... to achieve greater organization efficiency by job elimination" (Stone, 1998, P.585). The corporate restructuring of organizations divided into two types: financial restructuring, and organizational restructuring (Cappelli et al, 1997). Bowman & Singh (cited in Cappelli, 1997) stated corporate restructuring refers to change in the company's financial structure, organizational form, or both. Financial restructuring refers ... to change in ownership, management buyouts and divestitures. Organizational restructuring refers to decentralization of authority, development of team, and downsizing...

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... of a management position, including recruiting, screening, training, rewarding, and appraising (Dessler, 1997; p. 2). This nucleus of responsibility for HRM is being shifted from specialists to all managers (Ezzamel et al,1996; p. 65), and is therefore in a position to advance the cause of the business. By becoming integrated with line management, HRM can become an important functional activity (Tyson, 1995; ... p. 165-166), rather than simply a "big hat, no cattle" role (Fernie et al, 1994). This issue of integration with the general management is an important one for HRM. There is alr...

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... that recruiting a front line employee may cost as much as one and a half times their annual benefit, whilst recruiting an executive will cost more than twice their annual benefits (Fisher et al). One way of keeping people happy at work, thus keeping them, is employing job sculpting. The principle behind job sculpting is finding out the employees deep-seated life interests and ... problem, the employee is very likely to leave the organization. To maximize the retention of employees, it is therefore important to understand the employees, and have them understand themselves. Waterman et al...

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... indicated that Canada has an "estimated shortage of 20,000 computer programmers, parallel by an estimate of 190,000 vacancies in the information technology sector in the United States"" (Drew et al. 9) Issues: The Cause of Brain Drain A recent study done by Personnel Systems, a Canadian consulting firm that specializes in human resources indicated the foremost reasons for leaving Canada for the ... qualifying professional occupations can readily gain entry into the United States, needing only to show proof of their qualification and a job offer from an employer in the United States"" (D...

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... basis of various personal variables is limited (Dalton, Metzger & Wimbush;, 1994; Ones, Viswesvaran, & Schmidt;, 1993). Some of the limitations are attributed to the psychometric properties of the measurement instruments (Ones et al., 1993). Experts suggest that care be taken in selecting tests that have been validated, and that the instruments have been screened by Equal Employment Opportunity officers, as they could discriminate ... ...

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... may have access to valuable human capital, but either through the poor design of work or the mismanagement of people, may not adequately deploy it to achieve strategic impact. (Wright et al, 2001) The crux of this theory is that people are of value to the organization because they make it productive. A part of these productive capabilities will be lost when a company ... ...

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... a systematic fashion. Theoretical Foundation - Goal Specificity Goal setting is a method of directing employees' activities towards achieving specific organizational objectives (Locke, 1978). There are three reasons why goals affect performance (Locke, et al., 1981). First, the setting of specific goals focuses employees' efforts and activities in a particular direction. Secondly, goals regulate the expenditure of one's energy toward an activity, since people typically put ... ...

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