Pre-Class Question #1

When you begin interviewing as you approach graduation, you will need to analyze job offers that include a number of financial and nonfinancial elements. Whichof these aspects of employment are your top three priorities: a good base wage, bonus or commission opportunities, profit-sharing potential, rapid advancement opportunities, flexible work arrangements, goodhealth-care insurance coverage, or a strong retirementprogram? Which of these elements would you be willingto forgo in order to get your top three?

2. What are the five things employers should keep in mind when using Internet sites to find job candidates?

Assume that an organization operating in hospitality sector acquired your services as a consultant to structure its new pay plan. Develop a ranking job evaluation system for non-managerial employees (housekeepers, valets, front-desk clerks, phone operators, wait staff, groundskeepers, and security guards) of that hotel. You can use any two compensable factors of your choice e.g. level of effort etc. in order to rank jobs in comparison to each other

Type of Industry: Give at least five (5) Recruitment Strategies to attract candidates to apply in your company. Explain and elaborate your answers. Give at least five (5) Retention Strategies to retain your current employees and encourage loyalty in their employment. Explain and elaborate your answers.

Poor hiring decisions can be very costly to employers. When a new hire is terminated or quits, the employer’s investment in acquiring that employee is lost. These costs include recruiting, screening, and training the new employee. How can an employer avoid hiring the wrong person? What factors should be considered in making a hiring decision? How would the employee selection process differ for a high-level, key position versus an entry-level, low-skill position?

You are the HR consultant to a small business with about 40 employees. At the present time, the firm offers only five days vacation, five paid holidays, and legally mandated benefits such as unemployment insurance payment. Develop a list of other benefits you believe they should offer, along with your reasons for suggesting them.

One reason employers might offer a particular employee benefit is to aid in recruiting certain types of workers. One example is a tuition reimbursement program to attract highly motivated employees. What other example of benefits are you familiar with that might be used to attract a particular type of employee? What types of employees are most attracted to these benefits?

What are examples of the recruitment Policy, and what specific information about your employee policy regarding Prohibited interview questions, Procedures for new employees, Orientation, Tax forms, Employment eligibility verification, Offer of employment, Background screening requirements, and Controlled substances and alcohol policy for drivers of company vehicles?

For each of the three types of job analysis methods text (observation, interviewing and questionnaire), provide your recommendation as to which types of jobs you would use each method for. In addition, comment on what type of HR competency (junior/mid/senior level,) would be required for each job analysis method, given that all three methods have different levels of both complexity and subjectivity.

Recommend recruitment strategy and selection strategy for an organization to improve its recruitment process and selection process. Need detailed explanation. How can those recommended strategies lead to better results for the organization? Need detailed explanation with examples. Both should be properly explained in detail.

BBB Corporation is evaluating the effectiveness of its recruiting activities over the past year. Help them evaluate their recruiting sources. Recruiting Sources Recruitment Process Renowned Employee Newspaper University Referrals Local University Advertising Resumes generated 200 400 50 500 Interview offer accepted 175 100 45 400 175 = 88% 200 Yield Ratio Applicants Judged Acceptable 100 95 40 50 100 = 57% 175 Yield Ratio Accept Employment offers 90 10 35 25 90 Yield Ratio 90% 100 90 = 45% 200 Cumulative Yield Ratio Cost $30,000 $50,000 $15,000 $20,000 $30,000 Cost Per Hire = $333.33 90 Calculate the Yield and Cost-Per-Hire Ratios for each recruiting source (Show Your Work in the Table above). 1. Which of these recruiting sources is the best for BBB? Why? 2. Which of these recruiting sources is the worst for BBB? Why?

Talent Allocation, LLC (TA) is a consulting firm helping organizations develop effective, efficient, and affordable workforces.  As a member of TA, you are charged with meeting with Dakota Press’s divisions and hosting a discussion regarding a division’s ability to rapidly respond to changes in business partnerships, policy shifts, embargos, and other publishing-orientated world events.  After meeting with each division, you will be expected to offer a comprehensive presentation on ideas/processes helping the company enhance it is response times. After arriving, you speak with several different departments within divisions.  Curiously, you notice the following: Multiple generations of workers team-up on projects. There seems to be a significant amount of tension amongst the staff. You saw staff members exchanging harsh words and appearing angry. The company has survived due to multiple mergers and consolidations.  However, you remain uncertain how the diverse workforces were…

In a business plan, you are tasked to create a management team for your small online business which sells bento cakes and other small sweet pastries. Also what is your proposed salary as a compensation paid to an employee by an employer in return for their work performed.

11 You work in the human resources organization and found out through research on Facebook that a current job candidate married and divorced his high school sweetheart before graduating from college and once had his car repossessed. Is this valid grounds for dropping this candidate from further consideration? What would you do?

What would an ideal employee for your coffee shop be like? What knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics would the person have? Write a job description with the job title, key responsibilities, and qualifications for the position. Make sure to include both technical skills and so-called soft skills (like communication, teamwork, etc.) in your qualifications list.

Need answer for question 2 Recommend recruitment strategy and selection strategy for an organization to improve its recruitment process and selection process. Need detailed explanation. How can those recommended strategies lead to better results for the organization? Need detailed explanation with examples.

Assume you are selling payroll services to small businesses. Identify three pieces of information you would learn about your prospect during your pre approach research and identify the sources where you would find the information.

How would you characterize the manager's warning to Suzy:  "You may get everyone a few dollars in back pay, but you'll also cost everybody their jobs. Remember, some of your coworkers are single parents who need this extra income to make ends meet." Does FLSA specifically address this type of "intimidating" statement?  If so, how?

Will you have written job descriptions for each position?

How does the organization train their new employees? Explain types of training available.

“Imagine you have a client who is hesitant to commit to a job analysis. She states that the investment of time and money into developing a job analysis for every position isn’t worth it, especially because she thinks that many jobs in the organization will change a lot within the next five years. What might you say to this client?”

Suppose you work for a leading software house of Pakistan as an HR Manager. Your company has been facing a high turnover rate of employees in the recent months. 20 employees out of the 50 member staff has left the company in the past two months. The high turnover rate is negatively impacting the performance of the company.   Your CEO is concerned about this issue and he has asked you to conduct a research study to find out the causes of the high turnover rate in your company. You believe qualitative research to be the suitable type of research for this study.   Plan a qualitative study to investigate high turnover rate in your company by answering the following questions:Q. What steps will you take before, during and after this study to comply with research ethics? Write at least 7 steps. (around 100 words)

What types of challenges does the company have to face in order to be able to hire employees from a varied range of backgrounds? Provide a more in-depth explanation of the concept while also offering the relevant justification.

Compensation: What methods can a manufacturing & distribution company use to motivation their sales team? and What rewards are given?