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Types of flexibility required by the employees at workplace

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Flexibility can be regarded as key concept inmanaging people in adynamic businessenvironment where it is considered as the empowerment of the employees in order to undertake their assigne d job duties and responsibilities as per their own plan as long as assigned responsibilities are executed. Therefore, there are several reasons for the employees to required flexibility at work place. Table 1 - Reasons for employee flexibility Source : (Hogarty, 2021) Competitiveness The level of competition prevailing in the market would be different from company to company where the time for flexibility to working arrangements needs to be changed accordingly. Adaptiveness Adaptiveness towards distinctive activities at work place needs to be evaluated where a flexibility needs to be assigned to the employees until they adapt new changes for the work scope. Technological impact There are numerous technological changes bei...
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Women employment and work life balance

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Unlike in conventional business era, there is a significant increase in women unemployment with the inception of this century with the changes in the economic as well as social business context. There are enormous amount of economic factors such as inflation, increase in interest rates and so on has increased the requirement for women employment and the changes in the life styles, urbanization as well as other social conditions would also enhances the necessity of employing women in the business environment (Kaushalya, R.K.N & Perera, G.D.N, 2018) . There are numerous challenges which can be identified with regards to the women employment when compared with the men employment. Management of work life balance can be considered as the most challenging and crucial consequence confronted by the women as far as employment is concerned. Unlike men, there are several duties and responsibilities to be handled by the women even before they leave to the office as well as after returning to...
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Employee work pressure and employee turnover

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Job stress or work pressure can be identified as detrimental physical as well as emotional responses when there is a discrepancy between capabilities of the employees and the job scope. In contemporary business context, most of the employees tend to be pressurized regarding the job due to several reasons such as higher load of work responsibilities, lack of work life balance, lack of capabilities of the employees, highly volatile business scenarios and customer requirements creating frequent changes in the job activities and so on would create work pressure for the employees (Chathuni Jayasinghe & M.V.S.Mendis, 2017) . Therefore, it can be identified that employee work pressure would arise from below perspectives Pay scheme related work pressure Work pressure would arise due to the lack of pay scheme and other incentives for the employees. There are instances where employees are given lower salary than the industry rates and the lack of possibility of fulfilling their needs ...
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How employee satisfaction can be enhanced within an organisation

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Human resources can be considered as the most significant types of resource within an organization since they urge to drive the business strategies into practice. Therefore, it can be identified that the employee performance would create direct implications towards the entire business efficiency. Hence, getting more employee contribution to the business operations is essential in order to enhance the satisfaction level of employees where following methods can be used as the initiatives in order to improve overall employee satisfaction (Rabia Karimi, et al., 2011) (XhavitIslami, et al., 2018; Birt, 2022) . Training and investment It is required to provide effective training programmes focusing on employees in order to enhance overall skills and competencies of the employees which creates positive outcomes for the organization and to enhance internal fulfillment of the employees. Employee recognition Contribution to the company needs to be properly identified and rewarded for the...
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Application of Kotter’s Eight Stage Model for change management process

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Change management process is a systematic implementation of change within an organization. With the continuous changes in the technology, competitive pressures, globalization and so on change needs to be adopted to the organization to ensure gaining higher competitive advantage as well as business sustainability (Mary R. C. Haas,, et al., 2020) . Therefore, Kotter’s Eight Stage Model highlighted the significance of the change management and adopting a systematic approach in adopting change management process effectively. Therefore, it is vital to follow below process in order to ensure that the change management is undertaken effectively (Pawar & Charak, 2017) (Pollack & Pollack, 2015) . Establish a sense of urgency People must understand and accept the need for change where it is required it is required to provide an initial understanding regarding the requirement for adopting the change within the organization. Create a guiding coalition It is required to assemble ...
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Job Redesigning

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Job redesigning can be regarded as the process of rearrangement of the duties and the responsibilities of the employees in order to align the job roles to the contemporary business context in order to ensure that the jobs are properly compatible with the internal as well as external business organization. Unlike in conventional business environment, there is a highly volatile business environment where there are continuous changes being taken place within the business such as digitization, automation and so on. Therefore, there is a tendency of changing the job roles of the employees in a frequent manner (Vulpen, 2022) . Therefore, it is vital to evaluate company changes and aligning the exciting job roles aligning to the contemporary changes of the business. Therefore, it is required to evaluate the organizational changes and identify the requirement for job redesigning and individual job scopes are required to be evaluated in order to ensure that their job roles are altered alignin...
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Reasons for failures of teams and solutions

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A work team generates positive synergy through coordinated effort. Their individual efforts results in a level of performance that is greater than the sum of those individual inputs. There are several discrepancies between groups as well as teams where the key objective of forming a team where there is a collective performance through the formation of a team. It urges to create positive synergies where there are individual as well as mutual accountability towards the achievement of objectives (lumenlearning.com, 2022) . However, it can be identified that there are several instances where teams tend to be failed. When there is no proper direction and the guidance for the team while not having proper roles for the team members. Moreover, when the team is dominated by few people, team collaboration tend to get declined. Employee lack of communication among the team,   less effectiveness of the leadership as well as lack of focus of team member progression would be considered as key...
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