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...