A. Orientation Program: \"A well-thought-out orientation program is essential fo
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A. Orientation Program: "A well-thought-out orientation program is essential for all new employees, whether they have experience or not." Explain why you agree or disagree with this statement.
B. Job Instruction Training Sheet: You are to complete a job instruction training sheet. Pick out some task with which you are familiar - on your job preferably (other suggestions include studying for a quiz or a work activity occurring at home). This may be done in a table format or it may be done showing step-by-step graphical instructions. Be sure to include both the step-by-step instructions and any associated key points attributed to each instruction step (the “what” and the “why/how”). See the example table shown on page 244.
C. Management Development: Describe the pros and cons of five management development techniques. What has been your experience with any one or more of these management development techniques?
D. HR Professor Techniques: Develop one (1) specific example for each of four (4) different techniques described in this chapter to illustrate how a professor teaching HRM (human resource management) could use the techniques when teaching his or her HR course (e.g., simulation, lecture).
E. Global Training Programs: One reason for implementing global training programs is the need to avoid business losses "due to cultural insensitivity." What sort of cultural insensitivity do you think is referred to, and how might that translate into lost business? What sort of training program would you recommend to avoid such cultural insensitivity?
The initial posting is to be 200-300 words in length and supported by at least two sources properly cited and referenced: academic journal article that is at least 3-5 pages in length and published within the last 3-5 years.
Explanation / Answer
Answer:
Part A: A Well - tought -out Orientation Program
Orientation program in general, is conducted by an organization for its newly selected employees. The main objective is prepare those newly joined or selected employees, to do their jobs. It helps the employees to know about the organization's policies, team and their responsibilities. It's one of the important part of Human Resource Management.
Irrespective of their experience, it helps to solidifies the relationship between the newly joined and organization. This in- turn increase the employees enthusiasm and helps to achieve the better outcomes, which aids to attain the organization's mission.
It's also important understand, employer needs to pay the individual/employee, for taking up the orientation program. It's been accounted by the organization.
Conclusion: With all the above points, it's good to have/agree a orientation program. "Agree".
Part-B: Job Instruction Training Sheet
It's important to understand, the trainer tend to prepare the sheet with these below mentioned four steps,
1. Preperation
2. Presentation
3. Performance
4. Follow - ups
The Job instruction training sheet is prepared to ramp up the new skills of the employees, which in turn helps to increase the productivity of the organization, at a much faster pace. This also helps to create a healthy realtionship between the employees and the organization.
Job Instruction Training Sheet
This table depicts about the training the took with in the industry or organization
Conclusion: Hope all the above points, helps to rectify the queries raised.
Part -C: Management Development Techniques (Pros & Cons)
Management Development in general, where the organization aids an employee to develop their own and organizational skills, as well.
The Pros and Cons of the techniques are as follows.
Understudy: It can also be termed as "Coaching", this helps to work along the organization's key people direclty. This in turn assure the managers, that the person or employee is ready to replace the professional in key position. Replacement occours either because of promotion or departure of the person holding the key position.
The disadvantage is that the new managers tends to receive coaching and advice, from the other managers, not from their peers.
Job Rotation: It helps the employee have a broaden experiecne and aids them to identify what they prefer.
A contineous job rotation tends to increase the lack of interest and job satisfaction of an employee in an organization.
Case Study: Although being class orientied, it provides the real life situation and allow to analyze and reflect. This in turn increase the problem solving skills.
A major disadvantage is/was, it tends to be a time consumer.
Internal Training Program: It helps develop the skills, that is been specifically tailored, based on the need of an organization. This in turn helps to saves time and improvize the skill set, to complete the task specified, by the organization.
The main disadvantage is/was, it tends to be costly and also, it doesn't provide a space to interact with other companies managers or professionals.
Behaviour Modelling: It helps in learning and developing new skills. It reinforces immediate decisions.
Conclusion: Hope all the above points, helps to rectify the query raised. Also it's important to notify that, the job rotation had been experienced personally.
Part -D: HR Professors Technique.
Since, the information tends to little unclear, because of the lack of chapter details, that been mentioned in the question. Hope it's better to share the example of the techquie, that's been used by the professor. It tends to be the personal experience.
HRM Professors tends to move first with Qualitative teaching and then a Quantitative teachnig comes in a second.
It's important to understand, that HR Professors, tends to teach employee/industrial relationship, Organization Sociology, Labour Management, Labour economics, Strategic HRM, etc..
It's been the personal experience where the live time lecture was going on, the interesting part was that, the professor had related the topic in a book with his real time experinece on strategic HRM, which cover all the topics such as labour management, relationships, sociology under one roof. The professor make most the participants to understand the entire chapter in a single session.
His Unique teaching technique still being beautiful and happy to share, till this time.
Conclusion: Hope the above explantion, helps to rectify the raised query.
What How Why Improvize or advance the work level By Learing new techologies and increasing the skill set For the betterment of the employee and organization as well. Deploy the work in time. With the helps of good team support Helps to achieve the organization's mission Maintain your work space Keep it Clean and check for safety hazards. Good to be safe all the time and helps to work maintaint the harmony Participate in Organization's co-curricular activities Whenever they organize the events. It provides space to interact more with other team mates and higher officials in the organization.