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Human Resource Management Text And Cases 7th Edition K. Aswathappa - Solutions
Which training techniques do you recommend for each of the following occupations? Why?(a) A clerk in an office(b) A welder(c) An assembly-line worker(d) An inexperienced supervisor.
“Learning is good for everyone”. Discuss.
Why have career management and talent management become relevant these days?
Naik, AGM Materials, is fuming and fretting. He bumped into Kamath, GM Materials, threw the resignation letter on his table, shouted and walked out of the room swiftly.Naik has reason for his sudden outburst. He has been driven to the wall.Perhaps, details of the story will tell the reasons for
What is performance appraisal? What are its objectives?
Outline the appraisal process.
Bring out the methods of appraisal.
What are the common rater’s problems? How can they be overcome?
How do the results of performance appraisal affect other HR activities?
If you were to audit an existing performance-appraisal system, what criteria would you use to judge its effectiveness?
What steps would you take if your performance-appraisal system has a desperate and adverse impact?
Evaluate the 360-degree feedback as a technique of appraisal.
Answer the following questions.(a) Why did the honey produced by the first bee keeper reduce when performance was reviewed at the end of the season? Provide examples (other than the ones used in the case) from the organizational context.(b) Why did the honey produced by the second bee keeper
Do you think that appraisals will convert employees inTo better employees?
Dinesh, a machine operator, worked as a mechanist for Ganesh, the supervisor. Ganesh told Dinesh to pick up some trash that had fallen from Dinesh’s work area, and Dinesh replied, “I won’t do the janitor’s work”.Ganesh replied, “when you drop it, you pick it up”. Dinesh became angry
Farmington, Connecticut-based Otis Elevator is the world’s largest manufacturer, installer, and servicer of elevators, escalators, moving walkways, and other vertical and horizontal passenger transportation systems.Otis products are offered in more than 200 countries worldwide, and the company
What is employee engagement? What are its benefits to the organisation and its employees?
State and explain the drivers of engageme
Is employee engagement only a new metaphor for things already in practice?
Do you think that highly engaged employers do not quit at all? Don’t you think that highly charged employees are self inspired? Do they care much for the organisation where they are now working?
What do you understand by employee compensation? What is its significance?
Bring out the components of employee compensation.
Outline the external as well as internal environments of employee compensation.
Bring out the procedure for fixing salary for monthly rated employees.
What is salary compensation philosophy? What does it contain?
Should central and state governments be able to legislate minimum wages rather than adopting a laissez-faire attitude that would allow employers operating on a slim profit margin to pay only what they could afford? Discuss.
Experts argue that companies need to focus on strategy formulation, implementation, competition and the like and not waste their time and energy on matters relating to wages and salaries. Give your view point.
Suppose you manage a small business with 30 employees. You discover that some employees are motivated by money, while others are motivated by security. For those who want more money you provide merit pay increases in which their income is determined by their productivity. The other employees have a
Is money the prime trigger of employee performance?
Define ‘incentives’. Bring out their advantages and limitations.
Bring out the prerequisites for the success of incentive payments.
Explain the different types of incentive systems.
Bring out the steps in the introduction of incentive payments.
Bring out the salient features of the incentive schemes followed in Indian industries.
Bring out the linkage between incentive and productivity.
Debate on the assertion “If selection and placement decisions are done effectively, individual performance should not vary a great deal, therefore, an incentive system is not necessary”.
Do you believe that an employee’s behaviour is always influenced by the rewards expected? Discuss.
Vybhav has a different variable compensation for each of its four business units. The nature of business determines the percentage of variable pay as shown below:All team-based incentives and individual incentives for senior managers are paid annually and all individual based incentives are paid
Define fringe benefits. Bring out their importance.
Bring out the various employee benefits and services. Describe each in brief
Outline the principles of fringe benefits.
Explain the various steps in the benefits administration.
If you were establishing your own business, which benefits would you be legally required to pay and which would you choose to offer?
Should employers provide child care? Care for the elderly? Why?
A growing number of employees are reluctant to accept overseas assignments. Why do they refuse? What benefits and services would you offer to them to accept such transfers?
If you are asked to create employee awareness about the fringe benefits, what actions would you take without changing the way your company provides such benefits? What additional steps would you take if your company changes the entire benefits programme?
Vybhav uses inputs from the annual compensation and benefits bench marking survey (C&B Survey) in which it participates in July every year.This is an independent survey that Vybhav partners with Hann Associates to study and report about the patterns of payment and packages of competing companies in
“You HR people seem to have no other work”, shouted Praveen, the Managing Director of Apex Financial Services. “You keep coming with great ideas on how to spend money. Where is the money? Now get me the hard facts on why we should change our benefits plan?” continued Praveen. He has reasons
Justify the high remuneration paid to executives.
Bring out the differences between executive remuneration and wages of workers.
Describe the components of executive remuneration.
Bring out the ethical and social issues connected with executive remuneration.
Do you think that Indian executives are overpaid? Discuss.
What action can the government take when companies violate statutory guidelines relating to executive remuneration?
What is the role of a HR manager in administering remuneration to executives?
Define organisational culture. Bring out different dimensions of corporate culture.
State and explain the sources of culture.
What are cultural artefacts? Explain each one.
How is culture created/sustained?
What are the difficulties to change culture? How to overcome them?
Do academic institutions have different cultures? If yes, how do they differ from those of commercial enterprises?
Have you worked for an organisation whose culture is in need for a change? If so, what were the problems? What could be your solutions?
Name a company with a distinct culture. What do you think are its values? Has the culture contributed to improved performance?
Which of the following organisations ripe for organisational culture?Why?• A start-up time• A small scale unit• A 50-year old with head count of 5000• A 30-year old educational institution with a proven track record
Many companies have turned themselves around, converting imminent bankruptcy into prosperity. Some did it through financial gimmickry, but the ones who have become stars did it by changing their own culture.Few remember that companies like British Air or Volvo once had a poor reputation. That’s a
What is employee safety? How is safety disrupted? Explain.
Outline the causes for industrial accidents. How can they be avoided?
Explain the steps in a safety programme.
How is safety performance assessed?
Describe the need for and ways of ensuring employee health.
Why is work stress caused? How can it be minimised?
“The problem of industrial accidents is no less severe in our country”.Elucidate.
If you were a Chief Executive appointing a safety director, what would you tell him should be his objectives? What would be the order of importance?
What, according to you, are the reasons why safety has often not been managed as effectively as some other business functions? What may be done about this?
Outline the role of HR specialist in providing a safe and healthy environment for employees.
“Employees with poor safety records often have poor written safety policies”. Agree or disagree? Discuss.
When Mahesh joined XYZ Bank (private sector) in 1985, he had one clear goal—to prove his mettle. He did prove himself and has been promoted five times since his entry into the bank. Compared to others, his progress has been the fastest. Currently, his job demands that Mahesh should work 10 hours
Define the term ‘labour welfare’. Bring out the arguments for and against welfare.
Bring out the various types of welfare.
How is welfare administered in a typical organisation?
Describe how the effectiveness of welfare is assessed.
Bring out the various approaches to the study of welfare.
What types of facilities do you expect from your college/university?
Establish a correlation between welfare and productivity.
What do you understand by separations? Explain the different types of separations.
What are transfers? What are the types of transfers?
Bring out the principles of transfers.
What do you understand by the term promotion? Bring out bases for promotion.
What is conflict? Why does it arise? How to resolve it?
“Rightsizing is not a ripple but a tidal wave.” Elaborate.
Bring out the effectiveness of VRS in trimming an organisation’s employee strength.
Why has VRS evoked mixed response everywhere?
Does conflict arise mainly from problem employees?
Does the procedure for handling indiscipline apply to all sectors or it is manufacturing sector-specific?
Let’s look at a couple of situations that will surely resonate with most managers. First, consider the problem facing Annette. She is a senior designer at a large publishing and graphic design business, with dotted-line responsibility for Colin, a project team member. Always something of a
Lakshmi Manufacturing Company is a registered factory employing 600 people. It produces spare parts for cars and scooters. Its security staff at the gate are very rigid in checking people/vehicles going out of the works to prevent any theft of the company’s material.On June 20, 1995, Ramesh, a
Define the term ‘Industrial Relations’. Bring out its importance.
Bring out the parties and their roles in IR.
Describe an IR strategy.
Explain the different approaches to IR.
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