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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1. What mad the MD change his mind and go against Maniyam? What role might
the VP-HR have played in the episode?
2. If you were Maniyam, what would you do?
1. What should Vijay do?
1. How would you rate Dinesh’s behavior? What method of appraisal would you
use? Why?
2. Do you assess any training needs of employees? If yes, what inputs should be
embodied in the training programme?
1. In the case of the Indane Biscuits, bring out the importance of ‘context’ and
‘credibility’ in communication.
2. List the direct and indirect causes for the escalation of tension at Indane Biscuits.
3. If you were the Personnel Manager what would you do?
1. Bring out the principles of promotion that were employed in promoting Jaggu
2. What would you do if you were (i) Suresh, (ii) Prahalad or (iii) Ravi?
3. Bring out the ethical issues involved in Jaggu’s behavior.
1. Do you agree with the conclusion drawn at the end of the case that scorecard
system has galvanized ION Tires? In other words, does scorecard system deserve
all the credit?
2. Will quality improvement initiatives clash with scorecard implementation? If yes,
how to avoid the clashes?
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1. Assumes that you are an HR executive for a company that manufactures and sells agricultural products (for example, fertilizers and grain feeds). The company’s workforce of 1,200 employees is 70 percent male and 30 percent female. Drawing from this case and the chapter content, develop an anti harassment policy and program. What are the major challenges you see in implementing the program?
2. Many experts assert that reported cases of sexual harassment represent only a small percentage of the total number of incidents that actually occur in the workplace. If their assertion is true, why do so many cases go unreported? How would your HRM policy on harassment address this situation?
1. As research indicates, people differ widely in their perceptions of sexual harassment. What is a harmless remark to one individual can be an annoying, even infuriating insult to another. In your view, what separates harmless conduct from harassing behavior? In the same vein, when does a sexist environment become a hostile, harassing one?
1. Why is there a need for companies to offer work-family balance programs such as
flextime, telecommuting, and job sharing?
2. Of the three programs discussed above, which be the most important program for
you personally when deciding whether or not to join an employer? Why?
3. Some organizations do not believe in offering any of these work-life balance
programs. What do you think their reasoning is? Explain.
1. How can Creative Staffing Solutions create a learning environment for job
candidates before they accept a position or while they are between positions?
2. What type of job candidates would use the temporary job support and services
provided by a firm like CSS?
- What difficulties might Creative Staffing Solutions have to deal with in using electronic job and resume posting?
- How has the emergence of the Internet changed the way that organizations plan and mange their human resource needs?
- What are the legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of the Internet by Individual employees for human resource activities? Are you concerned about violations of your own privacy because of these kinds of Web applicants?
- What specialized skills will the future HRIS professional need in order to effectively manage an organization’s virtual human resource function?
- What potential conflicts could arise between the Japanese managers/trainers and the French employees? Explain.
- What do you think of Mr. Watanabe’s approach to preparing himself for French culture? Do you think that his approach would be useful for American managers? Why or Why not?
- What kind of organizational culture did Mr. Watanabe want to establish at the factory in Valenciennes, France? Do you think he’ll try to manage the plant just like a Toyota factory in Tokyo? Why or Why not?
- What implications are there for the French employees of the plant if its good fortune takes a turn for the worse, and the factory consequently shuts its doors? Explain.
- Do you agree or disagree that ergonomics in the workplace should be covered by federal regulations? Explain your answers.
- Choose a job with which you are familiar and discuss the possibilities for repetitive stress injuries that could occur on this job and ways they could be prevented.
- Imagine that you are the human resources manager for a company that hires workers for the selected in question 2. What steps might you encourage company officials to take to identify and prevent MSDs?
HUMAN RESOURCE MGMT
1. Discuss the long-term relevance of motivational techniques used by Baheti in the light of prevailing environment in the organization.
2. Had you been Baheti, what other techniques you would have used to improve the special services provided by the organization?
1. Had you been in place of Alok Trivedi, what additional measures would you have taken?
2. Critically analyze the Employee Relations Audit in the light of its contribution to self motivation of employees.
1. If you were Malik, what strategies would you adopt to solve the problem?
2. With high employee turnover in insurance industry, how can the company retain a person like Malik?
1. What role do the non-financial incentives play in motivating the workers and minimizing the rate of absenteeism?
2. What innovative solutions would you suggest to minimize the rate of absenteeism?
1. Discuss merits/demerits of the role of strike, agitation and legal approach in union management relations.
2. What role does mutual trust play in building union-management relations?
HUMAN RESOURCE MGMT
1. Would Enterprise’s approach human resource management work in other industries?
2. Does Enterprise face any risks from its human resource strategy?
3. Would you want to work for Enterprise? Why or why not?
1. How relevant are the concepts of competencies to the jobs in a chicken-
processing plant?
2. How might you try to improve the jobs in a chicken-processing plant?
3. Are dirty, dangerous, and unpleasant jobs an inevitable part of any economy?
1. But how should he see it through
2. Do you think that the Bangalore-based company had practiced participative management?
3. If your answer is yes, with what method of participation (you have read in this chapter) do you relate the above case?
4. If you were the union leader, would your behavior have been different? If yes, what would it be?
5. If the news is broken to Mahesh, how would he react?
6. If you were giving advice to the Chairman on this matter, what would you recommend?
7. What should he do?
HUMAN RESOURCE MGMT
1. What should Divan do?
2. What should she do?
3. How would you rate Dinesh’s behaviour? What method of appraisal would you use?
4. Do you assess any training needs of employees? If yes, what inputs should be
embodied in the training programme?
1. Bring out the principles of promotion that were employed in promoting Jaggu.
2. What would you do if you were (i) Suresh, (ii) Prahalad or (iii) Ravi?
3. Bring out the ethical issues involved in Jaggu’s behavior.
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