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Intercleanshrm-Mba530

This paper analyzes a scenario developed on InterClean, an $8 billion industrial cleaning and sanitation company, to assist students in the understanding of course concepts for MBA 530, Human Capitol Development. Team B members benchmarked the following companies that address the associated course concepts, and then analyzed the information through contrasting and comparing the companies to the InterClean scenario. The companies selected are NiSources, Inc., and Frontier Airlines relating to recruiting and selection alternatives; Best Buy and ACE Caribbean Bank representing the concept of human capital development relating to skill sets and gap analysis; Johnson & Johnson Company and Singlepoint Sytems Inc. benchmarking the training and development course concept; and Southwest and Delta Airlines that highlights the concept of aligning organizational structure with strategy.
Company Synopsis
Company: NiSource, Inc, Course Concept: Evaluating recruiting and selection alternatives, B. Britt
NiSource, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company based out of Indiana dealing with energy sources such as natural gas transmission, storage, and distribution as well as electric generation, transmission, and distribution. NiSource and its subsidiaries provide energy to 3.6 million customers along the Gulf Coast, Midwest, and New England areas (NiSource, 2000).
On November 1, 2000, NiSource announced the completion of its merger with Columbia Energy Group making it the largest natural gas distributor east of the Rocky Mountains. Knowing strong HRM practices are needed to make a merger successful, NiSource brought in LaNette Zimmerman as Senior VP of Human Resources. Her main task was to oversee the staffing integration process during the merger.
Like InterClean and EnviroTech, the merger of the two companies took place in a highly competitive industry. With the merger came duplicate staffing. NiSource's HRM system had to determine the appropriate actions to take to deal with the...