Organisational Values – Definition, Sources, Advantages and Disadvantages

An organisation is an artifact, social entity, has structured activities, nominal boundaries and it is goal directed. Values can be explained in few perspectives according to various sources. In ethics, value represents importance of physical and abstract objects which is ideal accepted by individual or group. It can be also defined as qualities that are considered worthwhile that represent an individual’s highest priorities and deeply held driving forces. Values are often admixture with knowledge, norms and beliefs. Beliefs can be proven right or wrong by one but not values. Beliefs may vary by cohort, time, geographical differences but values are universal, true for anybody at any time, whenever an individual is. Organisational values are ethical codes that guide behavior by putting assumptions into practice. It also serves as qualities that an organisation appreciates and would require members of the organisation to chase after. Organisational values are ideology of an organisation Continue reading

Strategies to Reduce Employee Turnover

Today, most of the companies believed that in order to achieve and sustained effectively, human resource management (HRM) needs to be efficient. Effective HRM can be main factor for the success of an organization. In the new economy, it has become a trend of employees staying on for a short duration in any one organization, which results to many problems. Failure in managing human capital will create fatal problems to the company. Therefore, most of the organizations, both domestic companies and multinational corporations (MNCs) tend to focus more on HRM as a key of success. 1. Hiring the Right People Hiring the right people from the start would also reduce employee turnover. Managers should have a clear idea of the types of people they want to hire for each position, write detailed job descriptions and commit to hiring the best candidates rather than the first candidates who meet minimum requirements. Continue reading

Talent Management Strategy

In simple terms Talent Management is getting the right people with the right skills into the right jobs. CIPD defines talent management as “the systematic attraction, identification, development, engagement/ retention and deployment of those individuals who are of particular value to an organisation, either in view of their ‘high potential’ for the future or because they are fulfilling business/operation-critical roles”. It is also told that talent management should begin with the identification of key positions that delivers sustainable competitive advantage to the organisation. This way there has to be more differentiation in the roles within an organisation which would create an exceptional impact by those individuals who would deliver sustainable competitive advantage to an organisation against the average backups. These people are important for the successful continuity of the organisation. A highly efficient HR structure has to be in place to fill in the key positions with these highly talented Continue reading

Responsibilities of International Human Resource Management (IHRM)

The numbers of growing large and small organization, which influence by inter nationalization of organization. That also increases the number of international organization and international employees. This scenario increases the interest of International human resource management (IHRM). There is a broad area to understanding of HRM practices on international level. The internationalization of organization is creates more value for the business but as well as it is also arises many issues. The ethical and social issues are one of them. International human resources management has some specific characteristics compared to the common human resource management, such as it has more functions and activities, the international idea and the global judgment, more involves employee’s individual life. The changes in key emphasis of works, and a bigger risk will receive more external factors influence. IHRM pays great attention to the strategic environment analysis. It also needs to attach importance to “the Trans-Culture Continue reading

Importance of Aligning Human Resource Processes with Business strategy

Strategic alignment these terms are some of the phrases which are being used to explain the latest, evolving function of human resources process. The aligning human resource processes with business strategy about the growth of the business, increasing the performance of the employees and keeping the costs under a control. Which means the employee satisfaction and benefits provide to the population as they are not the strategic goals, but they are tools to reach the goals important for the whole organization. The importance of the alignment of the human resource process with business strategy is about going deeper and finding the real root components of the successful human capital management in the organization. The HR Managers have to identify the real goals of the business, the business way how to reach the goals and the real needs of the business from Human Resources. The HR tends to take care of Continue reading

Comprehensive Human Resource Strategy

Human Resource Management plays an important role in the enhancing the performance of employees in the organization. The efficient HRM policies are being designed in an organization to enhance the performance level to its maximum. Human resource management (HRM) is the process of linking the human resource functions with the strategic objectives of the organization in order to improve performance. We may call in the way that human resource management holds the central live blood role in any organization. An important aspect of an organization’s business focus and direction towards achieving high levels of competency and competitiveness would depend very much upon their human resource management practices to contribute effectively towards profitability, quality, and other goals in line with the mission and vision of the company. A comprehensive Human Resource Strategy plays a vital role in the achievement of an organization’s overall strategic objectives and visibly illustrates that the human Continue reading