Exploring the Personality Structure in the 11 Languages of South Africa Jan Alewyn Nel‚1 Velichko H. Valchev‚2 Sebastiaan Rothmann‚1 Fons J. R. van de Vijver‚1‚2 Deon Meiring‚3 and Gideon P. de Bruin4 1 2 North-West University‚ South Africa Tilburg University‚ The Netherlands 3 University of Pretoria‚ South Africa 4 University of Johannesburg‚ South Africa ABSTRACT The present study‚ part of the development of the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI)‚ explores the
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Seychelles‚ just like others operating in different countries‚ must now operate in a rapidly changing business environment. These changes have important implications for HRM practices. To ensure that management practices support business needs‚ organizations must continually monitor changing environmental conditions and devise HRM strategies for dealing with them. The procedure used to tie human resource issues to the organization’s business needs is called strategic human resource planning. In accordance
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development. It is the management of people/staff in order for them to make contributions to the objectives of the organisation. “HRM is the body of management activities and used in this way HRM is really no more than a more modern and supposedly imposing name for what has long been labelled personnel management” (Torrington et al‚ 2009). The best way to describe HRM is to look at what it aims to achieve i.e. its four key objectives: 1) Staffing – includes recruiting staff‚ up-skilling of staff
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defined objectives. HRM is aimed at recruiting competent‚ flexible and committed people‚ managing and rewarding their performance and developing key competencies. The rise of modern human resource management is more than just a change in terminology from personnel management to human resource management. There have been many changes in HRM which relocate the mindsets of employers to look at their employees as a unique‚ valued asset and not as an expense to condense. Modern HRM wants the workforce
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References: Beer M. and Guest D. (1984)‚ A concise introduction: Human and Resource Management‚ Chapter 1‚pp 6. Legge K. (1995)‚ HRM: rethoric‚ reality and hidden agendas‚ in J. Storey (ed.) Human Resource Management: A critical text‚ London : Routledge. Maatman M Purcell‚ J.‚ Kinnie‚ N.‚ Hutchinson‚ S. et al. (2003) Understanding the People and Performance Link: Unlocking the Black
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authors and should notbe quoted without permission. DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES Green HRM: A review‚ process model‚ and research agenda *Dr. Douglas Renwick‚ University of Sheffield Management School Professor Tom Redman‚ University of Durham Business School Dr. Stuart Maguire‚ University of Sheffield Management School Discussion Paper No 2008.01 April 2008 *Address for correspondence: Dr. Douglas Renwick Lecturer in HRM University of Sheffield Management School 9 Mappin Street Sheffield‚ S1 4DT
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reflects that attracting‚ managing‚ nurturing talent and retaining people has emerged as single most critical issue with enormous opportunities spun off by the market. In the Knowledge economy‚ corporate houses have to address the core issues of the HRM like as listed below: employee engagement‚ e-HR (ranges from e-Recruitment to e-HRIS)‚ Competitive pressure on increasing employee wages‚ employee as brand ambassador‚ managing talent‚ labor shortage‚ higher ethical standards‚ quality of work life‚
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HISTORY OF HRM HRM is traced back to the 19th century with the beginning of the Welfare System. The Welfare System was an important development in terms of voluntary initiatives undertaken to improve conditions of factory workers‚ in relation to pay‚ working hours and health and safety. The voluntary initiative originated from Quakers. Welfare officers were appointed and became the forerunner to HR practitioners. The early 1900’s saw the appointment of welfare officers in Irish companies
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3 2. The business model………………………………………………………………………….3 3. The original business model and human resource management…………………………….4 4. The strategic transformation at Dell…………………………………………………………5 5. The effect of the strategy transformation on Dell’s HRM…………………………………..8 6. Major challenges in the future……………………………………………………………..10 7. Recommendations………………………………………………………………………….11 8. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………13 9. Appendix…………………………………………………………………………………...13 10. References………………………………………………………………………………
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Introduction The aim of this essay is to demonstrate Human Resource Management (HRM) in a way that is both challenging and rewarding in contemporary organizations. Human Resource Management (HRM) is a new way of thinking about how people should be managed as employees in the workplace. (Ashly Pinnington and George Lafferty 2003‚ P.4) In much the same way as there are different roads to success‚ HRM is not one theory but an evolving set of competing theories and strategy contributors. The purpose
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