Human Resource Management

Paper Summary:

This report presents an HRD intervention for use by IDEA-X Corporation, a company that sells information to web engineers and internet marketing professionals. The paper offers a description and background on the company and then notes the diverse failings observed in the company during the needs assessment phase. These failings were said to include: the absence of a management philosophy and team, insensitivity to employee needs, an over-taxing work schedule, frequent interruption of work activities for meetings, forced consensus seeking activities, failure to tie rewards to performance, and top level misunderstandings of management style and how it can be used to increase worker job motivation and morale.
Contents:
Abstract
An HRD Intervention for IDEA-X Corporation
The Setting
The Problem
Relevant Research
The HRD Intervention
Intervention Evaluation Methods
Problem-Solving Design
Data Collection Procedures
Instruments
Data Analysis Procedures
References

From the Paper:

"IDEA-X Corporation, owned by Nationalist Chinese, is an internet information company providing correspondence courses and interactive workshops for web engineers and internet marketing professionals. Run like a Chinese company, IDEA-X's 22 paid employees average a 60-hour work-week. Each day is peppered with several meetings in which participants hold consensus-seeking discussions."

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