Category: HRM

 
Title 1. How can international human resource management respond to the need for global integration yet also local responsiveness in transnational corporations?
This essay asks you to grapple with one of the most common challenges in international human resource management – how to have global policies, whilst maintaining sensitivity to local cultures, norms, rules and working environments. It requires you to explore theoretical and empirical arguments for and against global integration and local responsiveness, as well as work that examines how the two can be balanced. Some literature that may help you to begin to consider the issues at the heart of this essay includes:
Brewster, C., Wood, G., & Brookes, M. (2007). Similarity, isomorphism or duality? Recent survey evidence on the human resource management policies of multinational corporations. British Journal of Management, 19(4), 320-342.
Coe, N and Yong-Sook, L. (2006) The strategic localization of transnational retailers: the case of Samsung-Tesco in South Korea. Economic Geography 82 (1), pp 61-88.
Dickmann, M., Michael, M.-C., & Kelliher, C. (2009). Exploring standardisation and knowledge networking processes in transnational human resource management. Personnel Review, 38(1), 5-25.
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Faulconbridge, J. R. (2008). Managing the transnational law firm: a relational analysis of professional systems, embedded actors and time-space sensitive governance. Economic Geography, 84(2), 185-210.
Pudelko, M. (2006). A comparison of HRM systems in the USA, Japan and Germany in their socio-economic context. Human Resource Management Journal, 18(2), 123-153.
Pudelko, M., & Harzing, A.-W. (2008) “The Golden Triangle for MNCs: Standardization towards Headquarters Practices, Standardization towards Global Best Practices and Localization”, Organizational Dynamics, 37, 4, 394-404.
Some key questions to consider in relation to this essay include:
 What causes the global integration – local responsiveness dilemma?
 Why does this dilemma matter in the context of the strategy of transnational corporations, and in particular evolutions from the multinational to transnational corporation and the rise of strategic international human resource management?
 How can the dilemma be resolved? What are the pros and cons of different resolutions?
 Why do compromises between integration and responsiveness produce complex IHRM strategies and practices?

 
1- Everything about the assignment will be uploaded.
2- The assignment relay heavily on 3 things
A- Reliable sources and backing up everything with a 100% academic reference
B- Justify the reasons of your choices is a MUST
C- You can go 10% above or below the word limit (3500) so max 3650 min 3350
3- Please read the attachment because everything is explained in it, this is a third year assignment so it require many academic stuff and such.
4- Also the way the marks given is in the attached file.

Discussion Questions: 1, 4, 6.
Exercise Questions: 1
Using the Predictor Scores table, who would you hire based on:
i. total score
ii. multiple regression score
iii. multiple cut-off score
iv. multiple hurdle score

Assignment 6.1:
Review the major theories of motivation.

Review the major theories of motivation from your textbook and locate and read at least two other articles from the Internet or the library. For example, you might read these articles:

Employee Motivation

Answer the questions.

Answer the following questions:

What is motivating you to attend school?

Describe what motivates you generally:

Describe an arousal motivator

Describe an incentive motivator

Describe a self-determination motivator

Where do you fall in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?

What strategies do you use to motivate yourself?

Write a 2-page paper on your findings.

Write a 2-page report on your motivators based on the major theories of motivation. Make sure to cite all sources.

Needs to have an abstract and reference page

 

Strategic Human resource essay topic: Critically assess whether strategic HRM leads to ‘high performance’

Essay Guidance:
1) This essay will require knowledge and understanding of relevant theories and concepts, providing critical evaluation of relevant theories and practice.
2) Key arguments should be linked, also they must be backed up with academic theories/examples to support the arguments in this paper. Kindly ensure you use a variety of sources such as quality newspapers; academic journals; books; articles.
3) Finally I will upload 3 PDF files that include important articles on the SHRM-performance Debates, that can help you in structuring the essay.

Note: Please note that these files will give you some material to start with, but they won’t be sufficient to write the paper. Moreover, sources should be properly referenced intext and in the reference list at the end using the Harvard Referencing Style. Last but not least, the paper will go through a plagiarism detecting device, so please, be aware of what constitutes plagiarism and duplication. Best of luck
Some basic info about SHRM:
WHAT IMPACT DOES SHRM MAKE ON PERFORMANCE? EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE SHRM – PERFORMANCE LINK
According to numerous studies (Arthur, 1994; MacDuffie, 1995; Patterson et al., 1997; Becker &Huselid, 1998; Collins & Smith, 2006) SHRM interventions can: 1. Improve financial performance 2. Raise levels of individual productivity, and 3. Lead to positive societal-level outcomes. Evidence for SHRM-performance link has been found in a number of countries, including UK, US, France, Taiwan, Greece, India, etc. Evidence extends to best fit as well as best practice
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE SHRM – PERFORMANCE LINK, In particular, certain high-performance work practices (Huselid, 1995) are associated with improved financial firm performance. These practices include: 1) Comprehensive employee recruitment and selection procedures 2) Incentive compensation and performance management systems 3) Extensive employee involvement and training

 
Personal Development Portfolio

Part A
You will conduct a brief examination of an employment sector to identify a range of career opportunities within a chosen field of graduate employment. As part of this examination you will identify the skills and attributes required by employers, of their graduate recruits in at least TWO (2) roles in different organisations. (750 words)
Part B
You will assess your own graduate attributes and transferrable skills at the time of undertaking the module via a skills audit (to be included as an appendix). You will then produce a feasible action plan to be included as an Appendix and propose personal development objectives to enhance your employability towards gaining employment in one of the organisations highlighted in Part A (250 words).

Appendix
To complete the portfolio you are required to provide the following evidence as an appendix to Part A and B:
1. Information relating to the selected job roles (task A), this could be the Job Description, Person Specification and/or job advertisement
2. Your Skills Audit
3. Your Action Plan
Additional content, could include:
Formative Feedback sheet from week 6
Evidence of personal tutorials with your Year Manager

 
+ + Learning and Employee Development + +
This essay base on theory and literature so you must understand theory before analysing and write the essay.

Topic : Analyse how should organizations draw on theories of human learning to influence their employee learning and development initiatives? Drawing on the relevant literature, identify and discuss how organizations currently draw on these theories and how practice could be improved. Highlight any possible constraints to improving practice.
Use your experience or knowledge of an organisation in order to illustrate your views, supported by the relevant literature.
Example of theory that need to includes are behaviourist approaches, cognitive approaches, experiantial approaches,and social and social cultural approaches (apply relevant theories to organisation)
This essay must be base on theory and literature, Please read the uploaded files, textbooks, and all theories before start.

 

Castle�s Family Restaurant has eight restaurants in the northern California area with approximately 300�340 employees. Most of the employees are part time, with approximately 40% of them full time. The operations manager, Jay Morgan, also acts as the HR manager and travels to each location each week to take care of scheduling, recruiting, hiring, and answering questions for the employees as needed. He also takes care of payroll using an Excel spreadsheet and has a computer application to print payroll checks. Mr. Morgan approaches you, an HR consultant, for a proposal. Due to the increase in gasoline costs, he would like to greatly reduce his travel time for visiting each location each week and wonders if there is anything you can suggest to him to help him complete his HR tasks in a cost-effective manner. He hopes there is some way he can do part of his HR tasks from his office instead of traveling to each location.

Provide a detailed description of the HRIS application(s) chosen for the business. What type of HRIS might create a more efficient process for the HR function chosen? This is not a copy/paste of information from a vendor website, but an analysis and business plan to share with your customer. As the owner of your own HR consulting firm, write a 2�4-page paper that includes the following paper headings, which are denoted in all caps.

INTRODUCTION: provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major points.
HRIS TYPE: Now that you�ve conducted some research in the previous assignment, you should have a good foundation to take the next step in your business plan. You should have a good review of the scenario and have conducted some research on HRIS systems, and now your next step is to choose a type of HRIS. Share the type of system you plan to implement to help your customer. This must be substantiated in this paper to your customer from a theoretical perspective.
HRIS VENDOR CHOICE: Now that you have an HRIS type chosen, you need to conduct research to find an HRIS vendor. You want to do a compare and contrast in this section of at least two vendors. Then, choose a vendor. Explain why you chose this vendor over another/others. Include the Web address and proper citations for the vendor applications compared. You must have theory to support your decision.
CONCLUSION: The conclusion is logical, flows from the body of the paper, and reviews the major points.

Layout/Presentation: Aerial font with a double space between the sentences and paragraphs.
Module Title: Employability In Action
Assessment Title: in two parts Graduate Skills- Map & Reflection Graduate Action Plan
Assessment Number (if relevant): 2
Assessment Type: Individual written
Restrictions on Time/Length : +/- 10% 1,200 words + – 10%
Individual/Group: Individual
Mode of Submission: Moodle

Word count and grading:
1,000 words +/- 10%
Presentation 20%
Structure/Layout 20%
Reflective content 60%

 

Introduction
Title of research thesis
Hypothesis of research
Research questions or issues

Main body
A comprehensive literature review of the research question
A precise and critical summary or framework of the research thesis
A concise defence for the research methodology chosen
A lucid argument on the relevance of the research thesis in the academic domain targeted

Conclusion
A concise report on progress to date and a timeline for completion of the research
Timeline with milestones indicated every semester, preferably with the type of publications targeted. The proposed timeline for completion should be within two (four) years from the date of the thesis proposal defence for full-time studies
Describe its possible commercial value (if any)
Bibliography

Additional
List of publications or presentations produced during probationary period.
Important: This my PhD apply research proposal which is writing about Human Resource Management area! Please witre a NEW topic and have a good research ga