Journey Towards Becoming a Master in Managing People and Organizations

Although in time ethics was defined in many ways, these fields were focused on the ethical principles and standards that should govern human interaction. Ethical ideals such as honesty, truth, fairness are standards for how people should treat each other. Ethical concepts such as rights, duties, and responsibilities build the structure of social relations. They define the field of individual authority and specify what exactly do individuals owe to each other and what they owe to the community (Carter, 2015). Ethical issues faced by HRM Employment issues One of the major issues of HR professionals face is when hiring employees. For example, most of the companies tend to pressure to hire a friend or relative of a highly placed executive. Another problem is faked credentials are submitted by a job applicant (Deutsch, 2017). In one hand there can be situations that you are discovered that employee who has been with the organization for some time, is skilled and has establis...

What is Organizational Culture? Culture is an arrangement of different attributes that express an organization and differentiate the firm from another one (Forehand, 1964). Culture is the collective thinking of minds that create a difference between the members of one group from another (Hofstede, 2003). The workplace is where you spend more than a third of your life. Of course, if your employee is happy and content at work, it will reflect in his overall personality and growth as a human (Bhardwaj, 2016). The collective effect of a good work environment is much more than increased productivity and employee satisfaction. The impact is on the overall personality of people who work for the organization. Why Culture is important? Culture builds brand identity When you define culture, you also define the company's values and goals. These will contribute to your company's mission and show your employees and the public what is most important to the brand (Al...

What is Globalization? Globalization is such that the world is united in a market with the current growth in the world markets and go beyond national borders. Globalization is the socio-economic integration worldwide and it is one of the most popular topics in the international economy. It's a process their Events, decisions, and movements that occur in a part of the world affect the other parts in a meaningful way (Pradhan, 2010). Due to globalization, employment relations have affected the whole world. In recent decades, there have been many changes in economic policy worldwide. Globalization points to combining countries in the world economy through the increased transaction, investment, short-term capital flows and the migration of qualified and unskilled workers internationally (Anon., 2016) The Relationship between Globalization and Employment After the end of World War II, progress in many Asian countries appears to be significant the result of globaliz...

Employee engagement is described in HR literature as, the enthusiasm that employees feel about their work (Roberts & Davenport, 2002). When you improve employee engagement, you improve performance and thereby increase your own value as an HR professional (Chow, 2019). HR teams can take some important steps to ensure better employee engagement and effective communication. Here are some important drivers followed by product-based software companies on employee engagement: Develop clear internal lines of communication and execute the strategy effectively within the company. Getting your employees on board with your business strategy will effectively make every person in the company a valuable brand ambassador who can help further improve the business goals (Anon., n.d.).Therefore software companies that do are like maintain cloud-based documents that outline the strategy. Implement training programs that emphasize actionable ways to implement the business strategy. Mana...

Traditional performance management has proven to be insufficient to assess an employee's contribution. Its focus is to set up a series of processes to measure employee performance throughout the year. These processes lead to an unforeseen effect of managers focusing on employee weaknesses. (Pawar, 2016) Therefore, a more dynamic performance management practice was needed which could be developed and adapted to the changing environment. Thus, Agile Performance Management was introduced. Its three main aspects are regular feedback, communication, and coaching. These aspects bridge the gap between goal setting and performance evaluation. (Maier, 2017) Nowadays most of the IT organizations follow this agile performance management which allows for the real-time feedback conversations that employees want to move to the forefront. Because “Waiting once a year (for a performance review) doesn’t work. It’s time to move to real-time pay for performance, with frequent tou...

What is Job Design? Job Design is the process of various elements to form a job, both organizational and individual worker requirements. It typically refers to the way that all tasks or position is organized. (Anon., 2005) Benefits of Job Design Employee Input: The best job design enables good job feedback. Employees have the freedom to select their own work tasks. Employee Training: Training is an important part of job design, so employees are well known about their job demands and when and how it is to be done. Work / Rest Schedules: Job design suggest good work and rest schedule by clearly defining the number of hours an individual employee must spend in his or her job. Occupation structured is endless and consistently developing a procedure that is helping employees modify with changes in the work environment. The last objective is diminishing disappointment and worker commitment to the working environment and upgrading inspiration.  (Anon., n.d.) Employe...

Employee Relationship Management (ERM) is a human management aspect that affects the performance of small and large organizations in the 21st century (George, et al., 2008). Today most of the organizations focus on technology for improving employee relationships. If management does not assume employee-centered values, the above-mentioned techniques can result in spreading negative and low morale rather than having a positive impact on the employees' attitude and morality (Armstrong & M., 2006). ERM can be defined as a process that companies use to effectively manage all interactions with employees, ultimately to achieve the goals of the organization (Oluchi & O,, 2013). It also suggested that it involves communication and relationship between management and its employees, aimed at maintaining employment relationships that ultimately contribute to employee productivity, job satisfaction, motivation, and morale (George, et al., 2008). Employee Relationship Managemen...

One of the fundamental concepts of Industry 4.0 is “smart factory” (Lasi, et al., 2014). With the use of technological concepts, companies are reaching higher targets. Russmann et al. (Philipp Gerbert, 2015) found that smart factory Industry 4.0 concepts will make production systems as much as 30 percent faster and 25 percent more efficient. With the implementation and usage of smart factory concepts, the manufacturing site is facing with new boundary conditions. To bypass the limitations of traditional training, computer-aided technologies for training purposes need to be developed and deployed in the existing IT and organizational infrastructures of the manufacturers. Hence, automated learning systems are vital to the smart factory (Kang Hyoung, 2016). In this context, computer-based training is a solution. With the popularization of e-learning systems, many companies have developed computer-based training programs for their employees (Ugljesa Marjanovic, 2016). Widening of S...

The biggest challenge for an organization can be re-shaping their workforce, targeting on how they can make a more adaptive workforce by using predictive intelligence, how to secure talent from evolving sources, and reskilling current workers for their future. Through an agile and targeted approach to workforce planning, organizations can reduce costs and increase productivity. (Deas, 2017) The best example is Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, who did the same thing. Ford introduced the Moving Assembly line to capitalize on gigantic automation and a population that was increasingly urban, rather than rural. At last, he managed to reduce employee’s turnover and created an entire market for himself. All the while, he created work principles still in use today.   (Anon., n.d.) To be the competitor, Build a workforce formed by insights Investing in Predictive Intelligence that places the foundation for enhanced decisions, supports a more agile workforce a...

What is Personnel Management? Before Human Resource Management took place in the industry the Personnel Management was a major part of management that focused on recruiting, hiring, staffing, developing, and compensation of the workforce and their relationship with the organization to achieve its objectives. The key functions of the personnel management can be divided into two categories as follow,    Operative Functions: The activities that are concerned with procurement, development, compensation, job evaluation, employee welfare, utilization, maintenance, and collective bargaining.       Managerial Function: Planning, Organizing, Directing, Motivation, Control, and Coordination are the basic managerial activities performed by Personnel Management. With the technological evolution and the process of replacing the machines by human power, simultaneously this branch of management also has been taken over by Human Resource Managem...

Have you ever thought in your life as a professional, why you really want to be thorough in Managing people and organizations? Why you should have to improve your knowledge, skill set when it comes to serving your people or organization? It’s true that everyone in this society is either bonded with responsibilities or holds a good position in the rising industry. But still there is one question left,  Where should I end up this journey? Becoming a lion who leads his pack or to be one in the pack who follows the leader or captain. It’s time to think and see yourself in the future as a true leader or a professional who is managing your people and organization. There’s a saying that leaders are born, but there are a lot more to learn yourself, to improve yourself and to develop you as a leading character in the industry where you can serve, handle your people and manage the organization. Therefore, let’s begin this journey towards learning People and Organizations – Prac...