Human Resource Concepts

Reward System – Meaning, Objectives and Requirements

Reward is an objective way to describe the positive value an individual ascribes to an object, behavioral act or an internal physical state. Primary rewards include those that are necessary for the survival of species, such as food and successful aggression. Secondary rewards can be derived from primary rewards. Money is a common type of reward. Most of the times, organization rewards its staffs by pay increment or higher bonus. Money is the most direct and easiest way to reward the staff and create a sense of satisfaction.

Nowadays, companies are making many modifications on their rewards system to adopt internal and external changes.… Read the rest

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What is Workforce Diversity?

Workforce diversity is when a job hires people that are different or similar and puts them in the same workplace to work together. It’s basically the bringing together of different people to one workplace. Some things that would make them similar or different could be their age, background, physical abilities, disabilities, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.

Workforce diversity is important because it lets companies grow and become more competitive. With workforce diversity comes many great perks and benefits such as creativity, innovation, and a great reputation. Having diversity in the workplace gives a company a lot of great and different types of talent.… Read the rest

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Learning Styles

Learning style refers to the ability of an individual to learn. A manager’s long-term success depends more on the ability to learn than on the mastery of the specific skills or technical knowledge.

Kolb’s Learning Styles Model

Kolb’s model of learning styles is one of the best-known and widely used learning style theories.  Kolb’s learning theory sets out  four distinct learning styles  (or preferences), which are based on  a four-stage learning cycle.  Much of Kolb’s theory is concerned with the learner’s internal cognitive processes.

“Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from the combination of grasping experience and transforming it.”

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Strategic Human Resource Management Process

Human resource management (HRM) is that part of management process which makes, enhances, manages and develops the human element of the enterprise measuring their resourcefulness in terms of talents, abilities, total skills, creative, knowledge, and potentialities for effectively contributing to the organizational objectives. Human resources are precious and a source of competitive advantage. Human resources may be tapped most effective by mutually standard policies which promote promise and foster an inclination in employees to act flexibly in the interests of the adaptive organization’s pursuit of excellence.

Human resource policies can be joined with planned business and used to reinforce appropriate culture.… Read the rest

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Non Traditional HR Approaches: Investment in Disabled Employees

Before we move on to the core of the issue, we must define what disability or being disabled means

 “Someone who is disabled has an illness, injury or condition that tends to restrict the way they live their life, especially by making it difficult for them to move about.”

Thus, the employee, who is working for the organization, will be termed disabled if he/she is suffering from an injury or illness which affects or restricts them from performing their job effectively.

There can be two types of disabled employees

1. Disabled – while employed: i.e. the person was fit and sound during the start of employment relationship, however, during the tenure of his/her service he turned disable, which can be either:

  • On-the-job: This is during the work hours while working at premises.
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Conflict in Organizations

Conflict occurs at various levels within the individuals, between the individuals in a group and between the groups in an organisation. An issue between two or more parties who have (or think they have) incompatible goals or ideas. Conflicts may involve deep-rooted moral or value differences, high stakes distributional questions, or can be about who dominates whom. Conflict is a perpetual given of life, although varying views of it may be held. Some may view conflict as being a negative situation which must be avoided at any cost. Others may see conflict as being a phenomenon which necessitates management. Still others may consider conflict as being an exciting opportunity for personal growth and so try to use it to his or her best advantage.… Read the rest

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