How to Create a HR Function that Empowers Employees?
Practical guide - 3 pages - Human resources
Employee empowerment is the key to any successful business as it comes with a huge range of benefits for both employees and the organisation as a whole. An empowered workforce is likely to be more productive, more satisfied within their roles, and they are more likely to be loyal to the...
Factors that influence school Performance in Students
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
There are variety of factors that determine the excellence of children in school. Most of these factors are psychological factors, which motivate the children to learn well. The child's environment also plays an immense role in determining their prosperity in school. Children should also feed...
Money Motivates
Essay - 2 pages - Sports
After successfully breaking the color line, Branch Rickey and the Brooklyn Dodgers decided to extend the noble experiment to the deeply segregated South. In January of 1949, the Dodgers announced that during spring training they would travel to Atlanta and Macon, Georgia. The team would be...
Initiate Change
Essay - 2 pages - Educational studies
Change can be defined as the alteration of procedure, behavior, purpose, structure or output of a given unit within an organization (Razik, 2010). It involves working with a diversified population and striving hard to motivate and encourage others to adapt through change as it is required. Even...
Impact of Herberg and Maslow's theories in organizations
Tutorials/exercises - 49 pages - Finance
Among various behavioral theories generally believed and embraced by American business are those of Frederick Herzberg and Abraham Maslow. Herzberg, a psychologist, proposed a theory about job factors that motivate employees. Maslow, a behavioral scientist and contemporary of Herzberg's,...
An overview of Human Resources Management
Dissertation - 41 pages - Human resources
Good human resource practice can help in attracting and retaining the best people in the organization Planning alerts the company to the type of people will need in short, medium and long run. Appropriate recruitment and selection activities identify the best people for available jobs and make...
Does Maslow's hierarchy of needs apply to all cultures?
Case study - 4 pages - Human resources
Motivating employees is one of the primary responsibilities of a manager in any organization. It is critical in the management practice to understand what motivates people. Motivation is defined as “a psychological process through which unsatisfied wants or needs lead to drives that...
Impact of effective leadership in an organization
Thesis - 46 pages - Management
The success or failure of managers depends on their leadership qualities. They can be successful leaders by helping subordinates to find solutions to their problems. Managers are involved with bringing together resources, developing strategies, organizing and controlling activities in to order to...
Running header: Riordan benchmarking
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
Riordan Manufacturing faced several issues but none that are uncommon in any growing organization going through a transitional period. By simply looking at companies such these General Motors and Wal-mart, Royal Bank of Scotland and Goodyear, Hudson Highland Group (Hudson Employee Index) and...
Reward management, compensation, pay systems
Essay - 5 pages - Human resources
According to Jean-Jacques-Rousseau "a human being is by nature lazy? and he will always search for the easy way out. For instance thousands years ago, men were hunting to protect their own life and to survive: it was their only motivation. To deal with that attitude, men at the top of the...
What best explains people's willingness to work hard?
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Management
To develop an answer to the question, “what best explains people's willingness to work hard?” it is necessary to look at some of the most influential motivational theories. However, before this, it is vital to have a clear understanding of the development of thought that led the...
"The intuitive manager" by Meyrem Saget
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Published in 1992, ‘The Intuitive Manager' by Meryem Le Saget is a topical and relevant analysis of a very personal vision of management. The author draws a portrait of the third generation managers who decided "to explore all facets of their potential." The author discusses various topics...
People and organizational management
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
Motivation is described as the act of inspiring people so as to perform their duties well. There are two modes of motivation namely; intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation refers to the employee inspiration that comes from within him. In most cases,...
New British second homeowners in the French countryside: The Cathar country's case
Case study - 24 pages - Journalism
The study examined the motivations of the British buying a second home in France and more particularly in the “Cathar Country”. The research then focused on their economic impacts on the region, and their integration in the local community. Antagonism of the British second...
Generation gaps in work teams
Essay - 5 pages - Human resources
As workers begin to stay in positions longer, businesses are experiencing more generation gaps among their employees. Most of the “Matures” born in 1945 or earlier have retired, but the “Boomers” born from 1946 to 1964 are working alongside “Generation X” born from...
Change management: The difficulties in applying change processes
Essay - 8 pages - Management
When a company witnesses an important growth or change period, the entrepreneur and the executives needs to manage the changes and adapt the organization to its new expectations. They have to adapt the company to the new demand and ensure this expansion without damaging their global service and...
Examine the concept of total reward and explore the reasons for its increasing prominence in organizations
Case study - 10 pages - Human resources
This coursework examines the concept of total rewards in the context of today's competitive business environment. There are many different total rewards concept in the existing literature and therefore the primary focus must be to choose the most appropriate concept and to examine it and...
Mergers and Acquisitions: reasons and consequences at the international market
Dissertation - 40 pages - Finance
The paper deals with the issue of mergers and acquisitions on the western market, viewing the topic from the standpoint of their failure and success. The subject is an extremely important one at present, as, on the one side, there is a trend towards major international mergers and acquisitions...
Change management: The difficulties in applying change processes - published: 12/10/2010
Course material - 8 pages - Management
When a company knows an important growth, the entrepreneur and the executives needs to manage the changes and adapt the organization to its new expectations. They have to adapt the company to the new demand and ensure this expansion without damaging the global service and functioning. But it is...
Religion and early American identity
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Trying to determine what the motives of the migrants to the new world were is a difficult quest because motivations were diverse depending on the colonies. The migrants could be motivated by economical considerations. They thought they could have a better life, to be richer in North...
Developmental Sport & Exercise Psychology
Course material - 2 pages - Sports
Motivational processes vary across the lifespan. Children are motivated by different factors than older adults. In class we discussed the importance of motivating people to lead physically active lives beginning in childhood and continuing throughout older adulthood to maintain good health and...
Integrating Christian and secular counseling theories
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
An integrated and flexible counseling approach is outlined, which calls for competency in a number of techniques in order to serve a number of clients. Personality structure, motivation, and human development are discussed, addressing biological and environmental differences that account...
Concepts of job satisfaction
Thesis - 8 pages - Human resources
Job satisfaction refers to an individual's general attitude towards his or her job. A person with a high level of job satisfaction holds a positive attitude towards his job. While a person is who is dissatisfied with his assignments hold a negative attitude. Job satisfaction is linked to...
Understanding quality of work life
Tutorials/exercises - 38 pages - Human resources
Human resource management is concerned with human beings, who are the energetic elements of management. The success of any organization or an enterprise will depend upon the ability, strength and motivation of the persons working in it. The Human Resource Management refers to the...
Why is the biological explanation of gender so popular?
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
In a cover story published recently in The New York Times magazine, Daniel Berger, author of the book “What do Women Want? Adventure in the Science of Female Desire”, which is coming out soon, analyzes women's sex drive in the light of a new drug called Lybrido that is supposed to help...
Group formations
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
A group can be defined as an association of two more individuals who interact and work independently to achieve particular objective. Groups can be further divided into two categories, formal and informal groups. Formal groups being those groups that are formed by an organization, whereas...
Marketing strategy of Vodafone in India and the consumer's attitude towards their services
Market study - 50 pages - Services marketing
The de regulation in the INDIAN telecommunication markets since the beginning of the 1997s has brought about significant changes in the communication industry. The mobile telephone market has changed dramatically over the past 5 years in INDIA. Mobiles have become so popular that many people use...
Multicultural management
Essay - 12 pages - Management
As workforces become increasingly multicultural and businesses continue to expand overseas, the homogenous workforce has become a thing of the past. Managers today have to ensure that they are understanding and being understood across cultural boundaries. This situation implies that managers...
The positive impact of video games on the academic performance of students
Thesis - 5 pages - Educational studies
Have you every worried that playing video games, a popular pastime for many, will interfere with your schoolwork? If you answer yes, do not worry anymore. As a college student, I have often found myself playing video games. I have also often wondered whether I should be doing something more...
Discuss the job performance model and compare and contrast Maslow's and McClelland's need theories
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
As discussed in the text, the job performance model of motivation was proposed by the Organizational Behavior researcher Terence Mitchell. This model starts off with “individual inputs and job context are the two key categories of factors that influence motivation.”...
