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MN7181 People and Organizations – Blog 10 , Corporate Social Responsibility .

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Introduction to the Corporate Social Responsibility The role of corporations in society is very high and growing public interest in the impact of corporations on contemporary life. The concept of CSR is a management idea which has risen throughout the global community during the recent decades. Not only large organizations, but also smaller ones feature CSR reports, managers, departments, projects, and increasing its interest as a core area of management, next to finance and marketing. Increasing number of newsletters, websites and social media not only contribute to promoting CSR but also they help to build a worldwide network of CSR associations and activists. As a result of governmental regulation, media pressure, major disasters, human rights violations, polluting the environment, and misinforming and deliberately harming their customers are few examples, which force to organizations to increase their interest in CSR. Definitions to Corporate Social Responsibility ...
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MN7181 People and Organisation: Organizational culture. Blog 09

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Organization Culture The culture of the organization impacts to every stage of organizations functioning and how its work gets done. Organizations culture is defined by different scholars as follows. Schein.E (1992) defined about culture as a pattern of sharing basic values and expectations that the organization has learned and is considered as valid and to be introduced to new members as it is the correct way to perceive. In according to Schein (2004) he explained culture as a dynamic force which plays an important role in the organization, an employee engaging with collaborating as it is designed up by the employees and management movements, attitudes and behaviors. Every organization has its own inherent culture includes a combination of different values, norms personalities, traditions, feelings, perceptions, believes and goals. Those Values and beliefs create employee's connection and relationships with each other and then employees feel str...
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MN7181 People and Organisation: Blog 07. Employee Engagement and HRM

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Employee Engagement is an important concept for any organization in today’s business world because of the entire world has to face a different type of rapid changes and developments in the areas of competition, business environment, technology, political situation, and labor rules and regulation. Because of these changes, employers identified that the way they deal with their employees should change to overcome these competitive situations and achieve competitive advantages. Many authors have defined an employee Engagement as follows. Employee Engagement is forming facilities for employees to connect them with their coworkers’ managers and to the organization while changing the organization ’s environment where employees are satisfied motivated and want to connect with their work while having a hope of doing a good job. As it is concept places flexibility, change and continuous improvement at the heart of what it means to be an employee and an employer in a twenty-first-cent...
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MN7181 People and Organisation: Blog 08 .The global context of HRM and Employee Migration.

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From prehistoric times, people have moved to different lands for the purpose of finding better hunting grounds, more suitable farmlands or owing to competition and conflict with other groups. Weaker groups migrate to make new lands for their settlement and other people have sought out new economic opportunities, includes farmland or industrial jobs at higher salary and wages than those available at home. Later after the period of Industrialization rapidly increase the amount of migration and it has deeply shaped and been shaped by the development of modern capitalism. Traveling craftsmen and merchants contributed to technology and skill transfer (Bade 2003).  impact of Skilled migration Skilled employees’ migrant is an important trend in global HR and it contributes to organizations to gain competitive advantages. It includes skilled and non-skilled employees and the problem arising here is non-skilled employees are a contemporary issue for host countries’. B...
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS - Blog 06.

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Perf ormance Management Performance is the Behavior that accomplishes results (Brumbach 1988, cited in Armstrong 2014, p.334). Performance Management can be identified as a process of Human Resource Management (HRM), as it involves with an assessment of the current and previous performance of an employee, a specific team or within the whole organization. Performance Management is a complex process and base for many practices related to HR such as the need for training,  recruitment, career development, rewarding, etc. (Slavić, et al., 2013) . According to CIPD viewpoint, PM is an activity engages with a set of processes which aims to maintain and improve performance in line with organizational objectives. It ’s operational, the aim is to ensure that employees are contributing to business objectives positively (CIPD, 2017). Cappelli &Tavis (2016), explained that current changes in performance Management are an outcome of changing strategic...
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MN7181 People and Organisation: Principles and Practice in Global Contexts.Blog 05 HRM and Job Design .

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Work Design ‘Work design is the creation of systems of work and a working environment that enhance organizational effectiveness and productivity, ensure the organization becomes a “great place in which to work” and are conductive to the health, safety, and well-being of employees’ (Armstrong , 2014). Job Design Job design is the organization of activities to create the optimum level of performance. As defined by Davis (1966) job design is the ‘specification of contents, methods, and relationship of jobs in order to satisfy technological and organizational requirements as well as the social and personal requirements of the job holder’. Job design is a combination of job contents and the work methods which has been adopted in the performance of the job (Durai, 2010). Robertson and Smith, (1985) suggest five principles of job design as follows: -       Influence skill variety, provide opportunities for people to do several tasks and ...
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(MN7181) People and Organisation: Principles and Practice in Global Contexts - Blog 04 Employee Relations and Psychological Contracts.

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Employee relations and psychological contracts Employer-Employee Expectation In according to (Armstrong,2017) In any organization employees have a different type of expectations from his employer such as treat them reasonably, fairly, and consistency base on justice, providing good working conditions, health and safe environment, job security and recognition for their job. Not only them but also employer have some expectations from his employees such as well perform their duties and task, respect to organization policy and procedures, maintain trust and honesty and etc.. As per the (Henderson,2017) If an employer feels that employees performance are not satisfied he has the right to take appropriate actions against it and on the other hand if an employee feels that his expectations are not met he has the right to peruse for grievances. Understanding the expectations of both parties create good employee-employer relations within the organization. The meaning of empl...
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