As the name suggests, hybrid model of human capital management is a mix of common resource pool model and unique skill set model. In hybrid model, employees are multiskilled and have diverse set of experiences and backgrounds. Hybrid model employees come from varied backgrounds and have a generalist profile. In a layman’s language hybrid model […]
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Essential Guide: Key Components of a Human Capital Strategy
Employees – their knowledge, experience, skills, innovative ideas, concepts are all valued possessions within an organization. An organization must understand its employees well to expect the best from them. Human capital management refers to developing strategies to hire, manage, train, develop and retain top performing employees. Human Capital management includes the following: Recruiting the best […]
Unlock Success: Importance of Human Capital Management
Why is human capital management important in organizations ? Who do you think are the most valuable resource in an organization ? Employees. Individuals who spend maximum part of their day contributing towards the success of an organization are its most crucial resource. Employees can either make or break an organization, truly making them an […]
Benefits of Human Capital Management
What is Human Capital Management ? Human Capital management refers to the management of employees, hiring right employees, training them, upgrading their skills, utilizing their knowledge to the fullest, eventually benefitting the organization. Human management refers to managing employees for them to contribute effectively towards the organization. Let us go through the benefits of human […]
HR interview Questions & Answers on Managing Through Systems
Most candidates in the job interview are posed interview questions on their ability to manage through systems. It is the potential to design practices, processes, and procedures which allow managing from a distance. Along with this, the candidate should be comfortable letting things manage themselves without intervening. They should also have the potential to make […]
HR Metrics and Workforce Analysis
HR Metrics and Workforce analysis is a useful strategic tool for HR which shares information and evidences about the functioning of the entire system by relying on facts and figures, as opposed to mere assumptions or personal opinions. Over a period of time, the HR Metrics has evolved with the usage of more quantitative and […]
Pros and Cons of Using Social Media for Recruitment and Monitoring Purposes
Social Media and Access to Personal Information With the advent of Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others, many people post so much personal information about themselves that anybody who can access their public profiles can get to know a lot about them. Indeed, with an estimated one Billion people on Facebook, […]
Human Resource Information System (HRIS): Meaning, Evolution and its Features
In the contemporary scenario of modernization and globalization, organizations heavily rely upon technological advancement and innovation in the field of Information Technology. Advancements in the field of IT has opened up newer avenues for the organizations and provided a competitive advantage by using innovative and customized solutions. It has become an integral part of the […]
What is Human Resource Planning (HRP)?
Human Resource Planning (HRP) is the process of forecasting the future human resource requirements of the organization and determining as to how the existing human resource capacity of the organization can be utilized to fulfill these requirements. It, thus, focuses on the basic economic concept of demand and supply in context to the human resource […]
Invest in Yourself with SPHR Certification
Holding an SPHR certification shows relevance, experience, commitment, and credibility to your employers, clients, staff members, and professional peers.
Job Analysis and Human Resource Planning
A Job can be described as a group of tasks which is assigned to the individual employees for ensuring achievement of the organizational goals. When this job is analyzed in terms of determination of the skills, duties and knowledge required for completion of tasks, it is regarded as Job analysis. In the words of Geisler […]
Economics of Human Resources: Why a Minimum Wage is Needed for Employees
What is a Minimum Wage and Why is it so Contentious? Many of us would be familiar with the term Minimum Wage which is often argued as being necessary by labor union activists and worker federations. However, how many of us would know that this concept of a Minimum Wage is highly contentious not only […]
The HRM Implications of the Decline in the Power of Unions and Organized Labor
Decline of Unions and Collective Bargaining Power It is a fact that the labor unions and organized labor have witnessed a decline in their power since the 1970s which was the height of their ability to wrangle concessions from employers. Concomitant with the emergence of globalization and the rise of offshoring of manufacturing jobs to […]