Family business can be describe when business own by one or more families members directly or indirectly and have significant ownership and commitment toward the business well being. Family business can be consist of numerous combination of family members such as husband and wife, parents and child, extended family and also multiple generations such as grandfather, father and son. These family members also play roles as stakeholder, board members, working partners, adviser and employees for the company. Generally there are three different stages of family business had gone through in order for the business to growth from inception to maturity. Different skills are required in each stage and family issues might happen when the business moving from one stage to another stage. The first stage is called as start up stage where the business is still new and varies from 1st to 5th year after the company started to venture Continue reading
Modern HRM
Role of Human Resources in Business Environment Improvement
In order to improve the overall business environment, the organisation structure should be resolving its business trends with its various competitors. The Human resource management which is one of the best and which provides the solutions to the consumers and deals with the various issues which are mostly due to the members in the organisation which are efficiently approached with the various activities involved. The most important and key issues which relates by making use of the human resources which constitute which are planning of the human resource, recruitment of the various staff required for the organisation, performance management, giving training and development, relation between the members of the organisation. The various activities which the human resource management deals with the members of the organisation are allocating the various rules and the policies and the various means of the utilization of the human resource development. The various needs and necessities Continue reading
General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE)
Self-efficacy can be defined as an individual’s belief concerning their ability to meet desired outcomes in life and was first introduced by Albert Bandura. Bandura sets an establishment of relationship between a person’s own perceived self-efficacy and their attempt he/she is willing to expend to face challenges and goals throughout their life, specifically cognitive, affective, and motivational. The Cognitive Social Theory was framed by Bandura and his perceived self-efficacy which then became widespread as Mathias Jerusalem and Ralf Schwarzer established the one-dimensional, universal construct of the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE). The General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) was later created by Jerusalem and Schwarzer which was developed in German in 1979. It later was adapted into 26 other languages by a various number of co-authors and was originally twenty items but was reduced to 10 in 1981. Actions can be seen as preshaped in thought and once certain actions are thought of Continue reading
Importance of Leadership for Organizational Excellence
A leader is someone who exercise influence over subordinate and other people without using threats or power for the only sake of the benefit or welfare of the community or groups so chosen or elected him/her as their leader. It would not be meaningless to say that a leader is someone who influences others through motivation and people likes to obey him or her willfully not in compulsion. A leader is person who represents the urges and requirements of his community or group and his all actions are only for the welfare and benefits of his groups. Generally leaders are of two kinds’ formal leaders and informal leaders. A leader who is appointed as leader and has been delegated some power under the shelter of a particular rank or position to perform the particular object. A formal leader is not a natural leader because such leaders are selected or elected Continue reading
The Strategic Role of Human Resource Management
Human resource development is the process of assisting employees in a certain organization to improve their personal and organizational skills, their abilities, and use of knowledge. This includes helping them through taking them for training, career development courses, organizational and performance management. The main aim of human resource development is to develop an advanced workforce that will enable the organization to achieve its goals and offer the best to its customers. Human resource development can be done from within the organization or from outside the organization. It can also be done formally such as a planned organizational change, offering classroom training to employees or taking them through a certain college course, or informally where a manager may decide to coach the employees on a particular issue. Human resource development in any organization is the role of human resource management. This deals with all the matters of the employees. This article, Continue reading
Factors Influencing International Compensation
Recently, the dilemma between sector and cultural predictors of compensation policies has become a public concern, and is extremely important in the background of internationalization. Even some well-known cultural traditions at working styles of many countries, examples like the Industry Wide Bargaining of Germany, the Lifetime Employment of Japan and the Wide-range Social Safety Net of France, now are facing the threats of being damaged owing to the big pressures from economic globalization. As a result, multinational employers are facing unprecedented challenges when choosing a job due to the pressures of economic globalization and market economy. The growth of global economy plays a major role in general business, especially in the areas of human resource management. It has been at the agenda of company leaders to chase the qualification of global mind-sets by which they used to meet the challenges brought by the trend of globalization of economy and create Continue reading