HUMAN RESOURCES Conference Paper Abstracts A CHANGE RECIPIENT PERSPECTIVE ON TRAINING AND COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT DURING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Olsen, Trude Hogvold; Harstad U. College; trude.olsen@hih.no Stensaker, Inger G.; NHH Norw.Schl of Economics and Business Adm.; inger.stensaker@nhh.no As organizations change and adapt to pressures in the external and internal environment, managers and employees are required to learn new competencies and skills. Ideally, new skill requirements should be
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relating to job satisfaction is of major interest in the field of organizational behavior and the practice of human resources management now. The interest steamed from the belief that the satisfied employees are more productive than dissatisfied employees are. This interest induces the management academics to conduct many researches regarding different issues in the field of job satisfaction. Employees spend most of their time at work but they are not completely satisfied from their job that’s why
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purpose of this research is to discover ways for effective leadership and the impact it has on employee satisfaction. Leadership, management and supervision are terms which mean the same but are used similarly. A leader/manager/supervisor is a person who sees something that needs to be done, and knows that they can help make it happen. A leader, manager, or supervisor sees opportunity and captures it. He/she sees future that can be different and better and help others see that picture too. He/she is
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employee turnover. Proposed study will use different research articles to develop a model which shows that job satisfaction, employee motivation and employee involvement (independent variable) has an impact on employee turnover (dependent variable). Hence the purpose of this research will be, firstly getting the perception of employees at work by conducting semi structure interviews as an instrument of data collection to explore the effect of Job satisfaction, employee motivation and employee involvement on
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND INTENTION TO LEAVE: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACTS A Thesis presented to The Faculty of the Graduate School At the University of Missouri-Columbia In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science by PRIYANKO GUCHAIT Dr. Seonghee Cho, Thesis Advisor AUGUST 2007 The undersigned, appointed by the dean of the Graduate School, have examined the
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HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES: ENHANCING EMPLOYEES’ SATISFACTION ETHIOPIAN A CASE STUDY OF ETHIOPIAN ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATION A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBIC ADMINSTRATION OF ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ART IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION By DESALEGN AMLAKU ADVISOR ATO TESHOME BEKELE ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION MBAMBA-PROGRAM June 2010 ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY
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Cornell University ILR School DigitalCommons@ILR CAHRS Working Paper Series Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) 5-1-1997 Impact of Information Technology on Employee Attitudes: A Longitudinal Field Study Patrick M. Wright Cornell University K. Michele Kacmar Florida State University Gary C. McMahan University of Texas at Arlington Karen Jansen Texas A&M University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrswp Part of the Technology and Innovation
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For the last few decades job satisfaction has been one of the most popular interests among scientists, researchers and practitioners. According to Spector job satisfaction is the most frequently studied variable in organization research. Job satisfaction was proved too be an important construct in emotional and psychological employees’ well being. It is a significant element related to good organizational functioning as well. Although, the phenomenon of job satisfaction has been broadly researched
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Organizational Commitment is highly valuable. Studies have highlighted that commitment has a great impact on the successful performance of an organisation. This is because a highly committed employee will identify with the goals and values of the organization, has a stronger desire to belong to the organization and is willing to display greater organizational citizenship behaviour i.e., a willingness to go over and beyond their required job duties. And if human resources are said to be an organization‘s
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Seattle Pacific University USA gsteinke@spu.edu ABSTRACT This paper explores how outsourcing activities and decisions put the well-being of the remaining employees at risk, ultimately affecting productivity and creating further costs to the employer. It highlights four potential threats to remaining employees: trust, job satisfaction, motivation, and stress. The paper provides several suggestions for mitigating these impacts, including communication to retain trust, acting ethically to ensure satisfied
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