EOC Week 10: Evaluations

This week I will be talking about evaluations in the work place. Have you ever been evaluated at work? Was it helpful or was it pointless? What is a performance evaluation? Performance Evaluation is a constructive process to acknowledge the performance of a non-probationary career employee. An employee's evaluation shall be sufficiently specific to inform and guide the employee in the performance of her/his duties. Through experience I have one really ever been evaluated once in the work place. This was with my first job at Ppopcornnopolis. Every year the company does performance evaluations that could lead to a raise if the evaluation was a great one. When my review came up, there were two parts to this evaluation. The first part was that we had to review ourselves and the second one was that our general manager, assistant manager and shift manager all had to review each employee. Since we were a close, tight-niche family we all got to see our reviews before it was sent to upper management and corporate. I learned where my strengths were, which were creating new deserts and were my abilities could improve one, which was keeping a clean station. The review itself was helpful, hearing the feedback from my management team was very insightful and I actually learned a lot and improved on all aspect of it. The review in general for corporate though was useless and a waste of time, since they never gave anyone a raise, but at the end of the day I feel like it is something that everyone should experience, so they can improve on their work skills and grow from it.

EOC Week 9: Sexual Harassment and the NFL

There has been a lot of talk about the NFL and the incident over the Ray Rice issue with his wife. Ray rice was put on suspension for two games for video footage showing Mr. Rice dragging his fiancée out of an elevator like it was nothing but trash. When the video was leaked he was on a two game suspension. Well recently the footage of how and why he drags his fiancée, now wife, out of the elevator was leaked. It was then that the NFL took action and suspended Ray Rice indefinitely from the Ravens and the NFL all together. The NFL goes to great lengths to preserve the image and integrity of the game, whether it's personal conduct or protecting competitive balance. The question is, should the NFL be able to fire someone for doing something wrongfully in their personal life if it had nothing to do with the workplace. Everyone is allowed their own opinion and mine is yes, I do feel that the NFL should take affirmative actions. One of the main things that I support the decision of the NFL is the personal conduct policy. In the policy it states:  While criminal activity is clearly outside the scope of permissible conduct, and persons who engage in criminal activity will be subject to discipline, the standard of conduct for persons employed in the NFL is considerably higher. It is not enough simply to avoid being found guilty of a crime. Instead, as an employee of the NFL or a member club, you are held to a higher standard and expected to conduct yourself in a way that is responsible, promotes the values upon which the League is based, and is lawful. There was that press conference where the Ravens paraded Rice and his wife in front of cameras and had them read a canned apology. Here's what he said Thursday after the suspension was announced: As I said earlier, I failed in many ways. But, Janay and I have learned from this. We have become better as a couple and as parents. I am better because of everything we have experienced since that night.

EOC Week 8: The Power Behind The Throne

This week I watched the movie called 9 to 5. This movie is not only a comedy but is a very realistic to what "secretaries want to kill their boss”. Some of the HR issues that took part in the movie were that, the 3 main women Judy Bernly (played by Jane Fonda), Violet Newstead (played by Lily Tomlin) and Doralee Rhodes (played by Dolly Parton) where being harassed by their boss Franklin Hart Jr.(played by Dabney Coleman) in different ways. Violet was being constantly shut down by her boss, giving her promotion to someone else even though it was clearly meant for her and pretty much using her for her talents, making him sexist towards women. Franklin Hart was sexually harassing Doralee and her coworkers were starting to act weird around her because Franklin would tell everyone that they were sleeping together. As for Judy is a naïve new employee, Violet trains Judy and introduces her to the department executive, Franklin Hart, Jr. who immediately reveals himself to be arrogant and sexist. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws discrimination in employment in any business on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Title VII also prohibits retaliation against employees who oppose such unlawful discrimination. One thing that also got my attention was the when Judy met the mail guy he said that no one ever advances and that you’re pretty much doomed to begin with. Internal search: A promotion-from-within approach that is utilized when seeking qualified job applicants. Applied properly, a promote-from-within approach can be very effective. If, for example, when seeking a rooms inspector, an executive housekeeper conducting the search felt that the best job candidates would be found among the hotel's current room attendants (or other current hotel employees), an internal search could prove to be very effective. After some time the women became enraged and eventually having to kidnap their boss. Resulting the three women changing the office space around, providing things that real woman that works a 9 to 5 jobs wish they had and didn’t have in a real office. This concluded to a 20 percent growth rate on the worker showing up to their jobs and actually working hard.  By Changing labor conditions include a shrinking labor force, lagging wage rates, industry reputation issues, and emphasis on training can lead to employee satisfaction.