Chapter 4 Reflexion

I never thought that running a business would be so difficult until class on Wednesday. HRM really has to deal with a lot and if you don't have your business well organized and good documentation you can get in huge trouble and can get sued by a lot of angry people. I hope I can become more familiar and not so overwhelmed with Human Resource management.

Chapter 3 Reflexion

I had never really been aware of OSHA until this class. Some of my jobs have made reference to it but never really went over what it did for our company or where the paper was so I could read it if I was curious or wanted to know. I think it can be a big problem for a lot of companies if they don't go over those things with their employees.
I am much more aware of laws and stuff after learning about it in class. Now that I think about I could have gotten many people in trouble with how they ran their business or treated their employees. I think after I have completed this class I will notice more things at my work and won't let people treat me like I used to let them treat me.

Introduction!

The Life of Megan Nelson

I was born in Sandy, Utah on February 9th 1989. I lived there until I was 8 years old. Then my family moved to Wallsburg, Utah. We lived there for 1 1/2 years until my father was called to be the mission president in San Bernadino, California. We lived there for three years then returned to Wallsburg. There are 9 kids in my family. I now live in Provo, Utah with my two older sisters and a house that my family bought and remodeled. After this semester I should have my Business Associates Degree and hopefully getting close to being able to apply for the Elementary Ed program.
I love to cook food and organize events. I work as a nanny for a beautiful family in Pleasant Grove. I absolutely love it! My lifelong goal is to become a wife and mother and to be able to teach and raise my children. I struggle with school but am trying really hard to do well in all my classes and to actually learn stuff. My goal is to do better in school this semester and go to class with a determination to learn something no matter what it is.
I am taking this class because it is required and I need it for my degree. I have actually enjoyed being in it and learning all the things about Human Resource Management . I think a lot of what we learn is common sense but there are lots of things that I have learned that isn't so much common sense and is very valuable things to learn for the future.
I wanted to own my own Catering business until last semester. I was actually in UVU's culinary arts program last semester and worked really hard and was ready for another semester until I thought about it... I don't really want to own my own business and especially in the food industry. I wouldn't mind helping my husband start and own a business. I think the things I will learn in this class will help me in life weather I own my own business, help my husband with his or just work for someone else.
I appreciate all the time and effort you put into our classes and how you let the class talk and share their opinions and findings about the topics. I think the class learns better that way.

Chapter 3 Discussion!

I think that in the workplace discrimination is a very popular topic. As I've thought more and more about this I got thinking about reverse discrimination and how a lot of times employers will run into the opposite problems of reverse discrimination. A lot of times employers will hire the black person over the white person so that they won't discriminate but this can be just as serious of a problem.

How might employers have a good balance in order not to discriminate or do reserve discrimination?

In class we talked about this a little bit. I think that one solution could be to hire people because of how well they perform the tasks instead of what kind of person they are.

Chapter 4 Discussion!

Reading this chapter has made me view jobs differently. I got reading the section on Trends in Job Analysis and it talks about how we have the misconception that we get the job and do the same thing over and over and that there will be no changes. This is false. In today's world everything is changing rapidly and so it is necessary to have changes. The job description may say one thing when you get the job and over a period of a month to a year it may have changed quite a bit. Some may say how is this fair? Why would our bosses hire us and then change the assignments in our job? I've had an experience with this where I worked at a bakery and they gave me my list f things to do and over the 2 months I worked there they changed everything. It threw everyone off and was really frustrating. I guess one of my questions would be how do successful businesses who care about their employees slowly work into a new schedule and retrain them in some ways without having people quit and having a smooth transition?

Reflection for Wednesday Class

After watching the Pike's Place video it helped me to see the importance of customer service and also helping your employees love their jobs. I know that I am more willing to go into a store if the employees are friendly and helpful. In the video you cold tell that it was more than a job to the employees. They loved being there helping the customers and the customers love going there. I hope that I can be as good of an employee of those at Pike's Place. Attitude is everything and you can be much more successful in life if you are enthusiastic about your job and have a passion for it.

Chapter 2- An Aging Generation

One of the things that really caught my attention in this chapter was when they were talking about the aging workforce. They talked about how in the year 2016 there are going to be more people 55 and older working then any other age. They also talked about how there will hardly be anyone from the age of 16-24 working. My question is why is that? What would make that happen? Why would the younger generation choose not to work? Could it have anything to do with that employers don't treat the younger generations with respect and think they don't have anything to give to the company? Will the younger generations start their own jobs and be self employed or will they just be lazy and won't have any skills to add to the workforce?

1st day of class!

After going to my 1st day of HRM class I decided to change my attitude towards school and classes. I always went to school grumbling and trying to figure out the easy way out of things but now i have decided to work hard in EVERY class and to try my hardest. I am excited to be in this class and hope I can do really well in it! Thanks Mr. Westover for helping change my attitude about school!