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GREEN HRM

  A few decades ago organizational development ultimately measured by economic values.  But now organizations need to focus on environmental factors and  policies on how they can promote the same in order to compete with other organizations in the corporate world. So this encourages organizations to operate in a more environmentally friendly manner.  Green Human Resource Management is an emerging new concept for organizations to involves undertaking environment-friendly initiatives like job-sharing, teleconferencing, and virtual interviews, recycling, online training, energy-efficient office spaces, etc. resulting in an increase in organizational efficiency. Since this concept, There are two main theories that can be used to apply the Green HRM concept to the organizational culture. ·           Ability Motivational Opportunity Theory (AMO Theory) ·            Cognitive Soci...

Impact of Digitalization on Employees and HRM Responsibility

  What is Digitization at the Workplace? Digitalization as the path in which numerous spaces of social life are rebuilt around digital correspondence and media frameworks. What would be the approach from employees’ perspective? While directors realize that representatives won't be driven by mysterious powers encouraging them to receive new computerized activities, they frequently don't give the kind of time, support, and inspiration to embrace that they know would be vital in different settings. Rather, organizations frequently invest significant time, cash, and vitality executing advanced stages, expecting that the estimation of these computerized apparatuses will turn out to be so obvious to representatives that they will be attracted normally to them to play out their work. Organizations that essentially anticipate that workers will receive by and large accentuate the mechanical side of advanced usage and regularly execute that usage well, yet then neglect to go with the new...

People Management in an Organisational Context

  Managing People and Organisations Aim of this introductory blog entry under the parent theme of this blog site 'HRM' is to first introduce the concept of people management. Management is defined as planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources effectively and efficiently to meet the goals of the organization's mission and vision.  Organization is defined as "a system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more persons" (Barnard, 1938, p.73 cited in Mahoney & Gabor, 2010, p.12). People are an essential part of an organization and people management is "All the management decisions and actions that directly affect or influence people as members of the organization rather than as job-holders." (Henderson, 2011, p.2) and is crucial to the success of an organization In 1950s workers were managed differently than the modern people management approaches. People management was executed in the same manner as other...

Training & Development - How Important in the Workplace?

  The training programs are will always be a prime opportunity for employees to develop their knowledge base. But some employers consider that the staff development training programs are expensive and cost to the company. Generally, while they are in the training employees' work hours are reduced, which may obstruct the completion of allocated job tasks or projects. Despite the potential drawbacks, staff training and development gives both the organization and the employees benefits that make the cost and time a valuable investment (Khan, 2011). Some of the outcomes of the staff training programs are as follows: Addressing Weaknesses:  Some employees have weaknesses in their workplace skills. A training program allows strengthening those skills that every employee needs to improve. A development training program carries all employees to a higher level so they all have identical skills and knowledge. This will help people to work independently without getting help from others....

Why do people leave organizations?

  Employees leave organizations because of different reasons. These could be personal or official. Every employee has different reasons for working. The ultimate objective of an employee  is to gain benefits (financial and non-financial) out of it. The most common reasons for leaving an organization can be: The job is not what the employee expected to be. Job and person mismatch. New attractive job and better compensation packages being offered by other companies/competitors. Lack of growth opportunities in the job. Lack of appreciation by the superiors will lead to demotivation and loss of interest. Lack of trust and support in co-workers, seniors, and management. Stress and work-life balance (Branham, 2005). Many employees are not happy with the recognition and performance appraisal done by the HR department or management. Therefore, they should pay attention to that. The company management must give employees the appropriate remuneration in order to retain these p...

Employee Learning

  In most working environments, there is usually some form of training. This training takes different forms, from hands-on experience to read manuals, to viewing online media information. The way employees absorb and process information varies from one to another. They also have different natural tendencies to learn the style (Morgan, 2011). Described below is the most useful and widely implemented learning style models. Kolb's Learning Cycle An American educational theorist David A. Kolb whose interests and writings focus on experiential learning, personal and social change, career development, and executive and professional education. Kolb's learning cycle is a well-known theory, which advocates that we learn from our life experience, even on a day-to-day basis. It also considers reflection as an integral part of this learning. According to the Kolb (1984) study, the learning process follows a four-phase pattern or cycle. These phases are explained and summarized below: ...