INTRODUCTION Two or more individuals, each of them with a bunch of psychological processes such as affective, cognitive or behavioural, interacting with one another on the basis of social seduction and reciprocity, form a relationship. Perceptions and promises regarding the terms of the employment relationship shared among the employee and employer are referred by the psychological contract (PC). PC is important for organisations since they are antecedents to employee outcomes including…
Organization world over are considering the adoption of new work practices, such as problem solving teams, enhanced communication with workers, employment security, flexibility in job assignments, training workers for multiple jobs, and greater reliance on incentive pay. This work provides empirical evidence to address the question; do these human resource management practices improve organizational resilience. Ability to respond and ability to monitor invariably improve on organizational…
Analysis 1. Stage (Company vision) Vision is an idea of the future state, bright and ethically-founded sense organizations. It is an essential starting point for the formulation and presentation of the mission, for setting strategy and for strategic planning. Purpose is the main reason why the organization was established and why it works, or the main reason for the change strategy. The mission of the organization expresses shared values and beliefs, opinions to its own objectives in terms of…
Introduction Specializing in pizza, Cheesy Pizza Company, a food and beverage (F&B) franchise has garnered the attention of many. With a growing interest by consumers on the pizzas sold by Cheesy Pizza; the company has plans to open ten outlets each, in Singapore and Hong Kong in 2018 to expand their franchise and reach more consumers. As an HR consultant hired by Cheesy Pizza Company, I have been tasked to advise the company in ensuring proper rewards and motivation for its management team and…
2004; CIPD, 2011). The role of traditional staff managers was relatively limited to an administrator function in order to address short-term objectives (Guest, 1999). However, in 1997, Ulrich developed the HRM strategic partnership model (Ulrich, 1997; Ulrich…
Mesiniaga (2015) was established by the late Ismail Sulaiman in 1981 in Subang Jaya, Malaysia. The company was started from selling IBM office products and has now evolved into multi-platform IT solution provider with RM60.4million. As of today, Mesiniaga has around 900 employees, which including 70% are male and remaining 30% are female employees. As the technology has changed rapidly. Therefore, every IT company is required to look out the solution that can provide a competitive advantage over…
INTRODUCTION ‘Discrimination ' is the process of judging and treating people or proposing to treat someone unfavourably or according to particular criteria because of a personal characteristic protected by law. (www.humanrightscommission). Discrimination tends to become unfair based on stereotypes; Direct discrimination; and Indirect discrimination (Beardwell & Claydon 2007:197). An example would be of a 42year old employee of the CIBC being replaced by a "younger" employee on the basis of age…
1. Introduction: One of the many outcomes of globalization is the migration of individuals across boundaries in search of employment, opportunities and a sustainable quality of life. ‘Travel’ has become more accessible to the population on account of the diplomatic and political alliances which have removed the political barriers between nations. South Africa too has witnessed an influx of individuals from different nations, religions, cultures and ethnicity adding to the diversity of the…
INTRODUCTION Commonly in organisations, Human Resource Development (HRD) is only identified as a stem under the Human Resource Management (HRM) and further differentiated into the Training and Development segment of HRM (Bowman 2006:30-3). This notion has changed over the years by the increasing trend of HRD and its importance in forming a company’s strategy or achieving the strategic goals. McLagan (1989a) presents a structural view of HRD influenced by system’s theory, she states that HRD is…
3.5 Force field analysis A force field analysis was conducted on the company in regards to the need for change and implementation of any changes (appendix 9). The driving forces being that of the recent failed inspections, levels of quality products and services and the company reputation to uphold along with many other forces for a need for change. The main restraining factors include the going against the current status quo, people do not like change and some even avoid change as we can see…