Question

Human Resources

Find an online newspaper, magazine or other article from anytime over the past year which relates to HR in a major way.

1. Provide a link to your article.

2. Provide a brief summary of what the article says.

3. What is your sense for what is really going on here? Are there underlying issues influencing this situation beyond what is seen at the surface?

4. What does this case illustrate/suggest? What HR principle(s) stand out as being important here?

Answer 1

1. link of the articles being discussed here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brentgleeson/2017/10/15/5-powerful-steps-to-improve-employee-engagement/#a7c51a6341d5

2. The article talks about the type of engagement practice which is essential or any organization to be successful. Different class of employee based on the engagement level and their impact on organization culture and success.

Role of leadership, HR Management and Manager in being actively involved in employee engagement and how they can contribute to the cause of better employee engagement. This article also explains the 5 powerful step which HR should actively take on to address the issues and gaps in employee engagement.

3. Of course as the article also mentioned that most of the managers in an organization fails to understand the human and emotional aspect of an employee they feel that the employees will always take rational decision but actually this is not the case because after all an employee is a human and there will be some sort of emotional decision. as we have seen that it may not look so damaging from surface but a dis-engaged employee makes huge damage to the organization therefore HR must act seriously and try to remove the issues which will lead to a dis-engaged employee.

4. In this articles author has given 5 step which must be taken to improve the employee engagement.

Where emphasis is given on these 5 areas which are,

Right Role

Training

Meaningful work

Continuous feedback process

Frequently discuss the engagement.

Role of HR becomes important in order to allocated / select the right people for right job, then only the employee will be trainable resource and they will feel they are doing a meaningful work. There is also a change required in traditional appraisal process which must incorporated a continuous dialogue between manager and employee and concern should be evaluated and sorted out.