Principles related with People and Organizations

  What is Performance Management Michael Armstrong have defined performance management is a strategic and integrated approach to delivering sustained success to organizations by improving the performance of the people who work in them and by developing the capabilities of teams and individual contributors. According to  Pointon and Ryan, Performance management  has formed a key activity for man­agers and management in the quest to increase the benefits gained by the application of labour power.  Principles of Performance Management It translates corporate goals into individual, team, department and divisional goals. It helps to clarify corporate goals. It is a continuous and evolutionary process, in which performance improves over time. It relies on consensus and co-operation rather than control or coercion. It creates a shared understanding of what is required to improve performance and how it will be achieved. It encourages self-management of individual...

     What is Employee Engagement The concept of employee engagement was first introduced in 1990 by  Dr.   William Kahn . He suggested that people are involved in their work at three levels – physically, cognitively, and emotionally. However, employees may be engaged at fewer levels, or even disengaged or actively disengaged. According to Sanchez (2007), employee engagement is defined as “an outcome of how employees perceive their work, leadership of their organizations, the recognition and rewards they receive, and the communication ethos of the organization”. F actors of Employee Engagement Strong Leadership - Leadership is the cornerstone of engagement because of the central role leaders play in shaping organizational culture, which, in turn, shapes employee experience.  Caring Organizational Culture - Culture, like leadership, plays a prominent role in driving employee engagement. This is why having a caring culture is one of the best ways to ...

  Definitions for Employee Relations According to Armstrong (2003), employee relations consist of all those areas of human resource management that deals with employees directly and through collective agreements where trade unions are recognised. The union practices for the welfare and good working condition of the employees. Employee relations are concerned with generally managing the relationship between employer and employees at the workplace that can be formal e.g. contract of employment or procedural agreement. According to  Farnham (1993), suggests that Employee relation are: “ Concerned with the interaction between primary parties who pay for work and those who provide it in the labour market ( employers and employees), those acting as secondary parties on their behalf (management or management organization and trade unions) and those providing a third party role on employment matters (state agencies and EU institutions)” Theoretical Approaches to employee relations T h...

 Learning Vs Training Learning is the process of absorbing information and retaining it with the goal of increasing skills and abilities in order to achieve goals.  Learning is what we go through when we want to be equipped for non-specific and unexpected situations and the two are not mutually exclusive. While you do learn to do something specific, you are also inadvertently equipped with the knowledge and/or skills to face future challenges.   Training is the process each new employee goes through when joining a company to learn how to carry out the day-to-day operations, know how their department works and how job-specific tools operate in order to carry out their responsibilities. In essence, through training, we are not looking to reshape the behavior of an individual rather the point is to teach the employee or learner how things are done so that they can then carry out a process on their own.  Learning Theories Kolb’s Learning Cycle David Kolb published his le...

Talent Acquisition  Talent acquisition  deals with the strategies, tactics and processes for identifying, recruiting and retaining the human resources a company needs . The hiring process includes numerous tasks, including: Candidate sourcing. Screening candidates. Interviewing. Pre-employment testing. Writing employment offers. Onboarding new hires. Talent acquisition trends and best practices 1. Branding - E mployer brand is an important part of the employee value proposition and is essentially  what the organization communicates as its identity to both potential and current employees . It encompasses an organization's mission, values, culture and personality. 2. Strategic Selection - Selection of diverse workforce, build close relationship between HRM strategy & corporate strategy. 3. Employee Retention -  Employee retention is the organizational goal of keeping productive and talented workers and reducing turnover by fostering a positive work atmosphere to pr...

What is HRM Human resource management (HRM) is the practice of recruiting, hiring, deploying and managing an organization's employees. HRM is often referred to simply as human resources. Every organisation is made of people, acquiring their services, developing their skills, motivating them to higher levels of performance, and ensuring that they continue to make their commitment to the organisations. According to  Pigors and Myers , HRM i s basically a method of developing potentialities of employees so that they feel maximum satisfaction of their work and give their best efforts to the organization. According  Armstrong,  a strategic, integrated and coherent approach to the employment, development and well-being of the people working in organizations. According to  Ivancevich and Glueck,  Human resource management is the function performed in organizations’ that facilitate the most effective use of people (employees) to achieve organizational and individual goa...