Term Paper on "Comcast Human Resources Inside"

Quoted Instructions for "Comcast Human Resources Inside" Assignment:

Descriptive Paper

The paper should address as many of the following Human Resource concerns as is relevant to the organization:

*****¢ What is the overall mission or purpose of the organization (not simply HR)?

*****¢ How big is the organization? How large is its service community or market and how many employees does it have?

*****¢ What is the formal structure of the HR office or function?

*****¢ How does HR fit into the rest of the organization?

*****¢ What are the hiring practices of the organization?

*****¢ What types of positions does the organization employ (professional, administrative, hourly) and what percentage does each group represent, overall?

*****¢ Are there job design concerns? If so, what are they?

*****¢ How are diversity issues handled?

*****¢ What selection processes does the organization use?

*****¢ How does the organization manage employee attrition and retention?

*****¢ How does the organization appraise and evaluate employee performance?

*****¢ How does the organization train or develop employees?

*****¢ How does the organization handle compensation?

*****¢ What, if any, legal issues are they concerned about?

*****¢ What are the implications of a global workforce on the HR organization?

*****¢ Are there other incentives that they consider, such as indirect compensation?

*****¢ Are there labor relation issues facing the organization? If so, what are they?

*****¢ Does the organization have any career concerns?

*****¢ Are HR employees concerned about employee health and safety?

*****¢ How does the organization*****s overall strategy affect HR?

*****¢ Besides the above, what else does the HR department do?

In other words, the student should look at the organization from the point of view of a wide selection of Human Resource management concerns. Some of the questions above will not be pertinent to the specific organization under review and some of the information may not be available to the student. The idea of the project is to get a reasonably comprehensive overview of an individual organization from the Human Resources***** perspective.

Descriptive papers should be posted under the Course Content section of Blackboard where the assignment is listed.