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Questions -

Q1. What is the difference between HRD & HRM? Explain more about HRM.

Q2. What are the goals of a human resource department? Choose an organization that you are familiar with and indicate which of these goals will be more important in this organization and discuss why.

Q3. Outline the three major strategies pursued by Canadian businesses. What implications do they have for the human resource function within the firms? Illustrate your answer with suitable examples.

Q4. You work in the human resource department of a large brewery in Atlantic Canada. You are in the process of writing job descriptions for all managerial and supervisory staff. One Manager who is in the production division of the brewery refuses to do a job analysis questionnaire.

Q5. Suppose you were assigned to write the job descriptions for a shirt factory in British Columbia employing mostly Filipino immigrants who speak little English. What methods would you use to collect job analysis data?

Q6. What are staffing tables and replacement chart? Of what use are they to a human resource manager?

Q7. Alternate work arrangements are useful approaches for both the employer and the employee. Discuss.

Q8. If 40 percent of your employees are women, but if women account for only 2 percent of the executive group and 4 percent of the managerial group, what steps will you take to improve the status of women in your organization?

Q9. Suppose you are a manager who has just accepted the resignation of a crucial employee. After you send your request for a replacement to the human resource department, how could you help the recruiter work a more effective job?

Q10. Suppose your employer asks you, the human resource manager, to justify the relatively large recruiting budget that you have been historically assigned. What arguments would you provide? What indices or measures would you provide to show that your recruitment is cost effective?

Dronexx Electronics Expansion

Dronexx Electronics developed a revolutionary method of drone fast-food delivery that could pick up orders from a fast-food location and keep the warm food warm and the cold food cold until delivery at a Specified GPS address up to 8 km away depending on the size of the order. The head of research and development, guy Jiang, estimated that Dronexx Electronics could become a supplier to every fast food chain in the world. The future success of the company seemed to hand on securing the broadest possible patents to cover the still secret technology.

The human resource director, Jackon Huang, recommended that Jiang become a project leader in charge of developing and filing the necessary patent information. Jiang and Huang developed a list of specialists who would be needed to rush the patent applications through the final stages of development and the patent application process. Most of the needed skills were found among Dronexx Electronices present employees. However, after a preliminary review of skills inventories and staffing levels, a list of priority was developed. It required the following:

- An experienced patent lawyer with a strong back ground in electronics technology

- A patent lawyer who was familiar with the ins and outs of the patent process and the patent office in Hull, Quebec

- Twelve engineers and software developers: three electronics engineers with prototype development experience, four full stack programmers, and five junior programmers

- An office manager

Jiang and Huang wanted these 15 people recruited as promptly as possible.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -

Assuming you are given the responsibility of recruiting these needed employees, what channels would you use to find and attract each type of recruit sought?

What other actions should the human resource department take now that there is the possibility of rapid expansion?