People and Organisation

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 Outdated Most companies view payroll as an outdated function with them trying to implement new software to ease the burden and keep up with the changes of technology to increase response to employee demand.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, ...

The step following recruitment in HRM Human Resource management) is the training and development phase. This is essential for both new and existing employees. Yet there are certain modern day issues arising with respect to training that are explored below. Standardization of Training The biggest issue faced by both large and small corporate environments is to ensure that employees get the same learning outcome from the same learning materials as others and making this  learning process consistent  (Andriotis, 2017) . Most corporate nowadays focus on external trainers as they seem more reliable and cost effective. Yet there is an issue, on how relevant these training are with respect to the organization they work in, and which is heavily overlooked by a wide array of HR managers. Also impacted to this is the hiring of diverse work groups who have differentiating languages and norms. Hence the concern of HR managers today is how to factor all these concerns in trainin...