Amila MBA HR Blog

  Employee Engagement     Having a committed and engaged workforce is an important part to achieve the organizations goal, targets . Organizations treat employees as its capital, there for managing human capital to a productive pathway should be more defined and planned. A study by Maniam Kaliannana, Samuel Narh Adjovu on the Effective employee engagement and organizational success: a case study express few important points about employee engagement, making employees to feel the job and actively involved in the job is very much changeable. Employee engagement is based on trust, integrity, two way commitment and communication between an organization and its members. It is an approach that increases the chances of business success, contributing to organizational and individual performance, Productivity and well-being. It varies from poor to great. It can be nurtured and dramatically increased. (Armstrong, 2000)Employee engagement is about positive attitudes and behavi...

  Interview Process     Interview is the first formal meeting of a candidate and the organization’s representative. This is the most familiar method of selecting the appropriate candidate of the vacancy from the good old days.   This is a quick and the simple way to collect information about the candidate, including the information not appearing in the application. Further a skilled interviewer can go deeper in to the candidate and find out, measure the levels of working ability, intelligence, personal characteristic, aptitudes and language fluency, (Armstrong, 2014)   Interview will open space to interact of bath parties concern over the job and responsibilities, the candidate will get opportunity to ask questions regarding his/her responsibility and the interviewer will analyze the capabilities of the candidate.   There are many ways of interviews in today’s HR world, starting from telephone interviews, Skype call interviews, One way v...

  Recruitment and Selection   The recruitment and selection process is one of the most important aspects of running and managing new and established businesses. The right employees can take the business to new heights. The wrong ones can hurt business by missing sales, wrong sales and turning customers off and creating a toxic workplace environment. Further the HR protocols start from this end. (Mackay, 2016)   What is recruitment and    selection process?   As per the Armstrong Recruitment is the process of finding and engaging the people the organization needs. Selection is that part of the recruitment process concerned with deciding which applicants or candidates should be appointed to jobs. Further the recruitment and selection have few steps in process which has been conducted and practiced in many organizations. The stages of recruitment and selection are:   1.      Defining requirements. 2.   ...

  Human Resource Management Yesterday and Today Human resource management is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and of attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns, (Dessler, 2011) its directly involved with people in an organization. HRM is also about strategic, integrated and coherent approach to the employment, development and well-being of the people working in organizations. (Amstrong ,2009)   Human resource management involves all management decisions and action that affect the nature of the relationship between the organization and its employees – its human resources. (Beer et al, 1984) HRM comprises a set of policies designed to maximize organizational integration, employee commitment, flexibility and quality of work. (Guest, 1987) considering the above mentioned various definitions we can come to a concussion of HRM is so important to an organization to achieve its goals and plans, HR wi...