human resources management

Human Resources Case

February 18, 2018August 9, 2018 Douglashuman resources management, recruitment0 comment

Human resources is important in small or sizable business. A small business with few employees may not have specialist human resources staff. Recruitment and management are carried out by line managers. Larger businesses may have an HR specialist or department to oversee and coordinate their employee management policies and procedures. Even when a company employs an HR specialist, it is the line manager who has day-to-day responsibility for implementing HR initiatives. Challenges A small company with few employees, due to business expansion, needs to hire 3 additional engineers to cope…

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From Football Manager to Company Manager

February 5, 2018August 9, 2018 Douglasfootball manager, hire, human resources management, manager, recruitment0 comment

I like to play computer games. They range from war games (e.g. Romance of the Three Kingdoms) to role-play adventure (e.g. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons) to first-person-shooting (e.g. Rainbow Six). For sports games, it is mainly soccer. And I switched from action, i.e. directly controlling players in the field, to simulation. And the one game I have been so into, is Football Manager. Interestingly, this game is like a job. You have to decide how to run the club, under the requirements of the board of directors, and constraints from…