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Due July/22/2013

1.Without continuous training, skills become stagnant and obsolete. What are some techniques employers can use to help with continuous training of employees? Work to include outside references, etc. to strengthen your argument.

Be sure to include your views on professional development.

Due july/23/2013

You will be reading and discussing two different topics this week. Provide explanation, references to readings and lectures and outside references in your answers. Discuss and respond to your classmates’ postings throughout the remainder of the week.

First, download and read the

Sample Flextime Policy

and

Alternative Work Arrangments

documents. You can also use the web to search for more information on Flextime policies among different organizations to support your discussion. After doing this, answer the following:

· Just how flexible is flextime? Does it have any limitations? Discuss any limitations and why these would be important to the modern manager.

· Although it is clearly in the employees’ interest to have flextime, why is it important to employers? In short, why should they care?

· Is there anything that you feel an organization should do after implementing a new flextime policy?

Second, visit

http://www.pepsico.com

‘s and

http://www.cocacola.com

‘s web sites for evidence of their corporate culture. Post your responses to the following questions:

· What methods of embedding organizational culture are evident on the

PepsiCola

Web site? What are your impressions of the organizational culture of PepsiCo after visiting the Web site?

· What methods of embedding organizational culture are evident on the

Coca-Cola Company

Web site? What are your impressions of the organizational culture at the Coca-Cola Company after visiting the Web site?

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Due July/24/2013

The Company is Saks Fifth Avenue.

In this lesson, you covered topics in structure, human resources and culture. The purpose of this information is to give you focus with reference to the real world assignment and its application of the information learned in this lesson.

Ask Your Company

· Does your company’s culture stress the need for diversity? If not, what might they do differently?

· How would you describe your company’s culture or “personality”?

· Does your company have any policies or other formal ways that recognize a corporate culture and how to make it effective?

Ask Yourself

· Does your company appear to have good organizational culture?

· Based on what you have learned, why is culture important to understand for management? Do you think that it is something that the company you are working with has a good handle on? Why or why not?

· If you were going to work for this company, would you feel comfortable being part of this culture? Why or why not?

· If you were hired as a consultant to work with this company, would culture be something you would work on? Why or why not?

By Thursday, July 25, 2013, consider the following issue and post your thoughts and conclusions to this issue to this Discussion Area. Use the
Ask Yourself
and
Ask Your Company
questions to help you..

· Culture and the role of organizational culture are very important in the scheme of things. Culture gives the workplace character and is very important in the big picture. Find out anything you can about your organization’s culture. Report on this very important aspect of your company by including factors that contribute to the specific culture of your company. What types of things do they have in common with other companies, etc.?

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