Career Management – Meaning and Important Concepts
Career management is conscious planning of one’s activities and engagements in the jobs one undertakes in the course of his life for better fulfilment, growth and financial stability. It is a sequential process that starts from an understanding of oneself and encompasses occupational awareness. An individual’s career is the sole source of one’s natural expression […]
Managing Employee Relations
Literally speaking employee relations consists of all those areas in Human resource Management that involves general relationship with the workforce. This may be in the form of collective or mutual agreements that leads to the formation of trade unions or through policies and procedures for employee engagement and communication. The increased growth of workforce diversity […]
Workplace Health and Safety
Statistics show that every twenty seconds of every working minute throughout the world, someone dies as a result of industrial accident or poor safety conditions at workplace. Thousands of employees throughout the world lose their limbs, suffer from temporary or permanent disability or lose their lives due to insufficient arrangements for their health and safety […]
The Changing Nature of Employment and Impact on Professionals and Societies
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Changing Nature of Work The very nature of work and employment is changing rapidly before our eyes. Since the times of the First Industrial Revolution when the modern day arrangements of work and employment were firmed up, office was a place to go to every day and between certain […]
Competency Based Assessment and Organizational Processes
We have explored quite comprehensively the objective and process of competency based, now we come to the point where it would be interesting to explore how competency based assessment can be linked to organizational process and how it can influence the traditional methods. Let us begin with the starting step of the employee’s life cycle […]
It is essential for managers to know their employees well to expect loyalty and commitment in return. Employees need to feel comfortable at the workplace for them to deliver their level best. It is completely unprofessional to address your employees as “Mr”,“Ms”” or “hey”. There is absolutely no need to address them as “Sir“ or “Madam” even. It is absolutely okay if you call them by their first names.
Communication plays an important role in knowing your fellow workers. The role of a supervisor is not just to exchange mails with his team members. You need to sit with your employees and understand what exactly they expect from you and the organization. Find out whether they are satisfied with their performances or overall job responsibilities or not? You need to know where all he is lacking and what all initiatives would help him perform even better. Interaction is very important. Yes, emails are essential but why do you always have to depend on emails and SMSes? Why can’t you directly speak to the individual concerned? Trust me, it will solve half of your problems and make work easier for you.
There is absolutely no harm if you speak to members of other departments as well. Sideways communication plays a crucial role in strengthening the bond among employees. Knowing employees well also enables managers to understand which employee can perform a particular task and which employee cannot? It helps you decide the key responsibility areas of your team members as per their specialization and capabilities. It is important for you to know whether an individual has any criminal background or not, how has he performed at his previous organization, his contact number, address and so on. If you do not keep a proper track on your employees, don’t be surprised if he leaves the organization all of a sudden. Interacting with employees does not mean you start interfering in someone’s personal lives.
Informal interactions are also important to break the ice and know your employees. Encourage morning meetings at workplace where employees can plan their day and also brainstorm ideas to come up with innovative solutions. Trust me; it will increase the overall productivity of the employee as well as organization. Allow employees to bring their cups of coffee with them. Let them open up.
Greet everyone with a smile. No employee can work at a stretch for nine to ten hours. Encourage employees to have lunch together. Let employees interact with each other. Even managers can join their team members for lunch or small get-togethers once in a while. It is the responsibility of the human resource professionals to send birthday greetings to the employees.
Celebrate important festivals at workplace which would bring employees closer and also give them an opportunity to interact with each other. Such small initiatives also lead to a healthy work culture. No one likes to work in an organization where employees do not speak with each other.
Employees should have an easy access to their manager’s cabin. Healthy Communication leads to free flow of information and better relationships at workplace.
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