Author Archives: Fernando Batista

To increase company performance, HR strategies must conform with the overall strategy, environment, characteristics, and capabilities of the organisation. HR issues are crucial in achieving business objectives. Issues to be considered in HR strategy planning are maintaining competitive advantage, reinforcement of business strategy, looking beyond day to day problems, securing management commitment, working from strategyContinue reading “HR Strategy planning – Ethics and outsourcing”

Exit management is the settlement of an employee’s exit from the organisation. To manage the process effectively, organisation must have an exit policy in place. According to Gomez-Mejia, Balkin and Cardy (2016), management must monitor and identify the causes of turnover to minimise turnover and costs for replacement. Turnover rate, the rate of employee separations, affects the bottomContinue reading “Exit Management”

Why Do Employees Join Unions? A Union is organization that represents employees interests to management on issues such as wages. work hours, and working conditions. Employees join unions for different reasons: when they are dissatisfied with certain aspects of their job; feel that they lack influence with management to make the needed changes; believe thatContinue reading “Labor Union and Labor Law”

This area of management is defined by laws regarding safety and health at workplace. They exist to assure that providing labour does not include unnecessary risks. Management of wellbeing and health and safety at work deals with contemporary safety, health, and behavioural issues which are related to practical, legal, and ethical questions. In addition, organisationsContinue reading “Employee Wellbeing & Health and Safety at Work”

In order to set out an efficient working environment, a manager should administer properly both employees’ and employer’ rights. In assistance HR department can help into defying the boundary line between common law, company’s policies and tradition, clearing out rights for both employees and employer and to: – Developing and enforcing those policies that informsContinue reading “Legal compliance, discipline and grievance”

In the Business World, Companies are constant on the thrive to have a smooth and well running workplace. it must make sure the employee engagement is well in accord and giving necessary appraisals to employers when needed. Rewarding employees and promoting engagement can be vital but when done for the wrong reasons or in the wrong way could be but unproductive orContinue reading “Total Rewards and Employee Engagement”

Performance Appraisal refers to all those procedures that are used to evaluate the personality, performance and potential of its group members. Performance Appraisals are yearly or monthly evaluations given to employees. They evaluate the needs of the employee and also the supervisor. The performance appraisal is used as a method to evaluate possible raises, meritContinue reading “Performance Management”

To keep the companies competitive, the staff needs to have the best skills and a broad understanding of the organization and its customers. That is why training and developments are important for employees, which focuses on improving the overall performance of the company. Training is the process of providing employees with specific skills in helpingContinue reading “Learning and Development”

Key Concepts It is a challenge for a company to hire suitable employees. Human resource planning is needed to achieve the required goal. The hiring process consists of three steps: Recruitment, Selection, and Socialization. Every step is important for both sides, new employees, and the company. There are a lot of challenges in the hiringContinue reading “Recruitment and Selection”