Essay on Castle's Family Restaurant Stage 2

Kudler Fine Foods is a specialty food store consisting of a workforce of approximately 17 employees at their administration office, 31 employees at their La Jolla store, 38 employees at their Del Mar store and 38 employees at their Encinitas store, totaling 124 employees (Kudler Fine Foods Intranet). Each location manages their own employees’ information on their own database. This proves to be a problem since all Human Resources and employee information should be managed at the administrative office on one central Human Resources Information System (HRIS). Another drawback to the current Kudler Fine Foods system is that the timekeeper and attendance records are done manually which is not only time consuming, but causes errors

Now that we have taken a look at the minimum required hardware and software of the ADP system, let’s examine ADP as a Human Resource Information System, or HRIS for short. A great HRIS system provides critical data about the human resource function of the business as well as helping to create a follow through on the business’s mission and goals. HRIS systems help to reduce organizational costs by contributing to the efficiency of the human resource management function. HRIS systems help to automate critical human resource management functions (Chauhan, Sharma, & Tyagi, 2011, p. 58). HRIS systems contain information on employees, job and work conditions, positions, payroll and benefits, and HR events such as recruitment, training, development, performance appraisals, and terminations (Chauhan, Sharma, & Tyagi, 2011, p. 59). Although ADP offers all of these features, Federal-Mogul utilizes ADP specifically for the payroll and benefits function.

None of the locations have secure systems in place to handle the necessary duties. Pay scales are varied so maintaining and organizing them is complicated and hand written, and then entered into the system by a payroll clerk at headquarters. Records for training and development are being kept on an Excel spreadsheet and stored in an insecure place by the training and development professionals. Recruiters are maintaining their own application information with resumes filed in a central storage area and applicant status tracking is recorded on Excel spreadsheets. There is no central file area for employee files. The managers responsible for tracking FMLA absences and requests under the ADA keep their own individual files. The compensation manager keeps records of job analyses, salary surveys, and individual compensation decisions on an Excel spreadsheet. Employee relations specialists keep track of complaints, grievances, harassment complaints, etc. in locked files in their offices (Apollo Group, Inc. 2011).

Needed Business System - The Human Resources and Legal applications are in need of an upgrade of its systems. The Human Resource Information System (HRIS) is a software or online solution for the data entry, data tracking, and data information needs of the Human Resources, payroll, management, and accounting functions within a business. One HRIS software application that can be used is iVantage created by Spectrum Human Resources System Corporation. According to the Spectrum (2010) website, iVantage is a better HR system that track, manage and analyze your employee data from applicant to retiree. With automated workflow, it improves your efficiency. With powerful reporting, it gives you a complete picture of your workforce for better strategic planning. In addition, creating Computer Based Training (CBT) that will allow Riordan to cut costs on travel when cross-training or sending

Dream Home Construction HRIS needs are for the following, staffing strategy, total rewards strategy, training/learning strategy and performance management strategy. In continuing to provide high quality construction for dream homes in the Atlanta area, the company will need to implement an HRIS vendor or software package to assist with supporting the staffing, total rewards, training/learning, and performance management strategies. These functions will serve as a supportive background for the company by providing everything from skilled and talented labor to management training services, employee enrichment opportunities and more. In order for Dream Home Construction to function optimally and improve productivity the company must have the right tools and resources in place. I’m proposing one of the vendors listed below to support Dream Home Construction’s HRIS needs.

Challenges: Although it has highly integrated payroll partnerships, it is the only vendor in this evaluation to not offer payroll administration as a native part of its application. SuccessFactors a high energy offering; though it may be intimidating to more traditional HRIS users. Corporate wide training and cultural adjustments will be required to get employees, managers, and HR professionals collaborating through the

The Human Resource Department of the Chocolate Confections Corporation has enlisted the services of the Forrester Consulting Group in selecting a new software package that will place them at the forefront of the human-resources/payroll computing community. With the implementation and integration of a new software system, the HR Department hopes to gain a more user-friendly system that will streamline HR and payroll business processes. The vice president of the Human Resources Department, Monica A. Bentz, appointed a “working committee” to

The Castle’s Family Organization could greatly benefit from implementing a Human Resources Information System for their payroll process. This would give Morgan the capability of managing some of his HR duties from his office, which would reduce travel time and costs. This would also reduce the chance of human error when calculating employee’s work hours and distributing payroll checks.

The Castle is a movie primarily about a family sticking together and their fight for the right to live in their own home. The Castle’s portrayal of family is both positive and negative.

Macys is a department store that was established in the late 1800’s. Macy’s has over 700 stores and over 150,000 employees in the U.S, Puerto Rico and Dubai. Because Macy’s has an enormous amount of employees, it is important that they have a solid Human Resource Information System to manage all of their employees. Joe talked about their system which is an employee portal that has all of the data for each employee. This system provides employees with information on their scheduling, pay stubs, compensation, training, time off and many other functions that HR is responsible for. This type of employee portal would be considered an Enterprise Resource Planning application. This system is web based and also linked to each register in the store. This system takes information from the register and stores the data in the portal and allows Joe’s HR unit to be more productive. Now that the HR staff doesn’t have to worry about some of the transactional tasked associated with HR, they can be more involved in the strategic planning process. HR staff

“If you don’t want to sink, you better figure out how to swim” Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle. This School year our class read a limited amount of novels. Of those novels I would say, The Glass Castle was my favorite. This novel that influenced me was a backwards, up-beat Memoir concerning Jeannette Walls and her family of five, similar to mine. However, unlike my family, theirs were constantly on the move. This novel remained my favorite due to its continuous paced events, the hardships they attained, and the way that even I difficult times with people telling them they could not amount to success they achieved just that.

For the well-to-do, eating during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods was a fancy affair. A king or queen when going abroad could expect banquet tables filled with hundreds of dishes--for just one meal! There was much pageantry and entertainment. At Leicester, Queen Elizabeth I (predecessor of King James VI & I) was greeted with a pageant of welcome displayed on a temporary bridge. There were cages of live birds--bitterns, curlews, hernshaws and godwits. One pillar held great silver bowls piled with apples, pears, cherries, walnuts and filberts. Other pillars held ears of wheat, oats and barley, gigantic bunches of red and white grapes, great livery pots of claret and white wine, sea fish in quantity laying

The essay, “The Magic of the Family Meal” by Nancy Gibbs, was first published June 12 2006. In the essay she describes why mealtime together is important. Gibbs Also goes on to tell why and its effect on the participants. Having mealtime together is important to our social and cultural well-being. For parents today it is important to have at least one meal together a day, having the children help prepare the meal, and making conversation at the dinner table.

Blue collar Kerrigan home, is filled with love as well as pride for their modest lifestyle, but their happiness is threatened when developers attempt the compulsory acquisition of their house to expand the neighbouring Melbourne Airport. 3 high view crescent, Coolaroo – not aesthetically pleasing ‘eyesore’ opening shot shows sense of pride (satire) Despite all this, sweet-natured family patriarch Darryl (Michael Caton) believes that he lives in the lap of luxury. Blissfully unaware of his family’s lack of style or sophistication, he busies himself by driving a tow truck, racing greyhounds and constantly adding tacky renovations to the house. Kerrigan clan shares and supports his enthusiasm in every way. Though he has no wish to sell,

There is no doubt that the Phoenix is one of the biggest city in the United States. It has the rich resources and good populations. We can always have fun here during my free time. Being an international student who is studying here, the food here is always the most important thing I worried about. Since I came here, I had tried so many foods here and I think each food own their independent style. Whatever what kind of food they from, I think they both good. But the food I always like best is Chinese food.