Employees, the strongest pillar of the organization are the most valuable asset that contributes significantly to its success and prosperity. The involvement of employees in the organizational operation not only motivates them but also enables them to contribute more effectively and efficiently. Further, employee involvement as a process involving participation, communication, decision making which leads to industrial democracy and employee motivation. Employee involvement is defined as a commitment of the employees towards the values of the organisation and willingness to help each other to achieve the organisational goal. The results are not only to increase job satisfaction, or motivation but the increasing performance of that organisation.… Read the rest
HRM Concepts
Effects of Job Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction on Employee Behavior
Job satisfaction is related to the positive feeling an employee perceives about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. Jobs require interaction with coworkers and bosses, following organizational rules and policies, meeting performance standards, living with working conditions. It has been identified that a positive relationship exists between a person’s job satisfaction level and holding of positive feelings about the same concerned job whereas a person dissatisfied with his job carries negative feelings about the job and organization. Every organization works towards having satisfied employees.
When employees are dissatisfied with their jobs, lack job involvement and are low in their commitment to the organization, a wide variety of consequences follows in.… Read the rest
Effect of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment on Individuals Behavior
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment are the two of the prominent work attitudes that seen in the work environment. Job satisfaction is an emotional response to a job situation while organizational commitment is the strong feeling of responsibility an employee has towards the mission of the organization.
Job satisfaction is simply how people feel about their jobs and different aspects of their job. People can either like (satisfaction) and dislike (dissatisfaction) their job. According to Frederick Herzberg, he believed that employees can like their job because various contributions it has. These contribution involves the work itself, pay, promotions, job achievement, co-worker, supervision and benefits contribute to employees satisfy with their job.… Read the rest
Four Major Theories of Training and Development
Competitive advantage is referred to that ability of an organization which is not possessed by the other organizations and it is a competitive advantage which leads the organization to the top positions. There are many organizations in the world who are leading the markets by gaining competitive advantage in different fields of their business activities. One of the way in which a firm can attain a competitive advantage over the competitors is by building a force of superior human resource. Now the question arises that how this force of superior human resource can be build. The answer lies in a very important function of human resource management i.e.… Read the rest
Social Recruiting – Using Social Media in the Recruitment Process
Social recruiting or otherwise known as the Social media recruitment is the next big thing on the cards. A lot of companies have started using Web 2.0 applications for recruitment purposes. Web 2.0 is the second generation Internet-based services which is different from the first generation static Web sites with little interaction. Popular Web 2.0 applications include the social media/networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc), blogs, podcasts (Podcast Alley, iTunes), video sharing sites (YouTube, FlickR), mobile apps, etc. Today LinkedIn and Facebook has become a powerful tool in recruitment. LinkedIn is a social networking website meant specifically for networking amongst working professionals.… Read the rest
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) – Definition, Benefits and Risks
Definition of Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is the process where an employer outsources or transfers all or part of its recruitment activities to expert services of a third party (generally professional consultants).
The Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association defines RPO as follows: “when a provider acts as a company’s internal recruitment function for a portion or all of its jobs, RPO providers manage the entire recruitment/hiring process from job profiling through the on-boarding of the new hire, including staff, technology, method and reporting.”
RPO and other types of occasional recruitment support, contingency and executive search services differ majorly in the “Process”.… Read the rest