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Employee safety and well being

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  Figure 1 - What is employee health and well being ? Employee safety and well being is a key parameter for orgainsational success, particular for companies managing hazardous operations, the role of mental health has been difficult to integrate with urgent priorities to reduce accidents and injuries, and even harder to integrate with productivity goals. It is our contention that one of the main reasons for this difficulty is related to a predominant focus on the negative aspects of employee mental health – and on individually oriented, reactive interventions to mitigate poor mental health outcomes (Caulfield et al, 2004; Kompier et al,2000). Therefore, it is mandatory to maintain employee satisfaction levels always on a higher note to get maximum benefits to the organisation as well. Further employee well-being is expected to carry the effect of workplace practices onto organizational improvements and success (Grawitch et al., 2006). In another scenario placing heavy safety practi...

Grievances handling in an organisation

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  Figure 1- Grievances handling Grievance handling in the organisation is the process of handling complaints received from the employees with related to his employment. This may be a matter related to his work allocation, Job rotation, transfer, promotion, pay cuts etc. several authors have defined this process as follows;   ·          In their working lives, employees occasionally have cause to be uncomfortable, disappointed or aggrieved either about certain managerial decisions, practices or service conditions (Monappa, 1995). ·          Monappa (1995, p. 149) writes: “A grievance may be submitted by a worker, or several workers, in respect of any measure or situation which directly affects, or is likely to affect, the conditions of employment of one or several workers in the organization. Where a grievance is transformed into a general claim-either by the union or by a large number of wo...

Advantages of Work from Home initiative

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  Figure 1- work-from-home Work from home (WFH) initiative means work remotely from the office complex which gives the employee to decide his work station physically. This concept is in the society over the years which will be proven by the below mentioned comments of researchers; ·          Permitting employees to work from home may even reduce firms’ costs for office space and furniture (Peck, 2015) ·          Workers’ well-being is found to increase through work-at-home arrangements, indicating that employees may be willing to accept reduced pay when permitted to work from home (Beauregard, 2011; Edwards and Field-Hendrey, 2001, 2002) ·          Employees choosing to work from home are often more productive than they were in the office (Bloom et al., 2014) However, WFH concept attract the attention of the corporate world dramatically with the wide spread of Co...

Training and development in organisations through online platforms

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  Figure 1- Engaging Employees Using Interactive Training Methods  Training and development is a crucial factor in talent development within the employees of an organisation. It produces more productive employees with vary of knowledge which enhance the creative and analytical approach of a company. Khan (1997) defines online instruction as an innovative approach for delivering instruction to a remote audience, using the Web as the medium . Over the years methods of training and development has revolutionized as the other sectors and with the Covid 19 global pandemic majority of the organisations switch to online training and development programs. Based on the convenience, cost effectiveness for both to the employer and employee, organisations are now preferred online training over the conventional ways of training and development programs. Some of the key benefits of online training programs are well described by the below figure; Figure 2 : benefits-of-online-learning Th...

Importance of the key performance indicators

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  Figure 1- Key Performance Indicators and why they're good for any business - EFM Key performance indicators commonly known as KPI are a important feature of the profit making institutes hence its gives better insight of the company achievements against the forecasted budget. In order to get confirmations regarding the fulfilling of their objectives and goals organizations have to keep check over their performance (Ghalayini and Noble 1997). Also, KPI parameters are not the same for each and every institute it depends on the operation process of the company and according to that we have to choose the appropriate KPIs with regard to our organisation in order to foster in the market.   RolstadÃ¥s (1998) has identified that performance measurement of an organization is a complex interrelation criterion between the effectiveness, efficiency, quality, productivity, quality of work life, innovation, and profitability. Since the KPI mainly based on the data accuracy of such data is p...

Employee motivation

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  Figure 1- motivation words Employee motivation is a key pillar for success of the organisation since motivated employees are more creative, team oriented and produce results more than what is expected from them. If employees feel that their inputs such as efforts, commitment, loyalty, trust, and enthusiasm to the organization are fairly and adequately rewarded by outputs such as financial and non-financial benefits or incentives, they remain motivated and continue to provide inputs towards higher productivity. Employees get de-motivated due to the perceived absence of such equity. (Ahmad et al, 2010) On this regard Maslow has initially develop Maslows’ Hierarchy of needs theory which is known as one of the best motivational theories of the world where he later develops this module adding cognitive, Aesthetic and Transcendence needs Figure 2 : Maslow's surprisingly interesting Need Hierarchy Theory of Motivation – Careershodh  According to these employees are required dif...

Work - Life Balance

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Figure 1: Work Life Balance (stock.adobe.com,2023)  Humans are social creatures hence they are required to have a better mix of the activities which will enlighten their physical and mental well-being. In this context work-life balance plays a vital role since most of the people are yet to identify whether they live to work or work to live.  Some of the authors have express their opinion over the captioned matter accordingly and listed the same as follows;    Work-life balance involves how much control one feels over the number of hours put in to work in comparison to the number of hours one makes available beyond the boundaries of work (Reiter,2007).   Employees with improved work-life balance in organizations that focus on efficient and effective performance can contribute more meaningfully towards organizational growth and subsequent success (Naithani, 2010).   Work-life imbalance leads to increased turnover intentions and perceived job overload (Rain...

Talent management in an organisation

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  Figure 1; talent-management-definition-importance Talent management includes planning, recruiting, developing and finally managing the employees. This is a never-ending process and continuation of the same is vital for organisational success. These will create motivated and inspirational team to the organisation where it will be important in the long run. You may aware that we are unable to compare the exposure of a newly recruited employee vs a person who have ten year work experience on the same organisation.The value contributed by the experienced staff who is well trained over the years are a key to groom the youngsters/new comers to the organisation through their experience. Further in a competitive business environment, globalization, technological developments, and innovation are the short-lived and the imitable ingredients for gaining competitive advantage (Barney, 1991). In order to sustain competitive advantage, firms should seek resources are long-lived and cannot be r...