Essays on Lawler

Introduction

It is the aim of every employee to be happy while in the workplace. Keeping employees happy improves their productivity and make them love their responsibilities. It is a common phenomenon for employees to feel that they are more valuable than the remunerations they receive. This makes them dissatisfied, and desire to look for greener pastures. However, many employees are unwilling to disclose their dissatisfactions to the management, as they fear to risk their jobs.

Things Needed to Make One Happy in the Workplace

During my last job, I was working as a human resource personnel, and I was not at all satisfied. Employers can utilize various mechanisms ...

1. How would you describe your own leadership style in relation to task and relationship orientation? What are your strengths and weaknesses? My leadership style is highly task-oriented. The strengths of my task-focused leadership style include rapidity of action and solution-taking, unity of single-mindedness and severe monitoring over the performance of employees. Provided that the subordinates are motivated by the needs of a higher level, the weaknesses concern the fact that the use of this management style cannot give the opportunity to head to stimulate personal interest of performers in a specific job (Lawler III and Boudreau 127). 2. ...

How Joan Utilizes Her Role

The case of Joe is an example of what pride can do to a successful individual. His situation shows that he is aware of his achievements as well as excellence. Therefore, it gives him the moral authority to look down upon other workers in the module. He has no respect for his fellow AMMs, as one can observe with his interaction with his colleagues. However, he is humble and presents himself with utmost respect when he interacts with superiors from outside his module. Jan, his boss at the module, finds it difficult to give him any meaningful disciplinary action ...

Impact of globalization on human resource management practices

INTRODUCTION Globalization is the process of integration of several economies with the goal of increasing economic interdependence and mobility of factors of production across the world economies (Lechner, 2009). Globalization has caused an increase in the number of multinational corporations across the globe. Globalisation has had implications on the operations of multinational corporations including especially in human resource management. Some corporations have been forced to review their human resource practices to adapt to the challenges associated with globalisation. Companies have several motives to go global.

Companies globalise for different economic, social and cultural reasons. These motives vary from one ...

MANAGEMENT

Today, the world of sports has an immense number of fans following with subsequent industrial growth. According to Schlesinger (2016), the American population was recorded more than 320 million and Jones (2015) claimed that more than 60% of American population is a diehard fan of sports. Among innumerable sports, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has 17.7 million viewers; the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series has 14.9 million viewers, and the National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl had record-breaking 108.7 million viewers throughout United States of America (USA; Thompson, 2014). Surprisingly, more than half a million viewers of each ...

Strategic Human Resource Management plan is a systematic and strategic approach that is adopted in maximizing employee motivation and contribution in meeting organizational goals and objectives. The plan specifies HR department’s programs that it is required to carry over the next few years with the aim of achieving the organizational objectives and mission in a systematic implementation and design. The overall effectiveness of the Strategic HRM Plan largely depends on the commitment of top managers to the new philosophy that people are a critical factor to the success of the organization (Bratton, 2007). It also must ensure that ...

About Quicken Loans

Quicken Loans was founded in 1985 and is the United States largest online lender. In its 30 years of operation, the company has helped over two million Americans get financing for their homes. Between 2013 and 2014, Quicken Loans was able to close over $140 billion in mortgages. The company has over 13,000 employees in its 29 locations spread all over the United States. According to Forbes Magazine 2016 rankings, the company is the 274th best employer in America (Dill, 2016).

Quicken Loan Values

Quicken Loans has 19 core values that are the foundation of the company’s culture and act ...

Executive Summary

This paper discusses KFC, also referred to as Kentucky Fried Chicken. Specifically, the paper examines how the company is proposing certain changes in its menu offerings and the removal of antibiotics from its chicken. The paper looks at these proposed changes through the Lewin model and describes the challenges that the company will face both internally and externally in terms of these changes actually remaining given the context of the company being that of serving home-style cuisine.

Recommendation

The paper makes recommendations of how the company can effectively make sure that it does not falter on the proposed changes in ...

Introduction

An ideal organization reaps the best productivity out of it human capital by rewarding the right people at right time with right amounts and right reasons. Most of the organizations in the world have some sort of Reward philosophy although some do not articulate it as a guiding principle while others have them linked to their goals (Armstrong, 2012). There are different approaches to the development of the total rewards programs and the prevalent variable pay systems which help in devising adequate employee motivation strategies that boost the organizational productivity(Armstrong, 2012). However, in case of organizations facing a ...

Introduction

Human Resource Management (HRM) is an important formal system that guides the management of employees within an organization. In essence, HRM creates a firm, goal-oriented, and effective organization by maximizing the efficiency of the workforce and directing on the policies of the organization (Chadwick, 2005). Also, the HRM creates an efficient team of the workforce that guides the entire process of planning, recruiting, selecting, hiring, and retaining the best-suited employees to enhance the organization success. In this paper, we analyze some of the stages and steps involved in the employment of staffs/employees. Next, the paper develops a strategy for ...

Orange was one of the fruits found at the market. They are produced in Florida and California. Apart from the conventional oranges, there were organic oranges. The prices were different. The organic type was more expensive, simply because they were chemical free. They are grown using organic manures. Pests and diseases were controlled using purely biological means. Organic oranges have green and white USDA organic sticker to distinguish them from conventional oranges (Laroche, Bergeron, & Barbaro-Forleo, 2001). Purex is one of the commonly used laundry detergents in United States of America. This is an inorganic detergent characterized by its pretty ...

Innovation from Google’s Free Food Strategy

Introduction – Google As mentioned on Google’s website (2016), two PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford university joined hands and founded this wonderful company called Google. It started based on the search engine they built in the year of 1996. The company was founded in 1998 in the month of September. Google was listed with NASDAQ in August 2004. The company’s mission statement is “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” (Google.com, 2016). Further they explain that what makes Google the kind of company it ...

The concept of economic development is the expanded reproduction and gradual qualitative and structural positive changes in the economy, productive forces, factors of growth and development, education, science, culture, level and quality of life, human capital. Speaking about economic development as a process, it should be understood that it is characterized not by directness of its motion, but lack of uniformity, i. e. the periods of growth and recession are inevitable. It means an increase in the scale of the total production and consumption in the country, which is characterized above all by such macro-economic indicators as gross national ...

According to Smircich, L., & Morgan, G. (1982), Leadership is the ability of an individual to guide others and have the guided follow the leader's vision. Leadership is usually confused with management. However, leadership differs slightly with management. Unlike management that seeks to answer the question of guidance, management often focuses on having work done through the help of others. A good and efficient leader must have both elements of leadership and management. Steve Job is an example of an effective leader and what it takes for such a leader is discussed below. Secondly, effective leaders are fearless and inspirational. ...

Leadership Reflective Plan

Leadership is all about extrapolating one's vision of the future upon others and taking responsibility for the possible mistakes. People usually start following leaders when they have no other option. That is to say, people need a leader when they either have no vision of their own future or they are afraid of taking responsibility for their own mistakes. To this end, leadership studies imply a development of two major aspects such as endless passion that motivates surrounding people and some sort of fatalism that helps to take risky steps in the course of time. As for the theoretical ...

Marriage in the Catholic Church has for a long time been considered a holy and sacred covenant that is made between two people in the presence of the Lord. This covenant establishes a partnership between a man and a woman, which is supposed to last for a lifetime. To mark the covenant, a sacrament of matrimony is given to the married couple to indicate their engagement and to seal their partnership in matrimonial living (Lawler 245). The couple will then together continue receiving the holy sacraments of the catholic community while in marriage. According to the bishops’ council, marriage ...

Sacrament is a term used in Christianity to refer to rites recognized by the Christian religion that are of significant importance to the Christian faith. The catechism of the Catholic believers denotes the sacraments as the efficacious signs mainly of grace, that according to the Catholic Church are or rather were instituted by Jesus Christ and entrusted to the religion through the church. The sacraments are believed to be the means by which divinity is revealed to the believers. These beliefs are the basis for sacramental theology. Da Vinci code symbols are picked from the art work of the ...

Introduction

The employment of various members of staff is a crucial role in Sports Centre Organizations. Essentially, every sports organization has to create a match between the employees, workforce and career paths, to ensure effective utilization of workforce potential as well as cost effective recruitment process. The Human Resource Management provides a clear forecast of the future needs of the sports organization to ensure it has the required human resources to implement its objectives (Chernushenko, 2001). HRM is managed and regulated by the human resource manager, and aims to maximize the productivity of any organization by optimizing the effectiveness of ...

The Human Resource function has undergone a massive change since its recognition as a separate function in organizations. Originally conceptualized as an area which dealt with selection, recruitment, promotions, retirements, and Wage and salary administration, it gradually added organizational behavior components like leadership, teamwork, motivation, performance etc. in its portfolio. With globalization of business operations, certain issues like diversity management, ethics and social responsibility were added into its framework. After the introduction of IT, the HR functions became more complex, though accessibility became easier with internet enabled platforms. With the demands of the function, HR professionals had to equip ...

Role of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Canadian Economy

The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are acknowledged as the engines of the Canadian economy. The success of these businesses leads to prosperity in the Canadian market. In Canada, 98.1% of the entire business activity lie in the category of small businesses and by the addition of the medium-sized businesses, it amounts to 99.8% of all the businesses. SMEs that belong to the Information Technology (It) industry are the major contributor to job creation and economic growth in Canada. SMEs contribute to more than 45% of the total Canadian export value that is more than $130 billion. It is ...

Introduction:

With the growing possibilities of work opportunities, employees have multiple jobs to choose from. One of the key influential factor to take up the decision of a job change is compensation. It motivates the employees to fulfil the expected roles and objectives assigned to them. Strategic compensation differs in such a manner that here the employee is not considered just as an overhead. The employee’s salary and related monetary benefits are directly related to the strategies that have been formulated to achieve the company’s crucial objectives that ensure the profitability and sustainability of the firm in the ...

Sociological Perspectives

Structural functionalism is a perspective of sociology where the society is interpreted as a structure that has interrelated parts. It addresses the society holistically as related to the functions of elements that constitute it. According to this perspective society is made up of customs, norms, institutions, and traditions (Lawler, 2008, p 66). These elements are believed to be the ones working together to form what is viewed as a society. The functionalism perspective considers every part of the society as serving a purpose. If the interdependence of the elements of society is positive, peace and harmony is achieved but if it doesn’t chaos ...