What is Human Resource Management (“HRM”)?
You often see phrases like these in the annual reports of major businesses: “Our people are our greatest asset” “Nothing is more important than our…
Human Resource Management Notes
Workforce Planning
For most businesses, large or small, the task of identifying what work needs doing and who should do it is a continuous challenge! It is…
Resolving Conflict For Managers
The conflict resolution requires great managerial skills. Here we are trying to give a solution to a conflict turning it in a constructive side. If…
Sources and Process of conflict
By evaluating a conflict according to the five categories below — relationship, data, interest, structural and value — we can begin to determine the causes…
Six Decision Making Factors for Managers
The ability to take timely, clear and firm decisions is an essential quality of leadership, but the type of decision needed, varies according to the…
The Nine Tasks of a Professional Manager
Tasks of professional managers:1. Providing direction to the firm:Envisioning goal is the first task that should never be delegated.2. Managing survival and growth.There are two…
Community of practice
Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their…
Briefly explain the two types of informal communication known as the grapevine and rumour
The Grapevine Three main characteristics of a grapevine: First, it is not controlled by management. Second, it is perceived by most employees as being more…
Foreign Bribery
— bribery condemned and illegal in many countries, yet practiced widely — is it ethical to give into demands of bribery? (“when in Rome,…
Special Topics in Training and Development
OrientationA formal process of familiarizing new employees with the organization, their jobs, and their work units. Benefits:1.Lower turnover2.Increased productivity3.Improved employee morale4.Lower recruiting and training costs5.Facilitation…