...TEACHERS UNIIOUNS EFFECT ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND HOW IT IMPACTS STUDENT PERFORMANCE TEACHERS UNIIOUNS EFFECT ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND HOW IT IMPACTS STUDENT PERFORMANCE ISSUE What does existing research say about the teachers unions influence, both positive and negative, on human resources and how that influence impacts students’ performance? This research is significant because the public school system in the United States as a whole is atrociously underperforming and has been for many years. Most inner city public schools and those public schools that serve the poorer community are outright failing. Some states, such as California, have a parent strike law, which allows the parents to intervene and have the public school overtaken by an outside source if the school doesn’t meet the state standards. Many states have fought hard to prevent this type of law from entering their state. Obviously, it is in the teachers unions best interest to not have this law in their state. But is this disallowance of this type of law harmful to students performance? This law would threaten the teachers job security, so it’s easy to ascertain why they do not support this law. This leaves the human resources department, who may want the law, stuck in the middle and without an avenue to exercise their expertise. Human resources is limited with their ability to but polices in place because it has to abide by the laws of the teachers unions. In a private enterprise the public school system...
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...Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ The Impact of High-Performance Human Resource Practices on Employees' Attitudes and Behaviors Rebecca R. Kehoe and Patrick M. Wright Journal of Management 2013 39: 366 originally published online 8 April 2010 DOI: 10.1177/0149206310365901 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/39/2/366 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information for Journal of Management can be found at: Email Alerts: http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://jom.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav >> Version of Record - Jan 23, 2013 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Apr 8, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from jom.sagepub.com at HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIV on January 21, 2014 Journal of Management Vol. 39 No. 2, February 2013 366-391 DOI: 10.1177/0149206310365901 © 2010 Southern Management Association. Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav The Impact of High-Performance Human Resource Practices on Employees’ Attitudes and Behaviors Rebecca R. Kehoe Patrick M. Wright Cornell University Although strategic human resource (HR) management research has established a significant relationship between high-performance HR practices and firm-level financial and market outcomes...
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...IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE ( A CASE STUDY OF TOTAL NIGERIA PLC) Background of the Study The history of planning is old as man himself planning had started from the ancient era during the primitive period when there were no industries or firms. Planning is a basic function of management thus therefore means that planning pervades all the functional area of management which include personnel, production, research and development, marketing and finance. Through planning organization goals and objective are determined; the resources available must be strategies to achieve the goals and objectives. Planning provide answers to what? How? When? And their relationship to organization activities. In personnel management function, human resources panel is a basic function. Human resources planning is sometime referred to as workforce planning, which is defined as the process of the right number of qualified people into the right job at the right time. To ensure adequate workforce in the organization, management must plan properly, proper planning in this respect involves accurate projection of the future, taking inventory of existing workforce, comparing the force with the existing one and take corrective measure. Productivity means rate of output, degree of result and success which is directly related to profitability and turnover. This research study concentrates on the possible impact of human resources planning on workers productivity...
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...IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF ECOBANK NIGERIA PLC IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF ECOBANK NIGERIA PLC IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS FADIORA RICHARD GBOLAHAN MBA HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT DISSERTATION DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA LAGOS NIGERIA E-mail: ricardopsych@yahoo.com Tel: +2348065538913 Abstract This research study examines the impact of human resource management practices on organizational performance in Nigeria focusing on Ecobank Nigeria Plc in the last five years. A total of 50 samples were drawn from the bank population at its corporate head office in Lagos. Out of the 50 self-reported questionnaires administered in this research, 35 were returned upon which the data analyses were based. The primary data collected through questionnaire responses in this research were analyzed using Chi-square statistical techniques. Secondary data were consulted by reviewing Ecobank’s Annual Reports and Financial Statements. Selected HR Metrics such as Revenue Factor, Human Capital Value Added (HCVA), and Human Capital Return on Investment (HCROI) were used to analyze the secondary data respectively. The findings of this research have shown that Ecobank Nigeria Plc has a well-articulated human resource management policies and practices...
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...Strategic Human Resource Management Student Name Student ID Table of Contents Introduction 3 LO: 02:1 Be able to develop human resource plans for an organization 3 2.2 Assess the human resources requirements in a given situation 5 2.3 Develop a human resources plan for an organisation 7 2.4 Critically evaluate how a human resources plan can contribute to meeting as organisation objectives 8 LO: 03: Understand human resources policy requirements in an organization 9 3.2 Analyses the impact of regulatory requirements on human resource policies in an organisation 10 4.1 Analyses the impact of an organisational structure on the management of human resources 11 4.2 Analyses the impact of an organisational culture on the management of human resources 12 4.3 Examine how the effectiveness of human resources management is monitored in an organisation 14 4.4 Make justified recommendation to improve the effectiveness of the human resources management in an organisation 15 Conclusion 15 References 16 Figure 1 HR Planning 4 Figure 2 HR Planning process 7 Figure 3 Balance score card in practical 15 Introduction Organisations within today’s labor markets cannot be pretermission on increasing position of managing human resources. It is appreciated that the ways in which human resources are accomplished in employing organisations is energetic for the employer. Human resource (HR) system encirclements all the policies and performs that will ensure that right personnel...
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...IMPACT OF TRAINING AND COMPENSATION ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE A CASE STUDY OF NILAI UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Introduction Employees are one of the most important and valuable resources of an organization which is needed to accomplish the objectives of an organization (Jiang et al., 2012, Soomro, Gilal, Jatoi, 2011). The importance of employee is more pronounced in a service organization. For a service organization like a college to accomplish its objectives, it must have the right kind of staff with appropriate skills to provide the service since the employees will be in direct contact with the customers (Soomro et al., 2011). Employees can be source of competitive advantage for an organization since they could effectively used the other resources to accomplish organizational objectives (Tiwari, 2011). Effective HR practices are important in motivating the employees to perform their functions well in order to achieve organizational objectives and reduce the number of employees leaving the organization (Soomro et al., 2011). Thus, good HR practices enhance performance of employees which in turn enhances organizational performance. Having the needed skills is not sufficient to ensure the organization maintains it competitive advantage but there is need for continuous training to upgrade the skills of the employees (Jiang et al., 2011). Apart from regular training of the employees, the organization needs to have a compensation package that will attract and maintain...
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... Measuring the impact of HRM on organisational performance Anastasia A. Katou University of Macedonia (GREECE) akatou@uom.gr Received September 2008 Accepted December 2008 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to measure the impact of HRM on organisational performance in the context of Greece. Data were collected from 178 organisations using a questionnaire survey in the Greek manufacturing sector, and analysed using the ‘structural equation modelling’ methodology. The results indicated that the relationship between HRM policies (resourcing and development, compensation and incentives, involvement and job design) and organisational performance is partially mediated through HRM outcomes (skills, attitudes, behaviour), and it is influenced by business strategies (cost, quality, innovation). Thus, the contribution of this study for academics and practitioners is that HRM policies associated with business strategies will affect organisational performance through HRM outcomes. Keywords: HRM policies, organisational performance, Greece 1 Introduction Over the last ten years significant steps forward have been made in identifying the HRM – performance relationship. However, serious gaps in our understanding still remain with respect to the causal ordering of the variables involved in the HRM – performance relationship (Purcell, Kinnie, Hutchinson, Rayton, & Swart, 2003; Wright, Gardner, Moyniham, & Allen, 2005). Specifically, in analysing the impact of HRM on organisational...
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...Rajni Devi, Jasbir Singh/International Journal of Advanced Engineering & Technological Research (IJAETR) www.abhinandanpublications.com/ijaetr Vol. 2, Issue 3, May-June 2013, pp. 407-414, ISSN: 2278-7070 (Online) Impact of Human Resource Practices on Organization Outcome Ruchi Sharma ABSTRACT Human Resource is the most important asset for any organization and it is the source of achieving competitive advantage. Managing human resources is very challenging as compared to managing technology or capital and for its effective management, organization requires effective HRM system. HRM system should be backed up by sound HRM practices. HRM practices refer to organizational activities directed at managing the pool of human resources and ensuring that the resources are employed towards the fulfillment of organizational goals. This paper has been designed to review the existing literature available on HRM Practices. The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of impact of human resource practices on hr outcomes. After reviewing the existing literature on HRM practices, the researchers have found that HR outcomes have great impact by human resource practices. HISTORY HRM in India is centuries old. The first reference of HRM was provided by Kautilya as early as 4th century B.C. in his book Arthashastra‘. The work environment had logical procedures and principles in respect of labour organization such as Shreni‘Wages were paid in terms of quantity and quality of...
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...The Effect of HRM Practices on the Perceptions of Organizational and Market Performance of the Firm • 185 THE EFFECT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON THE PERCEPTIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND MARKET PERFORMANCE OF THE FIRM Gedaliahu H. Harel and Shay S. Tzafrir The purpose of our study is to extend the emerging empirical literature on the firm-level impact of human resource management practices. Results based on a national sample of organizations from private and public sectors in Israel indicate that these practices have a significant impact on both the perceived organizational and market performance of the organization. The single independent variable found to be statistically significant in affecting perceived organizational performance was training practices. In the case of perceived market performance, we found that, in addition to training practices, employee selection practices also significantly affected the perceived market performance.1 © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Introduction In today’s world, organizations are in a constant state of competition. The intensity of competition increases annually and the need to continuously improve organizational performance has never been greater. Managers must be on a constant lookout for ways to maximize their organizations’ strategic resources. The resource base approach contends that the organization can develop a sustained competitive advantage only if its activities create value in a unique way, one that...
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...INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The effect of training and manpower development on employee’s productivity and organization performance has attracted considerable interest in the analytical and empirical literature. On the whole, human resources management theory has paid considerable attention to this debate; however, the theoretical predictions are ambiguous. Depending on their underlying assumptions, some approaches predict that the performance of an organization is necessarily based on innovative labour force, technology, quality management, and customer satisfaction; while others see training as a tool in the hands of human resources managers to activate and empower the productive base of an organization (Dhamodharan, 2010). Barron and Hagerty (2001) asserted that employee training and manpower development is very vital to job productivity and organization performance, since the formal educational system does not adequately provide specific job skills for a position in a particular organization. While, few individuals may have the requisite skills, knowledge, abilities and competencies needed to fit into a specific job function, some others may require extensive training to acquire the necessary skills to be able to fit in a specific job function and also make significant contribution to the organization’s performance. Guest (2007) asserted that human capital theory provides evidence which indicates that training and education raises the productivity of workers by imparting...
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... 1 (1), February, 2012:79-94 ISSN: 2225-8590 The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Organizational Performance: A Study of Guinness Nigeria Plc Osemeke, Monday, PhD Department of Business Administration Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. GSM: 08035656284 E-mail: osemeke2k2002@yahoo.com Abstract The focus of this paper is on the impact of HRM practices on private sector organisations performance in Nigeria. Guinness Nigeria Plc is a private sector driving entity. Its human resource practices can be crucial to its performance. The purpose of this study therefore was to assess whether Guinness‟s human resource management practices, particularly recruitment and selection, Staff performance appraisal, compensation, and training and development practices influence its performance. Simple random sampling was used to select eighty employees from Guinness Nig. Plc. T-tests were carried out to examine the relationship between the selected Human Resources practices and organization performance. The results revealed 79 Copyright © IAARR 2012: www.afrrevjo.net/afrrevijah Indexed African Researches Reviews Online: www.arronet.info AFRREV IJAH, Vol.1 (1) February, 2012 that, from the perceptions of the respondents, there exists a positive relationship between effective recruitment and selection practices, effective performance appraisal practices and Guinness‟s performance. The research did not gather sufficient evidence to...
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...5/26/2011 The proliferation of technology and changes in the business environment have increased the importance of human resources in the modern world. The major challenges facing human resources arise from this elevation of human resource activities to a core strategic function. * Finding and Retaining Talent The primary challenge facing human resource is to have the right people ready at the right time at the right place. The spread of technology and globalization has ensured a level playing field for firms in terms of technology, information, and availability of finance. The human resources of an enterprise, hitherto considered as just another resource such as land or capital, are now the key differentiator among firms, and as such the most critical source of competitive advantage. Although the availability of labor usually exceeds the availability of vacant positions, talent that makes a difference has always remained scarce. The increased competitiveness among firms ensures that finding new ways to increase the level of talent in the organization remains the key challenge facing human resources. The very existence of many knowledge-centric firms in fact depends on the ability of the human resources department to hire and retain the right talent. Retaining existing talent is easier than hiring new employees, and as competition increases among firms, human resources looks at various ways on how to retain talent. Possible interventions include custom-made compensation packages...
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...HR Strategy and Organizational Performance [Name of Writer] [Name of Institution] HR Strategy and Organizational Performance Introduction Human resource management is in the selection of policy and techniques related to human resource management agency. Taken together, these techniques and preferences are messages to employees, managers and interested persons abroad about the value of the agency placed on human resources. Unfortunately, international managers have had to adopt sensible policies in the field of organization for fixing the responsibility and cost control. First, employers continue to place administrative employees, Professional, scientific and technical through the civil service systems for important positions. The state of relatively high positions, security, payment and benefits that go with these positions are considered essential for productivity and long-term retention of these employees. This includes preventive education through programs for employee wellness and treatment plans by employee health. Second, employers have attempted to put caps on benefit costs and legal liability risks by increasing the use of working mechanisms secondary (such as employment contract or contingent) to pair the changing job titles. While the phenomenon of the working contingent recognized as characteristic of the modern workforce, the precise number of contingent workers are in dispute between staff and managers economists. Estimates ranging from 2 percent to 16 percent...
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...RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, BUSINESS STRATEGY FIT AND FIRM PERFORMANCE Oya Erdil & Ay e Günsel Gebze Institute of Technology, Turkey ABSTRACT While there has been growing interest concerning the relationship between human resource (HR) practices, firm strategy and firm performance, limited research attention has been paid providing empirical evidence in support of them. This study investigates the relationships between HR practices, human resources management (HRM) - firm strategy fit and the firm performance of 63 small and medium sized firms located around Kocaeli and Gebze from both theoretical and empirical perspective. The findings indicate a strong relationship between different HR practices and HRM-firm strategy fit and firm performance. Further, the results provide support for the assertion that HR-firm strategy fit can significantly assist a firm in improving performance. Therefore, empirical support is obtained for the efforts at aligning HRM practices with firm strategy and firm performance. (recruitment, development, etc.) share the same basic character and play a similar kind of role in relation to strategic management (Luoma, 2000: 771). Effective HRM strategy systematically organizes all individual HRM measures to directly influence employee attitude and behavior in a way that leads business to achieve its competitive strategy. (Huang, 2001: 134). In view of the fact that the goals and necessities of each of the competitive...
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...Muhammed Mughni Atique B.sc (Hons), Business Administration Gift University Gujranwala IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES ONORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF BANKING SECTOR OF GUJRANWALA Keywords: Organizational Performance, Employee Satisfaction, Recruitment &Selection, Training & Development, Performance Appraisal and Compensation Abstract: The purpose of this study is to evaluate HRM practices and their impact on organizational performance in banking sector. People believe that HR is not important it’s just a sunk cost and have no significant positive effect on org. performance. The aim of this study was to check the impact between Human resource management and organizational performance. The research was conducted in banking sector of Gujranwala .We have evaluated the impact of functions of HR like Selection, Training, Appraisal and Compensation (as Independent Variables) on Organizational Performance (Dependent Variables). We have done research with the help of questionnaires. The conclusion and results are presented at the end of this paper. The analysis showed the positive relation between the dependent and independent variables. Introduction: Our financial sector evolved very differently from banks in the developed world. For nearly a year after partition, Pakistan had no central bank. Habib Bank – established in 1941 – filled this gap initially, until the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) was set up in 1948 under quasi-government ownership. Commercial...
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