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How has new technology improved training and development? What are some of the limitations of using iPods or PDAs for training?
Last summer, accounting-and-consulting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers tapped partner Tahir Ayub for a consulting gig unlike anything.
What is human capital? How is human capital influencing the changing role of training from skill and knowledge acquisition to creating and sharing knowledge?
If you were going to establish Tires Plus University, what types of strategic training and development initiatives would you create?
Evaluate Nextel Communications’s training organization using the five competencies of the business-embedded model.
Shering-Plough HealthCare Products Inc. decided several years ago to expand its product line by developing pocket-size sticks.
What is the relationship between talent management and employee engagement? What role can training and development practices.
Zappos, based in Las Vegas, is an online retailer. Its initial goal has been to be the best Web site for buying shoes, offering a wide variety of brands.
How would you expect the training activities of a company that is dominant in its product market to differ from those of a company.
How does training differ between companies that are considered BEST Award winners and those that are not?
What does the need to justify activities from a cost-benefit perspective pose for Human Resource Management?
Describe the training courses that you have taken. How have they helped you? Provide recommendations for improving the courses.
What strategies should companies consider from a training and development perspective to best utilize older employees and prepare for their retirement?
If you were to start a business, which aspects of human resource management would you want to entrust to specialists and why?
What should Avery Mitchell do next? What information should he ask the consultants for before accepting their proposal?
Looking at your own organization (or, alternatively, at a KSA organization competing in your industry), examine elements of standardization and adaptation.
Choose an organization at which you are currently working or a Middle Eastern organization with which you are familiar.
What might be some advantages to such an ownership structure in terms of getting the support of all stake-holders for a massive project.
Jenn Kostich, director of emergency services at Northwest General Hospital, is faced with a decision on how to respond to a recent memo.
Is it difficult for you to delegate to others? If so, do you know why? Are you more apt to under delegate, over delegate, or delegate improperly?
Informally survey nurses in the agency in which you work or do clinical practicums. How many of them have received formal education on delegation principles?
You are the team leader for 10 patients. An experienced LVN/LPN and nurse’s aide are also assigned to the team.
You are a new charge nurse working on a surgical unit and have one of the recently hired Filipino travel nurses working on your unit.
You are the supervisor of the oncology unit. One of your closest friends and colleagues is Paula, the supervisor of the medical unit.
You are the charge nurse on the 7 AM to 3 PM shift in an oncology unit. Immediately after report in the morning, you are overwhelmed.