Essays and Research Papers on Human Resource Issues

This 12-page paper sketches an organizational profile of Nordstrom, depicting the organizational behavior and culture, as well as its emphasis on customer service.

This 25 page paper looks at the way in which the role, and the priorities, of trade unions have changed over time. The paper focuses on trade unions within the UK, but also uses the international examples. The paper starts by looking at the role and priorities of unions during the Victorian era, the changes ...

This 3-page paper focuses on conflict resolution and team dynamics. Suggestions are given for how to keep conflict constructive. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 10 page paper that discusses leadership and organizational success in a global market. The paper reports some of the techniques and actions that foster organizational success. Two leadership styles are explained, transformational and situational, but others are mentioned. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

This 10-page paper covers steps that project managers need to take when it comes to leadership, and getting tasks done. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the cause and effect of shrinking workspaces. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper responds to two issues: Senior managers consistently give lower job performances to foreign managers than to American managers; and explain process motivation theories. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5-page paper explores the tasks and duty of a marketing director and discusses appropriate rewards, compensation and goal-setting for the position. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page research paper/essay that addresses three aspects of conflict resolution and negotiation. These are changing personal perspective; competition and collaboration in negotiation; and the use of third party intervention. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 10 page paper considers the way employees are motivated from a psychological perspective. The paper considers the problems of scientific management due to the devaluation of the employees. Theories of Mayo, Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor and Adams are all considered. The bibliography cites 10 sources.

This 4 page paper looks at the way two companies have dealt with managing changes in their remuneration packages offered to their staff and the way it impacted on motivation. The companies; Delta and Adsa demonstrate the way different theories of motivation can be observed in the real world. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

A 10 page paper that beings by discussing Disney Company's philosophy of hospitality. The paper discusses the concept of service and hospitality in Tokyo, Paris and Hong Kong and comments on some of the problems Disney had with each of the Parks and how Disney tried to fix the problems. Bibliography lists 9 sources. ...

This 7 page paper examines progressive discipline. Good reasons to implement this protocol are provided. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

3 pages in length. The quest to attain a level of mutual respect for one another within a multicultural workplace has evolved into a greater recognition of religious tenets beyond the standards found within conventional company policy. Two religious aspects that have garnered considerable attention within the courts are male facial hair and ...

A 17 page paper. This essay provides an overview of Wal-Mart Store, Inc. It reports what is known about the company's culture, what it says and how that is sometimes contradicted. The essay discusses different theories, such as Schein's three-layer theory and Hofstede's Dimensions and others related to corporate culture, such as types of ...

7 pages in length. The premise of 12 Angry Men shows how human (mis)perception, ego, prejudice and close-mindedness holds a wide variance of potential harm. Brought together to deliberate the fate of an accused murderer, the jury learns a lot about their own shortcomings - and eventual enlightenment - throughout the process of ...

This 3-page paper focuses on the use of diversity management as a tool in performance management. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3-page paper provides an analysis of multiple human resources problems. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper examines wrongful termination and circumstances under which employees have recourse. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper looks at motivation theories based on the idea of economic man and social man, resulting in the scientific management with the ideas of Taylor and the human relations school of thought backed by theorists such as Mayo and Maslow and considers how they may be valuable when understanding the way employees ...

This 11 page paper looks at two different human resource management model; The Harvard Model and McKinsey's 7 S's Framework. Each model is looked at individually, and then assessed in terms of its suitability to help an organization prepared to change. The paper uses the example of the UK media organizations; the BBC in order ...

A 5 page paper that discusses what role segregation is, the need for separating roles, why it is important in organizations, how it might not be helpful, and benefits of role segregation. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5-page paper covers steps that a human resource director of Radio Shack would need to take to boost employee morale and to improve the company's screening processes. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 4 page overview of the qualities of a servant leader. This paper emphasizes these qualities can be critical in the accomplishment of all types of organizational goals. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 6 page paper considers both the benefits and challenges of working in teams, as well as how teams can enhance their performance. Bibliography lists 6 sources.