2 Introduction 3 Employee Engagement 4 Employee Empowerment 5 Elements of Empowerment 6 Methods to Empower Employees 7 Present Scenario 8 Employee Engagement Approaches for Employees 10 Communication Activities 10 Reward Schemes 11 Activities to Develop the Culture of the Organization 12 Team building activities 12 Leadership development activities 12 Employee engagement in action: Sun Microsystems 13 Employee empowerment in action: Verisign 14
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STRAIN THEORY Strain theory was introduced by Robert Merton in the early 1930s in his study of wealth. He asserted that whenever a gap or discrepancy between individuals’ aspirations and reality exists‚ frustration will ensue‚ and individuals will be more likely use illegitimate means to accomplish their goals . In the 1990s‚ Agnew expanded this theory to apply more broadly to economic aspirations. Agnew argued that people who experience strain are more likely to experience frustration or anger
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY Nicholas Bloom John Van Reenen Working Paper 16019 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16019 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 May 2010 This paper has been prepared for a chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics Volume IV edited by David Card and Orley Ashenfelter. We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for their financial support through the Center for
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from being just a support function to being a strategic partner in the growth of businesses. It has transformed itself being merely Personnel Management – maintaining records and ensuring statutory compliances‚ while doing the bare minimum to keep employee satisfaction on an even keel - to being an integrated part of the corporate machinery. The HR function of 21st century India has made a transition from being ‘behind-the scenes’ support appendage to becoming the critical differentiator in business
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Employee Relation Report Submitted to: Dean Horsman‚ Paul Dix Date: 20th December 2011 Abstract: The report gives a concise analysis of employee relation concepts like ER policies‚ management styles‚ workplace harmonisation‚ collective bargaining and analysis of trade union with respect to the employees and organisations. Starting with a brief introduction‚ it continues to talk about the labour unions and its process of reorganisation. It gives various drawbacks and benefits of union
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Employee empowerment is "the process of enabling or authorizing an individual to think‚ behave‚ take action‚ and control work and decision making in autonomous ways. It is the state of feeling self-empowered to take control of one ’s own destiny" (Heathfield‚ n.d.‚ 1). In other words‚ giving the employees the power and ability to make decisions that affect not only their department but the company as a whole as well. Empowerment has become an increasingly used human resources (HR) catchphrase when
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Introduction page 4 CAUSES OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES page 5 Effects of Employee Dissatisfaction & Its Effect on an Organization page 13 The Effects of Employee Turnover on Remaining Employees page 14 Solutions to Industrial Discontent page15 Conclusion page24 References page 25 Introduction Industrial unrest is a disturbed state; disquietude sometimes amounting to insurgency´. It is also manifestation of mankind’s
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employees to deliver productive outcomes at work and within society‚ one must first consider the concept of industrial relations; later known as employee relations due to the shift in trading trends of the UK from predominantly manufacturing industries. Employee relations concentrate on the management and maintenance of the employment relationship between employer and employee. This means dealing with employees either through trade unions or individually to bargain for employment practices‚ terms
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Improving Employee Productivity As you may already know‚ improving the employee productivity is one of the most important goals in any business. But‚ in spite of this‚ a lot of human resources professionals do not consider this field very relevant. Even though most of the human resources professionals do admit that their job is all about establishing schedules and rules concerning people management‚ only a few of them succeeds in bonding all these connections‚ in order to be able to increase
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Program & Batch: | PGDM 2013-15 | Term: | I | Course Name: | Individual and Group Dynamics | Name of the faculty: | Dr. Suryatapa Kar | Topic/ Title : | Impact of Employee Empowerment on OCB in a Luxury Hotel | Original or Revised Write-up: | Original | Group Number: | 02 | Contact No. and email of Group Coordinator: | 08447144265rahulone46@gmail.com | Group Members: | Sl. | Roll No. | Name | | 1 | 1301-166 | Rahul Bajpai | | 2 | 1301-555 | Rakshit Laroiya | | 3 | 1301-359
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