Kaushalya Wijesinghe Kirinde

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Impact of Organisational Culture in Today's Context

Photo credits to www.danpontefract.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/culture3.jpg '' Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning '' - Quote by Narayana Murthy Organisational culture attributes believes and values that are existed within an organisation for a long term. That could be identify organisational administration has a greater level of influence over its culture . These organisational cultures been adopted by their administrators to enable employees to achieve strategic corporate objectives efficiently and effectively. Photo credits to markumgroup.com/uploads/3/4/3/8/34389790/5568774_orig.jpg Considering annual growth of companies many establishments reliant on their top performing employees. Therefore its crucial for companies to retain their much valued assets to remain in the game. Considering retention generally deciding factor could be monetary but a survey...

Performance Management in the contemporary setting

Photo credits to http://www.mcoxley.com/images/sli_8.jpg Performance management is a process or rather a mechanism which enables and establishes proper grounds for employees to play their best game and achieve organizational objectives effectively and efficiently. In the current global context Performance Management is something more than what comes to mind, the typical annual performance appraisals where managers asses employee performances using techniques such as; assessment centre method, essay evaluation, human asset accounting method, paired comparison method, rating scale, 360 degree feedback etc. This once a year approach proved to be biased and too focused on past mistakes thus leads to discourage employees and create work floor conflicts which will effect negatively to the organization. In the contemporary context forward thinking organizations tend to practice modern performance management where continuously assess employee competencies and develop un...

Learning and Development

Photo credits to http://performatwork.com/ There are number of different ways that employees can be developed, from induction to on the desk job training to internal or external courses, workshops and coaching and mentoring etc. This scrutinize different more methods of learning and development and how they could be used to enhance capacities of human capital. In the current global context employers are aware and understand the value of invest in learning and development, therefore they tend to invest heavily on L&D to fine tune efficiency of their human capital. Toyota have established a philosophy called '' Monozukuri is about developing people '', from which them manifest the need of employee development for a sustainable growth as a company . Virgin Care has been short listed for the award for '' Excellence in Learning and Development '' category of the 2015 '' Personnel Today Awards '' after...

Critical Review of Scientific Management in Contemporary Organisations

Photo credits to us.123rf.com/ Management is when different individuals come together in an organization to work and achieve a common organizational goal. Managers would manage employees in a way that enhances productivity by efficiently and effectively. In 1918, Taylor known as the "Father of Scientific Management" published his book ' The Principals of Scientific Management, in which he described how the scientific approach improves productivity. Prior to the scientific management there were skilled craftsman who learnt their work by lengthy studies. Therefore they made their own decisions about how their job was to be performed. Scientific management took away much of these autonomy and pressures employees to be specialized on a particular piece of work and therefore increases the productivity. Scientific management is mainly developed based on following four principals. Scientifically desig...

Introduction to Human Resource Management

Photo credits to http://sapamaerp.com/img/home_page/hrm/sapamahr Human Resource Management is a strategic and a systematic approach to the management of an organizations most valued assets; the work force who individually and collectively commit towards achieving its objectives for a sustainable competitive advantage. The difference between Human resource Management and Personal Management Photo credits to https://4.bp.blogspot.com/ The main difference between Personal Management and Human Resource Management lies in their scope and assimilation. While the scope of Personal Management is narrow and has an inverted approach, where employees are viewed as tools rather machines, here the behavior of the worker can be manipulated as per the core competencies of the organization and replaced when they are worn out. Photo credits to https://2.bp.blogspot.com/ The role...

Employer & Employee Relationship

Photo credits to www.talkofweb.com When employees have a strong and a healthy relationship with their employers that would mutually benefited. From the employee side will have a happy and a pleasant atmosphere at work and from the employer side will achieve corporate objectives more effectively and efficiently. For an example that myself eye witnessed in my own factory, employees who are more closer and friendlier are tend to work longer than their scheduled timings without any of complaints or demands and shows a higher degree of efficiency plus I privileged myself to obtain more ground level information which are crucial at times of decision making. When an employee enjoys being around their manager and co-workers, they are less likely to seek out conflicts. Therefore higher the productivity otherwise wise versa. Virgin group introduced flexible working hours therefore employees been able to spend more time with their families and avoid typical ...