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Occupational Health and Safety (OSH)

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HR practitioners implement various king of strategies in order to attract, retain, and develop the best talent in the organization. Those strategies may useless if employees face occupational accidents or diseases. Not only employees sometimes community also face accidents and diseases due to maladministration of the manufacturing organizations. Some multinational and large-scale organizations have separate teams to manage occupational health and safety in the organization. But in a small and medium-size organization does not have separate team for that and health and safety responsibilities are within the human resources department (Armstrong, 2012). Consequences  of poor occupational health and safety. Figure 01: The Bhopal gas tragedy Source: YouTube (The Economist, 2014) Figure 02: Rana Plaza Tragedy Source: YouTube (CPDBangladesh, 2014) How to use the PDCA cycle to develop and manage OSH in the organization. The plan-Do-Check-Act fram...
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Reward Management

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Reward management concern with strategies, policies, and processes required to ensure that the value of people and their contribution to achieving organizational goals are recognized and rewarded (Armstrong, 2012). Rewards Management Employee's Perspective Source: YouTube  (Boorer, 2013) Reward management at Amazon The minimum wage for all employees (including all full-time, part-time, temporary (including those hired by agencies), and seasonal employees across the U.S.) in Amazon is 15 dollars per hour. Apart from wages, Amazon offers the following benefits to all employees in U.S Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage Paid time-off and holiday overtime pay Resources for overall well-being Discounts on Amazon purchases If children struggle with developmental disabilities company provide Online resources for parents Adoption assistance for all employees who qualified domestic and international adoption expenses. Company-pai...
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Workforce Planning

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Workforce planning is a core process of HR management that is shaped by the organizational strategy and ensure the right number of workers with the right skills, in the right place at the right time in order to deliver organizational objectives (CIPD, cited in Armstrong 2012). There are two types of workforce planning Hard workforce planning: Hard workforce planning or operational workforce planning is about numbers. Workforce planning doing by using historical data. Soft Workplace planning: Also known as strategic workforce planning. Organization can evaluate a range of options to identify and maximize the drivers of performance by using quantitative and qualitative data   (BizMerlinHR, 2019) . The Importance of Workforce Planning Source: YouTube (Gregg Learning, 2019) Workforce planning at Siemens (UK) Workforce planning at Siemens (UK) involves finding answers to the following questions. What do we do? What do we want? How do we fill the ga...
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Employee Engagement

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As per the Balain and Sparrow (2009) engagement happens when employees are committed to their work, company, and motivated to achieve a high level of performance. The following aspects are interrelated on engagement. Job engagement: Job engagement happens when employees give extra effort on the job because they feel their jobs interesting, challenging, and rewarding.   Organizational engagement: organizational engagement happens when employees believe that the organization is a great place to work and to continue to work. Job engagement can be increase through good job design, reward in the broadest sense, training, and development programs, improving quality of leadership, and performance management while organizational engagement develops through high management involvement (Armstrong, 2012).   Why employee engagement? Source: YouTube  (Engage, 2013) Employee engagement at Five Star Bank- Upstate New York Five star bank was not able...
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Knowledge Management

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Knowledge management is about obtain knowledge from those who have it to those who need it in order to improve organizational effectiveness (Armstrong, 2012) . Explicit knowledge Vs Tacit knowledge Source: YouTube  (Rosa, 2019) There are two types of knowledge management strategies Codification strategy - Knowledge is carefully codified and stored in databases, where it can be accessed and used easily by anyone in the company (Morten et al., 1999) Personalization strategy - knowledge is closely tied to the person who developed it and is shared mainly through direct person-to-person contacts (Morten et al., 1999). Knowledge Management at Toyota Every organization struggling to share tacit knowledge in an organization. For this Toyota using a Job Instruction (JI) document and today Toyota using hundreds of JI documents to make a single car. JI was invented during World War II and it describes how a task should be carried out to meet the quality re...
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Performance Management

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Performance management is a systematic process for enhancing organizational performance by enhancing the performance of employees & teams (Armstrong, 2012) Shields (2007) explained that a performance management system has 4 purposes. Strategic Communication - communicate to employees what doing a good job means. Relationship-building - create stronger relationships between managers and workers by reviewing performance achievement regularly. Employee development - after the performance analysis, the company prepares a personal development plan for identified gaps in order to enhance performance up to the required level. Employee evaluation - evaluate the employees’ performance as a basis for making decisions on the job reassignment, promotion or performance-related rewards  Performance management system at Dubai medical Inc.  Source: YouTube Performance management system (PMS) at SGS Lanka. Annual performance management process star...
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Employer Branding

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An employer brand is a vital part of the employee value proposition. Employer branding can be defined as a process of managing and influencing an organization’s reputation as an employer among job seekers, employees, and key stakeholders.in other terms, it’s mean what others really think about the company (Builtin, 2019) . Why employer branding important? 95% of applicants identify a company’s reputation as the main consideration when discovering new job opportunities   (O'Donnell.J.T, 2017) . 66% of job seekers want to learn about an organization’s culture and values (Burgess.W, 2016) A company that had an excellent corporate reputation if offer job opportunities, 92%, would consider leaving their current jobs to taking that new opportunity   (3blassociation, 2016) . Employer Branding campaign Following have some video of the world-famous organizations that have all run great Employer Branding campaigns.   The Heineken Company S...
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