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Blog 06- Employee wellbeing and mental health

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  Employee wellbeing and mental health Employee wellbeing is intrinsically link to productivity. Employers across the globe now recognize that protecting and supporting the mental health of employee is vital to the future of their business. In 2021 as a result of Covid 19 pandemic, economic uncertainty, social unrest, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorders affect more of the workforce than in 2020.   Mental Health Prediction for 2022-2023 1.       Mental Health support Business will spotlight effectiveness on mental health support and the return on investment of their initial approaches.   2.       Continued mental health issues The prevailing depression and anxiety in the population will continue to be high as pandemic exist longer than we expected.   3.       More focused approaches A business will starts to have a greater focus on effectiveness in the menta...

Blog 05 -Performance Management VS Performance Appraisal

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Performance Management VS Performance Appraisal Performance management is considered as a process. It consist with below cycle.   Performance management is a continuous, comprehensive and flexible approach to manage teams, organizations, and individuals, that involves the maximum possible dialogues between the parties involved   In every organization there is a need to understand the abilities of the employees to perform and grow. Performance appraisal acts as a tool to check the development opportunities for the employees. It is a systematic evaluation of the work performed by the employees. To cope with the challengers in the business environment, companies are practicing new and effective methods. In performance appraisal system, employees are subjected to rating once a year and it was mostly implemented on top down basis. The appraisals were largely discredited because they concentrated mostly on an employee’s errors and inabilities. It narrowly focused o...

Blog 04 -Effective Employee Retention Strategies

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  Effective Employee Retention Strategies Employee retention Employee retention is a huge issue for business, especially in the tech sector. Business leaders take steps to enhance the retention. Retention Strategies Employee rewards program Reward employee in a creative way, will be make a remarkable impact to the employee satisfaction. It could be done as a gift or money. Flexible working hours We should realize the importance of a work life balance. By letting them to take some time off will help to solve unease and stress in the work place. Timely Promotion Employee promotion given withing time or given in time after gaining certain experience or given without any delay, makes employee feel positive influence on retention of employee.   Timely Increments Timely increment in salary makes talented employees to stick to the organization for a long time. Salary increment are the core reason behind leaving employee Employee engagement Employees are more c...

Blog 03- Employee termination during CoVID19 pandemic in Sri Lanka

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  Employee termination during CoVID19 pandemic in Sri Lanka Thae CoVID19 pandemic In Sri Lanka made many human resource issues which were not experience on expected. Among them most crucial issue is termination of employment. The labor crisis created by the covid19 pandemic has increased global unemployment by almost 25 million. The impact was several in the cases of seasonal labor such as in domestic constructions. Working from home is not possible unless the technical supports are provided to the employees. In Many works places the employments have been terminated by temporary non-employment because of non-availability of work. Covid 19 pandemic has contributed to the imaging of many new forms of technologies driven employments in new normal conditions. Employees who are unable to work in technology, terminated for the reason of their inefficiency and incompetency. Retaining of employment with deducted salary could minimized the termination. With the implementation ...

Blog 02- Human resource management challengers during Covid 19 pandemic

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  Human resource management challengers during Covid 19 pandemic Covid19 was declared a global health emergency by the WHO in January 2022. Sri Lanka was lock down several time. This lock down is a crucial challenge to manage HR in an organization. It creates unpredictable situations in the both public and private sector. HR’s role in crisis management is to enhance preparedness among personal and ensure effective disaster planning. Human resource manager should have the ability to analyses the risk and ability to deal with the risk. It highly influences on the pre plans of preparation, prevention and reaction of organization. To effectively deal with a crisis, should build up employees’ capacity to negotiate with the severe disasters by equipping them with the knowledge. HR Manager should be broadening the role to following sectors, communication and employee relations, policy and process managements, employee skills and information tracking, training and development, ...

Blog 01-Why socialization is crucial for an organization

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 Why socialization is crucial for an organization When new employees enter an organization, they feel out of space because of the new surroundings, new boss and new co-workers. Hence it is the responsibility of the management to orient to employees and to make the process of socialization smoothly. This will ensure that the new employee adapt to the organizational culture as soon as possible. The process is adaptation is commonly tern induction or socialization. Socialization: is a process of adaptation, adjutancy, making arrangement for setting one employee in the organizational environments  (Amtrong, 2006) . Organizational socialization process is crucial for the following reasons. 01)    The transitional phase is characterized by stress, anxiety and uncertainty. Socialization provide new commers with information regarding roles, responsibilities, co-workers, and organization in general. 02)    When a new employee starts in his new job positio...