Samantha Abeywardena MBA blog

  1 .   Different HRM principles and practices used in the world There are many principles and practices regarding Human Resource Management in the global context. First, this document explains the recruiting and selecting practices and principles   (Adonoo, 2011) . When recruiting and selecting people, the first organization looks at how many employees are needed and how many we are going to recruit. Further, that should be based on the budget of the organization and the short-term and long-term objectives of the organization.  Organizations try to always recruit qualified candidates and encouraging others to step out from the organization. When developing the human capital of the organization, entities more often give the in-house and off-set training, as well as entities, may guide the employees regarding change management and performance management with the help of Human Resource Management specialists   (Adonoo, 2011) . Another factor is rewarding the emp...

  1   HRM changes according to the current era. In the past, organizations recruit employees for the vacancies available in the organization but in the 21 st century, Human Resource Departments try to recruit new talents who can compete in the market to get a competitive advantage for the organization   (Nasir, 2017) .  Because now organizations trend to fill their employees with the people who can gain competitive advantage. In the industry, there are more opportunities available for job seekers with globalization. However, organizations also change their policy regarding recruiting people. Moreover, organizations tend to increase the capabilities of human resources in order to achieve a competitive advantage. Therefore, organizations tend to give more opportunities such as workshops, sponsoring degree programs, and master degree programs to make employees more knowledgeable and skillful. Further, HRM departments of the organizations try to increase the loya...

  1 .    How highly educated and trained employees contribute to the organizations When there are educated employees, that makes the higher productivity in the organization. Educated and well-trained employees are very efficient and effective and result in more productivity   (Katzenbach, 2006) .  The well-educated and trained employees are paid high salaries, which may lead to motivate and encourage them to focus on high performance. Moreover, these employees are assets for the organization and the organization needs to protect these employees and give more incentives to retain them in the organization and reduce the turnover of the employees.  These employees’ knowledge is a resource that leads the organization to its success   (Dr. Trent Kaufman, 2013) . Employees’ knowledge can be used to compete with the other rivals in the industry. When the organization has these kinds of employees, they can make strategies for the organization which leads to ...

  1.       Relationship between employee motivation and organizational goals. Motivation is the process of persuading the employees to act in a determined desired to achieve the organization’s goals   (Zeru, 2019) .  That means motivation and organization goals are linked together. When utilizing their motives, that makes employees to achieve the goals of the organization. To motivate the employees, the organization first needs to understand their employees and find out the needs of the employees. Then initiate the motives to make their mind to achieve the goals.  There are many advantages to motivating employees. When the organization motivates the employees, employees’ needs get satisfied and that leads them to work at their best   (Zeru, 2019) . When employees work better, that leads to an increase in the efficiency of the organization and finally resulting in high productivity. Moreover, when the organization satisfies the employees’ ne...

  1.       Empowerment of the employees in the organizations Employee empowerment means people who work in lower levels in the organization hierarchy engage in the decision-making process   (Siebert, et al., 2011) . There are many advantages of employee empowerment.  The empowered employees are closer to the problems that are needed to be solved. Therefore, they can find out solutions easier since that is where they are allocated their work. It saves time for the employees at a higher level. When lower-level employees make decisions, it may increase their morale and they feel proud of their selves. Moreover, when managers pass their responsibility to lower-level employees, that makes the relationship between managers and the employees as well as they think that they are valued employees to the organization.  When empowered employees commit to their work, their responsibilities get increased and when they involve in strategy, they get self-...

  1.       Importance of performance appreciation in working place The appreciation of the performance is crucial in the workplace and will be benefited in many ways. Most importantly it will increase the productivity of the employees because when they get to know that they will be appreciated, they will become more efficient and their morale will be increased   (Cotsen, 2020) .  They will feel that they are valuable t the organization. In addition, they will work harder to make it better than earlier. When employees are appreciated, then it will lead to an increase in the morale of other employees in the organization and they also will be motivated to do their job perfectly. Employees will be very dedicated and improve their dedication as well as being loyal to the organization   (Dr. Trent Kaufman, 2013) .  When appreciating the employees may help to reduce the turnover of the employees and make them stay at the work happily. To app...

  1.   Creating  maximum efficiency in the workplace during the Covid pandemic Surveys have found that efficiency has increased by working at home during the COVID pandemic (McCallum, 2020) . Remote working makes people more efficient because they work at home with less stress and they are not tied traveling from home to the workplace and they are free to work at any time slot in their 24 hours   (Cancel, 2018) .  If organizations want to increase their efficiency more, they can set up the goals and the time frames to achieve goals. Moreover, organizations need to think about the allocated task of the employees which are less efficient and the solutions to make them more efficient. Moreover, the organization needs to think about their employees’ safety and health and make employees aware that the company thinks about them and it makes the trust and morale of the employees and it leads to increase efficiency.  Another way is building a continuity plan for ...

  1.        Creating a smart workplace using IT Information Technology is a vital topic in this century and because of it organizations able to make smart workplaces where more flexible and easy to work   (Cancel, 2018) . Moreover, because this smart workplace with IT makes the employees work from different locations as teams. Multinational firms mostly face cultural differences issues in the organizations, but working at home or different locations makes these problems less and employees can get easily integrated. Social enterprise platforms and communication tools make it more efficient and productive.  Collaborative editing documents, universal access to emails, and live collaboration tools make it easier for the employees. All these smart workplaces make employees work from home and that leads to efficiency and effectiveness   (McCallum, 2020) .  That leads to less cost for the organization on administrative and maintenance. Moreo...

  1.   Creating  a better environment in working place When creating a better workplace for the employees, many factors influence and one by one is discussed below. Space provided to the employees inside of the organization as well as outside is very important because employees should have enough space to work properly with less stress. Providing privacy regarding the time they spend on the job while maintaining transparency is also important. Employees should be able to take breaks to discuss their matters with co-workers because this informal communication may lead the organization to make innovations.  When making a better working place, it is important to think about employees and their personal needs at home including vacation, sick days. To make the work environment better, it is important to hire the right people as well because it is a miracle to achieve a successful environment without hiring the right people. The right people come with a lot of competenci...

  1.       How to build a successful teamwork To build successful teamwork, the Tuckman model is used. According to that model, there are four steps to team development as forming, storming, norming, and performing   (Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, 2015) . When forming a successful team, in this stage where employees get together and make teams. In the stage of storming arguments happen and employees get to know each other and try to find each employee’s boundaries.  Norming is the stage where employees get to know each other’s roles and understand each other while getting along. In this stage, employees get settle down with them to perform the task well. The final stage of building a successful team is performing and this is where all the outcomes come from the work that employees have done.  To build successful teamwork not only these, but other factors also impact such as skills and capabilities of the employees, their w...