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( Figure 01 - Organizational Behavior, Source : Florida Tec Ad)  Most organizations want to improve profits and performance and move to the next level. Employees are the most crucial factor in improving the organizational performance and profits targets. Organizations use strategies like employee engagement, employee motivation and managing organizational behaviors to achieve their targets. What is Managing Organizational Behavior? It is defined as the combination of actions and attitudes of people in organizations. The field of organizational behaviour helps the leaders or the managers to understand complexity within organizations, human behaviour in organizational settings, how human behaviour interacts with the organization and the organization itself, identify problems, determine the best ways to correct them and establish whether the changes would make a significant difference. According to an article published by Aurora University in 2017, the growth of Organizational...

( Figure 01 - Right candidate to the right job, Source: Eaton Business School )  Recruitment is one of the main roles that comes under Human Resource Management of an organization. It is the process of sourcing, attracting, shortlisting, interviewing, signing, hiring and onboarding the right employee to the right position of the organization. The organizational performance depends on the performance of the employees. Therefore, it is very important to select the right the candidate to the right position. How important is a strong recruitment process to an organization? Recruitment helps the organization to build a pool of talented players in a competitive market, which the organization can remodel and guide to perform better to achieve organizational targets. The well planned, strong recruitment process helps the hiring team filter the right candidates faster while staying focused on engaging the eligible candidates for maximum adaptability. The process also reflects the compan...

( Figure 01 , Source : http://www.outboundpeople.com/)  There is a saying that money cannot buy everything. Just as that, one of the factors that improve employee performances is employee recognition.  A large number of studies over the years have verified that recognition is indeed a powerful positive reinforcer for employee behaviors leading to performance improvement in both manufacturing (e.g., Luthans, Maciag, & Rosenkrantz, 1983; Ottemann & Luthans, 1975; Welsh, Luthans, & Sommer, 1993) and service (e.g., Luthans, Fox, & Davis, 1991; Snyder & Luthans, 1982) organizations. Recognition is also defined as acknowledgement, approval and appreciation which can be on a formal basis or informally and also monitory or non-monitory. Recognition is so easy to do and so inexpensive to distribute that there is simply no excuse for not doing it.; - Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Author and Management Consultant. We all like to be recognized and appreciated. Jus...

(Figure 01, source: Institute of Entrepreneurship Development)   Employee Motivation Drives, needs, wants or desires of a person identifies as the motivation where the concept originated from the word “Motive”. Motivation is considered to be the most imperative substance for any institution exists in the public or a private domain (Chintallo & Mahadeo, 2013). Key determinant factors of the motivation  Influencers including salaries and wages, job security, promotion and bonus (Zameer et al., 2014) impact employee motivation (Rashid and Rashid, 2012) identifies that financial rewards, job content, career development opportunities, supportive and social atmosphere and respect for private life are the most important influences of any private or public organization. (Matheson, 2012) argued that employee work motivation is a combination of psychological and social fundamentals as Coercion and Job security, Material rewards, status, social acceptance, sense of meaning, int...

  ( Working from Home Image,  Source: Forbes)  The Trend of Work from Home The covid pandemic impacted globally to every business unit has changed and altered the operational system of organizations worldwide. Most countries locked down the cities to control the spreading of the virus and organizations had no other choice but to shift to flexible working arrangements. This was a paradigm shift for Human Resource Management as employees needed to be briefed on the new working methods, arrange flexible working hours, availability of technical equipment and online facilities while finding ways and means to keep the employees engaged and on track. “In response to the outbreak of the crisis, work patterns changed and the WFH model grew rapidly ( Zou et al., 2020b ).” According to the employers’ guide on working from home in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 published in the year 2020 by the International Labor Organization (ILO) working from home “is a working arra...

    Figure 01 - Talent Management Image ( Source: HireRoad)  Introduction Human Resources Management plays different roles in an organization as recruitment, motivation, training and retention, employee relations etc. Talent management is one of the main roles that HR has to play in an organization which is the systematic attraction, identification, development, engagement, retention and deployment of employees in the right job roles. This article will take an in-depth look at the subject of Talent Management. What is Talent Management? Talent management is defined as the methodically organized, strategic process of getting the right talent on board  and helping them grow to their optimal capabilities keeping organizational objectives in mind. The process thus involves identifying talent gaps and vacant positions, sourcing and  onboarding  the suitable candidates, growing them within the system and developing needed skills, training for expertise with...

  Figure 01 - Employee engagement via online Employee Performance   Your employees’ performances are key to the success of your organization. Therefore, an organization generally takes steps to improve the performance of its employees. Employee performance is defined as how an employee fulfills their job duties and executes the tasks that they are responsible in, a given period of time. Performance is always linked to the effectiveness, quality and efficiency of an employee. It also contributes to the assessment of how valuable an employee is to the organization. There are a few factors affecting the employee performances of an organization.   1. Working Environment 2.Training Development 3. Employee Engagement 4.Competence 5.Recognition 6.Tools and Equipment 7. Work Load 8. Company culture and morals 9. Leadership   How Covid 19 impacted the performance of the employees For a long time, most the organizations and the employees were used...