Essays on Commitment

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Under the supervision of - DECLARATION OF AUTHENTICITY - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - INTRODUCTION Training and development is involved with activities carried by an organization that are focused on improving the performance of employees. Training and development falls under the human resource department of any organization. These training and development activities include educational programs such as mentorship programs, training, coaching and workshops. They help to motivate and inspire employees and to bring the best out of them. Training and development have for long been understood to be only focused on looking developing new ways of production and ...

Executive Summary

China is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in the establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. This paper explores the role of SMEs in an emerging economies, the role of manpower in SMEs, as well as understanding the key success factors of the SMEs in China.

Introduction

SMEs are the growth engines for any economy in the ...

Introduction

Employee Development Employee development is an on-going, joint endeavor on the part of employees and the company for upgrading the employee's skills, knowledge and capabilities (Michie and Sheehan, 2005). Effective employee development calls for a balance amid a person’s career requirements and objectives as well as the company’s need for getting the task accomplished (Howard, 1995). Employee development initiatives make constructive contribution towards organizational outcome. A highly accomplished workforce could attain more and the employers could attain more as staff members gain in knowledge and experience. Additionally, retaining employees saves a large amount of company’s resources and money ( ...

- Introduction Training and development is involved with activities carried by an organization that are focused on improving the performance of employees. Training and development falls under the human resource department of any organization. These training and development activities include educational programs such as mentorship programs, training, coaching and workshops. They help to motivate and inspire employees and to bring the best out of them. Training and development have for long been understood to be only focused on looking developing new ways of production and improving service provision but not thought of as means to improving employees attachment ...

Abstract

The paper is based on the notion of high commitment human resource management being of much interest in many organizations and research studies recently. The practices of high commitment human resource management are directly linked to high performance in employees resulting to good financial performance, greater productivity, quality service, and good customer relation experience.

Introduction

High commitment approach in human resource management focuses on increasing productivity and effectiveness by motivating employees to give their best and work towards achievement of organizational strategic goals. The approach revolves around policies that motivate employees and cause them to be committed towards their work. ...

Executive Summary

Macau is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region, just across the border for Hong Kong. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. However, unfortunately this is not the case, primarily because of the intense pressure on manpower, which is contributing to labour turnover in Macau, so much that, almost 30% of the SMEs are facing closure ...

Executive Summary

China is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in the establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. This paper explores the role of SMEs in an emerging economies, the role of manpower in SMEs, as well as understanding the key success factors of the SMEs in China.

Introduction

SMEs are the growth engines for any economy in the ...

200175 Managing Human Resources and Industrial Relations

Assessment One - Answer ALL three questions - Each answer should be about 500 words (for a total of 1500 words) - All answers must be completed ON THIS TEMPLATE, using the space provided at the end of each question. Use Calibri 11 point font (this is the default font so please do not change). This template is in editable Word format, so use additional space if required. LEAVE ANY UNUSED SPACE AT THE END OF EACH QUESTION BLANK. - The completed templates MUST include (a) the completed cover sheet (b) ...

Introduction

Diverse cultural background in the work place focuses on issues such as religion, race, ethnicity, gender, and social values. Having a diverse workforce or employee in terms of cultural background is requires that the employers take into account the various needs of their employee. For instance, some of the needs that have to be considered include: dressing, religious practices, customs, social value, family obligations, and non verbal behaviors (Rugman & Collinson, 2009). Different cultures have different expressions for these aspects. For example, some cultures require specific dressing code such as wearing turbans at all times, while other cultures may require ...

1. Informal Networks Atkinson & Moffat (2005) describes informal networks as a relationship between colleagues that develops after the realization of the gains derivable from such a network. Informal networks keep employees connected in a context that is only well understood among them (members of the same network). As opposed to formal networks which are regulative, informative-instructive, or integrative or innovative, informal networks are inherently are known to change with time (Anderson, Ones, Sinangil, & Viswesvaran, 2001). Research has shown that these networks are less innovative and are by all means not regulative.

Conventionally, the presence of informal networks has always been justified ...

Commitment is the state of being dedicated to an activity or a cause. This means that an individual has to be more than willing to satisfy a given activity. Commitment may be defined by existence of various terms in its explanation. Like other words, commitment may have been made meaningful and sensible by presence of other words to supplement it or make it easy to understand. Such words are devotion, loyalty, and faithfulness. For a cause or activity to be achieved various forces must work together. These forces are the words that may be used together to bring out the actual and ...

Abstract

Values are the enduring perspectives that an individual strongly holds to judge between right and wrong. In addition, with the help of such values an individual is able to perceive and interpret the surroundings on the basis of which, an individual is able to make correct decisions. Since values play such crucial role in an individual’s life. It has been indicated that values have significant role in influencing the attitude of an individual i.e. commitment and job satisfaction along with other factors. On the other hand, it has also been indicated that conflicting values systems can negatively influence ...

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Introduction

Human resource management is an important concept in any organization. There are current trends that are seen by human resource management. Many organizations strive to retain employees and make them perform better. What is seen today is mechanisms which are used to have high performing employees. Today, emphasis is put on employees who perform and deliver than those who do not deliver. There are strategies that have been put that help employees perform better. This paper will focus on the latest trend of high performance work systems in workplaces (Guthrie, Flood, Liu, & MacCurtain, 2009). ...

Commitment is key to the lasting of a marriage. In most successful marriages, the level of commitment from the partners is high enough to shut down all the possible forces of separation. Often, couples confuse fidelity with commitment, a situation, which results in unhappy relationships. Numerous psychological explanations bordering on commitment dominate most discussions involving human relationship. Obviously, this article summarizes such explanations while making comparisons with the human genealogy and its overall influence in individuals’ resistance to temptation. However, there are two interesting points that stand out through the discussions evident in the article.

Firstly, it is interesting to note ...

California Lutheran University

Rayan Azhari Chapter I

Introduction

Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty. Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. ...

Chapter I

Introduction Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty. Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. Effective succession planning ...

Introduction

The organizations and entrepreneurs worldwide experience investment provisions in training and development for the maximization of gains. There are variables including adequate investment in employee training, investment criteria, and monetary wellbeing of businesses show their greater significance in businesses globally due to rapid transitions in industrial era to knowledge-based . Training and development has a radical impact on the generation of intellectual property. The intellectual property entrenches development of wealth in substantial means for companies that strived for growth in their business settings. There are a lot of business gains associated with commitment and control strategies that are part of training and ...

Commitment - Saudi Arabia

CMN 598 Introduction In December 2010, Arab revolution was accidentally started by Mohamed Bouazizi. Bouazizi worked as fruits and vegetables seller in his town, illegally. One day, a police officer stopped him and confiscated his cart as a weekly usual; this was not a big deal for him. Mohamed tried hard to get his cart back, and he managed to do it. Several minutes later, the same police officer returned, angry and full of hatred, slapped Mohamed and asked other policemen to kick him- for no reason. Bouazizi was furious. He could not control his anger, not because of the ...

The article is titled ‘The Effect of Gender on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Kuwait’ by Rastied Al-Ajmi. It explores the effect of gender on employee’s perception of job satisfaction and commitments to organizations and relates specifically to Kuwait. In the study underlying the article, the researchers sampled 436 employees, 223 males and 213 were females from five ministries in Kuwait. The study employed correlation, t-tests as well as one way analysis to come up with a conclusion. The study explores existing literature and notes that there is a convergence towards the fact that gender roles are an ...

Participative Management and Job Satisfaction

Participative management involves encompassing ordinary employees in the everyday decision making. Notably, employees become more responsible of their workload and improve on their productivity and quality of their work. Job satisfaction on the other hand entails leadership dictating the success of the organization. The employers need top-notch leadership skills to motivate the employees therefore improving the quality of their work. The following literature reviews will explore case studies and hypothesis improves the relationship between employers and employees therefore increasing job satisfaction. That relate to these two important factors. Yousef (2000) scrutinizes the role of mediation in the typical ...

Executive summary

My experience with MEGA business simulation was both rewarding and challenging. For this reason, this report presents my reflections on this simulation. The report starts with an introduction where I discuss how the reflective practice techniques can be important for analyzing my experience in MEGA business simulation. In addition, the report outlines both positive and negative critical incidents, which affected all of us as a team as well as me during this inspiring experience. It is worth mentioning that this report uses the reflective theories to outline these critical incidents in a thoughtful and practical manner. The initial critical incident ...

Abstract

The study, carried in Kuwait, assessed the effect gender has on employee perception of organizational commitment and job satisfaction. The study sampled 436 employees from five government ministries. The study used correlation, mean t-tests and one way analysis to analyze the data. The study found no significant differences with regards to gender.

Introduction

Presented literature highlights genders roles as one of the key issues for women regarding employment. However, recommendations have been made for more research into the influence of gender roles on women’s job attitudes. Sex differences like work values and job attitudes have been showered with attention ...

Q1. Most contemporary Australian organisations any set of generic best practices'.

Ans. 1. In today’s highly competitive framework, organizations need to develop and maintain competitive advantages and this could be acquired through developing efficient and committed work forces that have the capability to perform in accordance with the specific organizational goals. So strategies befitting institutional context would be appropriate for mobilizing the work forces in to desired action. High commitment human resource strategies are found to be effective in improving organizational performances especially by motivating the work forces to perform in alignment with the organizational requirements. ...

Introduction

Organizational effectiveness is a significant element pursued by various corporate bodies in an attempt to ensure smooth operational procedures and workforce utility. Unity is an important aspect of organizational effectiveness and individual performance, as a single ingredient for success cannot guarantee positive yields. This paper addresses the significant role played by psychology in organizational effectiveness. Psychology has a number of components which act as subsequent factors that when combined affect the overall delivery of organizational effectiveness. These include factors like workforce personal selection and recruitment, training, performance management and the enhancement and maintenance of motivation and culture within an organization. Leadership and ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

According to Robert Sternberg, there are three dimensions of love. Of these three dimensions, there are passion, intimacy, and commitment. The three dimensions are often thought of as points on a triangle. Each point associates with its neighbor as a type of love. Passion is associated with infatuation. Infatuation is associated with commitment, and so on. All three can be combined for a type of love that represents a different feeling, sometimes coinciding with a different attachment style. Passion itself relates to feelings of infatuation or obsessing. Intimacy is akin to feelings of liking, or even sometimes friendliness, while commitment can be similar to ...

Legal Representation of Mentally Disabled

In this paperwork, I am going to present an overview of the general rights and protections afforded to the mentally disabled. The paperwork will also consist of some of the main difficulties facing advocates for the mentally disabled (both legal and non-legal advocates). Information on civil commitment standards, right to treatment in the least restrictive setting, prediction of dangerous and incarceration of the mentally disabled will also be included in my discussions. As I go through the paperwork; I will be suggesting for the existence of social change in these areas so as to end up with a more accurate ...

Human Resource Management

The relationship that Human Resource Management has with labour unions is critical to the management of personnel; therefore understanding the theories, strategies and realities of management-labour relations needs to be studied. This paper discusses the relationship between Human Resource Management models and labour unions during and economic and financial crisis. The event chosen as the starting point was when in 2012 the UK petroleum tank drivers, members of Unite, voted on whether or not to go on strike. This event had many implications for Human Resource department in every sector of business because a strike by the drivers that deliver ...

2. Literature review The phrase Quality of work life (QWL) according to Stephen and Dhanapal (2011); Bagtasos (2011), originates back in 19th century labor conference at Arden House, Columbia University. Stephen and Dhanapal states that people use the term to refer to the well-being of organization employees. Nevertheless, Normala (2010) uses business perspective to define QWL as employee satisfaction and their work related behaviors. Stephen and Dhanapal indicates that QWL also affects employees in the way they response to their work in terms of job performance, job effort, organization identification, job involvement, job satisfaction, personal alienation, intention to ...

DQ WK 1 One

DQ WK 1 One

Introduction

Job satisfaction and organizational commitment are two concepts that have similarities but remain different. Job satisfaction can be described as the level of contentedness of an employee about their job. On the other hand, organizational commitment is the level of psychological linkage of an individual to an organization they work. Therefore, job satisfaction is at an individual level where one enjoys the duties he or she performs while organizational commitment is the loyalty of an individual to an organization and the work they do.

Job satisfaction and organizational commitment have several common aspects. Both aspects ...

An experienced registered nurse (RN) who has just completed a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Leadership at a regional university is keen to progress their nursing career. They have accepted the offer of their Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) to become the team leader of a n interdisciplinary team that is to be formed to investigate an increase in nosocomial infections in the unit. The NUM has commented to the RN that one or two of the non nursing staff have expressed apprehension about the team being led by a member of the nursing staff and not one of the other health care professionals. The ...

SUMMARY OF CHAPTER 10 & 11

CHAPTER 10: SUSTAINING EFFECTIVE COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE Why the topic matters? In a knowledge based organization the likeminded professionals communicate and interact with each other. This generates value and expands the knowledge for others. In certain organizations the structure, hierarchy and functions may act as barriers where the information can flow very effectively within a limited circle but it may fail to penetrate outside the boundaries of that circle. Within the organizations the people with same interests find ways of communicating with each other through the use of technological devices or by forming informal gathering and communicating face to ...

Introduction

The present paper provides an analysis of the mission and vision statements of two companies – Patagonia Outdoor Clothing and Columbia Sportswear.

What is Mission Statement?

A mission statement is like a guideline for an organization and its members. It guides and directs the employees of an organization towards the individual, collective and ultimate goal of an organization. It is supposed to provide them strategic leadership, direction and also supposed to motivate all employees alike (Lewis, Goodman, Fandt, & Michlitsch, 2006). This statement summarises the vision of any organization or company in a few sentences, what the company wishes to establish and be in the future as a ...

Background

This conflict relates to a publishing company which needs my expertise to solve it in their sales team as an ex sales manager has left organization, now workers in sales departments are unwilling to perform to sustain levels. Organization is facing challenges due to advances in technology and exponentially growth in internet users as now users can find more e-books than ever before. In such critical times this organization is unable to bear any conflict among staff members, managers and workforce, while sales department is already facing threat from less market capitalization, this makes it more critical for company. ...

This report has been prepared following an intensive analysis of EMAAR Properties’ total quality management in order to identify its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and propose possible actins that would improve it (Dawawala, 2009). The report begins by looking at the company’s history, organizational structure, mission, vision, strategies and values. This is then followed by an examination of the company’s human resource management practices and its current situation in reference to these factors. The company’s total quality management is then examined accompanies with a comparison of the company’s performance with a similar real estate company in ...

Business

Introduction Participative management involves encompassing ordinary employees in the everyday decision making. Notably, employees become more responsible of their workload and improve on their productivity and quality of their work. Job satisfaction on the other hand entails leadership dictating the success of the organization. The employers need top-notch leadership skills to motivate the employees therefore improving the quality of their work.

Commitment

Kenari, Alavijeh, Hamidi, & Sajjadi (2012) conducted a study to show that commitment is vital for participative management and job satisfaction. Ismail, Zainuddin, & Ibrahim (2010) performed a stepwise regression analysis to measure commitment and its relationship to job satisfaction. It ...

Chapter one

Introduction 1.1 Background of the study In Nigeria, traveling by road has always been a nightmare because roads are in a terrible condition. There is no reason for having the poor roads because a lot of money is set aside to maintain and reconstruct them. The condition of Nigerian roads especially those getting into the city require immediate attention and thanks to Ratcon construction company which intends to enforce a total quality management on the same. For almost 20 years, total quality management abbreviated as TQM has been a major term for improved productivity. Total quality management is much older than 20 ...

Notably, every organization needs commitment in order to accomplish and realize success. Often, there are three bases of commitment. Affective commitment. The mentioned base of commitment connotes to an individual loving the job, thereby, striving to achieve organizational goals. Continuance commitment of an employee is another basis (Pinder, 2008). The highlighted commitment often regards an employee for being fearful of losing an employment opportunity. Therefore, an employee conducts an analysis of both the negative and positive impacts of losing a job. Eventually, there exists normative commitment. Here, an employee often displays a sense of responsibility to remain in a particular job or ...

In every person’s life, marriage is considerably one of the most important highlights of their lives as this signals their commitment to one another and a new life. Many consider marriage to bevery serious business as many couples opt to take a long time to determine whether they can enter such commitment or just stay separated. However, there are a few who would undergo marriage and later on file for divorce due to irreconcilable differences and other reasons that would show the other is unfit for such commitment. For years, divorce remains as a hot topic for many countries, especially in the ...

Involuntary civil commitment is a civil case area focusing on the commitment of individuals to assisted treatment in the case of mental illness and conditions posing a threat to the individual or others. The selected area focuses on commitment to prevent an individual from suicide attempts. When the person poses a risk to his/her wellbeing, his/her liberty can be taken away until proper treatment occurs; during commitment, the individual receives psychological treatment through the help of a forensic psychology professional. It occurs in an institutional environment with limited risks. The law defines a situation requiring commitment based on suicide risk as a substantial risk ...

Different leaders have different approaches in leadership. However I believe that leadership involves working in and with a team. Without the ability to unite and work with a group of people in the organization, one cannot brag of being a leader. Uniting a team for a common goal poses a great threat to majority of leaders and therefore becomes a very significant issue, worth the discussion while analyzing my leadership style. I believe that an organization’s key competitive advantage is teamwork and no amount of capital, technology, finance or strategy would make any organization to be so outstanding. However, since teamwork is made of ...

Market Entry Strategies

Abstract There are numerous marketing entry strategies and they all imply a level of degree of risk and that of international firm commitment as well. Generally the international strategy development implementation is a process that goes through several steps to achieve. The major starting point is indirect exporting and if there are satisfactory results then the associating local firms make more committing agreements. This study reviews important literature and provides a conceptual framework on the new market entry strategies. A proper investigation is done on the various strategies that are important in entering a new market and also analyses on some of ...

Introduction

There are numerous non-profit donors in the United States of America. The country’s non-profit sector accounts for a better part of the country’s gross domestic product. As well, it employs a good number of the USA’s workforce. The non-profit sector is exceedingly competitive, and many organizations constantly work to attract grant funding, donors, media attention, employees and volunteers.

Just like non-profit organizations, for profit organizations derive a lot of benefits as a result of creating a long lasting relationship with the organization’s supporters (Weir and Hibbert, 2000). Gaffney (1996) demonstrates that an organization not only becomes profitable in terms of ...

ExxonMobil: Diversity

Introduction ExxonMobil is one of the largest publicly traded oil and gas companies in the world, with business that covers the whole range of oil and gas related activities inclusive of exploration, extraction, sale, transportation of petroleum products, natural gas and petrochemicals. Presently, the company has in excess of 23 billion barrels of oil in proved reserves across six continents; besides, it is the largest oil refiner in the world with 37 refineries across 21 countries with the capability of producing 6.2 billion barrels daily, (ExxonMobil, 2012). With a workforce of more than 80,000 employees, the company has ...

Question 3

Instead of selecting country-markets on the basis of stand-alone attractiveness, managers need to consider how participation in a particular country will contribute to globalization benefits and the global competitive position of the business. Being a serious global player means much more than simply having a certain percent of your revenues from outside the USA and being involved in a certain number of countries. Being present in ten countries that include the United States, Japan, and Germany is far more important, in most industries, than is being present in thirty countries that exclude these three but include many small, less advanced countries.To have a global ...

Exploring Research Designs and the Relationship to the Research Question

The goal of this study is to examine the various factors affecting the retention rates of first year college students. The main guiding research question for the study is: what are the factors that affect the student retention rates of first year college students.

Research questions

The following are the research questions for this study: 1. How does financial background affect student attrition rates of first year college students? 2. What is the relationship between academic and social integration and student retention rates? 3. Is institutional commitment an effective administrative strategy for increasing student attrition rates?

Research Design

Research design ...

Describe the factors of attraction. What attracts us to one another? Why are we less likely to befriend someone from another culture than someone from a similar background with a similar physical aesthetic? Be sure to identify and describe all six factors in attraction. Psychology of attraction is a complex and interesting kind of psychology, which provides people with answers to many important questions that are necessary to be understood by everyone seeking for harmonious relationships. In order to understand what attracts people to one another, it is necessary to describe six main factors of attraction. The first of them ...

Reflection on Values and Ethics in organizations

1.0 Introduction In today’s organization, code of ethics, mission, vision, organizational culture, values as well as social responsibility have become very important aspects that guide an organization to success. For the success of an organization the management is most responsible for the formulation of these critical aspects of the organization. As such the personal code ethics, mission, vision, values and culture of the manager are more often than not intertwined with those of the organizations. As for a company or any institution to be successful, then the manager should have good personal values that will enable him steer ...

Management: Course Final Paper

Introduction In earlier studies, organization change has been defined as the breaking down of existing structures and the creation of new ones. In other words, it is a transformation of an organization between two points in time. Such a scenario can develop anxiety, uncertainty, and ambiguity in the minds of employees due to differences in experienced, socio-demographic characteristics, attitude, knowledge and behavioural patterns. For overcoming the employees’ nervousness management, organizational change agents put stress extensively on employee readiness predictor variables. As clearly stated in the literature, employee attitude and employee readiness factors pose a significant affect in preparing employees physically and ...

a. Discuss: 394 i. What can a manager or supervisor do to effectively create a work environment that promotes employee motivation? A manager or supervisor should create a highly competitive and fair environment so that employee motivation is promoted. Initially, it should study its employees well – what makes them motivated and what makes them discouraged and the like. All these qualities and distinctions must be cross examined against the goals and objectives of the organization. The task of the supervisor is to check where is the clear intersection between the highest points of employee motivation and the utmost fulfillment of ...

Love may refer to the emotion that is associated with strong affection and attachment. It is the virtue that represents the human compassion, kindness and affection towards other human beings, animals or one’s self. In psychology, love is depicted as a social and a cognitive phenomenon. Robert Sternberg, who was a psychologist, came up with a triangular love theory arguing that love is made up of three different components. These components are commitment, intimacy, as well as passion.

The component of intimacy occurs when two individuals share confidences and other personal details of their lives. This is usually shown in romantic love ...

Introduction

They say that the only thing that is constant in this planet is change. This old phrase can indeed be true in a lot of ways. It can also be applied not only in life but also in the process of managing a business. To innovate is to embrace change and improvement.

Innovation refers to any process that may lead to better solutions to problems, higher efficiency and effectiveness in doing work, higher productivity, and in general, increased capability to meet and fulfill the market needs. Any business has the right and the ability to innovate. Innovation can be done ...

Chapter 3: Perception and Learning

The concept of perception in organizations refers to the process in which information about other people is received, and sense is made out of the received information. It entails the creation opinions about other people based on what has been heard, seen and read about him or her. Perception in organizations includes how people in the organizations perceive themselves too based on characteristics they believe to possess. The concept is very important in organizations because apparently it determines how employees will relate with one another. According Greenberg, (91), people tend to have a positive perception about their personalities. When employees ...

Organizational psychology is the study of human behavior in the workplaces. The purpose of organizational psychology is to improve the health, performance, satisfaction, safety, and well-being of the employees in an organization. Through organizational psychology, research on the behavior and attitudes of employees is conducted, with the aim of improving the welfare of employees and employers. Some of the duties performed through organizational psychology include evaluation of companies and conducting leadership training among employers. The goal of organizational psychology is to study, and understand the human behavior, especially of the workers in their workplaces. Attitudes refer to the feelings ...

Research Problem The author’s main purpose in this article was to establish the nature of relationship marketing and how the same ought to be conceptualized, additionally, the author worked to explore two major characteristics that are postulated to be linked with effective relationship that is mandatory for relationships marketing success. Research Theory The author theorized that to ascertain success in relationship marketing, it is mandatory to have relationship commitment and trust (Anderson & Narus, 2008). Methodology To collect the required data, the researchers employed the use of self-administered questionnaires. The chosen participants were to fill the questionnaires ...

RC 381

Leadership and Employee Involvement Pursuant to the conditions set by OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP), organizations who choose to implement this aim to promulgate a safe and secure working environment that effectively addresses the safety and health requirements of all personnel. As such, it was explicitly noted from the Regulation Information that outlined the theoretical framework for the VPP that one of the crucial elements which would assist in regular evaluation and review of the organization regarding adherence to OSHA’s safety and health standards is the “high level of management leadership and employee involvement in the safety ...

Introduction

Training The most important stage to become a police officer is experiencing through a training process. Most police groups found out mostly ahead crime certainty, and experience tough incidences and event by convictions so there is a need to train the individuals to become the stable and manly policy officer to implement the law enforcement strictly. Therefore, first of all there is a need to pass the training stage to become a police officer for the individuals who want to go in the police department (Bogira 322). According to the book, First stage the recruitment procedure of police officer in the main ...

Section

The J. K. Roberts Company Case Study:

Motivation & Work Behavior (BUS454-01), Spring 2013

Summary The case presented by the company JK Roberts is about employee motivation, performance, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, needs and wants, use and abuse of power, and other organizational development issues. This case looks into an already impaired organization in JK Roberts, who is faced by stiff competition and must evolve to be able to retain relevance and long-term viability. Unfortunately, change has not been managed effectively as managers failed to recognize the needs of the employees and the pitfalls that happen when power is wielded incorrectly. The answers below examine ...

Introduction

All health centers have a common goal; to provide the best health care services to all patients. This makes it necessary for the medics to work as a team. This paper details major differences between a team and a group. It also entails the sets of established teams. They are high performance teams, functional teams, and struggling teams (Stanley, 2011, p.189). Major differences between teams and groups have also been outlined. Communication has been mentioned as a crucial element of any effective team, on which key concepts of team building are based.

Differences between a group and a team

A group is defined as a number of people put together (Kowalski, 2011, ...

Communication is very essential while implementing change in an organization. A planned change cannot take place in an organization through automation. Rather, the implementation and sustenance of change is accomplished through human communication. Even though communication is vital in the failure or success of an the change effort of an organization, little information is known about strategies a leader can effectively use to communicate organizational change as well as the types of conversations a change leader must have to communicate the change. Besides, it is very critical to understand basic skills necessary for effective communication. This paper is concerned with advancing a ...

One of the factors that affect human resource management is organization structure and development. At a supervisory level, managers have more control to influence the performance of an organization. Managers that portray organizational commitment motivate employees and create an atmosphere of job satisfaction. This increases the performance of an organization (Armstrong, 2008). According to Armstrong (2009), motivation especially in terms of money plays a significant role in influencing employee performance. However, one needs to note that money, as a motivating factor will be effective as long as the money strongly motivates the employees. The general desire to serve and help other ...