Essays and Research Papers on Human Resource Issues

4 pages in length. The writer discusses how certain personality traits and abilities make people good virtual team members, as well as how certain personality traits and abilities that should vary within the virtual team to maximize effectiveness. No bibliography.

A 3 page paper assessing discrimination and legal factors of two vignettes involving sexual orientation in the workplace. The first is the problem created in the locker room when a male nurse has a sex-change operation; the other involves a lesbian passed over for promotion to a job for which she was qualified. ...

A 4 page paper. CEOs and other top executives receive extremely large compensation packages that include salary, bonus, direct stock and stock options, along with other perks. In 2002, however, some of these executives took only their base salary and gave up any kind of cash bonus or direct stock. The CEO of Citibank was ...

This 3 page paper considers what role the HRM department can play in a modern organisation. The paper looks at the strategic use of human resource management, the theories that this is based on and what this means in practical terms. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 3 page paper answers three questions regarding motivation. The first question examines and comments on a memo written by a board to inform staff of board level changes. The second question identified three characteristics or practice requirements of a collage in order for it to be successful. The last questions identifies three reasons why ...

A 3 page paper using the description, diagnosis, prescription and implementation approach to solving a problem with an employee’s tardiness and failure to learn how to use the department’s computer system. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 3 page research paper that examines why some countries remain poor while other prosper. The writer argues that the answer lies in economic policy and cites as examples the recent growth of India and China. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 4 page report discusses the Americans with disabilities act and uses the 1999 case of Sutton v. United Airlines as an example of a ruling in favor of an employer. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 6 page paper addressing the difficulty of motivating individuals. When we speak of “motivating the workforce,” rarely does that phrase invoke images of individual workers, all of whom have their own personal stories and all of whom have specific goals. Instead, the “workforce” becomes a nameless, faceless aggregation of individuals who have ...

A 4 page paper discussing how senior management should approach remaining employees after downsizing. The magazine staff in the case appears to be moving in the same direction as have so many other downsizing companies. The purpose here is to devise an approach that can minimize negative effects and motivate remaining employees to ...

This 10-page paper provides an example of a professional consultant's report detailing a problem (employees who don't communicate), analysis, solutions and implementation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 10 page paper answering two questions. The first discusses two very different organizations to illustrate how different types of businesses need to use different recruiting techniques. The second question asks for an organizational example of why single textbook approaches alone are not enough to achieve real motivation. Bibliography lists 6 sources. ...

This 3 page paper outlines Maslow's hierarchy of needs which is commonly used in the business world, and then applies this to the scenario of a counsellor trying to find work placement for a disables client. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

This 7-page paper answers the question as to whether human resource management policies are tied to a particular national territory. Models of human resource management programs are also discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 16 page paper discusses the question, are leaders born or made? The paper defines the role of a leader and then considers different theoretical opinions on what makes a leader, personality traits and characteristics or learned practices, and then looks at the measures taken by different companies to identify and train or guide their ...

This 10 page paper gives a simple guide to a step by step process that can be used for efficient recruitment and selection. The guide then explains why this process was selected and justifies the use of the model considering all the factors involved. The bibliography cites 10 sources.

Many businesses have to undergo change in order survive or thrive. This 8 page paper looks at an example of a successful change and how it took place. The example used is that of Royal Dutch Shell and the way in which their was the need for an organization wide change in culture. The paper ...

This 11 page paper gives an outline regarding the way training may be undertaken. The paper starts with an outline of how to prepare and undertake training. The second part of the paper looks at the underlying theory, such as Kolbs learning cycle and the need to win over the commitment of those being trained. ...

This 12 page paper considers the decision making process in a scenario of an ethical dilemma where an employees is asked to act illegally and unethically. The employee is facing cognitive dissonance, the paper explains who this occurs, the way the conflicts arise and how the employee may deal with them. The bibliography cites 10 ...

A 10 page paper that begins by explaining what organization culture is, how it is defined and described. Handy and Harrison's typology of corporate culture is outlined and explained. How the organizational culture effects the change process is discussed. Finally, implications for leaders are discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 5 page paper that discusses what the chief information officer can do to increase productivity. Wireless technology is discussed, including a recent survey of CIOs and other IT professionals that focused on wireless technology, what is being used and the results of using it. Another strategy that is discussed is retaining existing employees. Bibliography ...

This 7 page paper provides an overview of some factors in human resource planning that can influence the ability of an organization to achieve its strategic objectives. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

This 7-page paper discusses the Family Medical Leave Act in terms of labor relations, pointing out the downsides of the legislation both for employees and employers. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 14 page paper looks at how organisation learning can take place and argues that this is impossible unless there is self learning ant an individual level. The paper considers the concept of the learning organisation, as proposed by Senge, and how learning needs to take place. This is then applied to a real life ...

This 7 page paper provides an overview of a company problem, related to the use of different technologies. This paper outlines the managment problems for Visionary Design Systems, a CAD and PDM (Product Data Management) systems company. Bibliography lists 3 sources.