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This 4 page paper looks at a recommendation by a department head to management to hire a new member of staff. The aim is to reduce the overwork on the existing staff and the increase morale. The potential of biases to exist in the recommendation is discussed as well ads the way in which the recommendation was formulated to overcome those biases. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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File: TS14_TEjustrec.doc
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with the aim providing an optimal solution to the current problem; where financial costs are high due to the paying employees overtime rates and motivation is low due to the
high workload. The recommendation was made after careful consideration, using both the Bazerman & Moores six-step approach and a common sense approach
where objective was sought to overcome potential personal biases. Not all factors are easily quantified; this means some judgement issues regarding the way that scores were allocated and potential outcomes
were assessed. To support the recommendation two of these judgement issues can be outlined. As a member of the department who is
directly impacted by the increased workload as well as managing other employees who are also impacted there is an unavoidable element of bias within the assessment. The close relationship may
also create a social bias towards the employees rather than the management. However, by being a part of the situation this also gives an insight to the issues that are
being raised and the impact this has on the employees as a whole. In recognising and addressing this bias and seeking to
gain a more objective approach to ensure that the recommendation was an optimal solution research was undertaken using to identify relevant theory. This was undertaken with a literature search were
articles and literature regarding the impact of heavy workloads on employees and the impact that this may have on morale and performance (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007). There are different HRM
theories represented in many books, but there is a general agreement that were employees are over worked morale is likely to decline (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007). Furthermore, where money, in
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