HR Mansion

Employee engagement is the extent that an employee believes in the mission, purpose and values of an organization and demonstrates that commitment through their actions as an employee and their attitudes towards the employer and customers. Employee engagement is high when the statements and conversations had reflected a natural enthusiasm for the company, its employees and the products or services provided. People are the primary source of competitive advantage. If the people or employees of the organization can be effectively “engaged”, then achieving the organizational goals becomes an easy task. The widely- used term “employee engagement”, embraces two attempts of management- motivating the employees and focusing their commitment to achieve the organizational objectives. Employee engagement further emphasizes the willingness to help out colleagues at par with organizational citizenship behaviour. In the broader sense, employee engagement goes beyond job satisfaction, job involve...

The declaration made by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 12, 2020 that the novel Corona virus outbreak is a Pandemic, has led the organizations across the globe to sit up and take stern measures to contain the panic among their employees as they prepare to deal with a testing, unfamiliar situation. While the challenges may vary from one organization to another, assessing the situation the company is currently in, gathering, analyzing, and implementing the right policies and smart approach to work is the most difficult and important task for an HR leader to do in current scenario. The interim report highlights challenges that are being faced by HR’S in different organizations and their role and responsibilities during the crisis. Moreover, it also gives the Tips that can be used by the organizations for better communication and connection with the employees. MAJOR CONCERNS OF EMPLOYEES As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread across the world, HR department of variou...

2018 was a year of a major evolution in performance management. Organizations across all business sectors shifted from traditional HR practices of annual appraisals to simpler and effective performance management system that is ongoing throughout the year.  Year 2019-2020 highlighted five new performance management trends that the organisations are focusing in upcoming year: 1. Employee Well being As Josh Bersin has stated, well being is still a big part of HR. Productivity is suffering when stress level are high; employees feel overwhelmed and they’re getting less work done. Detecting and addressing mental issues early on is becoming important.  Organizations such as Cydesdale and Yorkshire Banking Group have begun including wellbeing questions within their regular manager and employee coaching conversations in order to spot and address potential mental health and workplace stress issues. Deloitte’s 2018 Global Human Capital Trends reports emphasized on the need for organ...

Whether the teams within the organization are grouped together across multiple locations or they are virtual teams, and whether your organization has been managing this way for years or they are new to managing work for distributed workforce, it is important to regularly evaluate what is working and what is not working for them. The benefits of having dispersed teams are many, but the challenges that comes with it can be difficult to deal with if an organization is ill- quipped to manage brand, culture, workforce and technology across multiple locations. When teams are working in different locations, communication can rapidly deteriorate, misunderstandings can ensue, and cooperation can degenerate into distrust. Below are the common challenges faced by organizations in managing work for distributed workforce:  

  How Employee Engagement Differ from Job Satisfaction Although the Employee Engagement and Job Satisfaction are somewhat interrelated, they are not synonymous.   Job Satisfaction has more to do with whether the employee is personally happy than with whether the employee is actively involved in advancing organizational goals. Employee Engagement Employee Engagement is related to the level of employee’s commitment and connection to an organization. It is a critical driver of business success in today’s competitive marketplace. An engaged employee is more involved, satisfied and feel passionate about their job, while disengaged employees will complete their work but don’t feel invested in. Job Satisfaction Job satisfaction is the feeling of contentment or a s sense of accomplishment, which an employee derives from his or her job. It helps in determining, to what extent a person likes or dislikes his/her job. Employees feel satisfied when basic hygiene factors are met...

  Corona virus pandemic has disrupted the lives of millions of people across the world. It has caused companies to rapidly change the way of work according to the environmental changes. There has been a paradigm shift in what companies considered as an idle work culture. All face to face meetings, collaborations, have been replaced by videoconferencing, and emails. Work from home or remote working has become the New Normal. It is in these testing times, role of Human Resource teams become more crucial in organizations across the globe. HR plays a vital role in maintaining swift communications in an efficient manner to meet the needs of the organisations. Companies are looking forward to HR teams to help the business plan for continuity, implementing rapidly changing policies and catering the needs of clients and virtual workforce during the stressful times. To ensure smooth functioning of the organizations, HR should focus on Three areas: Maintaining Organizational culture-...