Organizational Performance and Human Resource Management

Over the last few months, I have read and annotated Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson can teach us about the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs. After being a journalist and publishing executive for 25 years, Heinrichs is now the professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Middlebury College in Vermont and travels the world as a presenter and persuasion expert. Published in 12 languages and 3 editions, Thank You For Arguing is a New York Times bestseller, along with…

Hard Rock’s Human Resources Strategy Hard Rock Café is a company that values its employees. The value system is there to bring fun, healthy, nurturing environment into the company culture (Heizer & Render, 2006). Hard Rock Value is there to help workers advance both individual and professional skills. Human resources have a lot to do with the growth of the employees because they play a significant part in any facility association. Before Jim Knight, they have started the corporate training,…

knowledge, or skill. Amanda has her bachelor’s degree in Education and she decided to use that degree to be an assistant manager at Goldfish Swim School. She went to the Goldfish Swim School headquarters in Birmingham, Michigan for a couple weeks for management training so that she would have all the tools to be a successful manager. Amanda is also driven to excel because she knows what she needs to accomplish and she even has a checklist in her office so she does not forget a task. I do not…

1. The leadership textbook identifies five major leadership traits: intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity, sociability. Which traits do you believe are most important for a leader to possess? Explain why. Leadership: Theory and Practice identifies the five major leadership traits as intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity and sociability. (Northouse, 2016, p. 23). Of these traits, I believe the most important is integrity. Integrity is the quality of being…

COMPARE AND CONTRAST MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP Leadership and Management are two philosophies that use interchangeably. However, this paper will discuss and the differences and similarities between the two concepts. Therefore, the understand the meaning of the two words is imperative. Management: a manager is a person in an institution who is qualified for leading out the four roles of management, including planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Leadership, on the other hand, a leader…

1: Job satisfaction is how one feels and thinks about their job, and according to the value-percept theory an employee’s satisfaction with their job is contingent on whether the job is providing things that he/she values. Darren Entwistle though very successful, was not satisfied with working at Telus. Looking at his past job working as a Bell installer, Entwistle loved the independence and responsibility of his job, meaning he valued the work itself. He was responsible for the quality of the…

Case Analysis Question 1-Organizational Theories In the scenario presented, the three organization theories that would ideally provide necessary guidance would involve the usage of; Follett’s Theory of Management, Political Economy Theory, and Critical Theory. Using the trio to incite; integration and coordination through membership, survivability through the mobilization of power, legitimacy and economic resource and the achievement social change through communicative and innovative rationales…

Rise to Power What motivates a person to strive for the highest position of authority? To what extent does this powerful person have to go until they are considered in-control of a situation? What drives the inner voice and intentions of that powerful person? Trevor, from The Destructors, and Jing-mei from Two Kinds are drastically different, but strikingly the same. Both characters portray an ardent desire for power and control, achieved however thru different means. Both got what they…

Lloyd Bitzer states that the rhetorical situation is a context that addresses an issue through exigence, audience and constraints (Bitzer 8). Exigence is best defined as being a change that a certain organization or individuals wants made. The audience are the individuals who can make the change happen. Finally, the constraints have the power to constrain decision and action needed to modify the exigence (Bitzer 8). Counseling and Substance Abuse Services, or CASAS, reported that over seventy…

notion that being able to understand that your performance is below average performance is extremely beneficial in being a strong employee. You see this concept applied many times in sports, as I experience this throughout the coaches I have had in my lifetime. They often exclaim when results are not in our favour that these performances are not what we are used to and something must change in our behaviours. When a coach has singled me out for poor performance there are two different ways I…