People & Organizations

  The performance of an individual depends on his or her ability backed by motivation. The set of forces that cause people to have in a certain way. Motivation is goal-directed. A goal is a specific result that the individual desires to realize. Motivated staff trying to find better ways to try and do employment. Once individuals actively request new ways of doing things, they typically realize them. It is the responsibility of managers to make employees look for better ways of doing their job. An understanding of the nature of motivation is helpful in this context. A motivated employee, generally, is more quality-oriented. In either case, the organizational benefits, because individuals in and outside the organization see the enterprise as quality conscious. A clear understanding of the ay motivation works helps the manager make his employee quality-oriented. Highly motivated workers are more productive than apathetic workers. The high productivity of Japanese workers and the fact...

  Any training and development programme should contain inputs that modify the participants to realize skills, learn theoretical ideas, and facilitate acquire vision to seem into the distant future. Additionally, to those, there's a requirement to impart ethical orientation, stress on attitudinal changes, and stress upon decision-making and problem-solving skills. SKILLS Training is transmission skills to employees. An employee wants skills to control machines and use that with the least harm and scrap. This is often a basic talent while not that the operator won't be ready to perform. These skills involve learning to maneuver varied components of one’s body in response to sure external and internal stimuli. EDUCATION The purpose of education is to teach theoretical concepts and develop a sense of reasoning and judgment. That any training and development programme should contain part of education is well understood by HR specialists. Organizations depute or encourage em...

  Safety means freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury or loss. Employee safety refers to the protection of workers from the danger of industrial accidents. An accident-free the plant enjoys certain benefits. Cost-saving Two types of costs are incurred by the management when an accident occurs. There are the direct costs, in the form of compensation payable to the dependents of the victim if the accident is fatal, and medical expenses incurred in treating the patient if the accident is nan-fatal, the management, however, is not liable to meet the direct costs if the victim insured under personal accident scheme. When the victim is uninsured, compensation and medical expenses are the responsibility of the management. There is a cost of risk management, which management must bear. More serious than the direct cost are the indirect costs that management cannot avoid. Indirect costs are higher than direct costs. Hidden costs include loss on account of downtime of operators,...

  Alcoholism is a serious and widespread disease. It does not strike any particular group alcoholism can strike employees from janitor to the general manager. The morale of the other workers is likely to suffer as they are required to do the work of their alcohol peers. Organizations employ three techniques to tackle alcoholism in workplaces. The first is disciplining alcoholics. Where disciplining fails, the alcoholic discharged. Second is in-house counseling by the HR department, the company doctor, or the immediate supervisor. Finally, companies use outside agencies, psychiatrists and clinics to deal with the problem of alcoholism. Drug abuse is a recent phenomenon and is a serious one. Drug usage usually falls into one of three categories. Marijuana abuse, prescription drug abuse, and hard-drug abuse. Drug abuse is more evident among young employees and is found across all job levels. Employees who are drug addicts are often much more difficult to detect than alcoholics, li...

  Incentive means an inducement that rouses or stimulates one to action in the desired direction. An incentive contains a psychological feature power, an outsized range of incentives the trendy organizations use to encourage their staff could also be generally sorted into financial incentive and non-financial incentive. Financial incentive Money is a very important incentive. Common uses of money as incentive within the style of wages and salaries, bonuses, retirement advantages, medical compensation, etc. Management must increase these money incentives creating wages and salaries competitive between numerous organizations thus on attract and hold force. Money plays a major role in satisfying physiological and security/social wants. As money is recognized as basis of standing, respect, and power, it conjointly helps satisfy the social wants of the people. Non-financial Incentive Money isn't the sole inducement and additionally, it's not perpetually an inducement. Once m...

  There is a growing realization of the need to match human resource activities with an organization’s planning. An important part of job analysis is the ability to write job specifications that accurately detail the knowledge and skills that will complement the future strategic initiatives of the organization. Purpose of job analysis Human resource planning : It determines on what percentage and what form of personnel are required within the close to future. The quantity and also the form of personal determined by the roles which require to be staffed. Recruitment and selection: Recruitments would like has to be preceded by a job analysis. Job analysis helps the HR manager to find places to get workers for gaps anticipated within the future. Understanding the kinds of talents required and kinds of jobs that will open in the future, permits managers to possess a more robust continuity and coming up within staffing their organization. Training and development: Its help to ...

  Introduction Promotion is a vertical movement of an employee within the organization. In others words, Promotion refers to the upward development of a worker starting with one occupation then onto the next higher one with pay raise, status, and obligations. Promotion may be temporary or permanent depending on the needs of the organization. The promotion has an in-built motivational value as it elevates the authority, power, and status of an employee within an organization. Employees are enticed and motivated by promotions, which often minimize feelings of stagnation and dissatisfaction. Types of Promotion Promotion given to the employee in an organization can be classified into three types: 1. Horizontal Promotion: When an employee shifted in the same category it is called horizontal promotion. A junior clerk promoted to the senior clerk is such an example. 2. Vertical Promotion: This is kind of a promotion when an employee is promoted from a lower category to a higher category i...

  Concepts of induction The introduction of new entrants into any existing group of people has been a common feature we come across in our everyday life. When a person joins a new job, they need an introduction to the job and the organization. This introduction called induction. Induction is also known as orientation and indoctrination. A new entrant joins an organization as a stranger to his co-worker, job, and organization. For the new entrant, this creates initial anxiety. It may often lead to the new employee ’ s unexpected resignation. Hence, arrangements need to be made to make the integration of the new employee into the organization  smooth  and as free of anxiety as possible. Induction helps do so. Objectives of induction Induction helps reduce such anxieties and dispels doubts and nervousness from the mind of the new entrant. Therefore, an induction programme is designed to achieve the following objectives: To reduce the initial anxiety of all new entrants, feel...