HRM_ASSIGNMENT 5

Downsizing is a commonly used euphemism which refers to reducing the overall size and operating costs of a company, most directly through a reduction in the total number of employees. When the market is tight, downsizing is extremely common, as companies fight to survive in a hostile climate while competing with other companies in the same sector. For employees, downsizing can be very unnerving and upsetting.

Donwsizing discussion....

ANSUICO COMPANY

ANSUICO, INC. is a trucking company based in Davao City, Philippines. From its humble
beginning in 1953, servicing only the cities of Davao and Cagayan de Oro, ANSUICO INC.
has expanded significantly into a nationwide network and has in fact been awarded as
the Most Outstanding Trucker in Mindanao, Philippines.
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It is a successful family-owned trucking company with over 50 years of trucking
experience, providing a reliable, dependable & quality service at competitive prices
and maintaining high standards for service & customers satisfaction, throughout the
Philippines.

-->Our trucking company started in 1953 when IRINEO S. ANSALDO and his brother in-law PEDRO C. SUICO bought the first truck with a price of one peso (Php 1.00) to Smith Bell & Co. Ltd, which was their former employer. The truck was partially damaged by a fire and it was being rebuilt and completed with conglomeration of American and Japanese parts assembly. Our first client was the former owner of the truck itself (Smith Bell & Co., Ltd) at Daliao, Toril, Davao City.

-->Barely a year we acquired the third unit a heavier capacity model which was equipped with a Buda Diesel Engine (which was later replaced with Cummins Engine). With only one unit delegated to Coca-Cola Bottling to deliver their products to Cotabato area, we observed that our operation was not to be as promising, than if we operate more bigger units.

http://www.ansuico.com/

LGU OF TAGUM CITY

Tagum City, the capital of the province of Davao del Norte was officially created into a component city on March 7, 1998. Situated 55 kilometers north of Davao City, it is one of the fastest growing cities in Region XI. It has a total land area of 19,580 hectares. In a study conducted by the Asian Institute of Management, Tagum was ranked among the 20 most viable component cities to do business in the country.

-->The real property taxation in the Philippines was formerly instituted in the year 1901 during the American regime. Consequently, on January 31,1901, Act No. 82 (Municipal Code) was enacted by the Philippines Commission to organize and authorize the Municipal Government of the Philippines to levy ad valorem tax. It is where real property taxation in the Philippines was first formally implemented.

-->Series of assessment laws was legislated and amended to improve the taxation system until the enactment of the New Society on September 21, 1972 when Pres. Marcos issued Proclamation 1081 "Proclaiming a State of Martial Law in the Philippines". Several changes and reforms in the Real Property Tax Administration were instituted under PD#76, which was promulgated on December 6,1972 to correct the defects in real property assessment and taxation in the Philippines.

On May 20,1974, PD 464 was promulgated to upgrade the assessment techniques, procedures and practices in order to:

a) Bring about equitable distribution of the real tax burden among real property owners through out the country.
b) Fully tap the income potentialities of the real property tax, to make local government:

Financially self-reliant;
Capable of contributing their proportionate shares to the barangay, municipal and province;
Underwrite basic essential public services within their area of responsibility.

Consequently, due to the enactment of Republic Act 7160, otherwise known as " The Local Government Code of 1991", PD 464 was superseded by the new provisions and fundamental principles of the said code. All laws governing Real Property Tax Administration is now governed by the aforementioned Republic Act.

http://www.tagumcity.gov.ph/

-->Lacking of financial support
If there is a shortage of financial assesstments causes are:
*delayed of task and work.
*services will breakdown.
*possible problems may happen.
*etc.

HRM_ASSIGNMENT 9

Interview a personnel/human resource manager on his concept on the nature, scope and role of human resource management. Do you agree with him? Explain. Is his concept similar to that of the management of his organization? If not, ask him how the differences are settled. (1500 words)

Short-live discussion....

In justifying this view, I had interview an HRM personnel and act as the head of the HRM department in the LGU of Tagum city. Due to the fact that the Human Resource was built through the idea of protecting and giving the right benefits among its people and especially conerning the employees.

Now, the appoint question is?
What could be her concept on the nature, scope and the role of the human resource in the management?

She just siplmy answer "Of cource to the whole functions of the management and especially to give the suitable benifits among our employees."

Why?
Because subdue to the task and duties of the office, we are reliable enough in giving the proper benefits to out employees and among the people living here in the tagum specifically and maybe the other HR department in different sectors will do the right thing.

In this role, the HR management served executive agendas well, but was frequently viewed as a road block by much of the rest of the organization. While some need for this role occasionally remains — you wouldn’t want every manager putting his own spin on a sexual harassment policy, as an example — much of the HR role is transforming itself.

In addition, the role of the HR mangement must parallel the needs of his or her changing organization. Successful organizations are becoming more adaptive, resilient, quick to change direction and customer-centered. Within this environment, the HR professional, who is considered necessary by line managers, is a strategic partner, an employee sponsor or advocate and a change mentor.

Continue with the conversation she added the:

Employee Advocate

As an employee sponsor or advocate, the HR manager plays an integral role in organizational success via his knowledge about and advocacy of people. This advocacy includes expertise in how to create a work environment in which people will choose to be motivated, contributing, and happy.

Fostering effective methods of goal setting, communication and empowerment through responsibility, builds employee ownership of the organization. The HR professional helps establish the organizational culture and climate in which people have the competency, concern and commitment to serve customers well.

In this role, the HR manager provides employee development opportunities, employee assistance programs, gainsharing and profit-sharing strategies, organization development interventions, due process approaches to problem solving and regularly scheduled communication opportunities.

Through this discussion and brief orientation, I can agree with her, because as what Human Resource Management intended to be and then it will actually acted and mandated among peoples rights and benefits.

Discussion ended....
thank you..!

HRM_ASSIGNMENT 8

On the assumption that you heard/read the SONA of the President last month (July 2009), identify at least 3 areas related to Human Resource Mangement and explain how these areas can improve our quality of life. (2000words)

Here are the sample areas related to the Human Resource Management...


On Reforms....

-->Our reforms gave us the resources to protect our people, our financial system and our economy from the worst of shocks that the best in the west failed to anticipate.
They gave us the resources to extend welfare support and enhance spending power.

As a nation, country's people was the one of its responsible resourcesto uplift the goals and develpment of a country.
So by those reforms proclaimed, it is really a big help and hope for those people who wants change and improvement of the country in the near future.

On microfinance loans.....

"Nakinabang ang pitong milyong entrepreneurs sa P165 billion na microfinance loans."

"Nakinabang ang sandaan libo sa emergency employment ng ating economic resiliency plan. Kasama natin ngayon ang isa sa kanila, si Gigi Gabiola. Dating household service worker sa Dubai, ngayon siya ay nagtatrabaho sa DOLE."

Nakinabang ang isang milyong pamilya sa programang pabahay at palupa, mula Pag-Ibig, NHA, community mortgage program, certificates of lot award, at saka iyong loan condonation."

Considering that a family was the foundation unit of a country's deveploment. Without a family, economic stability will not step up and debelop as expected to be. Hoping that this microfinance will be a benefit for the family and for all the people.

On Proper policies lowered interest rates...

Proper policies lowered interest rates, which lowered costs to business and consumers.
"—anticipating an unexpected global food crisis. Nakagawa tayo ng libu-libong kilometro ng farm-to-market roads at, kasama ng pribadong sector, natubigan ang dalawang milyong ektarya. Mga Badjao gaya ni Tarnati Dannawi ay tinuruan ng modernong mariculture. Umabot na sa P 180,000 ang kinita niya mula noong nakaraang taon. Congratulations, Tarnati. We will help more fisherfolk shift to fish farming with a budget of P1 billion."

On the market grows economies. A free market, not a free-for-all...

To that end, we improved our banking system to complement its inherent conservatism. The Bangko Sentral has been prudent. Thank you, Governor Tetangco, for being so effective. The BSP will be even more effective if Congress will amend its Charter.

We worked on the Special Purpose Vehicle Act, reducing non-performing loans from 18% to 4% and improving loan-deposit ratios.

Our new Securitization Law did not encourage the recklessness that brought down giant banks and insurance companies elsewhere and laid their economies to waste. In fact, it monitors and regulates the new-fangled financial schemes. Thank you, Congress.

We will work to increase tax effort through improved collections and new sin taxes to further our capacity to reduce poverty and pursue growth. Revenue enhancement must come from the Department of Finance plugging leaks and catching tax and customs cheats. I call on tax paying citizens and tax paying businesses, help the BIR and stop those tax cheats.

With this new policies and interest rates implemented by the government, people willl enjoy their rights and duties, crimes and other restricted doings will lessen and of course many people can start a new business and living through the help of loans by the provision of the authorized and trusted banks and associations.

Reference:
http://jlp-law.com/blog/state-of-the-nation-address-sona-2009/

MIS_ASSIGNMENT 9

Subject: Assignment 9 (Due: Septemeber 7, 2009, 13:00hrs) Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:23 pm Reply with quote
Identify an information environment of your choice and write an essay to address the following questions: (3000 words)

• What should be your role within this environment?
• How can the principles of information organization and representation help you in performing this role?
• What are the challenges facing you in performing the role? How will you address these challenges?

Short-live discussion....

The world economy is currently dominated by information and communication technology and has consequently increasingly competitive and globalised. The changing economy also impacts on our living and working environment.
Now, What should be the role in everyone of us?

Dealing with different people its not a denial that many says"Hmmm.. Ahh IT student jai ka!"
subdue to this individuals perception..he continue say." Owzz.. you know that you can be a great contributor for our country's progress pertaining that technology was fast rising right now.."

And then I just keep on thinking..."Maybe?!But How?!"

According to my research there are 6 Pirnciples and Processes of Information Organization that affects the environment socially and physically and this are the following:

Topic-6: Principles and Processes of Information Organization

* Understand the key principles of information organization
1. Communities
2. User orientation
3. Standardization and networking
* Understand the key processes of information organization
4. Selection and evaluation
5. Organization
6. De-selection
Reference:
http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/raja/is206/topic-6.htm

Vowing wtih this given and justified principles and processes, it will serve as a guide to acting individuals which liable in any responsibelities and duties among its nature.

As an IT student, in my own notion there will be no compolsory principles and processes to be followed because the most important is, if you are liable and aware in everything that happen. Of course you had the power to take a big part inorder to solve any porblems. For example, the unended issue of corruption and cheatinns in our government that our country facing right now and then.

In my part as An IT student, I can use the power that I have learn, specifically by the direct communication among the other youth for today through the use of the internet. By this, maybe the ignorant minds and sleeping thought of many people rught now are becoming aware and will do the right action for our own good and especially to save our motherland.

As popularly say..."AKO MISMO"

MIS_ASSIGNMENT 8

Given a chance, between the two positions, I would like to take the position coming from the insourcing of the IT/IS functions within the school’s concern

Why?

It’s because as far as I observe, I don’t know think that the school was more adoptive on the productivity in terms of insourcing the IT/IS.
So before we go beyond to the climax of the discussion, let’s take this factual views and analysis about the insource and the oiutsource of the IS/IT functions.

INSOURCE
The opposite of outsource; meaning this is one job you can't find someone else foolish enough to do, or you can't find someone competent enough to do it with the kind of money and credibility you have available so you're just going to have to do it yourself. Revenues were down, investors were jittery, so the dotcom startup had to insource its janitorial services.

The profligate wife had gained a few pounds and so was compelled to insource her ways and means of satisfaction.

OUTSOURCE
An easy method for corporations to maximize their profits and avoid the unions at the same time. Basically, it involves moving one's business to another part of the world where people will willingly under slave like conditions and for 1/10 the pay of a Poverty-Class American worker.

See outsource and globalization for more definitions.
Outsourcing is creating a major economic boom, but piss-poor levels of domestic job growth because the Third World has all the employees the corporations need.

Pertaining to the views stated, let now discuss the insourcing of the IT/IS functions:

INSOURCING is the advantageous use of resources, functions and capabilities in conjunction with Managed Services to offer a complete solution to clients' every IT need. Unlike traditional information technology outsourcing.
Insourcing requires intimate knowledge of the client's business, the clients' clients and the vendors' businesses as well as how they all interact together..

Insourcing is a highly recommended resource for small and regionally based companies and other infrastructures. In the past, resources and infrastructures now available through insourcing were uneconomical for small and regionally based companies. Now, these companies as well as the schools can dramatically increase their efficiency, seeming larger and lowering barriers to success with access to the latest technology and the skill set to successfully implement it.

Conversely, due to improvements in efficiencies, insourcing also enables large companies to seem small through increasing responsiveness and flexibility.

Why Insource IT Services?

Insourcing is more than staff augmentation or third party managed services. This direct extension acts on the client's behalf with vendors, customers and shareholders. By insourcing, clients can gain expanded and higher quality services at lower cost than hiring internal, dedicated IT staff.

Advantages to Insourcing IT Services

Insourcing gives clients access to the best resources available, but only when they need them. It levels the playing field with larger competitors by removing or lowering efficiency barriers gleaned by those that can afford to implement necessary business IT systems. Additionally, insourcing IT services means that our clients' information systems are "firm dependent" rather than "person dependent" and that makes our clients less vulnerable and more secure.

Why IT insourcing appears to be on the upswing

Insourcing has been attractive in the past for businesses in the throes of change, but market conditions are ripe these days as well. The economic recession and the scandal at IT outsourcing firm Satyam Computer Services Ltd. have led some companies to renegotiate lower prices in exchange for more flexibility in how outsourcers complete the work.

These same factors are also causing companies to look in-house to see if internal staff could do the work for even less money or greater benefits than a renegotiated outsourcing contract could provide. A company's decisions should largely depend on whether the right labor is located in its geographic marketplace. "If the labor's not there, you could get into a pretty high-cost game," Trowbridge said. "The question is, is it more efficient?"

Rice said that good candidates for insourcing are smaller, auxiliary services that affect the external perception of the business. Whenever renewing an outsourcing contract, "it's certainly worth a conversation" whether to bring the work in-house, Rice said.

Trowbridge advises companies to benchmark prices in the market before making any decisions.

"Look at what you would spend to do it yourself, and make a good, measured decision based on this," Trowbridge said.

The benefits of IT insourcing

IT insourcing, or bringing previously outsourced IT functions back in-house, is on the rise, experts say. Insourcing benefits include job generation and cost savings.

REMARKS:

If your work involves production, then it would be more ideal for your organization to opt for insourcing, as you can save on transportation costs and exercise a better control over your project.

It is not necessary to choose outsourcing over insourcing or vice versa. Your organization can outsource and insource at the same time. By outsourcing and insourcing simultaneously, you can have the best of what both offers and your business can get a competitive advantage!

HRM_ASSIGNMENT 7

Human, define as a rational life form and denoted with intellect and will, it’s
not a deny why we are considered as superior and powerful among other living creatures.

Our existence are designed for a special purpose, sent unto the world to complete
a certain part of a prophecy. Either, this prophecy meant to be bad or good, depending on the actual performance of an individual.

It is what unites us all—being human. Yet as technology advances in our culture, it also begins to redefine what it means to be human—and the debate over the definition of life becomes more pressing. The discussion below touches on the aspects of our culture and on all phases of our lives from birth to death, and everything in between.

- "Human beings are the most important, potent and critical, resource of any organization…………if he or she possessed these values.

*Self-acceptance
There are certain things on earth that you are not capable to do and limitations pf what you can do and cannot. Always remember that we are merely invented and programmed in a way we are useful to be.

*Respect
If you want to be respected, then you must respect others right and then you must not ashamed of yourself. We can be worthy enough in what we are standing for the right.

*Choose the right field of specialization
Be a master of a talent which you think are the best suits for you, to improve more your capabilities and competent enough globally.

-and yet the least understood and the worst managed of its resources”.

On the other hand, human can be a burden among people and its resources. Why?
Facing to the reality, mostly people, specially the youth ones are acting some irregularities that affects tremendously its nature of living and abusiveness within there selves. These foolish things look them a jerk and a walking trash.

So avoid acts that will put negative marks on your existence, or not misuse yourself with virus that could kill your organs and future successions in life, because the worst in yourselves can be the worst on your resources.

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HRM_ASSIGNMENT 6

Change has always been a challenge, but as the speed of change increased in recent years, so has the difficulty of managing it. Existence of new studies concluded the gap between expected change and the ability of corporations to manage, evolve and develop for the 21st century may come.

“Nothing is permanent in this world except change”.

This statement is very true, as I do believe that everything could change.
I think, the features of the corporations in the near 21st century would look like a lofty and gigantic buildings that are more capable for the usage of highly-technological trends, devices and infrastructures within a digital firm.

Transactions in a corporation will be vastly advanced and more convenient in terms of delivery, productions, and distribution among different users and creditors.

Through the existence of highly generated technologies, corporations would be competent in the fields of:

*Dealing with this rapid evolution, the enterprise of the future must be globally integrated.

*Disruptive by nature.

*Hungry for change and able to innovate beyond customer imaginations.

*Rethinking of existing business models, changing pricing structures and “reshaping the way their industry conducts business,” all fueled by the disruptive power of the Internet.

21 century corporations may comprises this some ideals:

*The Great Transformation
-New technology, particularly the Internet, is reshaping the world's business terrain. Now, corporations need a whole new set of rules.

*The New Leadership
-The accelerated pace and complexity of business will bring dramatic changes in the corporate hierarchy.

*Architectural Visions
-A look at offices that might have been. Plus, two award-winning architecture firms imagine the 21st century environment in photo essays.

*The Corporate Ecosystem
-The old boundaries--between public and private, foreign and domestic, friend and foe--are blurring. The effect will be liberating

*Back to the Future
-Globalization presents a formidable challenge--but if the history of the last century is any guide, the corporation will endure

According to business experts:

“We stand today at an historical moment. Many aspects of the global economy are out of synch with 21st century imperatives. While the character of corporations that produce needed goods and services—the “real economy”—is undergoing intense change, the “financial economy” is fueled more by money shuffling than by long-term wealth creation. The current global financial crisis has exposed a system of untenable leverage and speculative behavior that has left the real economy dangerously short of affordable, reliable and timely capital to meet its investment and operating needs. The result: an erosion of prospects for the creation and prosperity of sustainable companies to meet the pressing social and environmental challenges in the coming decades.”

“When it comes to the merely future development, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”
So, we as a mankind, especially to the youths of the contemporary generation, we are capable enough for what we ought to be and to be something in the near future.
Then, whatever our apparitions, wt the end we hold the responsibilities and power to cater and gratify the 21st century would look like to be.

REMARKS:

The growing fluidity of vital business relationships will require constant vigilance and improvisation by all concerned. Like it or not, corporations also will assume a larger role in education and other public-sector preserves, taking over tasks that government either is unwilling or unable to do itself.