Business Ethics

Try visiting the following website for details on Business Ethics


Business Ethics

Understanding Statistics

Regardless of your position in the organisation, you will come across the use of statistics. Unfortunately many of us have no ideas about it. To some of us it is a nightmare.You no longer need to suffer. The Sofia Open Content Initiative, provide an easy to follow lessons and video clips to understand the topic. Try it.

Elementary Statistics


Video on statistics

Regards.

Arul John Peter

Knowledge@Wharton

The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania publishes a very useful emagazine, covering a wholerange of areas. You may visit the following site. You will be asked to register to access. Registration is FREE. You will enjoy it.


Knowledge at Wharton


John

HRM: Training & Development

Resources on Training & Development

Benefits of Training

Training - is it worth?

Training Needs Analysis

Training Evaluation

Evaluating the training

HRM: Recruitment and Selection

YOu will be able to learn almost all aspects of recruitment and selection from the following site (maintained by The Open University):

Recruitment & selection



Arul John
Centre for Creative Thinking

HRM:Selection

Once recruitment is settled it is time to move on to selection. You should familiarise yourself on the following aspects of selection:
- Selections tests
- What is job interview and its purpose
- Common errors associated with job interviews
- Steps/solutions you need to adopt to make the selction interview effective.

Read the articles at the following sites:


Selection Process

Selection Tests

Successful Hiring

Successful selection

John

How would you meet your manpower needs. The sources can be grouped into two broad categories - internal and external. Both the options have their benefits and limitations. You should be able to discuss the usefulness and limitations of internal and external sources of recruitment.

You should also be able to explain/analyse the benefits and limitations of each external source of candidates. The following weblinks should help you.

Recruitment sources

John

HRM: HR Planning

Once you are familiar with the HR functions you should read and familiarise yourself about various aspects of HR planning. Hopefully the following links will help you:

Understanding HR Planning

HR Planning

Regards.

John
Centre for Creative Thinking

Are U an effective Executive?

Do you have the necessary skills to become an effective excutive? SMARTS author Chuck Martin has a tool to test your skill level. Try and asnwer the questions at:

Are U an Effective Leader?

Are U Crea8ive?

We believe that we are creative. Is it possible to measure one's creativity? Despite the controversy, a number of tools are available to emasure your creativity. Visit the following site to find out your Creativity Quotient.

Creativity Asia

Management Articles

It is always good to have a thorough understanding of management practices and concepts. For a quick reference, visit the following sites:

Management Articles

Deming on management

Hope to receive your comments, summary and highlight of main points of the articiles.

HRM: Job Analysis

Job analysis is carried out as part of HR Planning. There are several reasons for conducting Job Analysis. Read the recommended chapter in your text book (Human Resource Management by Gary Dessler) and the articles at the following websites. At the end of the reading, you should be able to explain the following concepts:

- What is Job Analysis?
- Job description and Job specification
- Reasons for conducting job analysis.
- Methods of data collection for job analysis
- Steps you will adopt when conducting job analysis

Job analysis
Job Analysis - an overview
Employee tasks & Job analysis

Arul John Peter
Centre for Creative Thinking

HRM: International Assignment

The International assignment is an important component of HR. Read the following articles:


Am I Ready for that International Assignment?

Reducing the Failure of International assignment

The Benefits of International Assignment



Arul John
www.creativityasia.com

Strategic Management

The staffing and directing functions of management commonly referred as leading is an important aspect of management. The leading HR strategy should take into consideration of the business strategies. Thsi would require a good understanding of the strategic management concepts. You are encouraged to read the following articles:


What is strategic management?


Strategic Management

You may also search the Internet for additional information.

Arul John Peter

Motivation Theories

In the process of managing human resource every manager need to know how to motivate and influence their subordinates. One should know the various motivational theories. Read and familiarise yourself with a number of motivational theories. The following links should be useful.


Motivation Theories

Herzberg Theory

Theory X and Theory Y

Employee Motivation

Ethics

You are required to familiarise yourself with the following aspects of Business Ethics:

- Definition of ethics and different views of ethics.
- The importance of ethics
- The consequences of no or poor ethical standards
- Practices you will adopt to enhance and sustain business ethical practices

You should refer to the recommended textbook for more details on ethics.

The following websites should be useful.

Resource Articles on Ethics

Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Creating an Ethical Culture

Upon completing the readings you should be able to write an essay (600-700 words) on ethics (definition/views on ethics/relevance of ethics and practices that can be incorporated to enhance ethical standards).
Once you have familiarise yourself with the fundamentals of business ethics, you may wish to know and learn more about crating an ethical organisation. Then this is the weblink you should go:

Creating an Ethical Organisation

John

Understanding Scientific Management Principles

The study of management principles and practices is not complete until you have some basic understanding of Frederick Taylor's scientific management principles. You need to first know the basic details of the principles. You should also familiarise yourself with the relevance of the principles to a modern business organisation. You should find the following web links useful.


You can read Tarylor's book by following the link below:
The Principles of Scientific Management

Frederick Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management

The following link analyse the Taylor's principle and its relevance to employee motivation:
The Scientific Management and Frederick Taylor - an analysis

An interesting analysis of Taylor's principles. Visit:
The Evolution of Innovation

References & Bibliography

All the resources used in your assignments and research papers should be referenced. You should use Harvard system of referencing. The following document which can be downloaded provide adequate details on how to reference your assignment. You may also use the google or Yahoo search engine to locate similar references. All references used in the main assisgnment should listed in the reference list. This should be listed alphabetical order by author surname. Books, journals and other media are all included in the same list.

References and Bibliography

Harvard Bibiliograpghy Reference Generator

How To Use Harvard Referencing?

Resources For Good Grades

The UOB website lists a number of workbooks to make your studying easier. Since you are now in the process of preparing your assignment, I strongly recommend that you read the following workbooks that can be
downloaded from the site listed below:

1. Report Writing: Learn how to write clear, concise and well-structured reports.

2. References & Bibliographies: Illustrates how evidence is cited in written assignments and includes an example essay, complete with references and a bibliography

Effective Learning Tools

John

Understanding Management Principles and Practices

In order to do well in the Management and MHR module you should have a good understanding about the management principles and practices. You should at least read a basic textbook on management. For a quick familiarisation of Management principles and practices you may visit the following web sites:

http://www.trainingmag.com/msg/index.jsp


http://ollie.dcccd.edu/mgmt1374/contents.html

Learning for Success

Can we succeed in our life without learning? Learning is the foundation for our success. No learning would simply mean no progress. While learning is normally seen as a formal activity, as adults we can larn from aa number of informal sources as well.

The Internet is a powerful tool for learning. Once we know how to use the Internet as a tool to learn, there is no end to learning.