Four Functions Of Mgmt
...Each of these functions is important to successfully manage at any level. I am going to discuss how these four functions of management relate to my organization. Because I work for a large pharmaceutical company and do not know how all of the different area's "run their business" I am going to focus on my department, which is a section of Human Resources and how my management plans, organizes, leads and controls.
My department is Staffing Systems and our area is responsible for the main hiring system and the reporting of it. This includes the two websites that are used for our employees and external candidates to apply. We also have smaller systems such as a testing database, a Lotus Notes mailbox that job requisitions come into and several smaller systems for running reports. In this paper I will use a specific example of a problem that needed to be resolved and how my management and our team of people solved this issue.
We recently implemented a new system called Brassring or Hiresystems. Part of what we use this system for is to open job requisitions. When a hiring manager has a position to fill they need to create a requisition for candidates to apply to. The problem, the hiring managers do not find this system user friendly. If they do not have all the information they need, get interrupted in the middle of creating the requisition or whatever other issue may come up they are unable to save the document if all the required fields are not filled. This may not seem like a large issue but the managers at our company do not have the time to do this over and over if they do not get it completed the first time. They also do not do this on a regular basis, maybe once a year so learning the system was not important to them. Our department needed a solution. The hiring manager is our customer and we needed to fit there needs.
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