For employers, in addition to reduced office costs and increased productivity, organizations that have telework programs cite a number of other benefits that warrant attention (Di Martino & Wirth, 1990). Work satisfaction criteria that many org Continue Reading...
Gender Wage Gap There are many different types of bias within the working environment. At times, one had to be a white-male to be a manger in many organizations. The wage-gender gap, or the discrepancies between equally qualified men and women, has Continue Reading...
Telecommuting is the act of periodically working out of the main office, one or more days a week either at home, or at a telework center. (Avery and Zabel 2000, 82) The concept of telecommuting was created by Jack Niles as a result of the oil crisis Continue Reading...
Telecommuting Business Proposal This proposal outlines the creation of a pilot telecommuting program for XYZ Accounting, an accounting firm based in Los Angeles. The pilot program will involve ten accountants who have been working full-time with the Continue Reading...
Telecommuting Technology has reached into the lives of each of us. Regardless of how we might try to avoid modern technology it affects cannot be denied. Cell phones, email, internet, GPS are just a few of the modern technological devices that have Continue Reading...
Telecommuting Sandra used to drive an hour and a half through bumper-to-bumper traffic twice a day. Her daily commute to work left her tired both on the job and off, for time spent in traffic was stressful and unproductive. Furthermore, as a mother Continue Reading...
The Herzberg two-plane model that includes an upper plane of "motivator" factors, which are those factors that lead to high job satisfaction are compared to the "hygiene" factors that are enablers of stability in any work environment. Motivator fact Continue Reading...
Alternative Work Arrangements How can employees benefit from alternative work arrangements? Employees can certainly benefit when the employer encourages telecommuting. Working at home means the employee doesn't have to burn fossil fuel to get to wor Continue Reading...
HR Motivation Many HR performance issues result underlying motivational problems external work environment finance. Describing a motivational problem hinders goal attainment. Briefly describe problem (,) Use theory motivation explain problem HR per Continue Reading...
There are advantages of telecommuting for both employees and employers. Advantages for teleworkers include: better administration of time and augmented flexibility of working schedule, productivity development due to the fact that they are not both Continue Reading...
IBM Indiana Telecommuting Project IBM had been a leader in the computer industry for most of the 20th century, accounting for a staggering 70% of the computer market during the 70s. As the computer market and the information technology was on the ri Continue Reading...
Motivating Staff in a Global Economy More and more organizational analysts are referring to the modern workforce as increasingly integrated and interconnected. This has occurred in part because of globalization. More and more organizations are bran Continue Reading...
Notwithstanding these positive trends, the glass ceiling is not broken (although it has been cracked a bit) and even telecommuting is used in different ways with male and female employees. For example, Arnow-Richman points out that, "While telecomm Continue Reading...
long-term career goals. How will your academic background and prior work history, coupled with a Smith MBA degree aid you in achieving those goals? -- 2 pages As an international student seeking to complete my education in the United States, I am a Continue Reading...
Security measures are available to minimize this effect, in fact an entire industry has emerged to address these needs, but control will never be the same as when the employees are under one roof and subject to scrutinizing eyes and ears and compute Continue Reading...
Technology has made the old-fashioned typist and secretary a thing of the past. More files are kept as computer files, rather than in bulky file cabinets. It is necessary that every worker be technically fluent on some level in an office, and know h Continue Reading...
Apollo Hospitals India's Apollo Hospitals Group India Overview Company Overview Porter's Five Forces Threat of New Entrants Supplier Power Buyer Power Threat of Substitutes Competitive Rivalry Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Continue Reading...
Second, a major benefit for many computer programmers is the option of working on a variety of very interesting and challenging projects. Often the projects require months off planning, programming and continual work to get the applications to perfo Continue Reading...
Electronic Surveillance on-The-Job: The Pros and Cons of Employee Monitoring Modern technology has allowed employers many new capacities, including the capacity to electronically oversee employees every action while on-the-job. In recent years many Continue Reading...
HARMONIZING PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BALANCE: STUDY OF EMPLOYERS' FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES IN THE U.K. This study seeks to show that there are several different family friendly policies being utilized by employers in the U.K. And that these have be Continue Reading...
Fortune Magazine every year publishes its list of the Top 100 companies to work for. There are a number of different factors that go into their survey, including things like benefits, employee loyalty and any unusual things that these companies do o Continue Reading...
diverse workforce, the question of employee benefits has become increasingly complex. While salaries themselves remain important, other benefits have become increasingly so as workers seek to balance family work responsibilities in ways that -- when Continue Reading...
measuring the variable of job satisfaction but not job performance. The survey is effective for the former because it is a measure of personal perception; the latter should be measured with FedEx's in-house performance appraisal systems. The disadva Continue Reading...
Work Flexible In the midst of an economic downturn that has been compared to the 1929 Great Depression, the United States' unemployment figures are far too high. "The unemployment rate rose from 9.8 to 10.2% in October, and nonfarm payroll employme Continue Reading...
Ethics, Human Resources, Management Discuss the ethical issues that need to be considered when you (1) design a research project, (2) collect data, and (3) analyze and report data. When a research project is designed, data is collected, and then th Continue Reading...
The KM process discovers, selects, organizes, purifies, shares, develops and uses information within a social context. The objective is to improve organizational effectiveness. In combination with information management, it establishes an organizati Continue Reading...
Organizational behaviorists are seeking ways to reduce overall workplace stress and ways to harness the potential for technology to reduce instead of cause stress. Technology can be harnessed to reduce the stress that it causes. For example, time s Continue Reading...
ROWE Results-Oriented Work Environment Is the concept of ROWE (a results-oriented work environment) really feasible in a global marketplace? Is it a threat to teamwork or is it the reality of a 24/7 world with guild barriers between work and privat Continue Reading...
In this regard, Higgins (2002) reports that Micros Systems Inc. introduced a custom application specifically for the hospitality industry early on, and despite the lingering effects of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the market, this com Continue Reading...
Employer's Attitude: Their Perception And Awareness About Disability Organizations have a lot to gain from employing people with disabilities, as that improves the perception of the masses and clients alike as being sensitive, reasonable, and consci Continue Reading...
As mentioned earlier, it is good for companies to be diverse because many workers have different situations that they are dealing with. Childcare is a major issue with many workers and now there are several companies that offer onsite childcare. Thi Continue Reading...
You'd be able to hook up to the network through your computer, interactive TV, telephone, or some future device that somehow combines the attributes of all three. Even wireless gadgets such as pagers, future versions of cellular phones, and newfangl Continue Reading...
To be successful in the 21st century, Waggoner-Edstrom must transform distance and time constraints into advantages, by creating a virtual team and telecommuting organizational structure. Background Overview of Research Process The following is a Continue Reading...
Many environmental activists have suggested that telecommunications technology is one of the keys to reducing the physical carbon footprint of modern enterprises. Faxes, video camcorders, and web conferencing technology make it easy for employees to Continue Reading...
Leadership in Telecommuting Teams Leading a Changing World In paper, exploring emerging topic challenge leadership changing world work. Choose a specific topic Module 12.4 Landy Conte (2013). Provide overview topic, including: - Why chose topic - Wh Continue Reading...
Compensation Management Explain the job characteristics theory. How does it tie in with intrinsic compensation? Job characteristics theory was first introduced by Hackman and Oldham. Later on the basis of this theory, a job characteristic model was Continue Reading...
Performance Management Leadership, will provide Performance management: Addressing three critical problems at the Los Angeles Tribune A decline in advertising revenue A loss of advertising revenue is one of the most critical concerns for the Trib Continue Reading...
Employee Turnover Rates Letter of Transittal The availability of human assets is best expressed by the turnover. The issue on turnover has extensively become one of the renowned research areas in the field of human resource management. There are t Continue Reading...
These dynamics suggest sample means may indicate questionable results without further testing to verify if skew distorts generalizability. There are plausible cases where such an extreme value would be kept, say if we were testing for risk of a rare Continue Reading...
Labor Relations What do you believe are the benefits to being an employee of a company vs. A contractor? Which would you prefer to be? Why? The benefits of being an employee include the right to self-organization, to bargain collectively, or form a Continue Reading...
