OMM 618: Human Resources
Week 1 Assignment

Organizations motivate employees by offering rewards and bonuses and at some rate this is a good way to keep everyone engaged if not abused. The problem starts when the management starts to misuse it like giving out rewards to people based on their familiarity rather than on their performances. Being left behind knowing that you deserve better can make a person more dissatisfied and might end up living the organization. So what do you think satisfy an employee and makes them stay to the company? Of course benefits, salary, and the sense of being needed in the company as much as appreciated for being a performance. With these things, employees will definitely stay with the company.
For the human resource management, providing an enticing and rewarding reward system is sometimes bothersome. Knowing that rewards play an important role to how an individual functions in the organization, the management is making processes that will make the reward system more acceptable to all employees involved. It is important that once the system has acted, it should be there to motivate more employees, and not to cause more problems because it can add to the satisfaction of the employees in the working place (Galanou).
When rewarded for their effort, employees can become more productive because they knew they are doing their job properly and at the same time they knew they are being appreciated. This process can also make them more loyal to the company because they will start to feel valued by the organization since they are being rewarded for doing their job (Galanou).
Most companies are now giving rewards and bonuses to the top members of the team and top performers. The company makes sure they provide all necessary training needed to ensure that employees can function as highly as possible without any issues (Dessler).
Reward system pertains to anything that the organization is giving out to employees to show appreciation of their effort in doing their job excellently. This can be a simple pat on the back from a manager, a monetary amount,gift check or anything of value. Employees that are rewarded from time to time are the one who do performs well because they knew they are being valued while other employees tries their best to be on top as well in order to experience being rewarded.
The problem among the department who gives out and designs reward system are that they are not creative sometimes, and they always resort to use the money as a reward. The human management system also ends up being known in the organization as the one designing steps to fire employees and not to keep them stay. If only the said department will also work out some processes and initiative to make the employees feel more welcome and ask them to do more because of the awaiting rewards, this might help the people do their best. In the end, untaken care of employees can bring their skills and knowledge with them, go to a different company and be appreciated from there. This can be a big lost especially if the company has already invested in providing trainings and development programs to the said employees.
There are some who doesn’t feel like valued when they are not being given especially consideration during especially needs and occasions like women in need of time to take care of their families. Employees that has emergency needs but unable to get off to work can be less productive because they are worried about their loved ones hence focus on the job is less. It can damage their performance for sure and can damage the company’s performance too. Employees with emotional baggage won’t be able to work no matter how hard they try because something will always be there to bother them.
Imagine a woman whose kid needs to be rushed to the hospital. This employee has some gap with her supervisor, and the supervisor threatened her to report to work or else she will lose her job. This can be a hard thing to work on because the employee knew she got some emergency leave that she can use, but the manager is using her personal grudge to give her a hard time. The employee might go to work for fear of losing her job, but you can’t expect her to be at her best because she is emotionally burdened by her kid’s condition. Then another employee close to the boss asked for leave because it is her birthday, and she got approved due to their level of closeness. If this news gets to the first employee, this can lead to dissatisfaction and leaving of the company. Looking for a company that can provide and follow the process is what the first employer will look for.
This process is called family-friendly. The boss is giving favors to friends while most employees cannot focus to their work because of their emergency situations. What we don’t know is that most people rely on the happiness of their families to function well at the office because if they are less worried at home, then they have a tendency to work better and function better at work. It only means that work and personal relationship have something to do with each other whether we accept it or not (Moon).
Organizations that are family-friendly provides benefits for the employee’s family like medical benefits while at the same time allowing the employee to take of the family member in need of assistance. Organizations do this to ensure that their employees can come to work without fear that they cannot go home when needed by the family (Moon).
Every employee wants to work with an organization that will definitely see through their needs as an individual and a person and not just a mere employee. With contented employees, come productive ones and better working environment around them. It only means that the organization and the human department should strategize a way to keep the employees more focus and happier while working with them through their reward system (Dessler).

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