1. Human resource management consists of numerous activities. What areas were illustrated by Sam’s schedule on this particular day?
The human resource department in any organisation performs numerous activities ranging from recruiting the employees to forming a strategic team to achieve the objectives of the company. On this particular day, Sam has come across several such activities, namely, allocating personnel as a replacement, managing pay check errors, interviewing and recruiting job applicants, going over termination reports, approving new HRM policies, and staff meetings. According to the text book HRM consists of numerous activities, including Equal employment opportunity compliance, job analysis, human resource planning, recruitment, …show more content…
It is much more so in the human resources field, because as human resource personnel, one has to manage many duties on a particular day. Prioritizing the tasks is one way towards effective time management (Bates, 2014). Sam, in this case had a lot of things on his hand to work on, but he could not complete either of the works because of his inefficient time management. From what I have observed, I think Sam jumps into other tasks before he gets a chance to complete the ones that he had already started. His assistants depend mostly on him for many of the duties that they can handle themselves. The plant manager calls Sam over phone and talks about the problems he had with other admins. Also, the plant manager talks to Sam about the prospective recruits Sam had sent him. Even after this long conversation over phone, the plant manager insists Sam to attend the staff meeting. If I were Sam, I would ask the plant manager to either not call me over phone to talk about the prospective recruits and other issues and insist me to attend the staff meeting. I would ask him to call me over the phone on only urgent matters. Also, Sam’s assistant Terry could have handled the pay check issue instead of waiting for Sam to solve it. Also, when Terry asks Sam to approve a couple of rate changes, if it is not a priority task, Sam could complete the issues he had on his hand first. He could have first called other foremen to find personnel for Al so that Al can complete the work that increases the productivity of the plant. Sam took time to talk to the plant engineer about the company’s benefits as well as the whole game of golf. Instead, Sam could give the plant engineer an appointment to talk about the company benefits and talk about the game later when Sam had some free time. Also, Sam should not have driven across the town to have lunch with his friend, instead they should have gone to a restaurant near by the plant. He even
The human resource department in any organisation performs numerous activities ranging from recruiting the employees to forming a strategic team to achieve the objectives of the company. On this particular day, Sam has come across several such activities, namely, allocating personnel as a replacement, managing pay check errors, interviewing and recruiting job applicants, going over termination reports, approving new HRM policies, and staff meetings. According to the text book HRM consists of numerous activities, including Equal employment opportunity compliance, job analysis, human resource planning, recruitment, …show more content…
It is much more so in the human resources field, because as human resource personnel, one has to manage many duties on a particular day. Prioritizing the tasks is one way towards effective time management (Bates, 2014). Sam, in this case had a lot of things on his hand to work on, but he could not complete either of the works because of his inefficient time management. From what I have observed, I think Sam jumps into other tasks before he gets a chance to complete the ones that he had already started. His assistants depend mostly on him for many of the duties that they can handle themselves. The plant manager calls Sam over phone and talks about the problems he had with other admins. Also, the plant manager talks to Sam about the prospective recruits Sam had sent him. Even after this long conversation over phone, the plant manager insists Sam to attend the staff meeting. If I were Sam, I would ask the plant manager to either not call me over phone to talk about the prospective recruits and other issues and insist me to attend the staff meeting. I would ask him to call me over the phone on only urgent matters. Also, Sam’s assistant Terry could have handled the pay check issue instead of waiting for Sam to solve it. Also, when Terry asks Sam to approve a couple of rate changes, if it is not a priority task, Sam could complete the issues he had on his hand first. He could have first called other foremen to find personnel for Al so that Al can complete the work that increases the productivity of the plant. Sam took time to talk to the plant engineer about the company’s benefits as well as the whole game of golf. Instead, Sam could give the plant engineer an appointment to talk about the company benefits and talk about the game later when Sam had some free time. Also, Sam should not have driven across the town to have lunch with his friend, instead they should have gone to a restaurant near by the plant. He even