The company, outlined in Assignment 1 B and presented orally in this seminar, Idea-X is in need of a Human Resource Program. This paper details the vision for this company. This company represents a unique confluence of events for the following reasons. It is a new company, less than 18 months old, and is already quite profitable.
Its business model relies completely on the Internet; therefore its business operation relies almost completely on technology. At the same time, the art and science of Human Resources Development is experiencing a shift in focus and purpose so profound that some authorities call it a new paradigm (La Pointe, 1998).
The vision conceived for this company is an "electronic" or "computerized" (to the extent possible) Human Resources Department. To illustrate this vision, we will show several examples of how such a program would work. As an organizational tool, we will use the following sequence: a) Computerized Hiring; b) Computerized Intake; c) Computerized training; d) Computerized Record Keeping.
There are numerous databases and web sites for job posting that are available for both employees and employers to interact. On these sites, it is the tradition for the employer to post the job or jobs that need filling. In the computer technology field, it is not uncommon for such a listing to run several hundred words, and offering great amounts of detail about the company that are impossible to print in a normal classified ad (Alexander, 1995).
For instance, a classified ad does not allow the reader to link automatically to the company web site, nor does it allow the ability to quickly research a company. Nor does a classified ad allow the company to put in critical details about the culture of the company, explaining such things as what it could be like to work at the hiring company.
For Idea-X, all hiring screening would be done electronically, and all resumes would come back in vi...