Recruitment

Reflection Paper The time I have spent at Gilchrist Services/ Gilchrist Grater Living has helped become more professional and has to strengthen my management skills. My preceptor’s role was to guide me on the overall survey process. In addition, she informed me that previous interns have tried to get more participants by creating new surveys; however, the surveys that they created did not get consent outcome after the interns left. So, during the four months of my internship, I have…

Job Satisfaction Canada’s human resource management article, “The Benefits of Workplace Gratitude” gives insight to readers and potential human resource managers on how showing signs of gratitude in the workplace can improve job satisfaction as well as other issues within employees. Common signs of gratitude like saying “please” and “thank you” can go a long way in improving the overall workplace behavior (Hilton, 2016). Before we can get into why job satisfaction is improved by gratitude, I…

Do you feel your past or your job define who you are? Is there a reason they do or do not define who you are? Is it because you are always working or because of the fact that the first thing someone asks you once you meet them is what do you do? In the past research has shown that people are defined by their past and their job. Revealing that in society people believe that accomplishments are what make you valuable and the you could be defined by your past and your job and your accomplishments.…

1. What does a person consider in joining a board? A person can consider to join a board by looking at his achievement and good potential to run the company. According to this case study, Jack Wright got the invitation to join the Mega Corporation board because of his personal career had flourished over the years. Besides that, the person also must understand their duties, roles and responsibility as a part of becoming the board. In this case, Jack knows his responsibility to represent the…

According to the job demand control support theory, if support is offered to employees whether by co-workers, supervisors and friends or family, stress can be moderated in the workplace. However, when the job demands are high, and there is low control and low job support that can result to high chances of health related problems (Karasek, 1979). For example when call centre employees are expected to work every day including holidays and weekends, they have zero control and zero support and that…

3. Job Design Job design is defined as the process of putting together a range of tasks, duties and responsibilities to optimizing an employee’s satisfaction, motivation and productivity (Zareen, Razzaq, Mujtaba, 2013). Through job design, it should be facilitate the achievement of organizational objectives and the performance of the work that the job was established to accomplish. In the same time, the design should recognize the capacities and needs of those who are to perform it. (Craig…

In this essay I will examine the origins, purpose and general features of the Irish workhouse. I will also be discussing the type of people that were likely to spend time there and some of their detail of their day to day lives. I will also be taking a look at a workhouse which was once located in my local area. Origins of the Irish Workhouse The Irish workhouse system came about in 1838 rising from the English Paw Law system. The English government thought that the workhouse system was “the…

Working as a Project manager in new training facility to train IS an employee for IT industry has its advantages. For this, I have to choose among the project management techniques available such as PMBOK and PRINCE2. Both of them have its advantages and disadvantages so first I need to analyze which one is better for such case. Various texts available on PMBOK and PRINCE2 provides good overview of both the techniques; I am summarizing the key points from both then will decide which one will…

Introduction A career portfolio is a compilation of a person’s skill, project, training and education. It can be taken to an interview, send to prospective employers or even post online. A portfolio displays a person best piece of work. It provides benefits to us to talk about what we have achieved and the challenges we have overcome. A career portfolio also offers evidence of work that person have accomplished. In addition, the portfolio illustrates our skills, abilities and show the quality…

Work life balance is a balance between flow and time, the flow of managing time by use of technology and setting priorities in life. The aim of this paper is to study gender perception (what faculties interpret) and perspective (how faculties view) on work life balance. The study is descriptive and pure quantitative in nature. It is based on the primary method of data collection. The variables considered in work domain are organisational policies, organisation culture, subordinate support; the…