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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...

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 (...