly valuable resource for companies going abroad. Indeed, globalization created a global market for high skill personnel, which was also facilitated by the decrease of the travelling costs. However it must be stated that expatriation is not...
Hiring and training: A presentation
Presentation - 25 pages - Human resources
It is pre recruiting evaluation form one company uses in recording preliminary impressions of individuals whose names are being added to the reservoir. The interview is the most widely used selection step and in some companies it comprises the entire selection system. The tendency for references...
Managing human capital in the process of merger and acquisition
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Mergers and acquisitions have become a regular business strategy in the present corporate scenario. They involve lengthy and thorough discussions and strategies are worked out in detail before the deals are closed. These discussions influence the future of the organization with respect to the...
Human resources final paper
Text commentary - 3 pages - Human resources
The business problem that we are going to discuss concerns the differences in treatment regarding gender. Actually, in the work environment, women and men are considered, paid and hired differently. This has always been the case and even if we can see improvements, there are still big gaps in...
Relations with employees - An assessment
Essay - 8 pages - Human resources
Assess the significance and merits of the Partnership, involvement and Participation models of Employee Relations in today's economic climate and in the modern commercial world. In our current economy, since the beginning of the recession, employees' spirits decreased with the...
Human resources in Europe
Essay - 10 pages - Human resources
For the last three decades, the liberalization of the exchanges and the development of the Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) led the globalization of the economy. The flows of the FDI with the amount of 648 billion dollars in 2004 are sixteen times today than at its being in 1950 . The growth of...
The different management styles and the consequences of the crisis on human resources
Essay - 9 pages - Human resources
The global economy is floundering. All over the world, companies are struggling, from global corporations with worldwide market shares to mom-and-pop shops that employ a handful of people. This present context has an impact on the management of teams. This situation increases difficulties that...
Une approche pratique du management des ressources humaines en temps de crise
Essay - 11 pages - Human resources
With the actual economic downturn, in many companies, Human Resources are the first department that the top managers approach to cut coasts. Indeed, the human capital is often the one which costs the most to the company. That's why the recent years were those of the strict limitation of...
According to Wal-Mart, its main goal is "to benefit the American consumer". Does the Wal-Mart economic and social model benefit the American worker as well?
Case study - 2 pages - Human resources
Very few European people have heard of Wal-Mart. But the company plays a central role in the lives of millions of Americans, who rely on it for their food and other necessities. For some, Wal-Mart, with a presence in the entire US territory, is the symbol of a certain 'American way of...
Employee retention
Essay - 2 pages - Human resources
Employee retention is a delicate objective. An employee's decision will depend on numerous factors that are hard to identify precisely. Those issues that are related to the private or personal sphere are some areas which the company cannot influence. For others, the evaluation process is an...
The management of human resources in Europe
Market study - 12 pages - Human resources
Since the second part of the 20th century, employees are playing a more important in the company. As compared to being a mere worker or a "tool? in 1900, they are now a real resource that generates an advertisement value for companies. Thus, the area of Human Resource management takes importance...
HR issues companies and employees facing in Mainland China and the Strategies need to pursue in future
Thesis - 4 pages - Human resources
China, the world biggest construction site as well as biggest growth market, develops rapidly in these twenty years. However, the human resource management (HR) is still remaining in a traditional status. “It's an emerging profession,” HR Director for Microsoft's Research and...
Human resources management in HighIT
Case study - 3 pages - Human resources
Without any human resource department, employees are left alone. They are not informed about the policies of the firm and so they don't feel connected to it. HighIT prefers to offer their employees a form of freedom, but it also means that they can come and leave the firm whenever they want,...
Executive Search, a case study
Case study - 7 pages - Human resources
Executive Search or Headhunting is defined as an activity provided by specialized human resource advisors which aims to find the best suited candidate for a senior job vacancy in a company. The executive search firms are looking specifically for high-skilled employees to attract staff to change...
Analysis of the "Alice in Wonderland" case - publié le 10/02/2010
Case study - 6 pages - Human resources
Emma Van Nijmegen was working for Neerlandia, a huge Dutch company which was working on sea shipping. With the opening of the European boarders, their goal was to combine a great company with the best door to door service for clients. That is why they acquired Luijk & Van Vaest (LVV). LVV was at...
Human Resource report based on the article :"A study of emotional intelligence levels" by Sheila A. Scott-Halsell, Shane C. Blum and Lynn Huffman
Text commentary - 2 pages - Human resources
Emotional Intelligence has been proved to be a key tool for a successful manager. 'Growing evidence indicates that emotional intelligence competency has the potential to improve performance on both personal and organizational levels', the author's objectives while conducting this...
Scenario: Writing a human resources plan for a small company
Essay - 3 pages - Human resources
As the new human resources manager of a small company, I was asked to establish the human resources plan for my company. There are certain crucial details which need to be analyzed before planning the resources. First, a small company will not behave like big ones: because of the size of the...
Human Resources Management in Europe
Essay - 7 pages - Human resources
The term 'human resource development' (HRD) refers to educational activities, training and development related to work life. It is often used in a broad sense to encompass all learning activities related to work, it further identifies the development and learning activities of people who...
