PAC Resources: Ethics, Training & Staffing

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

• Trudeau brought positive HR initiatives to the organization
• PAC encourages employees to attend training seminars, and tuition reimbursement is available for college-level courses
• Aggressively trained management employees with particular emphasis on skills for first-line supervisors

Weaknesses

• Previous poor management has created bad morale
• Favoritism
• Policies and bonus plans uneven across the board

Opportunities

• “communities of practice,” where individuals meet to problem solve and exchange ideas
• An idea blog 
where staff share information about their successes and failures on various projects
• Departing employees are encouraged to talk informally about their career at PAC

Threats

• relationship between managers and HR is tense
• Low employee retention and general unhappiness
• Hiring freeze could be detrimental to productivity

Code of Ethics

Changes in Human Resources and Management

• open door policy
• open ears through listening to employees and their opinions
• more consistency in policy
• creating an environment that is ethical, reducing law suits

Training

• cross training employees across different depts.
• develop skills
• place employees where they are most effective and leave the biggest impact

Staffing

• employee survey to measure what employees expect and would like to see at PAC Resources
• Severance pay to older employees nearing retirement
• budget cuts on extra benefits to prevent further labor cuts
• scheduling staff based on workload to prevent unneeded labor costs

Staffing Contd.

• Reprimand employees when policies are broken
• reduce/eliminate bonuses for time being
• Maintain Tuition Reimbursement (with limits), to encourage continued devepment

Resource

• Gusdorf, M. (2011). PAC Resources, Inc.: A Case Study in HR Practices (K. Scanlan, Ed.).