Impact of organization culture in contemporary context The culture of an organization is the most influencing factor for its decisions and actions. A company’s prevailing ideas, values, attitudes, and beliefs guide the way in which its employees think, feel, and act—quite often unconsciously. Therefore, understanding culture is fundamental to the description and analysis of organizational phenomena. For some, culture is considered the “glue” that holds an organization together and for others, the “compass” that provides direction. Watson (2006) emphasises that an important trend in managerial thinking in recent decades is to create strong organisational cultures. Schein (2004) suggests that culture and leadership are conceptually intertwined and its help to create uniqueness for an organization. Strong corporate cultures create excellent business performance, (Kotter & Heskett, 2012) show that while many shared values and institutionalized practices can promote good perfor...
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Changing trends in HRM the global perspective The world is changing rapidly in many areas some of the main areas were technology, economic, social and psychological understanding. These changers influence the human resource management numerous way. Some of the upcoming trends that are observed in the HRM can be listed as Globalization, work force diversity, changing skill requirements, corporate downsizing and contingent work force. (Andrew, 2016) Globalization and its implication In the 21 st century world has become a small village and in the field of business it doesn’t have any boundaries. The companies have become multinational and HR department should employ people with different knowledge, skills and attitudes. This challenge can easily meet by giving necessary training to individuals to face the changing trends, these individuals must gain the working knowledge of language and culture, depending on customs and laws of a company establish county. As the gl...
Importance of Interview Techniques for Good Performance Appraisals. Performance appraisal could be defined as a systematic evaluation process of a particular job performed by an individual during a particular period and giving value to its effectiveness whilst providing feedback to the job incumbent. Performance appraisal is an unavoidable element of organizational life. There are many decisions in modern organizations that depend on performance appraisals, and they are widely used in most organizations (Davis, 2001). Performance appraisal allows organizations to inform their employees about their rates of growth, their competencies, and their potentials. It enables employees to be intentional in creating their individual developmental goals to help in their personal growth. If used well, performance appraisal is an influential tool that organizations have to organize and coordinate the power of every employee of the organization towards the achievement of its strategic goals (...
Critical Review of Maslow’s Hierarchy Theory Abraham Maslow suggested that human needs exist at a number of different levels, from basic physiological needs such as hunger, to higher level needs such as self-development and self-fulfilment. People are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fulfil the next one, and so on. Maslow’s theory, believes that people possess a set of motivation systems without any rewards or unconscious desires (Maslow, 1943) . Image from - www.ba-bamail.com This pyramid starts with the basic physiological needs such as shelter, air, food etc. And moves to safety needs such as warmth etc. and climbs up to social needs and later esteem needs and finally self-actualization. This pyramid shows us that people satisfy their lowest level of needs ultimately it reaches the highest needs such as self-actualization. Critical evaluation of Maslow’s theory There are some limitations concern on his method...
Talent management Talent management can be simply define as a set of integrated organizational human resource processes designed to attract, develop, engage and retain productive engaged employees. (Lewis & Heckman, June 2006) The main goal of talent management is to create a high performance sustainable organization that meet its strategic and operational goals by empowering the employees. Image from www.talentguard.com Accordance with the case study since we have a limited budget and also top management need to build a talent pool inside the organization. We can use the following on-the-job learning and development programmes or tools to create an effective talent pool within the organization. Mentoring Mentoring is beneficial for both parties. According to (Parsloe, 2016) mentoring can be defined as a supportive and encouragement activity to people to manage their own learning in order that they may maximise their potential, develop their ...
Employee Relations What is employee relations? Employee’s relations initially known as industrial relations. When employee relations compared with industrial relations, it has a wider concept and recognition in the industry. According to Armstrong (2014) employee relations can be define as “Approached and methods adopted by employers to deal with employees either collectively or through their trade unions or individually. One of the most important resource in any organization is human resource. Any business cannot be survived without them. In the organizations employees cannot work alone to get the work done. They need to communicate and manage relationships among themselves to run business smoothly. Hence employee’s relationship is very vital to any organization. Importance of employee relations Employee relation helps to build up employee engagement, productivity, motivation and moral in any organization. Also employee who is in good terms with the manager a...
Training and Development What is Training and Development? Training is a systematic process of developing knowledge, skills, attitude and technology that is needed to assist a person to perform better in the present job. This will help individual to meet up to the expectation and requirement of the demand of the job. Training is short term oriented. Ex –Lecture method, on the job training, role plays, Computer based training, simulations, case study method, coaching, question and answer method (Q&A) Development help an individual to meet to the expectation of a higher and more challenging job in the future. This is also referred as guided growth. Let’s move on to emerging trend in the training and development in a co-operate world that is e- learning. E- Learning The term e-learning came into use in the mid 1990’s along with the development of World Wide Web. E-learning involves the use of a computer or electronic device in some way to provide trai...