People and Organisations

  Employee Offboarding     What is Employee offboarding? Employee offboarding explains the process of separation when employees are leaving. This can be transpired through resignation, termination, and or retirement. This includes transferring of that employee’s responsibilities and know-how.   What is the difference between onboarding and offboarding? These are two very different concepts, in an employee’s career. One employee is getting onboard and another one is leaving the company. These two processes involve quite a bit of paperwork in HR. The step-by-step process should be planned from the start to end carefully.  (Anderson, 2019)   Why Offboarding process is important? Two words align with this concept, i.e. “advocate” and “antagonist”. Advocate: the employee speaks about the organization in a good manner. But an antagonist, will not recommend the organization to anyone. Therefo...

  New trends in HR       Will HR remain important in future? There is a lot of debate on that question. This is the question about HR’s contribution to the business. They discuss that, HR is often unproductive, ineffectual, and costly. However, Dave Ulrich explained these questions “Yes-abolish the thing!”  (Ulrich, 1998) HR addressed fundamental issues such as, focus on learning, quality, teamwork, and reengineering. (Ulrich, 1998) HR should work to achieve organizational excellence.   New trends in HR ü   Remote work practice – Due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation, this has already begun. ü   Work from home expands to work from anywhere – Increasing technology and the infrastructure will be able to work from anywhere. (Ex. from different parts of the world) ü   Facetime disappears – HR should adjust to create new policies, as remote working will increase, and no body-language can be used / seen. ü   Data an...

  Employee loyalty!  Not a given, but to be earned…     Trust is deserved, respect is given, and loyalty is proven.  (Abdelnour, 2012)   What is employee loyalty? Employees who are dedicated for the success of their business and trust that being an employee of this corporation, is in their greatest curiosity. Organizations incur emphasized value on employees in terms of recruiting, training, salaries, and benefits. Key resource of any organization is employees and thus the employee loyalty is vital (DeFranzo, n.d.)   How corporates can earn employee loyalty §   Transparency : To build trust and gain employee loyalty company need to main transparency. Should possess a clear list of what can be shared and what cannot be shared with employees, aligning to business needs & achievements with clear understanding. §   Professional Development : The company should make inve...

  Employee-first experience Some organizations focus only on the customer experience but forget or overlook, their employee experience. Business entities are spending more money on customer satisfaction surveys and market research to identify relationships with customers. However, analyzing and understanding employee experience is more vital, than customer experience.   (Beyondphilosophy.com, 2011) What is employee experience? Employee experience is the total involvement of all connections an employee has with their employer. Employers were most concerned about “employee satisfaction” before the 2000s and then it shifted towards “employee engagement”. Presently employers are interested in employee experience since employee satisfaction and engagement are smaller elements. (Dukes, 2017)     Essential factors for employee experience are, ü   Growth and Development : Both parties, employer and employees working collectively and setting up career ...

  Teamwork (TW) in HR   THE STRENGTH OF THE TEAM IS EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER. THE STRENGTH OF EACH MEMBER IS THE TEAM…. ( Phil Jackson )     What is Teamwork in the workplace? Teamwork is a group of individuals working together to achieve a task or a goal in a workplace . The Modern world identifies teamwork is essential to the success of the business .  (Leonard, 2018)   Is Teamwork Good? When teams are doing well, it helps to gain success of business objectives. People are clear about their roles and communication combines with each other. They are comfortable with decision-making, respect each other and support each other .  (Bowers, 2013) TW may be stressful and may be too dependent on each other. Also, more time and costs are involved in building TW well. A lot of pressure being enforced on the employees by the management may cause poor performance & low productivity . (Ogbonnaya, 2019)   Easy ways to improve Teamw...

  What is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) in performance management?   KPI measures how an organization reaches its objectives effectively. This evaluates how well the company is reaching its targets. This is enrolling multiple levels to evaluate success with the goals. The High-level KPI’s can focus on the overall performance and Lower-level KPIs can focus on the department level performance .   Organization Strategic, Financial, and operational achievements can be determined through KPIs.  (Twin, 2020) Metrics vs. KPI’s The Metrics and KPIs are both quantifiable measures of a particular strategic or tactical activity. Metrics are more focused on tactical activities and are set at specific points of business activity with different views to evaluate how well the activities are performed. KPI’s mainly focus on Strategic ‘key’ activities and are set to track the achievements of business objectives . (Walczak, 2014)   A simple five-step proc...

  Job Design – What? Why? How?     What  is Job Design? It is setting up duties and tasks for a specific job, to be performed individually and/ or in groups. The origin of the job design comes from Taylorism or scientific management. Fredrick Taylor tried to develop a science  (Boundless.com, n.d.) for every job to succeed within an organization with below simple principles; - Create a standard method for each job. - Select a successful candidate and hire. - Train selected workers. - Support workers to do their best.   Why  a Job Design? - Job satisfaction - Motivation of employees - Enhances the quality of work life. - Increase productivity for both organization and the employee. - Manage Absenteeism    How to  Job Design? There are many techniques for job designing. Top of the techniques are  (Armstrong, 2003) job rotation, job enlargement, job enrichment, self-managing teams, and high-perf...