Section 1: Situation Identification Motorola is a global communications leader that is divided into six business units: semiconductor products sector (SPS), broadband communications sector (BCS), integrated electronic systems sector (IESS), commercial, government and industrial solutions sector (CGISS), global telecom solutions sector (GTS), and the personal communications sector (PCS). Motorola was formed in the late 1920’s by two brothers; Paul and Joseph Galvin, since that time the company has undergone numerous changes. Today they are located in about 70 countries and are still one of the top electronic manufacturers. Motorola actively uses contingent workers as part of their workforce; this is very common practice even when the …show more content…
Tim McLaughlin would control the program that was aimed at the non-professional manufacturing workers, and Callie Rich would manage the daily operations. The Office of Contingent Workforce Management is a business webbing (b-web) solution for managing contingent workforce through an outsourcing strategy. According to Tapscott et al. (2000), a business web (b-web) is “a distinct system of suppliers, distributors, commerce service providers, infrastructure providers, and customers that use the Internet for their primary business communications and transactions.” (Tapscott et al., 2000). The goals of the new contingent staffing model at were: to recruit high professional candidates that passed the special uniform test; and to maintain the flexibility of the staff; that means that the number and quality of the staff must answer the present needs of the company in the staff; to develop an infrastructure to manage contingent workers and control costs of their employment in the company (Beaulieu, 2000). You have to make sure your employees are providing strategic value. Strategic value refers to employee potential to improve company effectiveness and efficiency (Noe, 2013). There were some challenges with the contingent staffing model that was created, the first was associated with cycles of business activity of the company and the industry, the second challenge was the high
Identify two (2) types of staffing models that could apply to your chosen scenario and determine which model would be best suited for efficiency, productivity, and possible future growth. Examine the significant effect of each identified staffing model on processes that may be occurring within the organization (e.g.,
The availability of manpower or suitably qualified staff is an important factor in the recruitment process and overall approach to talent planning. If the company has a demand for more professionals / specialised staff and there is limited supply in the market, then the company may have to depend upon internal sources by providing them special training and development programs. This will in turn impact on retention for the company. The company may want to have a more detailed retention policy if they have to invest heavily in staff.
Jenson interviewed business executives from diverse industries and organizational size, he stated that one of their largest challenges that leadership were concerned with was staffing – finding the correct personnel, keeping them, and ensuring they buy into the visual modality of the system. Having the right staff is important for any organization. With the right staff the company will retain loyal personnel who will not compromise the integrity of the business.
The key to the success of any business is the strength of its staff or work force. However, to remain economical, a company's work force must be able to increase efficiency, lower staffing costs, reduce turnover and provide long term growth for the company. In order to achieve all of these goals, a company must have and implement a successful work force planning strategy. This can be difficult as many companies fail to see where there staffing short-comings lie, and therefore can not determine the best strategy for hiring, outsourcing and shifting staff positions. Since each company's staffing needs are different, a successful staffing strategy must have a broad enough outline to be applicable to any company while also being specific enough to accurately address that company's staffing needs. In 2001, Governor David Paterson, the New York State Department of Civil Service and the New York State Governor's Office of Employee Relations published a guide for work force planning for their state agencies titled Our Work Force Matters. This guide provides eight steps for the planning processes along with several strategies and
Knowing that the company has a 20% turn over in Full Time Employees and an average 15% turn over in Part Time Employees, I believe they should assess their mix of full and part time staff. It would be beneficial and potentially cost saving if the company can increase its part time staff, reduce full time staff, thus, if all things remain constant, realize a lower turnover ratio while paying less in overall benefits and compensation by changing the mix of employees. Determining the proper mix of staffing efficiently will be a key driver in the overall HR process and hiring outcome and should be a long term goal of the company
Staffing has always been considered as the foundation for organizations' growth, development, survival, and competitive advantage. A successful staffing process may require effective advance preparation and planning in order to address support services required to advance organizational goals and workforce planning. Having read through the company's (Tanglewood) overview and job descriptions for the various positions, I think this topic offers an opportunity to explore some of the theoretical aspects of staffing organizations model in recommending some effective and efficient ways of employing the best personnel to fulfill the company's goals. The staffing plan or model to be used for this company is intended to monitor and control human capital
We want to treat staffing as an investment. Investments in recruiting staffing and retaining employees will allow Chern to cut costs, especially training costs. They are seeking long-term employees and these are the people who are helping turn the company into a profit making business. This wouldn’t be viewed as a cost to Chern because without their skills and assistance, the company would not have such a high success, therefore would not be making high profits or have the ability to grow their business.
Staffing will be tailored to the specific needs of the client. We provide a sound approach, intelligent selection, management commitment, and good planning leadership to enable firms to achieve their strategic objectives within a logical and reasonable framework to minimize staffing issues. We help provide the human attributes that can enable an organization to flourish and maintain sustainability in an uncertain world.
To include rotating these employees’s in varying positions to minimize employee burnout and stagnation. The responsibility increases would also add to the employee’s feelings of empowerment and job satisfaction. Another important factor I would add would be increased and regular communications throughout the organization. These implemented factors would substantially increase employee loyalty and commitment directly supporting the organizations competitive goals.
Motorola, famous amongst mobile phones, and one of the top cellular phone companies in the world till late 1990, later it was captured by the company Nokia. While writing this case we have thrown light on the challenges and problems faced by Motorola around 2006-2007. One of the ideas incorporated in order to recapture the market in the year 2006 was to slash the prices of almost all the cell phones which impacted the returns of the company. Motorola did announce in the year 2007 that they will revive shortly and would have the market share back.
Competitive corporate environment it is important that companies pay attention to their employees’ abilities to perform their duties. What is actually important is for companies to continuously study not only how they can perform well for the customers but they also have to address the issue on how they can maintain a highly effective staff. To achieve this they should have strategies in place to measure their employees’ skills, knowledge, and attitude. This will assist in better planning strategies needed to have an effective retention program in place to measure the learning and growth perspective.
There are major challenges confronting the workforce program managers and executives that are focused on staffing. In this area a common language must be ensured to support hiring practices. The lack of common words and definitions can cause serious communication concerns between program managers and suppliers of benchmarking workforce programs across organizations. In order to help prevent these issues, lexicon suggests a set of “working definitions to be use by program managers (American Staffing Association 2015, para.1).
Facing the China’s Telecom Equipment industry double-digit grow and becoming the largest telecom market in the world, all leading firms in each subsectors of Global telecom equipment take this opportunity to invest in china. Huawei, a Chinese challenge, was starting its challenge to Cisco insurmountable leadership position in international telecom equipment industry.
After researching Motorola one of the most delightful things that I discovered is that the biggest opportunity is their wide range of products that are well placed in the market, when the military has a need Motorola is here, when public safety has a need Motorola is there as well as the general population. Also understanding the fact that they have a very strong promotional strategy, by using different tools they tempt their customers towards an exciting era of innovation. The fact that Motorola has been involved in the venture of
Staffing has been an important aspect in all types of organizations’ development. More and more companies have noticed a good staffing plan could increase productivity and reduce operation costs in terms of lower turnover rate and transition costs. Good staffing could be able to minimize cost in order to maximize profit, because it could assist the company to stay more competitive within the industry. According to the definition by Dr. Green, “staff is the process of identifying work requirements within an organization; determining the number of people and the skills necessary to do the work; and recruiting, selecting and promoting the qualified candidates. It is the selection process of