DEVCON GEEKUP DAVAO

Yesterday, DevCon held the DevCon Geek-Up Davao leg at Draft and Pick Sports Bar and Grill. The event was attended by some IT students, teachers and professionals. I and some of my classmates attended also the said event.

The event started around 3:30 p.m. All those who attended were divided into 5 groups. Every group must share on how DevCon can improve and what DevCon can do on the students, teachers, companies and the IT industry, because DevCon has now become a foundation and they want to help the IT industry in the Philippines.

The first group to present was group 4. They shared on how DevCon can improve their events such as Lightning Talk, Birds of Feather and Hackaton. Also, they shared about DevCon being in schools to have seminars and bring the events of Devcon. Group 3 shared about the unemployment rate of IT graduates and that DevCon would help also on that problem. Group 2 shared about DevCon narrowing the gaps of the professionals and the IT students and also helping the unemployed IT people land jobs. Group 1, which was my group, shared about DevCon having a forum for the students and also the IT Professionals where students can ask questions about some IT topics and professionals can share their knowledge about those topics. The group also said that DevCon should also organize jobs fair for the unemployed IT graduates in order for these graduates to land a job. And the last to share was the group 5. They said that they hope DevCon would help IT students to gain more knowledge about the IT industry because they said that was one of the problems of IT students.

After the sharing, foods were served to all those who attended in the said event. There were also drinks served.

The event was short, yet it was still fun. Hope DevCon will have an event again in Davao next time.

Lee DeWyze is the new American Idol Winner

The 9th season of the American Idol came to a Finale earlier. The votes were casted. And the winner of this season was Lee DeWyze. I was shocked by the announcement because I thought Crystal would win, but it was Lee's name that has been called.

Congratulations again to Lee DeWyze..

I'm Back

Good day to all! I'm back! It's been a long time since I last posted in this blog. I'm gonna go back blogging in the next days.

Please visit and comment in this blog

Thank You!!

Various Definitions of Human Resource Management and Personnel Management

Various Definitions of Human Resource Management

1."Human Resource Management encompasses those activities designed to provide for coordinate the human resources of an organization."
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, Sixth Edition
Lloyd L. Byars and Leslie W. Rue

I will agree with the authors about their definition of human resource management because it really deals those activities that encompasses the human resource of an organization.

2."Personnel Management may be defined as the process of developing, applying policies, procedures, methods, and programs relating to the individual in the organization."
PERSONNEL AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, A MANAGERIAL APPROACH, Fourth Edition
John B. Miner and Mary Green Miner

The definition here about personnel management is just the same as the definition above only that it specifies some activities of personnel management.

3."Human Resource Management or Personnel Management consists of managerial functions of planning, organizing, directing and controlling of the human resources of an organization using the personnel operative functions of: personnel planning; recruitment; selection and placement; training and development: performance rating; compensation; maintenance; and labor relations to accomplish individual, organizational and societical goals or objectives."
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, THE EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF EMPLOYEES
Pacita Arguelles Abasolo

In this definition, the author really stated the functions of human resource management or personnel management such as personnel planning; recruitment; selection and placement; training, etc.

4."Personnel Management has been described as the field of management which has to do with planning, organizing, and controlling various operative functions of procuring, developing, maintaining and utilizing a labor force such that the

a.) Objectives for which the company is established are attained economically and effectively
b.) Objectives of all levels of personnel are served to the highest possible degree
c.) Objectives of the community are duly considered and served."
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, Third Edition
Conrado P. Angeles, Rolando M. Garcia

In this definition, it stated that personnel management has functions such that the objectives of the company, personnel and the community are also being taken care of. I think this definition is also nice because it includes the objectives of the community and not only the about the company and the personnel.

5. Personnel Management refers to the handling, directing,and controlling of individual employees rather than of employee as a group. It deals with individual relationships, including employees problems with management with employees as non-organized groups. It covers the acquisition and retention of competent employees through proper recruitment, selection, placement, utilization and development.
PERSONNEL AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, Sixth Edition
Perfecto S. Sison

In this definition, personnel management focuses on individual employees rather than employee as a group and it really must include employee relations because it is one of the most important factor in an organization.


The 5 definitions above are almost the same because it deals with one thing- the people in an organization.

Consultation and Revision Week

Last Monday morning, we had our consultation with Mr. Gamboa for our major paper. He said that the user interface are good but he wants to see also the ERD. So by Tuesday, we revised our paper with the help of Anthony Rigor to help us in the user interface.

Wednesday was our next consultation day for our major paper. Mr. Gamboa would only entertain consultation if the group members are present in his eyes when they consult their papers. So we make sure that all members of our group will see Mr. Gamboa so that he will entertain us. He said that our user interface was nice but our ERD is incomplete. He also commented on the fields of our user interface if all the informations in our UI are the informations needed by the company. We were not sure if those are the informations needed. That's why he said to us that our papers must be countersigned first by the company before returning to him. He also wants to see the complete ERD and the Database for our major paper. He also said that our major paper is 75% finished.

Our next move is to consult our papers to our adopted company and have it countersigned. Hope we can do that by Monday.

Human Resource Management

Our assignment is to interview a personnel/ human resource manager on his/her concept on the nature, scope and role of human resource management, explain if we agree or disagree to him/her and is his/her concept similar to that of the management of his/ organization and if not, ask him/her how the differences are settled.

For this assignment, we asked Mam Gerlie P. Sayon of DcTech about it. She said that the Human Resource functions includes a variety of activities, and the key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies. However, they should always ensure that employees have, and are aware of, personnel policies which conform to current regulations. These policies are often in the form of employee manuals, which all employees have.

I agree with what she said about human resource management because that is HRM almost about. HRM is about employees in an organization being hired and trained to become a better employee for their company. It is also about dealing the employees' performance issues, managing their compensation and benefits, and making sure that the employee is having a good relationship with other employees.

Her concept about HR function are similar with what is in the organization right now. She as an HR personnel must perform all the function that is expected to her.

Happy Birthday to Me!

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Happy Birthday to me! :-)

Making the Major Paper

Yesterday morning, me and my groupmates started making the model database and the technical paper of our HRIS Proposal for our adopted company. We were in school yesterday morning then we went to our house at 3'o clock in the afternoon.

It was really very hard for us to make the model database but we tried our best to make and finish it so that we can have our consultation on Monday. We made the database overnight then we finished it earlier this morning. Wow! It really took us that long. Even though we had not really finished the major paper because it still lacks some information, we have something to consult with to Sir Gamboa.

I hope that Sir Gamboa is in school tomorrow so that we can consult to him what we have done so far in our HRIS Proposal.

Making the Database

Earlier this afternoon, me and my groupmates made the database for our HRIS Proposal for our adopted company. We made the database in school because one of my groupmates brought a laptop. We went inside a classroom and started making it.

It was really hard making the database. Even though we don't have to make the actual database or the software itself, it was really hard for us to start because we only have a little knowledge in creating a database in a software. It's because we are still in DBAD I(Database Analysis and Design I) and we have not yet tackled how to create a software. We really had a hard time.

Fortunately, one of our friends who had finished DBAD II, found us in a classroom and helped us in creating the database for our adopted company. Thanks to him.

We are not finished yet in our database. We will still continue it tomorrow. Hope that we can finish it so that we can have our consultation with Mr. Gamboa .

Making Our Introduction

Last Monday, me and my groupmates started making the introduction for our proposal. We also made the background of the study, objectives of the proposal and the scope and limitations.

We first made the drafts at the library. We borrowed some thesis there to see the patterns on making the drafts. Then after that, we went to a study area in the College of Technology to finalize the draft and to decide who will type it.

After the introduction, our next move will be creating the model database.

Hope we can finish the papers by this week so that we can have our consultation by next week.