What does the HR value chain resemble? It’s a three-advance procedure that starts with HRM exercises, trailed by HRM results and hierarchical targets. It obviously portrays how HR exercises lead to hierarchical objectives. What value does HR add to an association? The inquiry “What value does HR add to an association?” has consistently been hard […]
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What Is HR Strategy?
A Human Resource strategy is a business’s overall plan for managing its human capital to align it with its organization goals. The Human Resource strategy sets the direction for all the key areas of HR, including hiring, performance appraisal, development, and compensation. The HR strategy is thus a long-term plan that dictates HR practices throughout […]
What is HR Automation?
Human Resource Automation (HR Automation) is the technology that automates repetitive HR processes and streamlines time-consuming tasks, like recruitment, payroll, attendance management, benefits administration, and employee operations. This frees up time for the HR department to focus on complex and strategic tasks that are more valuable to the company, without sacrificing on quality and reducing […]
The Challenges of Managing Attrition in Contemporary Organizations
The Reasons for Attrition In recent months, there has been a spate of news items about how attrition is taking its toll on many organizations in Asia and especially in the IT sector in India. Whereas in the west, because of the recession and the gloomy economic conditions, attrition is no longer an issue and […]
Role of HRD in Determining Fit between an Employee and His Role
The previous article on personality briefly discussed how organizations and the HRD function determine the fit between the employee and his or her role. This article looks at this topic in depth with specific reference to the role of the HRD function and the managers in this alignment. For starters, whenever an employee is hired, […]
Why It’s Boom Time to Pursue an SHRM-SCP Certification?
The organization has a reliable reputation in the HR industry, and an SHRM-SCP certification proves that you have got core competency in human resources.
List of Human Resource Topics for Improving Manager-Employee Relations
When employees and their managers have mutually respectful and cooperative relationships, the workplace is a happier and more productive place. If you feel that manager-employee relationships are not as strong as they could be within your workplace, select some areas of focus relating to the development of these relationships. After selecting topics upon which to […]
The Necessity of Drafting Proper and Foolproof Employment Contracts
What Are Employment Contracts ? Employment contracts are covenants between the employer and the employee which provide the basis and the terms and conditions for the employment relationship. Employment Contracts usually state how much salary would be paid, what the perks are, the nature of the employment relation, the basis for firing when the employee […]
Employee Rewards and Recognition
Ask yourself the importance of a chocolate or a muffin to motivate your child to finish his homework or clean his room. Same way, the rewards and recognition can prove to be extremely beneficial to keep your employees motivated to perform extraordinary, achieve the targets and stick to the organization. The power of employee recognition […]
Managing Employee Relations
Literally speaking employee relations consists of all those areas in Human resource Management that involves general relationship with the workforce. This may be in the form of collective or mutual agreements that leads to the formation of trade unions or through policies and procedures for employee engagement and communication. The increased growth of workforce diversity […]
Unique Skill Set Model of Human Capital Management
Human capital management refers to development of human capital through regular trainings, skill development activities and retaining talented employees. An individual who strives hard for the maximum part of the day to accomplish the goals and objectives of an organization are its real assets. Machinery, capital, innovative ideas and office furniture do play an essential […]
Workplace Health and Safety
Statistics show that every twenty seconds of every working minute throughout the world, someone dies as a result of industrial accident or poor safety conditions at workplace. Thousands of employees throughout the world lose their limbs, suffer from temporary or permanent disability or lose their lives due to insufficient arrangements for their health and safety […]
Systems Considerations in the Design of HRIS
For implementing any Human Resource Information System (HRIS) project successfully, the system design requirements should be given utmost importance and it must have scope for customizations as per the requirements of the end users. The system should have various inbuilt provisions and be developed by carefully analyzing the end users/customers’ requirements and the technicalities involved […]