The world of work: Strategy and HRM

  Learning and development is a methodical process to improve an employee’s skills, knowledge, and competency giving rise to better performance in a work setting.          Learning is concerned with the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes.          Development is the broadening and deepening of knowledge in one's development goals. The strategic role of Learning and Development One of L&D’s primary responsibilities is to manage the development of people—and to do so in a way that supports other key business priorities.  Attract and retain talent. Today learning also contributes to employability. Over the past several decades, employment has shifted from staying with the same company for a lifetime to a model where workers are being retained only as long as they can add value to an enterprise. Workers are now in charge of their personal and professional growth and development. A lack of L&D is one of th...

    "Organizational Justice" refer to the extent to which employees see workplace procedure, interactions and outcome to be fair within the workplace. This is said to influence attitudes and behavior of employees which in turn impact outcomes such as, such innovation, increased learning behavior, organizational trust, ethical behavior, organizational commitment and work performance. These will in turn have a negative effect on the execution of strategy within the organization by its employees. Types of Organizational justice There are 4 types of perceived fairness within organizational settings: Distributive justice – this is the perception of the fairness of decision outcomes, such as promotion opportunities, pay, positive performance appraisals Procedural justice – this is the perception of fairness within the processes that lead to outcomes, for example performance calibration or procedures for allocating promotional opportunities Interpersonal justice – this is the ...

          Employee Relations Employee relations (ER) is the term that defines the relationship between employers and employees. ER focuses both on individual and collective relationships in the workplace with an increasing emphasis on the relationship between managers and their team members. ‘Employee relations’ covers the contractual, practical, as well as the physical and emotional dimensions of the employee-employer relationship. (Verlinden, 2023) Policies and procedures of a company that establish transparency and fairness for employees plays a vital role in setting the culture that drive the maintenance of such relations. Nestle, further employs corporate labor priorities, compliance, collective dialog, collective negotiations and external social dialogues in their ER policy. They state that this helps them ensure that the policy is practiced in the real sense and equally at all business locations across the world. It also encourages liaison with re...

  Performance management is a set of processes and systems aimed at developing employees, so they perform their job to the best of their ability. The goal is to help employees build on skills that enable them to perform better in their roles, reach their potential, and boost their success while also accomplishing the strategic goals of the organization. The Performance management process involves: Establishing clear expectations Setting individual objectives and goals that align with team and organizational goals Providing ongoing feedback Evaluating results Career decisions, including promotions, bonuses, and dismissals, are linked to the performance management process. (Vulpen, 2023)   Why is performance management important? AIHR lists down five reasons as to why performance management is so important for the organization. Future-proofing your workforce’s skills Establishing a continuous line of communication with employees and monitoring their skills,...

    In this article we plan to investigate the what and the why of onboarding. We will also look at how critical this process is and the changes this process is undergoing in order to support the business strategy. Companies expend a massive amount of time and effort in designing jobs to support the business, filtering candidates that match those requirements and then on evaluating them in order to ensure that the best talent is taken into the company to execute business strategy. Therefore, it is essential that the talent thus recruited is integrated into the company in a successful manner. Onboarding thus is the processes in which new hires are integrated into the organization. It includes activities that allow new employees to complete an initial new-hire orientation process, as well as learn about the organization and its structure, culture, vision, mission and values. (Shrm, 2023) The advent of the COVID-19 crisis fast tracked the changes to how companies functioned...