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as custom, law and procedures. The main objective of collective action is less or greater control of the acts of individuals, wh ...

it will have a negative effect on the whole organisation. Similarly, if at the input proc- essing stage, human resources are not ...

adaptation to the environment, less competitiveness, which leads inevitably to decline and ultimate collapse. Comparison Schuler ...

Theories as stated earlier and summarised in Table 1.1 are useful in shaping debates and professional practice in the process of ...

Figure 1.1 Stages in the evolution and development of human resource management Western Europe particularly in Britain, France, ...

managers interested in academics and consultants where efforts were devoted to study behavioural factors in job performance. Suc ...

The personnel functions are summarised and explained below as follows. Establishment of the organisational structure This invol ...

something which should be compensated, the later considers work positive and some- thing which has to be rewarded depending on t ...

taining organisations in the market became a challenge. Failure to respond to these chal- lenges through proper personnel manage ...

strategy, and strategic approach to managing employees was the best option for re- sponding to challenges facing organisations ( ...

sustainable achievement of an organisational mission, goals, and objectives. These defi- nitions are conclusively derived from t ...

will always matter in human resource management and the starting point of this is during recruitment, where an organisation shou ...

Fifth is employee commitment. Organisational success comes from the employees’ total commitment to the organisational mission, g ...

ing employees being nurtured through coaching, mentoring and the provision of lucra- tive reward. The fourth objective is to ens ...

Sharing human resource management functions The traditional personnel management practice housed personnel functions in the de- ...

Training and development Common wisdom tells us that the owner of the household knows better than the neigh- bour. Line managers ...

sation. It is the role of the human resource manager to ensure that there is no abuse of power and employees are empowered to ma ...

de-motivate some employees and trigger counter disruptive behaviours including rent seeking or ‘just please the boss’ attitude. ...

Shift to strategic human resource management From the 2000s we witnessed a continuous exploration of the founding concepts of hu ...

In this regard, there is abundant literature which has confirmed the common knowledge that there is no theory, policy, or manage ...