I just read Susan Heathfield’s article in About.com on how to create an environment that encourages employee engagement. Susan claims organizations are bad at employee engagement because it is hard work. This response is true yet sadly incomplete and unsophisticated. Susan is right about some things. We need to improve employee engagement. It is a [...]
As our economy grows ever more complex and competitive, employers, and human resource professionals must adjust their hiring methods to contend with rapid changes in training and skill set requirements. Today’s Companies often seek very specialized technical knowledge and previous experience in multiple disciplines. The economic downturn has also added to the volume of applicants [...]
Individuals operating as experts in the human resources department have numerous job prospects in the industry. They are either hired as full time employees by firms and industries or they can freelance and be contracted by firms and industries. Freelance human resource professionals have the freedom to select their work, industry type and the fees [...]
Human resource is the life blood of all operations in an organization since the people involved in it are the asset of the organization. Whether it is finance, marketing, sales or operations, people and their intelligence is the driving force behind these functions. Human Resource Management deals with the identification, management and organization of this [...]
Organizational Psychology is a subject which applies the principles of psychology into one of the most important areas of people’s life – work. Specifically, we work with the human aspects of the workplace and aim at improving people’s efficiency, and hence organizational effectiveness, through our knowledge about human functioning. There exist a group of [...]
The role of human resource professionals is changing. The modern role played by specialists in this field seems to be more strategic and less administrative than in days gone by. With recruitment often outsourced to expert recruitment consultant, less of the traditional human resources role still exists in most companies. Managing staff is an important [...]