Telecommuting

The business world is continually expanding. This is creating more job opportunities and many employers are giving their employees the chance to work from home, or become remote employees. Being a remote employee has its advantages, such as more freedom for the employee and less office space is needed for the employer. There is a disadvantage that will be discussed further in this paper. A lack of face-to-face contact is common for remote employees but this can often lead to their communications…

Kyurstina, your discussion board addressed a lot of the issues facing diversity in the workplace today. I especially enjoyed the section which discussed the age difference between employees. One of my favorite classes that I have taken through Liberty spent a lot of time discussing the generation gap between employees. In order to fully understand it, one must understand the mindset of the eras. For instance, it has been stated that Baby Boomers, those born between 1946-1962, live to work;…

The purpose of this paper is to summarize my findings from Project 2 of this course. To begin my work on Project 2, I completed a variety of personality assessments through the McGraw-Hill Connect website. Through these assessments, I was able to gain valuable insights about myself, my ability to work with others, and my experiences and needs in an organizational setting. In general, I learned that I should strive to be more extroverted and friendly with my co-workers in order to improve my…

as presenting opportunities to solve new problems. There will be openings for a professional to prove him or herself in the rewarding field of human resources. As we entered the 21st century, there were already huge strides being made in the telecommuting and alternative scheduling workplaces. As we look toward the future, there are going to be even bigger changes in store. The next decade is fraught with excitement – we are on the cusp of so many new things. The human resource professional of…

It almost sounds like a perfect job when a company offers 25 days of PTO. Sure, you would have to schedule them two days in advance, but it beats the old "point system" that I am subjected to. I for one, would absolutely love to have 25 PTO days. I tend to have a problem with a babysitter and I am certainly in trouble when there is a school delay. Obviously pros and cons of using PTO policy that offer 25 days off will be present. Some advantages to this policy are: workers are treated as…

Organizational culture is the shared values and patterns of belief or behavior are promoted by member of an organization. The culture at Bridgestone Americas, Inc. is adaptive to promote a premier place to work culture. Since the company is global in nature, several subcultures exist that are country specific. For example, Bridgestone Americas, Inc is the United States subsidiary of the Bridgestone Corporation. The cultures between the United States and Japan are vastly different. In the United…

There are several job design strategies that would be beneficial to the employees at the Container Store. Job rotation is the movement of employs from one job to another to prevent boredom (Ferrell, Hirt, & Ferrell, 2009). This strategy would be great because employees working on a sales floor would benefit from rotating department. This would also help all employees become familiar with all aspects of the business and all the products that the store sells. Flexible scheduling strategies would…

Women are well recognized for their capability to manage numerous responsibilities and tasks at the same time. They are able to protect their household especially their children and simultaneously give their time to their work. From way back, everything was different. The expenditures to live were reasonable and inexpensive like today. And it was enough for the husband to be the jobholder in the family. Nowadays, and due to the economy crisis women have began to hold their family. Not just for…

take up child-rearing activities which gives women more chances of acquiring higher positions which were male-dominated or reserved for men. To remedy this problem, some governments are adopting more flexible policies for family leave and for telecommuting; others are developing child-care programs. All these are made to accommodate women in different organizations and…

When analyzing an inpatient coder, you should look at the purpose of the job, the job function, and the qualifications needed for the job. An inpatient coder is “a medical coder that work to assign codes to medical diagnoses and treatments for inpatient facilities.” The purpose of an inpatient coder is to execute audits in agreeing with “ABC’s Health System’s annual compliance work plan” and arrange a draft or verbal conveyance to the “Coding Compliance Manager and/or Corporate Compliance…