People and Organisation

Culture refers to an embodiment of means of communication, habitats and behaviorism among a group of individuals. Due to rapid advancement in technology, today's culture in organizations, more commonly known as corporate culture, has changed drastically. Concepts such as globalization, tele-working, virtual offices, have presented windows of opportunities to businesses that were not available before, but incorporates different cultures together. For example, tele-working concept and the ability to acquire better talent from a wider region at a lower cost along with it securing a competitive advantage over rivals, businesses seek to employee diverse cultures and norms to their structure. But how does this impede on the role of HRM (Human Resource Management)? Impact of Culture on Recruitment In the past recruitment basically involved developing a job description and requirement and advertising it for acquiring a pool of candidates. Therefore, the management can focus...

Modern day employees prefer more free and flexible working hours which is derived from them trying to be independent as well as motive to seek to balance work life with personal life. According to De Bruin and Dupus (2004), managing of an employee’s work life balance is an issue that has spanned over 20 years and studies have found measurable changes that directly impact on it. In the present jobs have become more complex and employees are subjected to untold pressure to meet both demand and quality standards. Another study according to D.B. Dhas and P. Karthikeyan (2015) states that the three factors of global competition, personal lives/family values and an aging workforce present challenges that exacerbate work/life balance. The study further went on to elaborate that work/life balance initiatives are not only a US phenomenon but global employees also want flexibility and control over their work and personal lives. According to it, in the recent years personal and family live...

Trade unions in the past had much control over organizations, by controlling working hours and overtime pay rates of employees. But with the advancement in technologies, due to these limitations as well as others, companies decided to outsource costly manufacturing activities to developing countries. Therefore, impact of trade unions in modern day world is increasing becoming ineffective. Trade Unions Loss in Ground Due to focus only on general issues and not in individualized issues, as well as neglecting the poor, trade unions have lost ground in terms moral of employees to join. Also corporations have taken advantage of loss of trade unions in political background, by capitalizing on the importance of employing non-unionized employees to control or govern over both unionized and non-unionized employees. Reluctance of Members According to Dixon (2017) number of wage and salaried workers belonging to unions have dropped from about 20 percent in 1983 to 11 pe...

In HRM payroll plays a pivotal function of managing employee pay as well as their personal information. With the advent of time, payroll itself has changed in terms of functionality and nature. Described below are some modern day to day issues faced by payroll stakeholders. Undervaluation of payroll Due to the burdensome workload presented along with use of payroll as a reactive approach (pay employees wages for their effort expended), payroll as a function is deteriorating. Managers view it as a norm rather than a tool for strategic outcome. If properly utilized payroll can be used for identification of cash outflow sources and better utilization of human capital and as a proactive approach rather than a reactive approach. Outdated Most companies view payroll as an outdated function with them trying to implement new software to ease the burden and keep up with the changes of technology to increase response to employee demand. Yet most payroll software used by man...

In any organization before the recruitment stage starts, the initial phase is the designing of the job. This includes defining the job, nature of the work and analyzing the requirements for a potential candidate. Yet even though it seems routine, with the change of times many new issues have arisen, which are discussed below. Telecommuting With the advent of internet and related technologies, the work at home concept is becoming extremely popular, with more and more individuals seeking and preferring to work at home. This brings about a change in the relation between employer and employee relationship, where employer doesn’t get to monitor the employee on a full time basis, or as he or she wishes. Therefore, HR personnel are faced with the difficulty of creating telecommuting jobs and ensuring that the person who is telecommuting, works in a responsible, diligent and ethical manner, all the while ensuring company obligations (including Corporate Social Responsibi...

Grievance is defined as any discontent or dissatisfaction, which may or may not be expressed, and may or may not be valid, but arises out of anything connected with the employee that an employee thinks, believes or even feels is unfair, unjust or inequitable. Due to today’s ever changing PESTLE factors grievances in any industry is common. Given below highlighted is modern day issues arising with grievance handling. Organizational changes   Due to the need for organizations to adapt a new strategy in order to stay ahead of competitors with respect to the changes in PESTLE factors, changes within an organization happen on a daily basis. Therefore, an effective change management strategy is required. If the change management strategy is not effective, then employees of the organization may feel left out, or unable to deal with the stress and scope of the change. Thereby resulting in a wider amount of occurrence of grievances throughout the organizational hierarchy....

Talent management refers to the techniques utilized by HRM (Human Resource Management) and overall management to recruit, retain, develop the required talent either in-house or through external recruitment. The following details the issues faced by present HR personnel in retention of talent rather than in acquisition, which was discussed before in recruitment blog post. Retention of Talent Due to many businesses and corporations at present are focusing on lowering the cost of manufacturing or service via downsizing, it creates an overall atmosphere of fear and distrust in employees  (Juneja, 2018) . Thereby making retention of the required talent a lot difficult than before. Also the talented nowadays have a wider variety of opportunities, thanking heavily to increase in competitors seeking the best, and also due to wider availability of job opportunities due to advancement in internet technologies. Advancement in Technology Technology as a whole is evolving, ...