People and Organisations:Principles and practice in global contexts

People and Organizations: Principles and Practice in Global Contexts – MN7181 – Management of Change – Blog # 10 What is Change Management? Leading and facilitating change is about initiating and achieving the smooth implementation of new developments and initiatives by planning and   introducing them systematically, allowing for the possibility of their being resisted or, at least, misunderstood. Kotter (1996) emphasized the importance of leading change rather than simply managing it. Leading and facilitating change is probably the most demanding of all HR roles. If HR is concerned as it should be in playing a major part in the achievement of continuous improvement and in the HR processes that support that improvement, then it will need to be involved in facilitating change. Caldwell (2001) stated that the change agent roles that can be carried out by HR professionals are those of change champions, change adapters, change consultants and change synergists. Leadin...

People and Organizations: Principles and Practice in Global Contexts – MN7181 – The Ethical Context of HRM – Blog # 9 What are Ethics? As Boxall et al (2007: 5) pointed out: ‘While HRM does need to support commercial outcomes (often called “the business case”), it also exists to serve organizational needs for social legitimacy.’ This means exercising social responsibility, ie being concerned for the interests (well-being) of employees and acting ethically with regard to the needs of people in the organization and the community. To grasp this ethical dimension it is necessary to understand the nature and principles of ethics, the ethical role of HR and the ethical guidelines they can use. It is also necessary to know about approaches to resolving ethical dilemmas. There has been an increasing concern about the prevalence of unethical behaviors within business organizations. Increased media attention has exposed numerous instances of abuses, scandals, fraud and corrupti...

People and Organizations: Principles and Practice in Global Contexts -                                              Organizational Culture – Blog # 8     Organizational culture defined Organizational or corporate culture is the pattern of values, norms, beliefs, attitudes and assumptions that may not have been articulated but shape the ways in which people in organizations behave and things get done. ‘Values’ refer to what is believed to be important about how people and organizations behave. ‘Norms’ are the unwritten rules of behavior. This definition emphasizes that organizational culture is concerned with the subjective aspect of what goes on in organizations. It refers to abstractions such as values and norms that pervade the whole or part of a business, which may not be defined, discussed or even noticed. Nevertheless, culture can have a s...

   People and Organizations: Principles and Practice in                                   Global Contexts                                                                                                                              Employee Engagement – Blog # 7 What is Employee Engagement? There are many definitions of Employee engagement. The basic of it is how an employee is being utilized in many ways which will benefit the organization. ‘Engagement has become for practitioners an umbrella concept for capturing the various means by which employers can elicit addit...