However, they focus on cost efficiency and development programs can be costly. Also at this stage, it is crucial to differentiate between the various resources which are required, such as technological resources, financial resources or labor force resources (Mayhew, 2011). This specifically implies that it is necessary to recognize and accept the costs of the development program. It is for instance plausible for the program to generate operational inefficiencies and Wal-Mart has to accept these short-term limitations.
6. Communications. Communications play a crucial role in the development of managers at Wal-Mart, but also at any other economic agent. Communication is in essence "so fundamental, that without it, no organization can exist and function effectively towards achieving its goals" (FK Publications). In order to enhance communications, John M. Grohol recommends the following:

a. Stopping and listening to the other party

b. Forcing oneself to hear what the other is saying

c. Paying attention of…...

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Bright, K., 2011, HRD -- management learning and development

Bruce, A., 2006, Ho to motivate every employee: 24 proven tactics to spark productivity in the workplace, McGraw-Hill Professional, ISBN 0071463305

Grohol, J.M., 9 steps t better communication today, World of Psychology,   / last accessed on May 9, 2011http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/04/14/9-steps-to-better-communication-today 

Hoeger, W.W.K., Hoeger, S.A., 2008, Fitness and wellness, 8th edition, Cengage Learning, ISBN 0495388408

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN THE GHANA WATER COMPANY.
Human resources refer to the knowledge, skills, creative abilities, talents, aptitude, values and beliefs of an organization's workforce. The more important aspects of human resources are aptitude, values, attitudes and beliefs. But, in a given situation, if these vital aspects remain same, the other aspects of human resources like knowledge, skills, creative abilities and talents play an important role in deciding the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization's workforce.

However, enhancement of utilization value of human resources depends on improvement of the human resource aspects like skill, knowledge, creative abilities and talents and molding of other aspects like values, beliefs, aptitude and attitude in accordance with the changing requirements of groups, organization and society at large. This process is the essence of human resource development. It is clear from this interpretation that human resource development improves the utilization value of an organization.…...

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Equal Employment Opportunity and Employee ights eview

The Office of Civil ights (OC) in the United States is the organization that ensures compliance with anti-discrimination acts such as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988. These are two completely different acts, in that the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 explicitly prevents discrimination against pregnant women and is therefore an employee rights act; whereas the Drug-Free Workplace Act applies only to federal employers and does not extend even to contractors. While it does theoretically protect some workers from the potential dangers of working with colleagues under the influence, the Act is limited in scope and in fact, potentially enables federal agencies covered under the act to violate civil liberties of employees via drug testing. It is worth noting, however, that the Drug-Free Workplace Act does not require nor authorize drug testing (United States Department of Labor,…...

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"Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988," (n.d.). Society for Human Resource Management. Retrieved online:  http://www.shrm.org/legalissues/federalresources/federalstatutesregulationsandguidanc/pages/drug-freeworkplaceactof1988.aspx 

United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (n.d.). The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. Retrieved online:  http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/pregnancy.cfm 

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The differences identified during this process determined the training objectives that must be reached by these programs. Furthermore, the company selects the trainees, the training methods, and the evaluation process.
The necessity of training programs relies on a series of factors. This is because these programs are able to help the company develop a pool of skilled employees that can be recruited on several positions within the company. This is useful in the case of companies that prefer to focus on internal recruitment sources. In addition to this, such training programs allow the company to better use technological developments as a result of skilled employees.

Training programs also develop motivated teams, characterized by high efficiency and productivity levels. This increases employee satisfaction and helps the company improve its position on the market in comparison with its competitors. This strategy also allows the company to expand its business on international level.

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Strategic human resource development in small businesses, in the United States," explores prior studies, which investigated the frequency and impact of strategic human resource development, and strategic planning in small businesses in America (Fox, 2013, p. 77-115). In order to achieve the objective, the paper utilizes studies from countries, for instance Canada, and the United Kingdom, primarily because the countries share several economic and cultural attributes with the United States (Fox, 2013, p. 79). Following the review, the paper aims, in addition to the fore-mentioned aims, to explore the role of human resource professionals in the strategic business planning (Fox, 2013, p. 99).
Fox's presents a literature review and follows a review of relevant literatures on the subject. The work depends greatly on prior literatures, which explains the online search strategy the author employed. Fox searched for the prior literatures using popular databases including Scopus, Business Source Complete, ABI Inform…...

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Fox, L.H. (2013). Strategic human resource development in small businesses in the United

States. Academy of entrepreneurship journal, 19(1), 77-118.

Kraus, S., Reiche, S., & Reschke, H.C. (2007). Implications of Strategic Planning In SMEs For

International Entrepreneurship Research and Practice. Published in M. Terziovski (Ed.), Energizing Management through Innovation and Entrepreneurship: European Research and Practice, pp. 110-127. London: Routledge. Retrieved from  http://blog.iese.edu/reiche/files/2010/08/Implications-of-strategic-planning-in-SMEs.pdf

1. Describe the learning condition you think is most necessary for learning to occur. Use specific examples to support your answer. Learning depends on practice more than anything else, the ability to rehearse either mentally or physically the necessary skills or knowledge. As Noe (2013) points out, there are several pre-practice conditions necessary for learning to occur. Those include metacognitive conditions and a positive climate of learning. Characteristics of a positive climate of learning include feedback, reinforcement, goal setting, and reminders. Employees need feedback, “information about how well people are meeting the training objectives,” (Noe, 2013, p. 176). Feedback helps keep trainees on course, maximizing training resources and minimizing time wasted. Feedback is not empty praise or criticism but concrete and detailed evidence about what is being done correctly and how to change what is not. Metacognition refers to the conditions whereby individuals develop self-mastery and control over their own thinking…...

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Keller, J. M. (1987). Development and use of ARCS model of motivation design. Journal of Instructional Development, 2-10.

Noe, R. A. (2013). Employee training and development (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

 

12Normalization between Arab Gulf Countries and its Impact on Human esource DevelopmentAbstractThe establishment of tranquil relations between Arab Gulf countries was deemed imperative when vendettas threaten to compromise human resource development significantly. It is worth highlighting that this entrenchment was developed historically, with improvements being made over time to reinforce mutually beneficial relations. In light of this, the most recent revision of these relations was done on September 11th, 2020, and was instigated by the Kingdom of Bahrain. Notably, this became the fourth Arab nation to normalize relations with Israel, whose plan entailed considerable diplomatic, security, and commercial enunciations among the specified parties.Fundamentally, it was deemed a glaring necessity to initiate normalized relations within Arab Gulf countries in the prospect of gaining bipartisan favors from the United States of America. Appreciatively, the need for gaining bipartisan favors from the U.S. was necessary as it would cushion concerned parties from attaining…...

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Human esource Management is a practice of managing human skills, capacities and talents, to ensure their effective usage in the attainment of organizational goals, objectives and overall competitiveness (Youssef, 2012). Every Human esource manager performs various functions of recruiting, hiring, selecting and training competent employees. In addition, the manager offers competitive compensation and benefits packages, which attract, motivate and retain qualified employees. However, it is the function of the Personnel manager to devise ways, which will increase the employee effectiveness in performing the jobs. These ways include training, offering education and developing the capacities of the employees. As a result, there is an improvement of the employee contribution towards the attainment of organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
Effective management of employees' productivity is a crucial element in attaining organizational success (Youssef, 2012). High levels of productivity enable the organization to offer high compensation and benefits packages, which do not affect its competitive…...

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Edwards, P. (2003). Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice. Oxford: Blackwell Pub.

Kreitner, R. (2009). Management. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Sims, R.R. (2007). Human resource management: Contemporary issues, challenges and opportunities. Greenwich, Conn: Information Age Publ.

Youssef, C. (2012). Human resource management. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education.

Human esource Management: Discussion
Human esource Management: A Concise Definition

It is important to note from the onset that human resource management (HM) does not have an assigned definition. This essentially means that in the past, numerous authors and management experts have offered a variety of definitions with regard to HM in an attempt to solve the ambiguity that has surrounded the said definition over time. Indeed, as Blyton and Turnbull (as cited in Collings and Wood, 2009) point out, the ways in which practitioners and academics have used the term "indicates both variations in meaning and significantly different emphases on what constitutes its core components" (p. 1). In seeking to wholly define HM, I will take into consideration a number of definitions that have been floated in the past.

To begin with, HM according to Beer et al., (as cited in Price, 2011) "involves all management decisions that affect the relationship between…...

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Collings, D.G. & Wood, G. (Eds.). (2009). Human Resources Management: A Critical Approach. New York, NY: Routledge

Price, A. (2011). Human Resource Management (4th ed.). Hampshire: Cengage Learning.

Sims, R.R. (Ed.). (2007). Human Resource Management: Contemporary Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities. Charlotte, NC: IAP.

Werner, J.M. & DeSimone, R.L. (2011). Human Resource Development (6th ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning.

Another valuable lesson is pegged to the necessity to select and hire the most suitable staff members. Then, the equal employment rights stimulate the researcher to adopt a more open view of cultural diversity in the workplace. Additionally, as a future application, it would even be important to remember that people of different backgrounds have different skills and abilities. Instead of striving to standardize them, the players in the workplace community should try to capitalize more on the points of difference offered by culturally diverse staff members, such as their increased ability to communicate with culturally diverse customers.

5. Impact of the Study on Career and Personal Life

It is yet uncertain as to how the personal career of the researcher would be impacted by the findings of the study. What is however known with certainty is that the baggage of HM knowledge of the researcher has significantly increased. Within the context…...

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Heathfield, S.M., What is human resource development (HRD)? About,   last accessed on July 02, 2010http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossaryh/f/hr_development.htm 

McNamara, C., Employee benefits and compensation, Management Help,   last accessed on July 02, 2010http://managementhelp.org/pay_ben/pay_ben.htm 

2007, Health and safety, HRM Guide,   last accessed on July 02, 2010http://www.hrmguide.co.uk/employee_relations/health-and-safety.htm 

Equal employment opportunities, Liverpool City Council,   last accessed on June 30, 2010http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/reports/hrm10.html 

The current business climate being what it is, it is likely that employees and labor organizations will understand the necessity of certain cuts, but the inclusion of employees and/or their representatives in the decision making process is still very important and highly beneficial to any organization. It will also, of course, make other aspects of the human resource manager's job less difficult, as it will then be possible to maintain better employee/management relationships and thus other issues can be engaged in with a lessened degree of animosity or adversity. The more in sync management and employees can become in this era, the greater the potential for organizational growth and profitability.
Combined Functionality and Varying Importance

Though discussed separately above, all of these issues of human resource management are of course interrelated. Labor relations are hugely influenced by compensation and benefits packages as well as through safety and health standards, development programs,…...

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References

Condrey, S. (2010). Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Sison, P. (2003). Personnel Management in the Twenty-First Century. Quezon City, PH: PMAP.

Werner, J. & DeSimone, R. (2008). Human Resource Development. Mason, OH: Cengage.

York, K. (2010). Applied Human Resource Management: Strategic Issues and Experiential Exercises. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Human esource Learning Development
Human esources Learning Development

Learning and development is among leading businesses. Despite the current organizational budget squeezes, companies are making significant investments in training employees. esearches done on American companies reveal that these billion investments have actually improved the workforce where by skills are being transferred to everyday job (Wilson, 2005).

Human esources and Learning and Development activities support the Organization's strategy

Learning development or training development is one of the most significant components to our work and lives. Many people perceive training to be an activity that gives the outcome or is a result of learning. The learning is also considered as the new competency or abilities, skills and knowledge. We highly value learning in our culture. We may have undergone a series of learning processes, but many of us are still not equipped with the knowledge of carefully modeling an approach to training and development. This topic can…...

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References

Mayo, A. (2004). Creating a learning and development strategy the HR business partner's guide to developing people. London, Chartered Institute of Personnel, and Development

Wilson, J.P. (2005). Human resource development: learning & training for individuals & organizations. London: Kogan Page

Advice is given to supervisors on how to correct poor appearance and employee misconduct. In these instances, progressive guidelines and other requirements must be taken into account the completing disciplinary actions and in resolving employee grievances and appeals. Information is given to employees to encourage a better understanding of management's goals and policies. Information is also given to employees in order to assist them in improving poor performance, on or off duty misconduct, and/or to address personal issues that influence them in the workplace. Employees are told about appropriate policies, legislation, and bargaining agreements. Employees are also directed about their complaint and appeal rights and discrimination and whistleblower safeguards (Employee elations, 2009).
Preserving a positive, productive work environment is significant for all managers. This is often accomplished by engaging in: mentoring and coaching your staff, regular feedback, including annual performance reviews, open and honest communication regarding group, unit and university…...

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Compensation and Benefits. (n.d.). Retrieved August 18, 2010, from Auxillium West Web site:

 http://www.auxillium.com/pay.shtml 

Employee Health and Safety. (2009). Retrieved August 19, 2010, from Small Business Notes

Web site:  http://www.smallbusinessnotes.com/operating/hr/safety.html

Human resource management, whether specifically titled or not, has been a part of any organization's management since groups banded together for specific tasks. Ancient armies, projects, and even educational and religious institutions all had concerns about their ability to bring in the appropriate person for the positions at hand. Formally, Human esource Management in the contemporary world is both the tactical and strategic manner in which an organization manages the human portion of its resources, both collectively and individually, and how management of those individual resources contributes to the overall positive objects of the business. Over the past few decades, though, and with the advent of increasingly sophisticated technology, Human esource management has changed from using people to employ people, develop people, and track the utilization and compensation of their services. Instead, a newer system has evolved using computers, database management, and data mining to provide more optimal ways in…...

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Introduction to the Human Resources Discipline of Workplace Safety and Security. (2010, March). Retrieved from Society for Human Resource Management:  http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/safetysecurity/Pages/SafetyIntro.aspx 

Armstrong, M. (2008). Strategic Human Resource Management (4th ed.). Philadelphia: Kogan.

Budd, J. (2007). Labor Relations: Striking a Balance. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

Effron, M., & Goldsmith, M. (2008). Human Resources in the 21st Century. New York: Wiley.

Human esource Specialist Skills
A Human esource Specialist is considered to be an individual who is an expert in one of the H disciplines like training and development, workplace safety and risk management, recruitment and selection, employee relations or compensation and benefits. The Human esource Specialist would have a specific role and expertise, while a Human esource Generalist would work in all the department areas. The skills that I possess that would be beneficial for the position of Human esource Specialist are:

• Communication Skills

• Ability to read people

• Listening skills

• Multitasking skills

• Empathy

• Critical thinking

Communication Skills

Verbal and written communication has to be caring, convincing and believable (Garavan, 1991), and having the correct skills allows me to express and present my message as expected. A person has to be aware of the recipient of the message in order to craft the message to fit the audience. Having great communication skills ensure that…...

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References

Baron, J. N., & Kreps, D. M. (1999). Consistent human resource practices. California Management Review, 41(3), 29-53.

Garavan, T. N. (1991). Strategic human resource development. Journal of European Industrial Training, 15(1).

Literature Review: Assess the Influence of Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory on Performance, Focusing on Various Educational Settings, Such as Higher Education and Employee Training

Introduction

David Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) has significantly influenced education and training practices, particularly in higher education and employee development. This literature review delves into the impact of ELT on performance in these settings, examining empirical studies and theoretical perspectives.

ELT in Higher Education

Enhanced Learning: ELT promotes active engagement and hands-on experiences, leading to improved retention and understanding. Students are able to directly apply concepts and theories, fostering deeper learning. (Kolb & Kolb, 2005)
Skill Development: Practical....