Saturday, December 18, 2021

People Management Strategies

 


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Managing people effectively will help to meet company deadlines, build mutual trust, friendship among people who spend a lot of time together in the office and identify opportunities for them for growth. These will help for personnel management skills in the workplace for achieving the goals and objectives of the organization. We will learn in this study on some of the best people management strategies for the success of the organizations. 

 

Recruitment & Selection

This is the first step needed to focus on which is getting the right person for the right job.

Prior to recruiting, should define the eligibility requirement for the position. Following is a brief guide line.  

  •        Identify the role & responsibilities that the new recruit should be working on.
  •       The knowledge required to handle the job.  
  •       The skills and core competencies required for the job.  
  •       Cultural fit that should poses of the new recruit

Recruitment and selection as the process of retrieving and attracting able applications for the purpose of employment. The process of recruitment is not a simple selection process, while it needs management decision making and broad planning in order to appoint the most appropriate manpower (Price, 2007).

 

Training & Development

 The employees are the assets of the organization, therefore developing the team is essential when planning growth. Identify potential employees who is in need of training and the type of the training required for each employee. Some of the common training requirement for employees in organizations are as follows;

  •   Skills
  •   Leadership
  •   Technology (ERP’s, MS Office, Effective e-mail communication & Managing Inbox…etc)
  •    Time Management   
  •     Mentoring 

Training is viewed as a systematic approach of learning and development that improve individual, group and organization (Jehanzeb & Bashir, 2013).

Development is the acquisition of knowledge, skill, or attitude that prepares people for new directions or responsibilities (Association for Talent Development , 2021).

 

Performance Management

Each person’s performance measuring is necessary to ensure that the team is meeting expectations which is the goals and objectives of the organization. Also should allow for employees to give their feedback. If employees do not perform good, then give them an opportunity for improvements. Performance development means the improving the capacity of work performance of employees by giving training or providing new skills and higher level of responsibilities, it is very important for the company to improve the work process. (UK Esseys, 2016)

  

Employee Engagement

Do a survey to measure the satisfaction of each employee. The survey should be anonymous so that employees will open up their feelings and frustrations about the organization or the leaders or the wages/perks…etc.  

Employee engagement has become a topic of interest to HR practitioners and line managers Employee engagement can be defined as the connection an employee has with their workplace. It relates to job satisfaction, motivation and involvement at work. Employee engagement has received a great deal of consideration in the last five years, especially in the popular press and among consulting firms. It has often been described as the key to an organization’s success (UK Essays, 2015)

 

Rewards & Recognition

Employees must be rewarded and provide recognition in on open forum. Employee reward & recognition is one of the main sources for motivation. Motivated employees do good quality job, produces good results and performs with a great commitment towards the given job role. further they are keen to walk the extra mile to take the organization to a greater height.

 

Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory

There are two types of needs according Maslow’s Need Hierarchy theory.  They are as follows;

  •                Lower level needs

Lower level needs are the basic biological human needs such as food, shelter, sex and dress.  (Zeb, et al., 2014)

 

  •              Higher level needs.

This is level needs are for the persons who tries to achieve after full filling the Lower level needs which is the self-esteem and self-actualization needs. Recognition is a self-esteem need. Employee’s recognition requires for the employees who have full filled the lower level needs. (Zeb, et al., 2014)   

 

Reward and recognition develop an enthusiasm among employees, increase their desire for work and also establish a linkage between performance and motivation of the employees (Flynn, 1998)

Recognition is monetary and non-monetary rewards offered in the public place or communicated in the work place regarding the success or accomplishment of an individual (Hellman, 2010)    

 

Conclusion References 

People Management Strategies should be closely monitored for organizational success. People or the employees could get dissatisfied, demotivated, Lack of knowledge for curtains job roles on a continuous basis according situation that the employees have to face. It is important to follow up and manage the above highlighted areas in order to meet the goals and objectives of the organization. This could take organization to a greater success.

 

References 

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4 comments:

  1. According to (John Bratton, 2019) "Strategic human resource management is the process of linking the human resource function with the strategic objectives of the organization in order to improve performance. However, adopting to HR strategy that is concerned with the organization's larger mission and goals has multiple long term advantages and long term benefits for the company. Very interesting article.

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  2. One way of managing people is by giving them , trust , honestly and transparency . I think this is very important in current global context. Specially more and more people working from home.

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  3. People in an organisation are the most valuable asset for the organisation. Therefore, it is essential that the organisations have right strategies in place, in order to manage their huma resource. In your article, you have very nicely articulated about these people management strategies. A very interesting read.

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  4. People management can help businesses attract the best people and be an employer of choice. Successful employee involvement through efficient people management processes will result in improved employee morale, leading to increased efficiency and productivity.

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