Problem: Companies are facing problems concerning the attraction and retention of talented employees, due to the shortage of individuals with competence. Employer Branding is a relatively new concept that can function as an instrument for firms to position themselves as an employer, in order to attract and retain wanted employees. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the field of Employer Branding in the context of recruitment and retaining. The study examines the questions of how and why Employer Branding is implemented in firms and what role such implementation plays in Human Resource Management, in the context of recruitment and retaining processes. Methodology: This study has been made with a qualitative approach, with a descriptive and exploratory purpose a case study approach. Data has primarily been collected through interviews at five different companies with knowledge within the area of Employer Branding. Findings: Employer Branding can be utilized both externally to attract potential employees, and internally to increase commitment and loyalty among current employees. In the context of recruitment, Employer Branding can make the process more effective. For the Employer Brand to be trustworthy and successful the consistency between the internal values and the external image is vital.

The study examines the adherence to principled leadership styles by persons in position of authority and develops a method to determine the extent to which those people deviate from principled leadership practices for purpose of political expediency. Two fortune 500 companies, three smaller local companies and select Western Kentucky University faculty were surveyed using the MACH V Attitude Inventory for determining Machiavellian tendencies via an online survey site. An examination and evaluation of survey results yielded a surpirsingly consistent neutral score, but no indication of Machiavellian tendencies within the respondent group.

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

No description available.

Background and Problem: Human Resources are considered one of the most important assets when competing with other companies. There are a lot of studies made in general on the subject while studies considering a specific context are missing. To consider the context when adapting a HR-strategy is interesting as the structure of the organization and the environment affects both the organization and the individuals within it. To study how the controversial context affects an organization is particularly interesting as the context is subject for discussion in the society. Aim: The study's purpose is to investigate how Human Resources are handled in a controversial business and to identify success factors when adapting the strategy to the controversial context. Methodology: The study started out by collecting theories connected to the subject with Fombrun, Devanna & Tichys HR-cycle. Interview questions where made based on the theories and answered by three of the case company's employees, whom all are well familiar with the case company's HR-strategy. Conclusion: We have come to the conclusion that there are no remarkable differences when handling Human Resources in a controversial context then in earlier published theories. However the importance of an adjusted HR-strategy to best be able to handle the employees are proven. Some areas must be considered more important when adjusting the HR-strategy to the context. In these situation areas resulting in long-term relationships between the employee and the organization seems to be high valued.Key words: Human Resource, controversial context, gambling company and long-term relationships. / Bakgrund och Problem: Mänskliga resurser anses vara en av de viktigaste tillgångarna som leder till företagets konkurrensfördelar. Många studier har genomförts, främst i generella sammanhang. Men det saknas studier som tar hänsyn till en specifik kontext. Att ta hänsyn till hur en specifik kontext påverkar HR-arbetet är intressant eftersom att organisationens egen uppbyggnad samt omgivningen påverkar såväl organisationen som individerna vilka arbetar i den. Att undersöka hur den kontroversiella kontexten påverkar organisationen är extra intressant då den bidrar till diskussion i dagens samhälle. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur HR-arbetet fungerar i en kontroversiell verksamhet samt att identifiera framgångsfaktorer med utgångspunkt i anpassning till kontexten. Metod: Studien började med insamlande av teorier kopplade till ämnet med utgångspunkt i Fombrun, Devanna & Tichys HR-cykel. Med utgångspunkt i HR-cykeln formades intervjufrågor som sedan ställdes till tre av fallföretagets anställda. Dessa tre är välbekanta med organisationen HR-arbete. Slutsats: Genom studien har vi kommit fram till att det inte finns några markanta skillnader mellan hur HR-arbetet fungerar i en kontroversiell kontext och tidigare publicerade teorier. Däremot bevisas vikten av att anpassa sina HR-strategier för att på bästa sätt hantera sin personal. Från detta kan vi se att vissa områden anses viktigare än andra vid anpassning till kontexten. I denna situation verkar de områden vilka resulterar i långvariga relationer mellan organisationen och medarbetarna vara högt värderade.Nyckelord: Human Resources, kontroversiell kontext, spelföretag och långsiktiga relationer.

Detta är en kvalitativ studie som behandlar relationen mellan sociala medier och rekrytering, så kallad social rekrytering. Vi har genomfört intervjuer med personer från företag och offentliga organisationer kring deras användande av social rekrytering. Vi har även intervjuat fyra professionella aktörer som arbetar med sociala medier, kommunikation och human resources, med avsikten att få en djupare inblick i hur sociala medier bör och kan användas i rekryteringssammanhang. Vi kopplade våra intervjuresultat till teorier kring bland annat rekrytering, sociala medier och employer branding. Studiens frågeställningar berörde hur företagen och de offentliga organisationerna möter social rekrytering samt hur de använder social rekrytering idag. De professionella aktörerna besvarade frågor kring hur de ser på samspelet mellan rekrytering och sociala medier. Genom våra intervjuer kan vi se likheter mellan hur företagen och de offentliga organisationerna använder sociala medier. De professionella aktörerna ser stora möjligheter för sociala medier i samband med rekrytering.

Denna uppsats handlar om anställningsbarheten hos personalvetare, med fokus på informella kompetenser, i Sverige och Sydafrika. Studiens syfte var att utifrån ett arbetsgivarperspektiv undersöka vilka typer av kompetenser som gör personalvetare, vilkas yrke är att arbeta med personal- och arbetslivsfrågor på företags personalavdelningar, anställningsbara samt hur dessa typer av kompetenser värderas. Vidare var syftet att utreda om det råder en skillnad mellan svenska och sydafrikanska arbetsgivare vad gäller synen på ovanstående. Ur detta formulerades sedan fyra frågeställningar för att konkretisera syftet. Dessa syftade till att klargöra vilka typer av kompetenser som gör personalvetare anställningsbara i respektive land, hur kompetenserna värderades samt eventuella skillnader mellan länderna. Med anledning av att uppsatsen berör subjektiva bedömningar av vad som gör personalvetare anställningsbara, och att det empiriska materialet inhämtats från två länder med olika språk och kulturer, användes intervjuer som datainsamlingsmetod. Vidare har Lindelöws kompetensmodell med medföljande kompetensdefinitioner använts för intervjupersonernas värdering av kompetenser. Detta i form av en kompetensvärderingsuppgift vi låtit våra intervjupersoner göra. Empirin bestod således av resultatet från intervjuer - tre i vardera land - av personer vilka ansvarar för, eller är delaktiga i, rekryteringen av personalvetare på respektive företags personalavdelningar inom respektive land. Teorierna, med vars hjälp vi analyserade resultatet av intervjuerna, var Ellströms uppdelning av kompetensbegreppet, Keens uppdelning av kompetensbegreppet och Lindelöws kompetensmodell. Resultatet tyder på att de svenska arbetsgivarna fokuserar mycket på personalvetares värderingar, erfarenheter, motivationella och känslomässiga handlingsförutsättningar samt kunskaper och intellektuella färdigheter. De sydafrikanska arbetsgivarna fokuserar mer på hur personen passar in och kompletterar den befintliga gruppen. Dessutom värderade de erfarenhet, kunskaper samt intellektuella- och sociala färdigheter högt. Värderingen av kompetenserna visar på små skillnader mellan länderna. Skillnader i övrigt som går att utläsa är att de svenska arbetsgivarna värderar intellektuella färdigheter högre än de sydafrikanska och att de sydafrikanska arbetsgivarna efterfrågar ledarskapsförmågor aningen mer än de svenska.  De tydligaste skillnaderna ges i utryck av olika värderingar av enskilda kompetenser, det vill säga olikheter vad gäller intervjupersonernas kompetensrangordning. / This essay is about the employability of persons working with human resources (HR-person) in Sweden and South Africa, with a focus on informal competences. The purpose of the study was to examine what kind of skills that make HR-persons employable from anemployer´s perspective, and how these types of skills are valued. The purpose was furthermore to investigate whether there is a difference in the perception of the abovebetween Swedish and South African employers. Out of this, four questions were formulated in order to substantiate the purpose. The questions were intended to clarifywhat types of competences make HR-persons employable in the respective countries, to clarify how competences were valued and if there were any differences between the two countries. As the study involves subjective assessments of what makes HR-persons employable, and as the empirical material was gathered from two countries with differentlanguages and cultures, only interviews were used as a method for collecting data.Furthermore, the Lindelöw competence model and its enclosed definitions of competences have been used for the valuation of competences, made by the persons interviewed. The empirical data thus consisted of results from interviews - three in each country - with persons responsible for, or involved in, the recruitment of HR-persons in the companies´ human resources departments within each country. The theories used for analyzing our results from the interviews were Ellström´s division of the concept of competence, Keen´s division of the concept of competence and Lindelöw´s model of competences. The results indicate that the Swedish employers focus a lot on the HR-persons values, experiences, motivational and emotional reasons behind the certain actions as well as knowledge and intellectual skills. The South African employers were instead focusing more on how the person fits in and complements the existing group.Furthermore, they highly valued the experience, knowledge and intellectual and social skills. Certain minor differences can however be detected in valuation of specific competence. As a general note, it could also be perceived that the Swedish employers seem to value the intellectual skills higher than the South African, and the South Africanemployers have a slightly bigger demand for leadership abilities than the Swedish. The most obvious differences are the expression of different valuations of specificcompetences, the differences in the interviewees competence ranking. / Rapport 2011016

Nowadays most companies are now being faced with the reality that Corporate Social Responsibility is more than merely a fad. Drawing upon CSR, HR and stakeholder related theories this research aims to substantiate empirically by exploring HR¡¦s contribution to responsible leadership within corporations with the endeavor to explore to what extent Taiwanese companies have integrated CSR practices in their Human Resource Management policies and practices. Relying on the quantitative analysis of 82 questionnaires and qualitative analysis of interviews with CSR and HR executives from 3 corporations in Taiwan, an analysis of whether HR supporting functions towards employee training and development (CSR and General), employee wellbeing, employee engagement and CSR communication to employees contributed to the success of CSR programs. Findings of this research uncovered that companies pay due attention to employee training and development, employee wellbeing as well as employee engagement. The study also helped explain the existence of implicit CSR practices in Taiwanese firms suggesting that an inside-out approach to CSR communication exists in Taiwanese firms; most firms do not engage in philanthropic activities but are more akin to ensuring that they maintain a high level of employee work-life balance. The thesis concludes that the HR has the potential to dig deeper into the company levels and structures and identifying underlying definitional issues that may prevent or facilitate the success of CSR programs.

Finally, Taiwan was acceded into the World Trade Organization (WTO), opening up the gate for Taiwan to globalization. Therefore, businesses in Taiwan must brace for any challenges imposed by global competition caused by WTO. However, although globalization has created new opportunities in the international market, it will also give rise to increasingly intense competition for domestic market opportunities. Businesses must ponder and redefine how to stand up to an increasing number of competitors in the wake of globalization. This study was designed to investigate how multi-national businesses ¡V the vanguard of the international market ¡V use their sources of competition advantage, knowledge management and global layout strategy, as their chips to win over others in competing for international market share. This study also offers suggestions in this regard for multi-national businesses. After collecting and analyzing solid data, this study has come up with findings that follow: I. There exist no significant differences between business characteristics in the sources of competition advantage, knowledge management issue, global layout strategy, and the mechanism to implement knowledge management. II. There exists a significant positive correlation between each pair of these variables: the sources of competition advantage, knowledge management issue, global layout strategy, and the mechanism to implement knowledge management. III. Do such variables as the sources of competition advantage, knowledge management issue have predictive power for the mechanism to implement knowledge management and global layout strategy? 1. There exists significant influence between the sources of competition advantage and the mechanism to implement knowledge management. 2. There exists significant influence between knowledge management issue and the strategy of global layout. 3. There exists significant influence of knowledge management issue on the mechanism to implement knowledge management. IV. The sources of competition advantage, through the intermediate effect of knowledge management issue, can affect the strategy of global layout. V. The sources of competition advantage, through the intermediate effect of knowledge management issue, can affect the mechanism to implement knowledge management.

In the era of low-margin products, Taiwan¡¦s electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers, who produce communication, computers, and consumer electronics products, have become the most important partners to the most prominent international brand retailers. This is due to their premium cost advantages and superior efficiency in supply chain management through their global expansion and resourcing strategies. EMS providers¡¦ strong connections with component suppliers are another key factor contributing to their success. Following the EMS manufacturers¡¦ global expansion and resourcing strategies, the component suppliers have to set up factories in China, South East Asia, East Europe and Latin America. As these component suppliers are usually small- and medium-sized enterprises or are start-up businesses, their resources are not as abundant as the EMS manufacturers. As a result, it is more difficult and requires extra care when attempting to become globalized. As well, they normally have to learn as they proceed and this pertains to human capital, financial resources and the competency to operate globally This research is concern with human resources management. In other words, ¡§based on EMS manufacturers¡¦ global disposition strategy, how do the component suppliers develop their human resources to set up the factories globally.¡¨ This research defines human resources management as employment and development. This study utilizes the human resources development practices of the EMS manufacturers as the benchmark for component suppliers. As a result, two EMS manufacturers and one component supplier are chosen as objects of study. This shall help to generalize the principle practices used in human resources development of the EMS manufacturers and hopefully implications for component suppliers can be derived. The research is based on a case study. Three conclusions are generated from data collection and analyses: 1.With a prominent trend towards globalization, the human resources department of the EMS manufacturers has transformed its role from a conventional unit in charge of daily routine activities such as recruitment, training and promotion to a value-added one. 2.According to the human resources management philosophies adopted by different EMS manufacturers, the human resources acquisition strategy can be categorized into two types. The first type is a group with a higher commitment in human resources while the other does not have as much. The former group which has a higher commitment concentrates on internal training. This group prefers to train staffs by themselves and uses both physical and virtual training platforms. The latter group which has a lower commitment acquires staffs from the labor market directly and target in using the physical training platform. 3.In addition to evaluating the employees¡¦ capability, personality curves can also be developed during the recruiting process. Human resource development solely by physical platform is insufficient and it is essential to incorporate the electronic platform to enhance its effectiveness.