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Wells Fargo, was accused of illegal activities by US officials. The bank is accused of having employees make thousands of fake bank and credit accounts. This happened between 2011 and 2015. The goals of these fake accounts was to hit internal targets and collect transaction fees. After this came out the bank agreed to payContinue reading “Week 50: Wells Fargo”

Human resources management challenges Environmental challenges are outside factors which affect the company. There are a lot of different outside challenges for HR. Rapid change on the market you operate in and technological advances means a company has to be able to adapt to the new circumstances in a timely manner. The introduction of theContinue reading “Week 48: Ethics and Outsourcing”

Unions were created to fight for employees rights. Generally they handle employee dissatisfaction. This an entail bad working conditions, low pay or long hours. Labor unions fought for workers rights during and after the industrial revolution. At first they weren´t recognized by law and largely unprotected. This changed in the US after 1935 during theContinue reading “Week 47: Labor Union and Labor Law”

People enter and leave organizations all the time. The ratio of new people entering to people exiting the organization is called the turnover rate. Employee separations happen when an member of the organization leaves the organization in question. This can happen in 2 different ways. Voluntary separations happen when an employee quits or retires. InvoluntaryContinue reading “Week 46: exit management”

Rights Employee rights: Employees have 3 different types of rights. Statutory rights, are rights which are protected by law such as anti discrimination laws. Secondly an employee has contractual rights. These rights are in your contract. Other rights are ethical treatment, free speech and privacy. Employer rights: Employers have the right to run their businessContinue reading “Week 45: Legal Compliance and Discipline and Grievance”

Workplace safety and regulation Workplace safety in the US history doesn’t have the best record. This has been improving work related deaths and injuries have been decreasing. This is due to better regulation. In the book Gomez stated that this could also be related to fewer hours worked. US federal government and state legislators haveContinue reading “Week 42: Employee Wellbeing and Health and Safety at Work”

Employee compensation consists of three parts: Base pay, pay incentives compensation and benifits. Wages are a big part of the total costs in a company. While employees are dependent on there salaries to survive and develop socially, personally and economically. Depending on the economical situation and the job-market companies can chose to pay a job-basedContinue reading “Week 41: Total Rewards and Employee Engagement”

Performance Appraisal Performance appraisal starts with the identification of what you are looking for within your employees and identify how you will measure them. Managers use performance indicators to make decisions depending on the level of the performance. When appraising someone’s performance there needs to be good and accurate measuring, feedback and coaching the employeeContinue reading “Week 39: Performance Management”

In this weeks blog post I will be talking about this weeks reading material: chapter 8 and 9, Case 1: Super-sized gamification for training – MCdonald’s is lovin it and Case 2. Nando’s tastes success through training. Chapter 8 and 9 Chapter 8 and 9 discussed the difference between training and development and the differentContinue reading “Week 38: Learning and developement.”

This week study material was about forecasting demand for labor and the supply of it. Secondly there was some a little text talking about hiring practices. First I will talk about labor forecasting, after which I will talk about the hiring practices and a case talking about Abercrombie. In the book: “Managing Human Resources”, theContinue reading “Week 37: Labor supply and selection”