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Employee Attitude: HR Encounters Negative Attitudes in Today's Workplaces.

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  Worker's attitude denotes the individual feelings, opinions, and beliefs, as regards to work and its environment. (Srivastav & Das, 2013). Positive employee attitude is vital in ensuring total quality management and business process reengineering which are necessary in improving a firm's efficiency, innovativeness, and quality of service. (Alok Kumar and Priyanka Das, 2015). Attitude, however, is the neural and mental state of readiness organized through experience, dynamic influence or exerting a direction upon the individual's response to various situations or objects with which he/she is related (Srivastav & Das, 2013) Typical Negative Attitudes of Employees Negative Attitude When staff members exhibit a persistently negative attitude, it can affect morale within the team and productivity. A toxic work environment can be brought about by pessimism, whining, or persistent criticism without any suggestions for improvement. Lack of Accountability Some wo...

Remote and Flexible Work

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  The coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic compelled enterprises all around the world to implement flexible work schedules, which in turn led to the adoption of remote work.   Organizational policies that give workers more autonomy regarding their work schedules, locations, and arrangements are known as flexible work policies. (Francisco Antunes, Rui Vinhas da Silva, Alvaro L. Dias, and Leandro F. Pereira, 2023). Advantages of Flexible and Remote Work (Escalla, 2021). Better Work-Life Balance Because there is no daily commute, working remotely frees up employees' time for personal interests and family obligations. Enhanced Output Numerous studies have demonstrated that because they have fewer interruptions and a more pleasant workspace, remote workers are frequently more productive. Getting Global Talent Accessible Geographical restrictions no longer apply to businesses seeking talent, giving them access to a wide range of knowledge and experience. Savings on Costs ...

Planning to extend a Fashion industrial business to other countries

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Major trends in the environment that affect a company in the fashion Industry               Globalization After globalization took place Day by day the competition between businesses is increasing, companies are competing by products, price, promotion, place, and people. The company's target market has been widening. Since there are many companies that can be seen in the same industry or field, customers get more choices in the market. For example, if we take the footwear industry, how many companies, and brands, can be seen in the market? As customer preferences there are high-quality products, with high prices, as well as high-quality products at low prices can be seen in the market. Many foreign companies enter the market and local companies compete with them. ·          Cultural changes In a Harvard Business Review, the writers state that Organizational culture is the collective effect of the common bel...

Job Stress and Employee Turnover

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"Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle." ―Bill Phillips. Job life is one of the important parts of our daily lives which causes a great deal of stress. Due to the competitive nature of the job environment. Most of the people in the world are spending their time for job-related work purposes resulting in ignoring the stressors that are influencing their work and life. Usually, people are more worried about the outcome of their work which can even affect the way they treat other people and how they communicate with their peers and customers. Stress refers to any force that pushes a psychological or physical function beyond its range of stability, producing a strain within the individual. Job stress is one of the most important workplace health risks for employees in developed and developing countries. (Paul, 2002) Job stress is an extremely difficult construct to define. Obviously, it is stress on the job, but stress on the job occurs in a person. T...

Human Resource Planning - Effective Source of Recruitment in a School

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  Human resource planning is a process that takes place by aiming to ensure the organization has the right number and right kind of people at the right jobs at the right time, analyzes current human resources, identifies their future human resource needs, identifies vacancies available, and then implement necessary actions to fulfill the vacancies. After discovering the vacancies available in an organization, human resource managers check the availabilities from inside the organization. They determine which current employees are capable of fully fulfilling the identified vacancy. Managers can retrain and transfer into the vacant positions, convince employees who are planning to retire or they can implement programs to increase the productivity of the current employees. If the managers need more employees other than the inside employees or in other words if managers need external employees they go for the recruitment process.   Once the managers create the job description a...