Human Resources

Human Resources

Organizational Structure

The organizational structure refers to the way in which positions within the business are arranged. They have some key elements such as the span of control which refers to the number of subordinates working under a superior or manager. Other element is the hierarchy as it refers to the levels of management in the business, and the chain of command that is the way authority is organized.

The organizational structure of the UWP Mission to Loyka is tall and centralized, with several levels of hierarchy and a narrow span of control. This means that the Commander, General Ron Meiri, replaced in 2011 by General Diane Pierce, is the manager that correspond to the higher level of hierarchy and has a span of control of 4 as she is responsible of the first regimen, the second regiment, the civil engineering group and the combat support group; these four correspond to the next level of hierarchy down the chain of command. Then the civil engineering group has a span of control of 2 as it is responsible for the civil engineering and the transportation, while the combat support group has a span of control of 3 as it is responsible for communications, combat support and medical support. Also, the first regiment and second regiment have a span of control of 2 as each one is responsible of their first and second battalions.Each battalion is divided into companies, companies into platoons, and platoons into squads. Being the squads the lowest level of hierarchy. This type of methods allows the leader of the organization to take over control and supervise in a more effective way their subordinates. This organization was not flexible, but it ensured that orders were clearly understood and always followed.

Delegation and chain of command

The chain of command: the way authority and power are passed done in a business. Delegation: A system whereby authority passes down from the top through a series of executive positions or military ranks in which each is accountable to the one directly superior.

General Pierce delegated the responsibility for investigating the feasibility of the two projects down the chain of command to Colonel Michael Donovan, Head of the Civil Engineering Group. (51-52)

Workforce planning

It is the process of determining the labour needs of the business now and in the future and how to achieve labour targets. The project of constructing either a university campus or a hospital would require careful workforce planning and training: some peacekeeping troops would need extra training in construction skills and safety procedures. (91-93)

Moreover, because of the civil war, the country desperately needed engineers, school teachers, nurses and many other highly skilled professionals to help rebuild the social infrastructure.

Recruitment and selection

Recruitment and selection is present in a section of the case.

If the main objection of the local population was the concern that most of the doctors would be male, the UWP, he argued, should do everything it could to recruit female doctors, even if only for the short term. So even though different factors are being taken into account by the managers of the project, most of the recruitment must be specialized on the preferences of the loykese, this is because the project is mainly for them, if the loykese approve the project then the mission that was established by the leader will be accomplished, the acceptance of the Olive Hats will be successful. Depending on whether a hospital or a university will be constructed different factors would need to be taken into account. The university will need to employ teachers that will be part of the staff, loykese don’t seem to have a problem with the recruitment of males or females, in the other hand, the staff of the hospital will need to be mainly people from loykese, this is because of the idea that they have about foreign doctors treating people from the country, especially male people.

Glossary

Na (Later)

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