Human Resource Management, Annotated Bibliography Example

Associated Press (2005) Delta employee fired over blog sues airline. Retrieved Feb 20, 2010, from MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9259944/

A Delta flight attendant was fired after posting on a blog pictures of her. She has in turn filed a sexual discrimination suit against the airline for infringement of her privacy. The whole basis of this case is whether a company can legally fire a person for participating in a ‘blog’ since her pictures posted were not of an ordinary or sexual nature.

Chan, S. (2008) CNN Producer Says He Was Fired for Blogging. Retrieved February 20, 2010, from The New York Times Online http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/cnn-producer-says-he-was-fired-for-blogging/

An employee was fired for blogging. He was a producer for CNN. The question presented was whether a journalists or professional writer should be allowed to write personal blogs while employed for a public radio station, column or journalist company. Mr. Pazienza claimed he kept his identity as a journalist confidential while writing his personal blog about another article.

Delisio, E. (2006) Pay for Performance: What is the Issues Retrieved February 26, 2010 from, http://educationworld.com/a_issues/issues/issues374a.shtml

Merit pay seems to be the new idea in contrast to the old traditional pay schemes of tenure and higher education for teachers. “It appears 30 of 50 school districts are in favor of the new idea.” (Delisio, 2006). Politicians feel this will be a strong political issue that may give rise to political havoc and if it is not passed they may have to do away with the idea.

Dresher, G. (2006). Benefit Coverage and Employee Cost: Critical Factors in Explaining Compensation Satisfaction. Personnel Psychology 41(2) p. 237-254.

United States workers do not have a very strong safety net outside of benefits from employers to take care of their demanding medical, vision and dental needs. Some believe developing social benefits might be the key to a better organized force for workers and families.

Henderson, D. (2009, March 28). CEO Blogs: Pros and Cons. Retrieved February 20, 2010, from http://www.davidhenderson.com/2009/03/28/ceo-blogs-pros-and-cons/

Blogs are considered a way for the lay public to express their innate freedom of speech. Questions posed include can CEO blogs serve a purpose to market departments and share new ideas? Is there a contradiction if CEO’s are allowed to use blogs in this purpose whereas journalists are not?

Frazier & Helms (2009) German 2014 Plan: Tie Teacher Pay to Progress  http://charlotteobserver.com/education/story/1040368.html

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman is looking to scrap the traditional sonority link teachers with advanced degrees and tenure. He would like to institute a plan which includes ‘pay for performance’ in order to motivate teachers to teach at adequate levels and to motivate children in new and talented ways.

Mathis, R.L. & Jackson, J.H. (2008) Human Resource Management (12^th Ed.). New York, NY: South-Western Publishing Company

Robert Mathis and John Jackson team up in this human resource management book in order to teach business professionals how to effectuate the tools they possess in order to learn important laws and regulations of the economy. As well as looking at laws and regulations, the authors teach strong managerial context to new managers coming into the workforce.

Minority Student Recruitment Strategies (1995) Retrieved February 26, 2010 from, http://www.apta.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Minority_Affairs1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentFileID=5496

This abstract looks at the way minority students are recruited and the techniques used to draw minorities into the fields of study. It explores the strategies used and the results from these strategies. It further looks to future strategies and techniques and many graphs and displays are included to display the research used.

Mazurek, G. (2008). Corporate blogs – innovative communication tool or another internet hype: Empirical research study : Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (pp. 403-406). Wislaw, Poland: IEEE.

Blogs are nothing more than personal journals of people that wish to share their views and feelings with others over the internet to get feedback. Corporate blogs are often used to ascertain company goals. Corporate blogs leave room open for discern because they face privacy and challenging issues for those authorizing the use of blogs and those participating in the blogs.

Higher Education (2004) Affirmative action strategies and professional schools: case illustrations of exemplary programs Retrieved February 24, 2010 from, http://www.springerlink.com/content/n3nq37231566322j/

A formal study was conducted and evaluation was presented on recruitment of minority students by three physical therapy programs in order to evaluate success and evaluate room for improvement with relation to means of success. Evidence has shown that good recruiting techniques has increased the rate of minorities in these programs by 24% from the years of 1995-2000. Academias were interested in focusing on African American students and Asian Pacific students in order to aid them in obtaining undergraduate degrees.

Rioux, S. & Bernthal, P. (2009) Recruitment and Selection Practices Retrieved February 25, 2010 from, http://www.ddiworld.com/pdf/recruitmentandselectionpractices_es_ddi.pdf

If a company takes its time to recruit and select prime candidates for a specific job the outcome will be more favorable for the company. The employees hired are more likely to remain satisfied with the employment hence staying on the job longer and being more productive employees. The employees will take ‘ownership’ of the position rather than simply viewing it as a job to go to everyday to make an income. Internal candidates tend to stay with the company longer than external candidates. “Benchmark Studies have shown companies participating in the study plan to spend 75% on recruiting this coming year.” (Rioux. & Bernthal, 2009).

Scofido, B. (2007) Employee Types: Who Wants What Retrieved February 26, 2010 from, http://meetingsnet.com/corporatemeetingsincentives/mag/meetings_employee_types_wats/

Maritz, Inc. conducted a study on what motivates employees to do a good job and stay at a job. Maritiz, Inc. “classifies freedom earners as those who appreciate flexibility with a job, hours and freedom with trip scheduling.” (Scofido, 2007). There are several classifications of employees by Maritz, Inc., but the most pronounced are the award seekers who are seeking monetary and recognition. “These workers comprise 22% of the normal workforce according to Maritz, Inc. (Scofido, 2007).

Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities (2005) Retrieved February 26, 2010 from, http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2007/minoritytrends/ind_6_25.asp

The United States of Department of Education (2005) states “adults with higher levels of education are more likely to find higher paying jobs and to say employed.” (US Department of Education, 2005). On average more women than men received higher education degrees in the year of 2004 which is attributed to minorities realizing they had to compete with men to find gainful employment. It is striking that a larger number of degrees were earned by the Black population though the Hispanic population was much larger.

U.S. Merits Systems Protection Board (2009) Retrieved February 21, 2010 from, http://mspb.gov/netsearch/viewdocs.aspx?docnumber=224104&version=224323&application=ACROBAT

The primary status of this board is to ensure there is no infringement of workers’ rights and personnel practices in which the board can adjudicate an employee over the Board’s jurisdiction. “A complete list of the matters over which the Board has been given jurisdiction is contained in section 1201.3 of Part 1201 of Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations (5 C.F.R. § 1201.3) (“U.S. Merits Systems Protection Board”).

Tremblay, M. (1998). A Study of the Determinants and of the Impact of Flexibility on Employee Benefit Satisfaction. Human Relations 51(5) p. 667-688.

“The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of individual characteristics and organizational justice on employee benefit satisfaction, and to explore the role of flexible benefit plans.” (Tremblay, 1998). Procedural justice was useful in making future predictions of employee satisfaction within the workplace.

Tremblay, M.  (2000). The Role of Organizational Justice in Pay and Employee Benefit Satisfaction, and its Effects on Work Attitudes. Group & Organization Management. 25, (3) p. 269-290.

Employees are well aware of comprehension between monetary compensation and how they gain from benefits offered by a company. It appears through research those procedural factors and clearly more indicative measures than justice measures to determine an employee’s satisfaction at work.