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Work Life balance blog -10

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Work Life balance https://www.muslimmarriageguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Work-Life-Balance2-798x350.jpg In organizations and on the home front, the challenge of work/life balance is rising to the top of many employers’ and employees’ consciousness. In today’s fast-paced society, human resource professionals seek options to positively impact the bottom line of their companies, improve employee morale, retain employees with valuable company knowledge, and keep pace with workplace trends. Work-life balance is defined here as an individual’s ability to meet their work and family commitments, as well as other non-work responsibilities and activities. Work life balance, in addition to the relations between work and family functions, also involves other roles in other areas of life. Work-life balance has been defined differently by different scholars. In order to broaden our perspectives, some definitions will be presented. Greenhaus (2002) defined work –life bal...
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Knowledge Management blog-9

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Knowledge Management   https://www.concerninglearningllc.com/content/uploads/2013/03/Knowledge-Management.jpg Knowledge Management is now one of the major driving forces of organizational change and wealth creation. Business is all about convincing people for a deal, to convince you need information or knowledge about the product or service that   you are selling, organizations are more concern over on the information and knowledge which support to finalize a sale, leaning and development departments are empowered to provide such training to the staff. Some companies define intellectual capital in termsof value creation, for others it is value extraction. It was defined by Tan (2000: 10) as:‘The process of systematically and actively managingand leveraging the stores of knowledge in anorganization.’ As Ulrich (1998: 126) remarked: ‘Knowledge has become a direct competitive advantagefor companies selling ideas and relationships.’Nonaka (1991) suggested th...
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Workplace diversity blog-8

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Workplace diversity Source : http://greatpeopleinside.com/workplace-diversity-training/   The world’s increasing globalization requires more interaction among people from diverse backgrounds. People no longer live and work in an insular environment, they are now part of a worldwide economy competing within a global framework. For this reason organizations need to become more diversified to remain competitive. Maximizing and capitalizing on workplace diversity is an important issue for management.  Diversity can generally be defined as recognising, understanding and accepting individual differences irrespective of their race, gender, age, class, ethnicity, physical ability, race. Sexual orientation, spiritual practice and so on. Grobler (2002:46) also supports this view by adding that each individual is unique but also share any number of environmental or biological characteristics   Diversity can be classified into two dimensions. The primary dim...
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Negotiation in Business world blog-7

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Source : https://problogger.com/7-essential-negotiation-skills-for-bloggers-and-marketers/ Negotiation in Business world In todays business word each and every activity which related to business   has been observed and led to development, in this century negotiation has been coming up topic in corporate sector which can lead to enhance the business productivity. Negotiation can be defined as a channel of communication intended to reconcile differences between parties and to settle conflict jointly. The parties aim at achieving a win-win position. Business Negotiations requires a lot of homework, such as asking what is the need of negotiation, who all are involved, what are their view points, what are your aims, what is expected from negotiation, etc. Negotiation involves minimum of two parties. The aim of negotiation is understood by both parties. The parties are willing to arrive at a mutually agreeable outcome. The outcome is acceptable to both ...
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Job Design blog-6

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Source: https://www.google.lk/search?biw=1366&bih=662&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=YxQuW8pc0_v1A4DStaAH&q : Job Design Designing a job is a challenging task for HR in an organization, HR act as a middle man in this scenario, understanding the organizations need and expectation on a job role should be reflected from the recruitment, further the applicant should be agree for the organizations expectation towards his/her’s   perks and benefits he/she supports to get from the organization Job design can be defined as “the specification of the contents, methods, and relationships of jobs in order to   satisfy technological and o rganizational requirements as well as the social and personal requirements of the job holder” (Armstrong, 2003, p. 494). According to another definition, job design “is the functions of arranging task, duties and responsibilities in to an organizational un it of work” (Ali and Aroosiya, 2012, p. 4).   Job design should ...
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Performance Management blog-5

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https://advancesystems.ie/find-right-staff-performance-management-software/ Performance Management Dr Elaine Pulakos of executive vice president and director of the Washington, D.C. of the office of Personnel Decisions Research Institute (PDRI) says in her research on Performance management systems   , which typically include performance appraisal and employee development, are the “Achilles’ heel” of human resources management. They suffer flaws in many organizations, with employees and managers regularly bemoaning their ineffectiveness. Further A recent survey by Watson Wyatt of Personnel Decisions Research Institute (PDRI)   shows   that only three out of 10 workers agree that their company’s performance management system helps improve performance. Less than 40 percent of employees said their systems established clear performance goals, generated honest feedback or used technology to streamline the process. The book titled “Performance Managemen...
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Employee Engagement blog-4

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Employee Engagement   https://slco.org/human-resources/employee-engagement   Having a committed and engaged workforce is an important part to achieve the organizations goal, targets . Organizations treat employees as its capital, there for managing human capital to a productive pathway should be more defined and planned,  A study by Maniam Kaliannana, Samuel Narh Adjovu on the Effective employee engagement and organizational success: a case study express few important points about employee engagement, m aking employees to feel the job and actively involved in the job is very much changeable. Employee engagement is based on trust, integrity, two way commitment and communication between an organisation and its members. It is an approach that increases the chances of business success, contributing to organisational and individual performance, Productivity and well-being. It varies from poor to great. It can be nurtured and dramatically increa...
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