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Street Cred For Hr - The Journey To Evaluating Hr Through Auditing, Chris Andrews
Street Cred For Hr - The Journey To Evaluating Hr Through Auditing, Chris Andrews
Dr Chris Andrews
Extract: When I first started looking at Human Resource Auditing the prevailing view was that it was good for ensuring that all of the components of a human resources program were in place and operating correctly. The problem was that it was not seen to provide a direct link between the audit results and the organisation’s overall effectiveness.
Era Of Big Data: Danger Of Descrimination, Andra Gumbus, Frances Grodzinsky
Era Of Big Data: Danger Of Descrimination, Andra Gumbus, Frances Grodzinsky
WCBT Faculty Publications
We live in a world of data collection where organizations and marketers know our income, our credit rating and history, our love life, race, ethnicity, religion, interests, travel history and plans, hobbies, health concerns, spending habits and millions of other data points about our private lives. This data, mined for our behaviors, habits, likes and dislikes, is referred to as the “creep factor” of big data [1]. It is estimated that data generated worldwide will be 1.3 zettabytes (ZB) by 2016. The rise of computational power plus cheaper and faster devices to capture, collect, store and process data, translates into …
From Bureaucracy To Enterprise? The Changing Jobs And Careers Of Managers In Telecommunications Service, Rosemary Batt
From Bureaucracy To Enterprise? The Changing Jobs And Careers Of Managers In Telecommunications Service, Rosemary Batt
Rosemary Batt
[Excerpt] In response to technological change and product market deregulation, longstanding U.S. telecommunications firms are radically restructuring their business strategies and organizations to improve competitiveness. While the popular and business press as well as academic researchers have focused attention on the dramatic changes occurring in the collapse of industry boundaries, megamergers, and the rise of new strategic alliances, they have largely ignored how these structural changes are profoundly altering the employment and careers of employees. In the Bell operating companies, where bureaucracy is seen as the major obstacle to competitiveness, managerial workers have become a significant target of reform because …
Human Resource And Employment Practices In Telecommunications Services, 1980-1998, Rosemary Batt, Jeffrey Keefe
Human Resource And Employment Practices In Telecommunications Services, 1980-1998, Rosemary Batt, Jeffrey Keefe
Rosemary Batt
[Excerpt] In the academic literature on manufacturing, much research and debate have focused on whether firms are adopting some form of “high-performance” or “high-involvement” work organization based on such practices as employee participation, teams, and increased discretion, skills, and training for frontline workers (Ichniowski et al., 1996; Kochan and Osterman, 1994; MacDuffie, 1995). Whereas many firms in the telecommunications industry flirted with these ideas in the 1980s, they did not prove to be a lasting source of inspiration for the redesign of work and employment practices. Rather, work restructuring in telecommunications services has been driven by the ability of firms …
What Makes It So Great? An Analysis Of Human Resources Practices Among Fortune’S Best Companies To Work For, Timothy R. Hinkin, J. Bruce Tracey
What Makes It So Great? An Analysis Of Human Resources Practices Among Fortune’S Best Companies To Work For, Timothy R. Hinkin, J. Bruce Tracey
Timothy R. Hinkin
Although few hospitality organizations are listed in the annual survey of Fortune magazine’s one hundred best companies to work for, an analysis of companies with similar operating challenges provides clear direction for hospitality and service companies’ human resource practices. This study examined twenty-one companies, including one food-service firm (Starbucks) and three hotel chains (Four Seasons, Kimpton, and Marriott). The remainder of the companies analyzed were grocery and health care organizations, both of which share human resources issues with the hospitality industry, such as long operating hours, relatively high turnover, and relatively low pay. The innovative human resources practices isolated in …
Hr Standards: An Australian Story, Chris Andrews, Richard Boddington, Neil Mccormick
Hr Standards: An Australian Story, Chris Andrews, Richard Boddington, Neil Mccormick
Dr Chris Andrews
Extract: In this explanatory paper we describe the Australian Universities HR Standards Project, an initiative that ran from 2007 to 2011. Since the Project was completed there have been a number of initiatives in the HR standards space, each following different paths. With that in mind it is important to document the background to this project and the views of the authors on relevant issues, in particular the reasons for adopting the direction taken in formulating these HR standards.