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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...

HRM Strategies What is a strategy? The word strategy comes from the Greek noun “Strategus”, that means “commander in the chief”. Strategy can be simply define as a vision or a plan to achieve long term business objective by utilizing organization resources. The Strategic Human resource management related to people strategies    that are integrated with business strategies in order to achieve them. Baird and Meshoulam (1988) reviews that “Business objective or the strategies can be achieve when human resource practices, measures, processes and system are developed based on organizational needs. Key characteristics of a strategy. Every strategy has three main characteristics 1.       Strategy looking forwards That mean as a company where you want to go and what are the ways that are used to go there or in other words “this is what we want to do and this is how we are going to do it.” 2.       Identi...