it undertakes is geared towards creating value for the customer. From strategic planning and personnel management to product decisions, the organization places the customer above everything else. Management commitment is about the management of the organization mobilizing and providing the necessary resources as well as creating and maintaining a culture of quality improvement. Indeed, a culture of quality improvement is an important element of quality management. The organization continuously measures quality, builds on successes, and improves on weaknesses. Ongoing measurement of quality means that the organization makes every decision based on authentic data as opposed to intuition. Finally, the element of employee empowerment means… Continue Reading...
being often confused with performance measurement (Rivenbank, Fasiello & Adamo, 2016). In addition, performance management is often thought to involve only personnel management processes such as employee performance appraisal (Turk, 2016). Furthermore, contention exists over whether it should be considered an art or a science, or whether or not it is a discipline on its own (Brudan, 2010). Also referred to as results or outcome-based management, performance management is an umbrella term which includes a number of ongoing organisational processes: setting and clarifying objectives, establishing performance indicators, gathering and analysing data, reporting outcomes, and learning from the outcomes (Woerrlein & Scheck, 2016). This means that performance measurement is an element of… Continue Reading...
with performance measurement (Rivenbank, Fasiello & Adamo, 2016). In addition, performance management is often thought to involve only personnel management processes such as employee performance appraisal (Turk, 2016). Furthermore, contention exists over whether it should be considered an art or a science, or whether or not it is a discipline on its own (Brudan, 2010). Also, referred to as results or outcome-based management, performance management is an umbrella term which includes a number of ongoing organizational processes: setting and clarifying objectives, establishing performance indicators, gathering and analyzing data, reporting outcomes, and learning from the outcomes (Woerrlein & Scheck, 2016). This means that performance measurement is an element of… Continue Reading...
of providers who accept the role of coordinating health care and hold themselves accountable for the quality of services they render. (Barello et.al 2012)
The Office of Personnel Management was created under the Civil Service Reform Act in 1978. Some of the functions of this office included: Overseeing the human resource management of the Merit Systems Protection Board and prevent abuse of office. (Eijkenaar et.al 2013) The act also had provision for performance appraisal for the employees, merit pay for different levels of employment, and ways to deal with poor performance. In addition, the act specified that employees would get only half of their normal normal salary increase. The other half would be shared… Continue Reading...
implications for firms as they must make HRM decisions that are consistent with those policies. On the whole, cultural and institutional characteristics affect organisational structures, organisational forms, personnel management practices, decision making processes, and virtually every aspect of firm behaviour.
The Japanese manufacturing industry provides a perfect example of the phenomenon of the country-of-origin effect and its implications on firm behaviour, particularly in an increasingly globalised business environment. Against the backdrop of tremendous growth of the Japanese economy in the 1980s, Japanese firms invested in a great deal of foreign direct investment (FDI) (Yu, Park and Cho, 2007). This background provided an opportunity for Toyota, Honda, and Nissan to expand their presence around the globe. As a… Continue Reading...
focus on workforce diversity and what it implies within the armed forces personnel management context is valuable (Kamarck, 2017). Within the armed forces, the subject of diversity is complex in nature, conceptually as well as with respect to its administrative and more practical implications. Diversity constitutes one among the biggest and trickiest HR management challenges faced by military HR leaders in the last twenty to thirty years. Increased diversity in the areas of recruitment, employment and development has challenged conventional armed forces organizational principles, standards, outlooks, and beliefs. It has led to the modification and revision of HR models, practices, policies, and… Continue Reading...
ship routing and scheduling, ship management, personnel management, and ship loading (Yuan, 2016).
Operations Department in Shipping
Given the significance of effective operations management, shipping organizations or companies have established several functional departments including technical, administration, and operation departments. Operations department and the technical department are the most important divisions in a shipping organization or company (International Maritime Organization, n.d.). Business organizations or companies in the shipping industry have established operations departments to help in operations management through handling the day-to-day activities of the company/organization. As an important division in a shipping company, operations department is… Continue Reading...
daycare problems.
Keywords: employee, organization, retention, company, work, absenteeism, work-related stress, working environment, human resources, personnel management.
Conclusion
The focus of this research is to examine factors that contribute to increased employee turnover and high levels of absenteeism and work-related stress in an organization. Based on the findings of the data analysis, employee retention in the organization is affected by several factors including organizational culture, gender roles in the company, and family conflict. While the study was conducted on a group of participants from diverse backgrounds and demographics, organizational culture has a major impact on employee retention in the workplace. Organizational culture affects employee retention… Continue Reading...
1995 Annual Employee Survey" conducted by Office of Personnel Management that examines the working environments of federal employees. During the years 1994 through 1995, respondents were either promoted or not promoted (coding as 1 for promotion and 0 for no promotion). We would like to determine the promotion rate of survey respondents. To do so, we examine the frequency of promotion and no promotion.
Determine the following:
What is the absolute frequency of people who were promoted?
What is the absolute frequency of people who were not promoted? 13.17%
What is the absolute frequency of people who did… Continue Reading...
