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Employee Relations

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Employee Relations locusassignments,com Employee or employment relations are concerned with managing and maintaining the employment relationship, which involves handling the pay work bargain, dealing with employment practices, terms and conditions of employment, issues arising from employment, providing employees with a voice and communicating with employees. They consist of the approaches and methods adopted by employers to deal with employees either collectively through their trade unions or individually (Armstrong, 2014) According to Farnham (2000), employee relations deal with the interactions amongst the parties to the employment relationship. These consist of three groups. Those are employers and employees, the parties who act on their behalf and the third-party role played by the state agencies and the EU institutions. He points out that within organizations employee relations practices are the product of a number of factors, According to CIPD (2017), In gene...
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Performance management

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Performance management advancesystems.ie Performance management deals with the challenge organisations face in defining, measuring, and stimulating employee performance with the ultimate goal of improving organisational performance. Thus, performance management involves multiple levels of analysis and is clearly linked to the topics studied in strategic human resource management as well as performance appraisal Today, performance management term as an overall description of a process of performance planning and review conducted by managers and individuals has largely replaced the term performance appraisal. The latter has often been relegated to a description of the performance assessment and rating aspect of performance management (Armstrong, 2014) Aguinis (2005) defined that performance management is a continuous process of identifying, measuring and developing the performance of individuals and teams and aligning performance with the strategic goals of the or...
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Issues in international HRM

International HRM According to Armstrong (2009) International HRM is the process of managing people across international boundaries by multinational companies. It includes the worldwide management of people. Companies that operate globally comprise international and multinational firms.  Brewster et al (2005) said that biggest challenge from both the public and private sectors to the organization in the 21 st century is the need to operate across national boundaries. Brewster and Sparrow (2007) pointed out that the nature of international human resource management is changing fast. Among some of the larger international organizations, these changes have created a completely different approach to international human resource management. Issues in international HRM Globalization Globalization is the process of international economic integration in worldwide markets. It involves the development of single international markets for goods or services accom...
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Talent management

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Talent Management  moneycompass.com.my According to CIPD (2007), talent includes of those individuals who can make a change to organizational performance, either through their immediate contribution or in the longer term by demonstrating the highest levels of potential. Talent management is the process of identifying, developing, recruiting, retaining and deploying those talented people. As suggested by Lewis and Hackman (2006), talent management is defined in three ways. Those are as a combination of standard human resource management practices such as recruitment, selection and career development, as the creation of a large talent pool, ensuring the quantitative and qualitative flow of employees and last way is as a good based on demographic necessity to manage talent. Talent management term may refer simply to management succession planning and management development activities, although this concept does not really add anything to these familiar processes ex...
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Effects of Globalization on Human Resources Management

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Effects of Globalization on Human Resources Management financewiki.blogspot.com About Globalization Globalization, as it has emerged in the 21st century, poses distinctive HRM challenges to businesses especially those operating across national boundaries as multinational or global enterprises. With the rise of the globalization, today all kind of organizations are interacting with customers and stakeholders from diverse cultures, languages and social backgrounds. Globalization also has a big impact on the way employer manage their employees.                                                                                                               Globalization refers to an increasing level of...
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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Corporate Social Responsibility in HRM The history of CSR goes back to at least the 19th Century in the UK where the innovative working practices of Quaker organizations such as Cadburys and Rowntree Mackintosh put employee welfare and ethical behavior at the heart of their business values. CSR was justified by the CIPD (2007) as a relevant and important HR activity because HR is responsible for the key systems and processes underpinning effective delivery. Through HR, CSR can be given credibility and aligned with how businesses run. CSR could be integrated into processes such as the employer brand, recruitment, appraisal, retention, motivation, reward, internal communication, diversity, coaching and training. HRM play a critical role in ensuring that the company adopts CSR responsibility programs. Furthermore, HR can manage the CSR plan implementation and monitor its adoption proactively.  Armstrong (2014) noted that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is exercised ...
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