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  1. What are the advantages of choosing a host-country national staffing strategy?

The advantages to choosing a host country national is that they would most likely already be familiar with local customs, culture, language, laws, etiquette, etc. that someone from another country may not be familiar with.  They also wouldn’t need to go to the trouble of attaining a visa or any other type of documentation someone from another country would most likely need. The company also wouldn’t need to pay for any costs associated with relocating a person to another country

  1. Develop a compensation plan for each of the two countries, revising the current compensation for managers in the United States, if necessary. The compensation plan should include salary, benefits, and any fringe benefits to attract the most qualified people. The plan should also address any legal compensation requirements for both countries.

US : The compensation plan for the US managers seems to be competitive and not in need of any immediate changes. According to salary.com restaurant managers can earn in the range of 35-75 thousand dollars in salary. The 2% profit sharing is a great incentive for managers because the better the company performs, the more money they will earn from that.

UK: The base salary for the restaurant manager for Fish to Go in the UK should be somewhere around 33-35 thousand GBP, since the average salary for restaurant managers in the UK is 25k-46k according to glassdoor.com. With Bonuses and profit sharing with should be offered to managers in all countries,  that can pay out an extra 600-6k. Workers should also receive all medical benefits standard in UK. As well as 4 weeks vacation each year.

Mexico: In mexico the managers should receive somewhere around 460k MXN per year, as the salary ranges from 340,000-600,000 MXN per year , they would also receive the 2% profit sharing benefit that all managers receive as well as 4 weeks vacation.

  1. Develop an outline for a training plan, making reasonable assumptions about the information a new manager would need to know at Fish to Go.

A new manager at Fish and Go would need to know the following things, assuming they were hired in the host country,

  • Company practices, guidelines, and values
  • Product purchasing , maintaining, and management
  • Menu production and changes in menu based on location
  • Food, Workplace, and Employee safety training
  • Basic workplace training (cashier, etc) as well as any special equipment training
  • Customer service
  • Marketing
  • Making new hires

https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Restaurant_Manager/Salary

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/restaurant-manager-salary

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/london-restaurant-general-manager-salary-SRCH_IL.0,6_IM1035_KO7,33.htm

https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/manager-restaurant/mexico/mexico-city

Ethics Assignment

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There were a lot of great ideas and thoughts that were shared during the ethics debate that we had.  I had already had my own thoughts on this topic and also had done research on it a little like a couple weeks ago. I also enjoyed listening to the experience and thoughts of the professors mother because that also helped me to understand more of the whole situation. After the debate I pretty much just though that its a very complicated problem that was presented and there really isn’t any right or wrong answer as a couple of students stated during the debate, because you cant just make a blanket statement about what should be done by every parent, student, and teacher, because everyone’s situation is different.  At the end of the day I think that the option of both should be there because some parents may prefer their children stay home where its supposed to be more safe, and they can watch and help their children and make sure that they are learning well, whereas that may not be an option for other parents and they may want to send their children back to school so that they would receive the best education possible because they cant 100% be there at home. Its really just for whatever will get the child the best education possible, and for them to develop the skills necessary to succeed later on in life, because it is true that the earlier you develop certain skills, such as social, etc, the better you will be later on. During the debate it was brought up that maybe there can be some kind of mix of both online and in person learning and i think that might be a great idea because then you can get possibly the best of both worlds. Children need to develop their social skills early on in life and school is a huge part of that and if children aren’t going to school and meeting and interacting with new kids and adults and making new friends and having a good time, they can become more shy and that could hurt them in the long run. One thing that I thought were good things about online learning was that children are getting much more familiar with technology such as computers and are able to use them at very young ages now, which could really help them out later in life especially as the world gets more and more technologically advanced. Another positive that was brought up by Jaylen was that better teachers are available to all kids since with online learning the location barriers that would have previously prevented teachers from teaching in certain areas due to location are no longer there because it can just be over the computer from anywhere. In conclusion I think that a mix of both and the choice is most important, I think parents, teachers, and even kids, should decide for themselves what they would like to do, and the options should be available for whatever they want because teaching these kids is most important and we should be doing whatever we can in order to give these kids the best education they possibly can while keeping everyone safe and comfortable.

Regulatory Change

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As we have learned in this chapter of BUS-311, there are many different types of hazard and risk that can effect businesses in many different ways. Some risks have been around forever and will stay around forever, some risks are just being presented, and some are constantly changing.  Those are the risks that I think can have the worst effect on businesses, the ones that constantly change.  When researching I found that regulatory change is one of the top risks that companies are always thinking about.  Regulatory change is basically the way that regulatory requirements and oversight can lead to the disruption of businesses models and the companies ability to perform. This is from a website called corporatecomplianceinsights.com and they said “For example, shifts in regulations related to privacy, product development and approval, trade and tariff policies, the environment, social issues and broader governance expectations have been happening and continue to happen around the world, impacting any organization that wishes to do business both within and outside its home-country borders.” One big event that has caused a lot of regulatory change is the Covid-19 pandemic that has swept across our nation and the world.  Obviously we need to keep people healthy and safe and try to limit the spread of the infection, however this can and has been affecting businesses negatively as some business are forced to close or limit customers, especially small businesses that maybe don’t have the large pool of resources to fall back on that large corporations or other large businesses may have.  As some businesses are forced to close or to limit the amount of people that are allowed into their store, this regulatory change is definitely a new risk that every company is now facing. A business can take all of the appropriate measures and do everything that they can do to try and make their business safer and healthier when it comes to Covid-19 and limiting the spread, however even if the business themselves do everything in their power, they cant do anything about how other businesses decide to conduct themselves, and definitely don’t have power on how people themselves decide to act. So despite a company taking every step to make their store or business Covid safe, infected numbers in their area or their state can still rise, and therefore the government can decide to again change regulations or close down stores for a while.  We have already seen how regulations have changed a couple times during the pandemic and how that has affected businesses. Restaurants that I once went to are now closed down for good, meanwhile other places have just moved all their seating outdoors and seem to be doing okay. The new threats presented by Covid don’t really affect my current comfort at work since I don’t interact with anyone face to face other than coworkers and generally everyone is respectful and wears a mask when needed, etc, but regulatory change as a whole is something that constantly changing and evolving with the world and how people feel in general about things. Keeping up with the changing regulations can be and is a difficult thing for businesses to keep up with.  Other changes in regulations that are occurring are related to environmental worries, trade and tax policies, social issues, and the regulations relating to these are changing so businesses will need to adjust themselves accordingly.

 

https://www.paychex.com/articles/compliance/top-regulatory-issues

Top 10 Risks for 2020

https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/7671-regulatory-issues-changes.html

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/11/government-regulations.asp

The Benefits of IBM

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In our last couple of Units of class we have learned about compensation for employees and all the different ways that we, as employees can be paid for our work. The obvious one that comes to mind when we think of compensation is money. Of course money is extremely important for pretty much everything in the modern world and it is definitely a necessity, there are other ways that we can receive compensation for our efforts in the workplace. While there are companies that just give you money for the work that you do, some companies go above and beyond in terms of what they offer to their employees for their efforts. While researching companies for this assignment, one such company I found that seems to go above and beyond for their employees is IBM.

IBM, which stands for International Business Machines, is a multinational technology company. They sell computer hardware and software and they also do research and hold many different patents such as the ATM and the Hard Disk Drive.  I went to IBM’s website and headed over to the Benefits page where I found a brochure for all the benefits that IBM offers to its employees, and there are a lot. Companies are now trying to figure out ways to help out their employees not only with money but their careers and their lives as a whole.  I am just going to write out the names of the different chapters of the brochure just to show you how many different benefits there are, and remember these are only the chapter headings, so there are subdivisions of more benefits for each of these headings. The headings are: Healthcare Choices, Prescription Drug Benefits, Mental Health Benefits, Vision Choices, Dental Choices, Flexible Spending Accounts, Healthcare Coverage (after you leave IBM), Life and Disability Benefits, Capital Accumulation and Investment, Time off, Family and Personal Services, Covid-19 Support, Other IBM HR Programs, Career Development Programs, IBM Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs.

  So as you can see IBM offers a lot of different types of benefits. I am going to highlight just a few specific ones that I personally find appealing.  I am not even going to cover the healthcare options that IBM offers because there are just so many and I think so many people would appreciate the different options that IBM provides not only for you personally but for your family as well. Not only do they provide great healthcare while you work for them but they also will help you with your future healthcare needs after you stop working for them, at least for a certain period of time, and will also satisfy requirements of COBRA. Other benefits include legal assistance when needed, a 401(k) Plus Plan, Investment Opportunities, Stock Purchase Plans, and one that I think would help me is IBM MoneySmart.  IBM MoneySmart is a programs that provides financial education and planning which is designed to help their employees ‘get smart” about their personal finances. They also provide discounts at more than 80 other partners and Student Loan Refinancing.  Another one that may be appealing to soon to be parents is that they offer 12 weeks of paid Parental Bonding Leave for any and all parents of a newly born or newly adopted child.  There are so many more benefits that they offer that are really great as well and it would take way too long to talk about all of them.  I personally think I would take a small pay decrease if I was able to have access to all of these benefits, but at the same time I don’t need ALL of them. If there were any option to pick and choose which ones I do want and balance out salary and benefits, that would be ideal.

When researching whether or not these benefits pay off in the long run, I kind of encountered mixed results.  I found a couple articles stating that benefits such as these increase productivity and morale, while there were other research papers that stated that workers just wanted money and benefits didn’t really effect productivity of workers. There was one research paper I found, and I couldn’t read most of these research papers without paying money or doing some long process, but I was able to read the abstracts.  One paper stated in the abstract “employee benefit programs have greater impact on work‐motivation than on productivity; monetary benefit programs are most highly valued by both executives and workers; there is a cognitive gap between management and worker on the importance of employee benefit programs; different genders have different benefit demands; unmarried employees, more than married employees, perceive that employee benefits have a greater impact on job performance. Employees with different education levels and positions perceive different employee benefit impacts; and employee benefit programs have greater influence on younger employees′ job performance.” Basically that different people have different needs, and different benefits will effect people differently based on what they want and need. I think that there are a lot of people who would appreciate benefits when offered to them, but may not need them and just prefer a higher salary.  I definitely think benefits are important for motivation, but I think if its going to be sustainable the employees needs to make the choice for themselves about what they want and what will make them work harder and better.

 

Sources:

Ajose, B. (n.d.). Employee benefit and its effect on employee productivity. Retrieved April 11, 2021, from https://www.academia.edu/25932687/employee_benefit_and_its_effect_on_employee_productivity

Hong, J., Yang, S., Wang, L., Chiou, E., Su, F., & Huang, S. (1995, December 01). Impact of employee benefits on work motivation and productivity. Retrieved April 11, 2021, from https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/09556219510098064/full/html

IBM benefits. (2021, February 09). Retrieved April 11, 2021, from https://www.ibm.com/us-en/employment/benefits/

Oden, P., By, P., & Oden, C. (2018, May 07). Employee benefits and its effect on employee productivity. Retrieved April 11, 2021, from https://www.projecttopics.org/employee-benefits-and-its-effect-on-employee-productivity.html

IBM BENEFITS BROCHURE : https://www.ibm.com/us-en/employment/benefits/assets/2021_IBM_Benefits_and_HR_Programs_Summary_v2.pdf

 

Retention Assignment

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  • What do you think is the most demotivating part of Harper’s job?

I think what is making Harper want to leave the most, is the extra workload she is doing and the fact that she is not getting recognized for the extra work that she is doing.  When her old boss left and she took on the extra responsibilities, it seems they put those on her without any other incentives or bonuses for that work. What’s more is that her new boss doesn’t seem to meet with her or at least doesn’t seem to talk to her about her workload and what he can do to help.

  • If you were an HR manager meeting with Harper’s supervisor, David, what advice would you give to help them re-engage Harper?

I would say that he should sit down with Harper and have a good and open discussion about Harpers workload and the responsibilities she has. She needs her work to be clear and defined. I think if they are going to give her more work, then they should either A) Promote her to Joses old job and hire someone for her position. That would get someone in the missing position and also decrease her workload and hopefully make her happy with where she is. Also she is somewhat familiar with the job, and is definitely familiar with her old job, so she would be able to be very helpful to the new employee that takes her old position. or B) Fill Joses job with another person, and get Harper back to the same workload she was happy doing, also should make sure that whoever fills Joses Job is a good communicator and will tell Harper what needs to be done clearly.

  • What would be the downside of losing Harper as an employee?

Well according to the case study, Harper loves what she does at the company. So losing an employee at your company who loves what they do is always going to be a downside for the company since now you just lost an employee who probably does really good work since they love what they do. Not only that but now it will cost them money to find, hire, and train a new employee if Harper leaves, and they may not even get an employee that loves the work as much as Harper does.

16 Personalities Test

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Miko Nourieli
Professor Buckler
Bus 311 – 1801
3/5/2021
16 Personalities – INFP-T (My Code)

I actually had taken this test a couple days before the assignment was assigned, because my friend had taken it and was interested in what he got and told me I should do it, so i did. After taking the test, they had determined that my personality type was a Turbulent Mediator, my role is a Diplomat, and my strategy is Constant Improvement. After reading up a bit about each of these, I found myself pretty much agreeing with where I was placed, although there were some areas where I felt I was just a bit misplaced.

So as described by the website, Mediators may seem shy or quiet but can lead passionate and lively personal lives. They also say that since these people are a small amount of the population, they can often feel misunderstood or out of touch with the world. I definitely agree with that because I do often feel misunderstood and I also feel out of touch with the modern world because even though I use things such as computers and my smartphone, I don’t necessarily understand or even like things like social media or politics. They also say that Mediators value authenticity, empathy and harmony and they tend to act with the best of intentions. I also agree with this because I do try to act with the best of intentions whenever I do something, even though it doesn’t always work out or may not seem that way on the outside, and I do find it important to be honest and a bit empathic. I really liked a quote they used at the end of the article about Mediators because I agree with it a lot : “Although they know the world will never be perfect, Mediators still care about making it better however they can.”

The assigned strengths to my personality type are as follows, thoughtful, generous, open minded, creative, passionate, loyal to their values. I think that these are mostly right because I do care about others feelings, even people I have never seen or met. I often find myself thinking about what another person is thinking about, and I also think about whether or not my actions will cause someone harm or pain and I try to avoid doing that. I do like to think of myself as pretty generous especially when it comes to money. I don’t care about the amount of money I have, and for the longest time I didn’t even have a bank account because I really did not care. Of course I had to get one when I started working and stuff because the entire world runs on money and banks so if you can’t beat them, join them right. The open-minded strength is VERY true. I think everyone should be able to live their lives the way that they want as long as they are not hurting anyone else. I am very tolerant of other people’s beliefs and lifestyles because everyone deserves the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Next, the assigned weaknesses are overly idealistic, self critical, impractical, emotionally driven, conflict averse, difficult to get to know. I definitely agree with the first 2, and they kind of go hand in hand with each other as well. I can be overly idealistic to where I think about things and think about how amazing they can be when in reality, its not so much. I think all the time about how the world can be such a beautiful place and how it can be better for so many people when I know in reality, the world IS beautiful but it is also harsh, unforgiving, difficult, and a lot of people are suffering. That then plays into the self critical aspect, because when I overly idealize things, not just the whole world, and then they end up being not so great, I disappoint myself and can be hard on myself when I don’t need to be. The other weaknesses are somewhat accurate but one that I don’t think is accurate is difficult to get to know. Now I could be wrong about myself but I think that I am not difficult to get to know because I do like to talk to people and make friends, and while it doesn’t happen often, I think if someone is trying to get to know me, they can.

I think they can be effective ways for determining if someone is right for a role but at the same time they should not be the only determination. The personality tests can shed some light on how a person is and how they think and feel but it’s just a website that is determining this. The website may say one thing but if you actually look at the person, they may act completely different or think different in some way and you would have never gotten that if you only listen to the test. The test can be effective at getting glimpses of someone but it does not show the whole picture.

LinkedIn Assignment

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I enjoyed the class with Annie and Tiffany because I learned a few new strategies and ideas about how to apply for jobs, make yourself a more appealing candidate, and how to better make a resume/linkedin profile.
I thought one of the really good pieces of advice was from Tiffany I believe, when she said that you should write down everything you do at your job from start to finish and then just pick out the things you do that would fit well on a resume or on your linkedin profile.
I think thats extremely smart becuase its true that most people sell themselves short about what they CAN do. I know I do, and this exercise helps me to find more things that I actually can do.
Another good piece of advice was similar but it was basically just that you should always say what you CAN do and never say what you CANT do. You should also say that you can learn or are willing to learn something you cant do. This is very helpful as well for obvious reasons. Its detrimental to you if you say you cant do certain things.

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On The Basis of Sex

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Miko Nourieli Feb 7, 2021

Bus 311 Brielle Buckler

On the Basis of Sex

Everyone deserves to be who they want to be. I believe that, and so did Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Humans are extremely complex creatures and everyone has different beliefs, interests, skills, abilities, likes, dislikes. People can be very different from each other but at the same time we are all the same. We are all stuck here on this rock floating through space circling a giant ball of fire and plasma, meanwhile for years and years we have discriminated against other human beings just because of what they look like, who they are, or where they are from. Since I am a seemingly white male (I say seemingly because my skin is white, although my father is from the Middle East and my mother is puerto rican), I do get certain ‘benefits’ for being white because there are still people to this day who judge and characterize people solely based on the color of their skin and prefer to associate themselves with people who are of a certain skin tone or color. This is obviously terrible because there are so many different humans that someone like that is just missing out on interacting with and talking to and possibly learning something from. I love speaking to anyone I can about anything I can because I always like to hear new ideas and hear different ideas from mine so that I can learn from them and myself about how to be a better person. I think its very important for people to speak with each other and treat others with respect no matter what a person’s beliefs, their race, their sex, any of that. Today the country is so extremely divided that it’s really sad and makes me very upset. No matter where you are on the political spectrum you must agree that the country being so divided doesn’t help anyone, and only makes it worse for everyone. I think we all need to start treating people with respect and actually listen to them and their ideas no matter how ridiculous(Ruth Bader Gunsburgs were ridiculous to some people during that time), and maybe provide ways they can improve in a respectful manner. Equal Rights legislation has made it so that people can be in the career and industry that they want to be in. Of course theres still some way to go in terms of pay gaps and sexual harassment in the workplace and things like that but those are also very complicated problems that we need deal with reasonably. I thought It was really powerful when in the last part of the court case when Ruth Bader Ginsburg said “100 years ago, I would not have the right to stand before you”. That’s just crazy, I couldn’t even imagine myself being a lawyer, it’s just something that I wouldn’t be good at, I’m a terrible debater and even worse when there is someone debating against me and proving me wrong, but I still have the choice. If I wanted to I could start law school today and work really hard to become a lawyer, and that’s the point. People should just be able to choose what they want to do, if a man wants to become a nurse, let him. If a woman wants to fight for her country just like thousands of men before her, she should be able to do that. Luckily today we have those options, men can be in traditionally women dominated fields and vice versa. I think all it does is give us better doctors, soldiers, lawyers, engineers, nurses, scientists.  Wouldn’t someone do their job better if they actually enjoyed what they were doing and wanted to do it. We all need to start treating each other with respect and love and not hate or anger.