CHRISTMAS FOR SALE – HRM

Part 1: Cirque du Soleil

1.     Why is Cirque du Soleil successful throughout the world?  Why does the product transcend culture differences between countries?

-          Cirque du Soleil become successful in the world because they are very good in performing many acrobatic shows and they never forget what they are before when they are first starting as a street performer.  The product transcends culture differences because Cirque du Soleil performs not only in one country but in the whole world where they can see or adopt other cultures.

2.    How do the cultural influences discussed in Figure 4-1 influence organizational behavior at Cirque du Soleil?

-          The cultural influences in the organizational behavior at Cirque du Soleil may direct each individual to have a good performance on the shows they going to and may sometimes lead them to confusion about some of their beliefs in life.

3.    Why is it important for Cirque du Soleil to be good corporate citizen?  How does ethnocentrism relate to fulfilling this role?

-          It is important for Cirque du Soleil to be a good corporate citizen because they should know the right of each individual so that they can trust each other.  Individual must not be a self centralize person because if they do they can no longer perform as a group that may result to their own failure.

Part 2: Generation Next Changes the Face of the Workplace

1.     Why is addressing this issue so important?  Shouldn’t workers adjust to meet the needs of their employers?

-          Because to the part of the company who’s accepting an early 20’s worker they are very alarming that they will no longer be the chief of their own company but a superior who’s under their workers.  As the generation changes, the workers now are the superior than employers because they may have all the skills that old workers doesn’t have.

2.    What can employers who can’t afford such extensive programs as the Deloitte organization do to address the changing preferences of their younger workers?  What would you like to see your employer or prospective employer do to address your wants and needs to retain you?

-          The employers who can’t afford a extensive programs should have a set of laws about their workers attitude.  They should explain to their workers that they have their own rights and so the employers and company has. My employer should give me my rights and he should respect me as I have respected him and the company.  So that I can retain on the company and have a good bond with them.

Part 3: Destination CEO: Clarence Otis: Darden Restaurant

1.     What prepared Clarence Otis for his position as a CEO of Darden?

-          Clarence Otis is a persistence person because he did his very best to make her mother please since his mother had a highly expectations on him also he never stopped finding his own happiness that make his way to be a CEO of Darden.

2.    According to Otis, what is the key area for success for employees at the Darden Company?

-          The key area for success for employees at the Darden Company is to remain relevant.

Part 4: One Smooth Stone

1.     How much of a part can values truly play in the success of a company like One Smooth Stone?

-          Values play a very important role to the company like One Smooth Stone because it is the values that clients observe to a company so that if they treat well, for sure they will keep coming back and so I can say that a company will be succeed.

2.      What characteristics of One Smooth Stone make it necessary to have a flat and decentralized structure as opposed to a rigid, command and control hierarchical structure?

-          One Smooth Stone characteristic is that they only hires highly skilled and empowered workers to work in teams on customized project that make them have a flat and decentralized structure.

Part 5: Leadership: Making Decisions during Hurricane Katrina

1.     What model of decision making did the Sisters of Holy Angels have to rely on to guide them through thee hurricane tragedy?

-          The Sisters of Holy Angels rely on their decisions that will make them survive on the hurricane tragedy.  They think to a decision that will assure them to stay alive in the hurricane even though they are not sure that their plans will work.

2.    What part do you think intuition and creativity played in each of the Sisters’ stories? Explain how.

-          I think the four Sisters assume that they have to make a plan that would make them survive in the tragedy because they have their other sisters with them and they should have to do everything for them to be safe.  If you can just imagine, how come that they think as fast decision as they could in just a few minutes between life and death, they are very resourceful and so I can say that their perceptions are very amazing.

Personal Profile

        I’m Jonnabelle S. Gaddi a second year college student who is taking up a computer course at University of Caloocan City.  I’m 17 years old turning up 18 this coming December 10.  For at least 18 years of my existence I can say that I am not yet engage on a particular work where I can get my own basic needs.  I’m still at the side of my parents until I can stand on my own.  I’ve been in an organization whenever our professors gather us to do something related to our group work.  I experienced sometimes to be a leader or a member.  We’ve always been shared our own ideas to solve the group work even if sometimes there’s an unavoidable situation where in our ideas were not similar to each other that may result to a misunderstanding.  But after all quarrel is always been a part of a particular situation where in it can lead us to know the right thing and to solve the problem successfully.

2. How you understand and expect human behavior to become ideal when it comes to organization?

Human behavior becomes ideal in an organization if we know our capabilities and limitations that’s why each in every one of us has a different behavior that makes us special.  In the world of business, human behavior allows us to have a relationship between manager and employees, to boost employee morale, productivity, and job satisfaction; and the best ways to evaluate employee performance and create incentives that motivate workers.  The behavior in the workplace is important to be familiarized by the worker in order for him to apply his knowledge and skills that can minimize such human problems that unavoidably happen in the operations of all kinds of organizations.  

Own definition of Human Resource Management

Own definition of Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management for me is the capability of human to handle or use something that he can be benefited to survive in this world.  He must find a way to fulfill his basic needs and continue to live satisfactorily.