to its employees, which helps in staff retention through enhancing job security. The other staff retention strategies utilized by ColonialWebb include flexible work schedules, a friendly working environment that is centered on close working relationships, and career growth and development opportunities.
Job Analysis
As previously mentioned, ColonialWebb has currently advertised for the position of Helpers for its commercial construction projects in Central Virginia, particularly Charlottesville and Richmond (see Appendix A). Helpers will be responsible for assisting the firm’s mechanics with fabrication, assembly, installation and repairs of piping systems, plumbing, and sheet metal (Our Career Pages, 2017). Through this process, these… Continue Reading...
1994). Essentially, by investing in employees, employers expect certain outcomes, and vice versa (Ishaq & Shamsher, 2016). For instance, by providing competitive remuneration, job security, and professional development opportunities, an organization often expects to get loyalty and commitment from employees in return. Equally, by demonstrating commitment to work, employees usually expect their employer to reciprocate by offering financial and/or non-financial benefits. Dissimilar to formal contracts between employers and employees, psychological contracts are essentially perceptual in the sense that there may be varying interpretations of the expectations employers and employees have one of each other (Freese, Schalk & Croon, 2011).
The employer-employee relationship has experienced tremendous shifts in the last few decades (Ulen, 2015).… Continue Reading...
off, it threatens the job security of everyone there in a decisive and lasting manner. Hence, it is only natural that the workers of this company decided to organize in order to protect their jobs, their livelihood and their families, so that they have baseline levels of job security. Furthermore, the fact that the wages within SGA were lower than wages within the manufacturing sector as a whole is something that workers would want to address through the collective power of a union.
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SGA's demonstrated a clear and concerted strategy during their management… Continue Reading...
fringe benefits were ranked as being the most significant to the labor force of the organization followed by job security in addition to the relationship with superiors and colleagues.
One of the participants stated the following:
“A key motivational factor for remaining within the organization is not only the compensation given but also the benefits. I believe that the work undertaken by an employee should match the compensation granted. In addition, being part of the productivity levels of the organization, benefits should be granted to the employee in recognition of such efforts”
Participant 5 also stated that:
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acceptable. There is also the factor of having secure job status where the organization is expected to provide job security to the personnel. Most of all, there is organizational and administrative policies that ought to be flexible, objective and clear for all personnel (Hertzberg et al., 1959).
In contrast, according to Herzberg, hygiene factors cannot be deemed as motivators or satisfiers. In particular, motivational factors also referred to as satisfiers give rise to constructive satisfaction levels, which are intrinsic to the workplace. Notably, motivational factors generate morale and motivation for personnel for a better performance and increased output. Imperatively, these factors are included in the participation of the… Continue Reading...
by helping to make it possible. Personnel must be afforded job security on the basis of their performance, and have a chance at personal satisfaction stemming from a feeling of accomplishment with respect to their role in the company (Hewlett-Packard, 2016).
Organization: Maintaining a corporate climate conducive to individual motivation, innovativeness and resourcefulness, and affording employees sufficient liberty to work towards set aims and targets.
Citizenship: Meeting good citizenship requirements by contributing to not only the community but also the societal institutions responsible for generating the climate the company operates in (Hewlett-Packard, 2016).
HRM Contribution to Achievement of Objectives
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increase in salaries and greater job security. Owing to the low salaries Wal-Mart offers its personnel, the former issue of interest is understandable; the latter relates to an assurance that the company will retain its personnel for the long term (Meyer, P. (2017).
Subsystems
The management subsystem
Wal-Mart’s corporate structure is function-based and hierarchical in nature. The term ‘hierarchical’ implies a vertical line of authority and command; the term ‘function-based’ implies the firm’s structure has personnel groups performing specific functions. For instance, the functions of sales, marketing, and HR management all have their own departments… Continue Reading...
activism, but rather they were running the unions as a business. The unions were mostly concerned with ensuring that employees had job security and they worked hard to quell any disturbances that might arise. With employees working as expected and employers willing to pay the employees as agreed, there was a need for the unions to honor their contractual agreements. The contracts removed the unions from management and offered the company managers leeway to run the business as deemed fit. Unions opted to have collective bargaining agreements that in the long run meant that the unions were powerless and the power of workers no longer rested with the unions (Aidt &… Continue Reading...
labor market benefits besides increased income. More educated persons tend to be autonomous, more mobile and flexible, enjoy higher job security, and experience higher levels of employment (Lee, 2014). However, income usually receives the highest attention, even though it may not capture all these advantages of employment. As much as all graduates experience these effects of education, this experience is never uniform. Huge differences do exist when it comes to the income and status of occupation of graduates. There have been many investigations trying to find out what brings these variations and one factor that has featured significantly is fields of study. There are different groupings of fields but… Continue Reading...
