Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and full utilization of people in a company or institution to help the company be competitively ahead. Its goal is to promote the strategic goals of the company and optimize employees’ productivity. Employee engagement is concerned with the design of organizational participants, with...
Conflict is a situation or combination of circumstances in which the differences between two people, groups, or individuals and groups are unclear or unresolved. The conflict has traditionally been viewed as a terrible and unpleasant experience. Conflict can be beneficial or harmful, but how people handle it is entirely up...
A work-related injury is always a hard blow to both the injured person and his or her family, especially if the person is working undocumented. This is because many employers believe that accidents at work are not so difficult to hide. Indeed, the biggest problem in obtaining compensation for injured...
Introduction The ethical aspect of work is crucial for creating a favorable office environment, which contributes to the increase in profits and improvements in relationships. In addition, it allows for establishing appropriate rules of conduct, which are followed by everyone due to their awareness and perceived responsibility for outcomes. Therefore,...
The dismissal of a talented employee is often a problem for an enterprise. Mass churn is a huge ordeal that not every company can withstand. The pandemic has become a kind of strength test for both workers and employers. It is this aspect that Polovin (2021) describes in his article,...
Introduction In the article, Lucas and Diener discuss a correlation between employees’ happiness and productivity. They analyze a significant body of research about the subject to define whether there is a relation between the two variables, which, as they note, is elusive and desirable (Lucas, R. E., & Diener, E.,...
Google is one of the most innovative companies, which is also reflected in its human resource management policy. In particular, the company offers its employees various benefits and a fair compensation system. Google employees have access to both the traditional options in the form of insurance and paid leaves, but...
In his article “Toward a New HR Philosophy,” Allen (2015) suggests a novel approach to the responsibilities traditionally fulfilled by HR departments. He argues that critical HR decisions should be made by the organization’s managers, while the duty of HR managers is to provide them with the necessary information and...
In general, a leader will be effective if they understand how to motivate their employees and themselves. Motivation is a force that arises from the inside and is aided by external forces to inspire people to attain their goals. Jean Liu, the head of China’s global ride-sharing company DIDI, is...
Introduction Employee’s benefits may include: healthcare insurance, paid leave, voluntary pension plan, and others. When elaborating a detailed business plan, according to SWOT analysis, one should discuss opportunities for employees, which do not necessarily consist of salary (CFD Master, 2013). However, sometimes when employers are not using performance-based pay, employees...
The Acquired-Needs Model in The Workplace David McClelland came up with the acquired needs theory that categorized employees into three groups based on their dominant motivations: achievement, power, and affiliation. Employees may have all three motivations in every workplace but present one as the dominant motivator (Khurana & Joshi, 2017)....
Recruitment is a process in human resource management because it can simplify all other functions such as hiring, training, and onboarding when performed appropriately. Even though the available approaches to recruitment have notable advantages, they also have setbacks that limit their effectiveness in some situations. Therefore, the technique adopted by...
Such processes as globalization, industrialization, and the development of international relations have a tremendous impact on people and their businesses. An understanding of existing national and ethnic differences enhances organizational functioning and success in global strategies (Adler 9). Effective communication among individuals and organizations is an integral step in the...
There are plenty of issues to discuss and points of view to consider when it comes to the work environment in the United States. One of such matters is the matter of a flexible work policy. Those who advocate for workplaces offering their employees flexibility in certain aspects talk about...
If the company has a trade union, this entity should be notified of the decision of layoff. For this, a notification is sent to the trade union at least three months before the forthcoming liquidation of the enterprise. When an organization is about to implement layoffs, the employer is obliged...
One of the most common problems that many organizations face is how to manage internal and external changes effectively. In this regard, suppose that the top managers of the company that operates in the sphere of sportswear retail decide to empower their workers by letting them share ideas on work-process...
Extrinsic motivation occurs when individuals engage in an action or event to receive compensation or escape consequences. Individuals will partake in action not because they deem it enjoyable or fulfilling but because they anticipate receiving an incentive in exchange or avoiding something undesirable. Intrinsic motivation occurs when individuals indulge in...
The formation of motivation among employees is one of the essential parts of management. The lack of a sufficient number of incentives can lead to a decrease in the efficiency of the team’s work and impressive costs. Research shows that lack of employee motivation can cost a company hundreds of...
Staff motivation includes a set of incentives that determine the behavior of a particular individual. Therefore, this is a specific set of actions on the part of the manager aimed at improving the working capacity of employees and ways to attract qualified and talented specialists and retain them. Each employer...
Stable and long-lasting organizational relationships among leaders and subjects are chiefly grounded on mutual trust. Mutual trust denotes complementary trust that leaders and subordinates experience and express toward one another (Kim et al., 2018). In the work environment, workers feel valued and essential to the organization when trusted by their...
The article discusses the need to adjust the HR approach to workforce planning in dynamically changing and uncertain environments. Collins (2020) rightfully claims that just as a manager must notice business opportunities and strategically incorporate them into organizational vision, it is critical to meet global challenges by considering workforce planning...
Among the motivational techniques, I have observed during my work in the healthcare sector, in addition to the usual monetary incentives, I can distinguish such non-material forms as recognition of a job well done. In contrast to the issuance of rewards, this method has proved to be much more effective....
Human Resource Development Models Models of Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) help Human Resource (HR) managers to implement an organization’s HRM policies. The functional Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) content and the political economy models are of particular interest to this study. This is because they both address the political...
It goes without saying that sending the company’s employees from various management levels to work abroad may be regarded as an efficient way to ensure high-quality performance in another enterprise. A French energy group decided to increase its share of electricity from renewable energies by taking control over an Irish,...
The current pandemic has changed every aspect of life in the US and worldwide. The commercial sphere is not an exception, as COVID-19 brought disproportions into the personnel selection strategies, budget establishment, creation of a healthy internal and external climate in organizations. Due to pandemics, online recruitment gains momentum as...
The capacity of Human Resources (HR) is to give the representatives the ability to oversee the problems with the employees. The reading by Battaglio checks on execution evaluation considering five fundamental changes: decentralization, performance-based pay, declassification, privatization, and deregulation. It gives a detailed explanation of the difficulties in HR caused...
This essay will focus on the book’s third chapter, which is about employment law in the public sector. This chapter explains the five fundamental themes that discuss the legal tradition and Public Human Resource Management (PHRM) as well as the statutory law and case law governing public employment in a...
Positive and Negative Elements in Employee Motivation In the case, if an employer’s pay structure only includes flexible benefits with a limited number of available options, the positive elements in employee motivation can be determined as a higher degree of control. In other words, people are more willing to cooperate...
There are two main types of unemployment: involuntary and voluntary unemployment. Voluntary unemployment refers to when a person is unwilling to work anymore. Involuntary unemployment occurs when a person is willing to work but has not had any success in getting a job. There are four kinds of involuntary unemployment...
Maersk Compensation Policy and Market Influences on it Compensation philosophy refers to the strategy employed by an organization’s employees and employers to ensure their staff’s payment. Maersk’s compensation method is based on the industrial approach design (A.P. Moller – Maersk, 2020). The pool of employees within the company, the management...
Employee compensation is one of the crucial elements of employee relationships. There are various discussions on the matter of how employee compensation should be calculated and how it affects job satisfaction, employee retention, and performance. The article “The effect of compensation on satisfaction and employee performance” (2017) by Darma and...
Background The tourism sector plays a critical role in advancing the economy of a country. The success of every organization essentially relies on leadership practices. In the tourism sector, it is significant to consider the role of both leaders and employees in fulfilling the sector’s success. Empowering leadership practices naturally...
The aim of the recruitment process is to attract as many successful candidates as possible, and at the same time, provide them with the most essential information about the organization the HR manager is presenting, and the details about the position itself. The selection stage is aimed at selecting the...
Workplace wellness programs are programs undertaken by an employer to improve employee health. Such programs have become popular since every employer aims to cut healthcare costs and improve employees’ productivity and efficiency. The study considers research that evaluated workplace wellness programs’ effects on employees’ health and economic outcomes across the...
In the article “A study on the influences of labor flexibilization for business management” by Hsu et al. (2021), the authors argue that flexibilization of work affects the employees’ performance. The aim of the article by Hsu et al. (2021) is to investigate whether work flexibilization has a positive effect...
The recently issued podcast “Not a great jobs report. Should we have seen it coming?” by Marketplace (2021) discusses employment problems in the United States. In the beginning, the anchor notes that 235 thousand new jobs were created in August, according to the Department of Labor, which reduced the overall...
The merit systems can enhance the employees’ rights protection and represent the total performance level changes. Such systems can be helpful in the performance management process by providing equal working opportunities for all employees. Ideally, the merit system principles contribute to rational human resource management and equal employment opportunities. By...
Building Supportive Relationships with the Team As a team leader, it is my responsibility to make sure that the team works as a single cohesive machine, with each member being able to interact in both professional and interpersonal capacity. For this purpose, it is necessary to build supportive relationships within...
What surprised me the most about the definition of conflict is that conflict resolution is the removal of the severity of the conflict between the parties, which does not eliminate the causes. Conflict management is purposeful due to objective laws influencing the dynamics of the conflict in the interests of...
Emotional intelligence is one of the most important traits when working with people and leading a business. It is not always possible to independently assess one’s emotional intelligence level, so it would be right to resort to special techniques for assessing your emotional intelligence. After completing a self-assessment, I was...
Recognizing Individuals In an organization, recognizing the effort of individuals and making them feel appreciated is an important part of the management process and is a necessity for facilitating a healthy workplace environment. As a leader, it is partially my responsibility to ensure that every team member has the ability...
Introduction HR analytics is a strategic tool. Organizations use it to manage companies. HR analytics implies collecting data for further analysis. Data are collected through operational reporting, advanced reporting, strategic analytics, and predictive analytics. These are used to achieve the company’s goals Operational Reporting Operational reporting is a type of...
Jeanette’s negative influence on quarterly meetings’ duration and flow is evident, making other members of the clinical practice committee want to leave their current positions. As the department’s supervisor, I would try to resolve the conflict by organizing a one-on-one conversation with Jeanette to communicate the problem to her and...
Introduction This program is created to address the issues of sexual harassment at the workplace and issues of diversity. The facilitator of the program must not necessarily be an individual with special knowledge on workplace sexual harassment and diversity at the workplace; however, they must demonstrate credibility and respect towards...
Nowadays, it is hard to imagine a successful modern company that would not manage the performance of its employees. In this regard, evaluating workers’ productivity, determining skills that require further development, and providing necessary training are crucial administrative functions that ensure the high efficiency of business operations. Therefore, the current...
There are numerous ways of peroneal selection to a business structure. Wardell (2013) provides a 3×3 hiring method that guarantees to help recruiting the best candidates. He believes that finding an effective way of recruiting employees ensures productive work of a company in operational and functional ways. The 3×3 method...
Ideally, improved effectiveness translates to scalable processes and supports faster growth of the organization’s revenue stream than its overhead costs. Implementing career coaching by the hiring manager has significantly improved effectiveness in the organization. Career coaching was not appreciated at all by the management at my place of work. The...
Despite numerous arguments supporting diversity and its benefits to organizations, some firms are still opposed to its adoption. McGuire (2014) explains resistance by arguing that it can take three forms. The first one is the political correctness of adopting diversity because people are often wary to adopt practices that exclude...
Job satisfaction is paramount for improved employee performance and productivity. According to Bauer and Erdogan (2012), pay is assumed to be the most significant employee motivating factor. On the contrary, the authors argue that job design influences employees’ job satisfaction the most. Focusing on my workplace, where I work as...
When pondering the fundamental objective of a newly created team, the notion of achievement is the first that comes to mind for most people. In order to secure the completion of the set goal, both the leader and the followers are to be motivated to perform efficiently. Hence, the phenomenon...
Positive organizational behavior implies a positive attitude to the work environment. With such an approach, I can focus on my goals more than on the previous errors and future failures. It also helps to reduce the amount of stress caused by overthinking every action during the business. Moreover, I am...
Providing a good working place that would lead to employee satisfaction is one of the main management functions. It is explained by the notion that content with one’s job is strongly associated with motivation and performance. Therefore, this paper will firstly discuss how to ensure adequate workplace safety and security...
Motivation refers to the factors that tend to influence an individual need to remain interested and committed to a particular goal, performance, or subject. To succeed in any position, everyone needs the motivation to pursue their course persistently. However, using inspiration to realize set goals first requires one to identify...
Nowadays, there is a relatively wide range of career possibilities. Therefore, HRs have to prepare accurate job descriptions in order to eliminate risks concerning their employees. If a job description fails to give an employee all the details that are connected with their job responsibilities, there is a strong chance...
I agree with the main points of the provided discussion and consider the described decision ethically good. However, I would like to further the final thought by adding that the decision benefits the customers as well and impacts their perception of the company’s ethics. Decisions that companies make to support...
Compensation has three key aspects, and they include direct, which covers bonuses, incentives, salaries, wages as well as commissions. The second component is indirect which comprises benefits offered by employers, while non-financial consist of flexible work hours, staff recognition programs and corporation support. Compensation policy of companies influences the perks...
Over the last 20 years, the concept of diversity in the workplace has been applied in public human resource management practices, as it is an essential asset in the work environment and acknowledges the strength of employees. The idea is enforced by law in which some legislations oversee diversity policies...
When I first started working, my intention was to get salary and sustain my needs. However, people at my workplace were the reason why I kept motivated to work. I liked how we interacted with each other, had fun together, and solved the problems. The workplace culture played a crucial...
Human resource management is a complex practice that aims to improve employee performance, motivation, conflict avoidance, and resolution. At the same time, this science combines knowledge about general trends and characteristics of human behavior and employees’ individual traits and needs. In their article, Cappelli and Tavis (2016) examine one of...
Modernization in the 21st society has increased the level of globalization, thus, interaction of people from diverse cultures, especially in the workplace. Cultural differences in the workplace provide the employees with new social experiences which could result in either success or failure of an organization. Various organizations have different levels...
In the contemporary business world, competition is very high, which increases the value of human capital and talent in the workplace. Performance excellence is the key goal that leads to company profitability and industry dominance. To ensure that employees contribute their best talents and skills to accomplish organizational goals, leadership...
It is important to stay creative for any company. Complacency can suppress the creative atmosphere in the workplace and, therefore, should be avoided. According to Catmull (2008), Pixar puts creative people at the front and empowers them to maintain their creativity throughout the whole production process. Teamwork is also important...
Introduction Many people from different spheres of our life change their living place, especially in the 21st century, when transportation and technologies made the process much simpler than before. However, every person may be influenced by returning home because of many psychological issues. On the other hand, there are many...
Introduction Janet, a young office manager at a local company, appears to have issues with motivation to move from her current position to begin a potentially risky project. While her job does provide financial stability, she feels dissatisfied with the lack of opportunities for personal growth. This case study will...
While hiring employees for a project, it will be vital to make sure that they can function as a team. To do this, I will inquire about their work experience, firstly in the field itself, and secondly, about their interpersonal interaction abilities. The employees’ knowledge of foreign languages is an...
The issue of gender pay inequality concerns the difference in average pay for work done by women and men within the same organization and poses extensive challenges for organizations. Such pay inequalities can result from variations in pay schemes. Some schemes allow lower wages and bonuses to be paid to...
Hi everyone, My name is X, and I am currently working towards my bachelor’s degree. I have several goals for my education, and although they might change in the course of the semester, I will work very hard to achieve them. Specifically, I aim to achieve and maintain a high-grade...
Diversity and inclusion are wide scale terms nowadays as companies are focusing on these to adjust their businesses and gain a competitive advantage. Diversity is the mix of individuals who present different races, cultures, and other elements that may divide people by specific criteria (Abdel-Rahman et al., 2021). Inclusion is...
Al-Hawari, M. A., Bani-Melhem, S., & Quratulain, S. (2019). Do frontline employees cope effectively with abusive supervision and customer incivility? Testing the effect of employee resilience. Journal of Business and Psychology. Web. This article is concerned with the impact of abusive supervision and customer incivility on frontline employees’ behavior. The...
Modern trends in workforce development are largely revolving around the COVID-19 epidemic. The reason why this topic was selected is because worldwide workforce situation has seen a major shift towards from-home work and a severe alteration in life-to-work balance (Volini et al., 2020). Effectively, it became a singular whole, and...
Introduction The most important tasks at the present stage of the development of American society are the preservation and growth of the population, improving the quality of human capital. The low life expectancy of the population is formed mainly due to the super-mortality of the population of working age. Against...
In my opinion, the majority of strategies applied to providing executive payment are somewhat unfair due to the exceptionally fast-growing net worths of large companies. With thousands of low-wage factory workers (usually from developing countries), the ratio between the executive’s and average worker’s payment can result in hundreds of times...
The issue of loyalty in the labor market can be highly controversial these days, and it depends on various factors. Clearly, there is much less loyalty in the employer-employee relationship than it was seventy years ago, during the time of rapid economic growth in the post-war societies of the West....
It is necessary to carry out large-scale and complex work to find a suitable person for the job. This process can include various components, depending on how closely managers approach the selection of candidates. While some jobs require just a diploma, other jobs require many general and specialized tests. However,...
Introduction The methods and techniques to increase employees’ motivation are one of the central topics in staff management. Managers investigate these methods through the thorough reading of different case studies describing businesses’ successful attempts to increase staff motivation. The article “Factors Affecting Motivation of Employees in the Public Sector: Case...
It has been acknowledged that motivation is one of the major factors contributing to employees’ high performance and commitment to organizational goals. A considerable bulk of research on the matter suggests that diverse aspects have an impact on employees’ motivation (Lorincová, Štarchoň, Weberová, Hitka, & Lipoldová, 2019; Frye, Kang, Huh,...
Nowadays, a combination of various factors led to American companies outsourcing moving their production abroad. Many American corporations refuse to comply with growing wages and (or) tax rates in the country and decide to move their operations overseas to less demanding job markets and a more pleasant tax climate. The...
Unemployment is a serious and issue in the United States, with millions of people affected every year. A person is defined as unemployed if they are not working although able but have been “actively looking” for a job for at least 4 weeks, or if they had been temporarily laid...
The article ‘A leader’s guide to why people behave the way they do’ is dedicated to the explanation of motivators of humans’ behavior. It is essential for a leader to clearly understand what makes a person act as he does because, otherwise, the leader loses the ability to influence him....
How Do Culture and Diversity Affect Organizations? Today, multicultural management is one of the developing management directions. However, the cultural diversity within the organization can cause many confusions among colleagues and, as a result, make the working atmosphere less comfortable (Hewstone, 2018). Even though multiculturalism cause problems for the organization,...
Control is one of the management functions, which is a thorough check and analysis of work progress. It is the observation of the processes of activity to prevent and eliminate deviations from them. The control implements the idea of feedback, the transfer of information from the output of the control...
According to the article by Catmull (2008), based on the example of Pixar, there is an inherent divide on the question of what is best in a striving company, good ideas or excellent professionals. It can be argued that an idea and creativity are critical, particularly in fostering innovation and...
It is hard to disagree that rules play a major role in any professional field. They allow employees to make the right choices and guide their decision-making in difficult situations or dilemmas. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides its Code of Professional Conduct so that practitioners, businesses, and...
In this training, the staff will be provided with basic instructions on how to behave in order to meet the calling and status of our family restaurant. The Country Cookin is more than just a cafeteria where one can get their fill, as all of the employees perceive their work...
Shrimp and other seafood are greatly loved in the United States of America. Americans consume 590 million kilograms of seafood every year and about 1.8 kg per individual (Kelly, 2018). Initially, seafood was a luxury that was only served during exceptional occasions, but it became cheaper a few years ago...
Studying organizational behavior (OB) is extremely important to master the art of motivating employees, ensuring the singleness of purpose, and maintaining positive employer-employee relationships. As the first chapter of the course text demonstrates, research efforts focused on OB support the retrieval of practice-oriented information on the determinants of the sense...
Background The National Petroleum Investment Management Services works under the directory of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, which was founded in the year 1977, with its headquarter located in Abuja, Nigeria. The corporation’s leadership is under Meye Kyari, who was appointed by the president to act as the group...
Introduction In general, the gender gap is defined as the difference between men and women reflected in political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural attainments and attitudes. In the area of economics, it characterizes the difference on the basis of gender in relation to salaries, representation in the workplace, and the...
Performance evaluation is key concept in human resource development. Human resource development is an effective strategy and the most effective capital of a company. Companies need to heavily invest their finances, energy and creativity towards employees’ development. Suitable model for human resource management Human resource development integrates actions and practices...
A well-designed workplace environment is an essential part of a quality work process. This paper presents an analysis of several work environment factors in a cleaning service company. The first vital parameters for creating a quality work environment are cultural competence and sensitivity. Cultural competence refers to an organization’s collective...
Litzky et al (2006) Employers who lead with a confident hand or spot an excessive amount of tension on deals standards might be unconsciously adding to their representatives’ deviant practices. Supervisors should figure out how to recognize the job that they play in setting off worker abnormality. 60% of all...
It is important for any leader to be able to motivate the followers and subordinates in order to ensure that there will be the necessary improvements put in place. In the case of an incentive system, it reinforces behaviors, such as competition, equity seeking, avoidance of negative reinforcements, and adherence...
Introduction This internal audit will be conducted as an activity to control the use of corporate laptops issued to employees of the enterprise. It will be organized to quickly identify and correct factors that reduce the efficiency and quality of work performed by employees from home. These factors, in turn,...
Feng, J., & Wang, C. (2019). Does abusive supervision always promote employees to hide knowledge? From both reactance and COR perspectives. Journal of Knowledge Management, 23(7), 1455-1474. Web. Knowledge management and sharing are important elements of the effective functioning of modern organizations operating in diverse settings, including the transportation sphere....
Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory of Motivation summarizes factors that bring job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Motivating factors are found within a job and include recognition, the work itself, responsibility, achievement, and advancement. When present, these factors increase employee job satisfaction and cause them to work harder. On the other hand, hygiene factors...
In order to attract and retain a qualified workforce, employers need to offer employees certain benefits. Benefits can come in many forms, ranging from paid time off and insurance plans for different scenarios to retirement plans (Nigro & Kellough, 2014). Yet while monetary benefits are certainly valuable, one could argue...
Description of the Situation The hospitality industry has been on the receiving end of high turnover over the years. This is especially common in luxury resorts where the cost of hiring new employees is astronomical (Dwesini, 2019). Mangers encounter difficulties when it comes to finding, attracting, and retaining quality employees....
A new social media policy and acknowledgment is an event that needs to be appropriately delegated to employees. For the most effective familiarization of team members with the new requirements, the manager needs to follow a series of steps that will help him to communicate correctly with employees. First of...
To: Mr. Johnson From: Caroline James Date: June 17, 2021 Subject: Recruitment, Retention and Motivational Challenge There is stiff competition in the labor market as businesses around us are looking for expansion and have new positions to accommodate new employees. From a human resource perspective, the organization has a lot...
Recently, with the advent of affordable technical opportunities for everyone, more and more offices have been equipped with surveillance cameras. And if this method of controlling employees is convenient and practical for employers, employees most often experience stress from such close attention from their superiors. Staff members often wonder if...
Nowadays, employers are resorting to using the Internet to hunt for job seekers. The web platform is a savior to the employers because they can inform the whole world about job openings in their organizations at the click of a button. We cannot appreciate the usefulness of the Internet-based recruitment...
In countless instances, the concepts around job and employment tend to dominate the minds of many people around the world. In essence, it is a major component of life that remains predominantly paramount in various ways in existence. Both seekers and providers share common ground when it comes to the...
