Organizational Performance and Human Resource Management

Organization and team culture can be created, sustained, modified, evaluated, and rewarded. However, leaders must be proactive in engaging in team culture success and understanding what drives the organization's human capital. Understanding culture is an important tool for leaders because it determines the strength and weakness of an organization or team. First leaders must be able to identify the characteristics of effective team culture. Characteristics of…

Assignment 4 Hailey Morgan Winkler Texas A&M University – Central Texas Author’s Notes Instructor: Dr. Rebecca McPherson Course: MGTK 302-120 – Personnel/Human Resource Management Assignment 4 Total Rewards Design Total Rewards Philosophy To interest and keep superior talent, companies create incentive packages that will appeal to an assortment of people. Companies address pay and benefits with a total rewards philosophy. The total rewards package contains all forms of benefits,…

occurrences that happen in their workplace that impact their performance, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction. The theory further recommended that affective work behaviors are explained by employee mood and emotions, while cognitive-based behaviors are the best predictors of job satisfaction. This resulted in lasting internal and external affective reactions exhibited through job performance, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. For instance, suppression of unpleasant…

have come under study to help ensure positive project outcomes and improved organizational performance” Creasy and Anantatmula (2013). One of the great qualities of project manager is the ability to motivate people, the average project participant will appreciate being led by a project…

Human resource is one of the competitive advantages among the production resources of the organizations. As such this is the only resource that has the ability to gain knowledge, skills, and get motivated. This is the only resource that has the capacity to get enhance their abilities (under right conditions) with the procurement of knowledge and experience for the betterment of an organization. It is therefore regarded as the scarcest and most crucial productive resource that creates the largest…

Hersey and Blanchards’ theory of situational leadership: The situational leadership theory developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard as a “situational model” suggesting that there is no single specific leadership style and successful leaders tend to adopt variable styles according to the follower’s maturity level. The model suggests that leaders deal with different levels of maturity in different kind of working groups hence adjusting their leading strategy related to their emphasis on task…

The strength of normative organizational commitment is influenced by accepted rules about reciprocal obligation between the organization and its members (Suliman & Iles, 2000). The reciprocal obligation is based on the social exchange theory, which suggests that a person receiving a benefit is under a strong normative obligation or rule to repay the benefit in some way (McDonald & Makin, 2000). This implies that individuals often feel an obligation to repay the organization for investing in them…

This article speaks about giving rise to, as well as developing, the leader in you. It talks about discovering the inner potential that every human has and awakening his / her leadership skills. It also puts light on the leadership development program to build leaders in the workplace more particularly at the Ethiopian Airlines. On a daily basis we face situations that are outside the scope of our control but we are forced to deal with it. At times, there is no escape possible and we knowingly…

Human resources is a discipline of its own since it involves a range of tasks within an organization that deal with managing people. The range of tasks makes it a discipline as these tasks are wide and varied. The tasks covered by human resources are geared towards creating value for the company and allowing positive experiences for employees. Human resources is a discipline which deals with the execution of the following functions: selection and recruitment of employees, training and…

and human resources go hand in hand. Strategic planning focuses on what a company wants to do, rather than how it does it. Human Resource planning looks at the long-term needs of a business, rather than addressing current needs. The goal for human resources is to sustain and create a workforce that acquires the business needs. A company's employees is the most valuable resource…