Contemporary Issues In Human Resource Management By Indika

What is Diversity? Diversity is generally defined as acknowledging, understanding, accepting, valuing & celebrating differences among people with respect to age, class, and ethnicity, and gender, physical & mental ability. Over the past decade the work force in industrialized countries has become increasingly heterogeneous. These countries are spending huge amount for diversifying the workforce. Thus, diversity is increasingly recognized & utilized as an important organizational resource in regards to whether the goal is to be an employer of choice to provide an excellent customer service or to maintain a competitive edge. According to Dahm (2003), diversity within an organization can evoke an array of emotions. Many researchers view diversity as something to be dealt with rather than a tool to be used to improve the organizations. Researches on the effects of within teams & small groups indicate that diversity can have both positive and negative effects. Dom...

The technique of Performance Appraisal has been widely adopted in many organizations to measure and evaluate the performance of their employees across all job categories. Performance Appraisal is one of most important Human Resource practices and it is one of the most heavily researched topics (Fletcher 2001). According to Fletcher, the Performance Appraisal must be viewed as a mechanism for developing and motivating people in an organisation. Performance Appraisal usually involves evaluating performance based on the judgements and opinions of subordinates, peers, supervisors, other managers and even workers themselves (Jackson and Schuler 2003). Generally an appraisal, performance review or a career development discussion is a method by which the job performance of an employee is evaluated in terms of quality, quantity, cost & time. The method of performance appraisals and regular reviews of employee performance within an organisations is being widely adopted. As a proce...

What is Employee Relation? ‘Employee relations’ is a term that has become widely used only in recent passed ,prior to this it is the term ‘industrial relations’ in common use.  There are debates for the meaning of two terms employee relation and industrial relations. Some people argue that there are identifiable differences between them while others are argue that the concepts and phenomena explained are to all intents and purposes interchangeable. Blyton and Turnbull (1994) discuss this in explaining why they have chosen to use the term ‘employee’ as opposed to ‘industrial’. They begin by arguing that they see no hard and fast distinction between the two, the difference being in the tendency of each to focus the subject inside different boundaries, but in reviewing various contributions to the debate they do state some of the more common views. Gennard and Judge (2002) mentioning Employee relations is a study of the rules, regulations and agreements by which employ...

What Is Learning and Development ? As mention by Henderson (2017) Learning and Development (L&D) is a set of planned activities on the part of an organisation to increase the job knowledge and skills, or to modify attitudes and social behaviour to achieve specific ends which are related to a particular job or role.  Organisations which are looking to improve their productivity, efficiency and profitability on their day to day business will look to move beyond general training and look at more diverse learning & development activities which will enable the organisational employees to improve their potential and provide a valuable asset for the business.  L&D can be a source of competitive advantage where employees gain appropriate new knowledge and skills (Towler and Dipboye, 2009) Amazon a leading e-commerce company do one month learning and development program prior to hire an employee. Amazon prepays 95% of tuition for employees at fulfilment centers ...

Why Talent Management An Issue? The talent management approach within a business seeks to develop, acquire, and retain talented and highly potential employees. The forward looking, improvement expecting organisations must develop an integrated approach to talent management to best harness talent.  Retaining talented employees is one of the critical issues facing organisations today and the biggest challenge faced by organisations in modern economy (Lathitha, 2012). Many surveys illustrate that HR leaders and business executive rate talent management as their top people issue, believing it has a very high impact on business performance (Reilly, 2012).  In today’s highly complex business environment organisations are focusing hard to survive and to gain competitive edge, talent management has the enormous potential of retaining and developing the most valuable assets of an organisation to gain key competitive advantage.  One good example of mismanage talent is th...

Employee retention is a process in which employees are encouraged to remain with the organisation for the maximum period of time or until the completion of a particular project (Griffeth and Hom 1995). In other word, an effort by a business to maintain a good working environment which supports current staff in remaining with the company. Many employee retention efforts are aimed at addressing the various needs of employees to enhance their job satisfaction and reduce the substantial costs involved in hiring and training new staff using good HR practices. Figure 01 Barney (1991) classified three main types of resources in an organisation which provide competitive advantage as physical capital resources, organisational capital resources and human capital resources. The firm's people are its most important asset. Thus, employee retention is a must to obtain the organisational expected success (Barney and Wright, 1997) Khatri et al (1999) mentioned that turnover is ...