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Managing Flexible Work Arrangements

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  In the twenty-first century, flexible working arrangements (FWA) are both vital and relevant in the workplace. Organizations have the challenge of balancing their employees’ work-life balance in order to reduce all of the problems that come with it while maintaining efficient and effective performance. As a result of the benefits associated with flexibility for both employees and employers, many businesses offer flexible working arrangements to their personnel. One of the most common benefits is greatly increased employee and organizational performance. It also promotes a healthy work-life balance, resulting in less stress and better wellbeing for employees, as well as lower absenteeism and staff turnover for the company (Stella et al., 2020).  Flexible work arrangements are any arrangements that allow an employee to work outside of conventional office hours or at a traditional work location. Flexibility can be achieved without modifying a department’s regular operating hour...

Team Building

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  Figure 01:  (Mojica, 2019) The best results are attained when a group works well together. Employers like to hire people who can operate well in groups for this reason. Effective team builders can help organizations collaborate more effectively and achieve their goals. Many different types of jobs necessitate the ability to build and manage a successful team. If you’re applying for a job that requires you to manage or operate as part of a team, you’ll need to show that you can work well with others. Any activity or technique that brings a group together and motivates them to collaborate is known as team building. The goal of every team-building activity is to create a more cohesive group of employees  (Mojica, 2019). Team building activities and games 1.       Zombie Escape 2.       Battle of the Air bands 3.       A Shrinking Vessel 4.       Back-to-back drawing 5. ...

HR Architecture

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  Since the 1980s, companies’ never-ending rounds of restructuring and re-engineering have reshaped the new employee relationship (Wright , 1995) . Employers have been driven to construct labor forces that are exceptionally flexible and cost-effective due to continued cost pressures and the requirement for quick market reactions. As a result, the changing paradigm for this work relationship has taken on a variety of shapes. Several HR architectural models clearly suggest a differentiated investment strategy for different employee groups. HR architecture is the policies, procedures, processes, systems, and tools available in the various key result areas of HR are used to align the organization’s strategic and annual plans, as well as the strategic and annual plans of the individual departments, with the key result areas of human resource management. The HR architecture includes HR technology, processes, and structure, as well as employee behaviors. It is a full portrayal of all ...

Managing Diversity in the Workplace

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  Figure 01: Managing diversity in the workplace In today’s business world, diversity management is extremely important. This is because workplace equality and diversity can result in better-functioning teams, happier employees, and, on top of that, more profitability. Diversity management can make all of this a reality, even though it sounds like an HR manager’s imagination. What is diversity management in the workplace? Diversity management in the workplace is the process of building a varied and inclusive work environment. It recognizes that each employee brings something unique to the table. allowing the company to flourish and succeed as a result. The general assumption is that when employees from various backgrounds work together, creative problem-solving processes flourish. This is due in part to a growth in the number of different points of view. How to manage diversity in the workplace? When it comes to managing workplace diversity, HR managers have a unique set of...

Job evaluation

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  For determining compensation for diverse jobs, internal equity and consistency among different job holders are crucial. Job evaluation aims to accomplish this equity and consistency by evaluating the relative worth of various positions within a company. The process of determining the relative value of distinct job categories by assessing their duties and, as a result, determining their remuneration is known as job evaluation. As a result, job evaluation is the process of identifying and quantifying employment worth. It is the process of systematically rating and comparing jobs based on organizationally specified criteria of job worth, such as effort, responsibility, complexity, importance, skills, and working circumstances. A tool for comparing jobs and classifying them into acceptable wage ranges is job evaluation. Job Evaluation Definition The process of determining how much compensation to allot to a job is called “a job evaluation.” Internal and external facts are used to...

360-Degree Feedback

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  Many employees want feedback to understand how they’re doing in comparison to expectations and how to improve. However, while many employees want feedback, it may not come as frequently as they’d like. Often, the only input they receive is at their annual review from a manager. Recognition and constructive criticism are essential for leadership growth, and receiving feedback from a variety of sources throughout the year can make employees feel more successful and respected. This is where 360-degree feedback arrives. If your organization doesn’t use peer-to-peer feedback, 360-degree feedback can help your employees change how they relate to and engage with one another  (Wooll, 2021) . What is 360-degree feedback?  360-degree feedback is a strategy and instrument that allows each employee to receive performance evaluations from four to eight peers, reporting staff members, coworkers, and consumers. Each individual responds differently to most 360-degree feedback tools...

How work load impact on occupational stress?.

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  Work load can be recorded as the maximum capacity of the machine or any employee which they can bear up in the delivery of the desired outcome. The workload needed to have clear definition in job specification in each employee in order to have the clear understanding on the outcome required in the respective time (Lanz & Bruk‐Lee, 2017) . Higher work load which reaches the unlimited level and unbearable level is causing higher impacts and recording in the disadvantages in the organizational setting. Occupational stress can be recorded as the psychological stress in the working place which is caused due to many reasons. There are different disadvantages in the occupations stress and it is very important to avoided these to have the satisfactory outcome in the organization (Järvelin-Pasanen et al., 2018) .     It is very important to understand the relationship between the workload and the occupational stress and the management of employees in better direction...