Organizational studies and human resource management

innovative solutions that help the organization better serve the customer. Organizational commitment. Since each individual employee has unique factors that result in loyalty, creating organizational commitment can be a perplexing task for a company. The purpose of gaining organizational commitment has a multitude of benefits, including motivation to perform a task…

Appendix Glossary Activist burnout: “a state of emotional exhaustion that causes previously committed individuals to disengage from social action” (Boggess, 2012). Cataloging of skills: This refers to an organizational process that identifies the skills held by its members, including grassroots leaders. Specifically, it identifies the strengths, needs, and potential areas for development. It is especially significant for organizations focused on leadership development because it provides…

This supports our hypothesis, which states, “Employees who are lead by individuals they believe are quality leaders, and are offered mentor-type relationships with management, will perform better and this will lead to more quality output for the company.” This positive correlation shows that our survey respondents believe that quality leadership and mentoring lead to quality employee behaviors yielding quality company…

The industrial relations management system consists of employee relations and human resource management which is required to carry out functions in the industrial relations field. The concept of a system is applied in the perception that industrial relations is based upon the terms and conditions of employment and…

important because they can help teach individuals to become better employees, coworkers, and managers. In addition, taking personality assessments help teach individuals about organizational behavior. Understanding organization behavior can also help individuals become better employees, coworkers,…

ground that transactional leader tries to address lower issues than higher needs, for example, on the issue of improvement and development. Transformational leader must separately recognize what spurs any of his followers. It is a known fact that human wishes and needs are diverse. Some people may need certainty, while other may prefer excitement and change; a preference for money, and leisure time. It is up to the leader to detect, monitors, examine and predicts the needs and wishes of his…

It is important for all leaders to think about, know and understand their preferred leadership style. By contemplating and answering the following questions: what is your preferred leadership style, what are the advantages and disadvantages of your leadership style, what is your personal leadership style/development plan and what are the growth areas that you can anticipate and develop. By self-reflecting and answering these questions, a leader gains a greater understanding of themselves and…

These projects have a strong developmental approach and make use of company resources to benefit and improve communities and are not above all focussed as marketing strategies. These projects include health care, education and training, environmental education, etc. Freeman and Friedman have two opposing views on Corporate Social…

A toxic workplace is a serious threat to your life style and life quality, and opens the door to a host of diseases that destroy your health. In the end, it comes down to how you deal with stress. A certain amount of stress in the workplace is normal, even beneficial because it compels people to move forward with their plans in pursuit of their goals and dreams. It's when you succumb under the weight of pressures in a toxic workplace that stress can get out of control. Then it becomes a real…

Knowledge sharing between employees and within and across teams is helpful to capitalize on knowledge based resources (Cabrera & Cabrera, 2005; Damodaran & Olphert, 2000). Knowledge sharing has positive effect on team performance, innovation capabilities and ultimately on organization performance (Collins & Smith, 2006; Cummings, 2004). (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995)…