Assignment 8

Task:

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.


We had a hard time looking for an HR personnel to interview because most of the HR personnelof the companies we visited months ago had gone out of town. So, to answer our assignment 8,we sent an email to Ms. Gerlie P. Sayon of DcTech stating the question for our 8th assignment.

According to her, the Human Resource functions includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independentcontractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations.

Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies. However, they should always ensure that employees have -- and are aware of -- personnel policies which conform to current regulations. These policies are often in the form ofemployee manuals, which all employees have.

Her concept about HR function are similar with what is in the organization right now. As an HR personnel she must perform all the function that is expected of her.

I agree with what maam Gerlie P. Sayon said, because Human Resource Management is about being practical by choosing the best employees who can fill what the company needs. You cannot just hiresomeone who is incompetent or someone who does not fit the job right? Moreover, Human Resource Management is not just about hiring and training employees to be the best but you also need to know their attitudes because a talent without an attitude is nothing. Furthermore, you as a person should know and give what your employees need, like salary and benefits. Lastly, you need to have good relationship with your employees not only to have a good working environment.

MY JOURNAL 3

September 25, 2008

My group mates and I went to see Sir Randy Gamboa for the second consultation of our major paper. He asked for our ERD and Database. Moreover, he wants us to meet with our adopted company - Concentrix Davao for more consultation. Thank you Sir!

MY JOURNAL 2

September 8, 2008

My group mates and I started making possible questions that we can ask the company for our HRIS proposal.

September 9,2008

We had our first company visit for our major paper. They gave us the company’s organizational chart. I asked him if we can have the completely organizational chart but he said that it would take too much time to explain the functions of all the company divisions that is why, we focused on the Human Resource Department and explained to us the functions of every division and its personnel.

September 16, 2008

We started making our major paper but we really do not know where to start. However, we managed to finish some parts of the major paper.

September 19, 2008

This afternoon, my group mates and I started making the interface of our HRIS proposal using Visual Fox Pro 9.0. Honestly speaking, we had a hard time designing our interface because we only have little knowledge in making a form. Thanks to Mr. George Dan Duran for helping us. Before we went home, we divided our tasks so that the time will not be wasted. By the time I went home, I continued making the interface for the sourcing section of the Human Resource Division.

September 20, 2008

Before I went to school, I started encoding the description of Concentrix’s organizational chart. Later that morning, my group mates and I spent the whole day in school making our HRIS interface and the organizational chart hoping that we will be able to finish it by Sunday so that we will be able to have our first consultation with Sir Randy Gamboa. We spent the whole night making the interface of our HRIS and took turns on finishing it so that we will be able to rest for a while.

September 21, 2008

John Manlangit and I woke up by 3:30am and started connecting the interfaces my group mates and I had made because we used two computers to be able to have a fast progress. I was still sleepy when connecting the interfaces. By 5:00am, I started running the interfaces and encoding fake records in it in order to print the interfaces in a word document. I really had a hard time encoding fake records and printing the interfaces because some words on the interfaces were not spelled correctly and some interfaces have tabs that were not supposed to be connected. That is why I have to do it over again. We started printing the document. Unfortunately, we were not able to print the introduction because we ran out of ink.

September 22, 2008

John Manlangit and I went to Sir Gamboa and asked for a consultation. Sir Gamboa was asking for our HRIS proposal and I said to him that those snapshots were already the interfaces of our HRIS proposal.J

Then he told us that the draft was ok however, we have to make an ERD for every page or tabs of the interface and to explain one by one everything that is in the interface.

Later that afternoon, my group mates and I were supposed to visit our company for consultations about the proposal. Mr. Brizuela told us that we will just meet in USEP because he will come to the USEP Guidance Office, we saw him and unfortunately, he seemed so busy .

September 23, 2008

John Manlangit and I called Mr. Brizuela and asked him if we could talk to him about our proposal. Unfortunately, he told us that he will be going out of town later this week until the next week. Later that night, John Manlangit and I together with Anthony Rigor, an IT student went to my place and asked him if he could help or give us ideas or suggestions about our proposal.

BPO Recruitment and Human Resource Forum

August 29-31

A jobs fair and forum was held last week at the Legislative building by the BPO companies. Etelecare Global Solutions, MTC, Cybercity Teleservices, Concentrix, Surecruit and many more were there to recruit applicants who are interested to get the job.

A forum was also held at the City Treasurer's Office waiting area. Majority of the speakers were from the different BPO companies giving us an orientation about how it is to work in call centers and other BPO companies. They told us about the job descriptions and compensations of their employees.

Moreover, there was a forum for teachers and guidance counselors - i forgot the title but it's about guiding the students and helping them find jobs by the time they graduate.

MY JOURNAL

JULY 2008

We were to adopt a company for our case study in Human Resource Management as our project. I really do not know what our case study would be all about and what we are going to do when we visit our adopted company. However, we were given a course outline that we can use as a guide for our topic to be shared to the class at the end of the month or in the first week of August maybe, because of that, I was able to get an idea about what our case study be.

JULY 16 2008

After having more or less 15 letters signed by our professor, dean and finally, director of the Office of The Student Services, we went to several companies to give our letter asking permission to conduct a case study for the company. We really had a hard time waiting and calling them for our letters to be approved. We were desperate then and continued giving more letters to different companies, but after 2-3 weeks, we finally received a positive reply - an approval from the Synnex-Concentrix Corporation located at Damosa IT- Park, Lanang Davao City.

When we were giving letters to the companies, what I have in mind is that I am applying for a job even though I am just going to conduct a study. Moreover, I realized how difficult it is to apply for a job.

JULY 24, 2008

Finally, we went to Concentrix and made an interview with Mr. Lou Joe S. Cainday of the Human Resource – Organizational Development. We had a nice time talking to him. He gave us a lot of information about their company – I will not enumerate because it is too many to mention. However, he did not share any information which were too confidential for their company and unfortunately, we were not allowed to observe their HRIS since everything that were encoded in the system are highly confidential. Nevertheless, we were thankful for letting us spend a time with them. We even got a chance to take a tour inside their office.

AUGUST 2, 2008

Sharing of the gathered information about the Introduction to HRIS.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

We were tasked to adopt a company for our case study in Human Resource Management (HRM), which turned out to be a Human Resource Information System (HRIS) proposal for our adopted company.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

We're supposed to go to Concentrix today but we're having our ICean Festival and my group mates have their games scheduled this afternoon.