Read the case study and answer the questions bellow

As a new member of the board of directors for a local bank, Jack Nelson was being

introduced to all the employees in the home office. When he was introduced to Ruth Johnson,

he was curious about her work and asked her what the machine she was using did. Johnson

replied that she really did not know what the machine was called or what it did. She

explained that she had only been working there for two months. She did, however, know

precisely how to operate the machine. According to her supervisor, she was an excellent

employee.

At one of the branch offices, the supervisor in charge spoke to Nelson confidentially, telling

him that $$something was wrong$,$ but she didn$$t know what. For one thing, she explained

employee turnover was too high, and no sooner had one employee been put on the job than

another one resigned. With customers to see and loans to be made, she continued, she had

little time to work with the new employees as they came and went.

All branch supervisors hired their own employees without communication with the home

officer or other branches. When an opening developed, the supervisors tried to find a suitable

employee to replace the worker who had quit.

After touring the $22$ branches and finding similar problems in many of them, Nelson

wondered what the home office should do or what action he should take. The banking firm

was generally regarded as a well$-$run institution that had grown from $27$ to $191$ employees

during the past eight years. The more he thought about the matter, the more puzzled Nelson

became. He couldn$$t quite put his finger on the problem, and he didn$$t know whether to

report his findings:

a$)$ What are the possible reasons to have problems in the bank$$s home office and branches?

b$)$ Do you think setting a HR unit in the main office would help to overcome these

problems? How?

c$)$ Assume that Nelson set a HR Department in the main office to coordinate all the HR

related problems. What specific functions should the HR Department carry out?

d$)$ Why do organizations view human resource as an important resource in organizations

compared to other resources?

e$)$ Why is it important for this local bank to make their human resources into a source of

obtaining competitive advantage? Explain your answer using your knowledge in HRM$.$

f$)$ What are the possible adverse consequences that the organization encounters with poor

management of human resource?

g$)$ How can an organization change their work force with the changes happening in the

environment?