1. Introduction Workplace spirituality and employee engagement have been topics of interest for both academicians and practitioners for the past two decades. This increased attention has been a result of many factors such as emerging ethical concerns, enlightened leadership theories, emphasis on the higher order needs of the employee, employees’ quest for meaningful work, an attitudinal shift toward wholeness and empowerment etc. Workplace spirituality though initially seen as a passing fad is
Effect of Diverse Work Environment on Employee Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment amongst Indian Employees Abstract Diversity in workplace is one of the foundations which determine an organization’s success, as companies need to optimally utilize the skills and talent of a wide variety of employees. It is a common belief that companies recruiting a diverse workforce understand the demographic behaviors of the customers they serve much better than companies that hire only a limited group
Organizational leadership is the ability for leaders within organization to manage and protect the organization’s goals and vision by realizing employees need and company targets, to bring together a better workplace and environment that facilitate growth and the achievement of one common goal (Sansom 1998) in the change process. This leadership in organizations
Human behavior is a complex issue that is linked by many variables such as ambition, work experience, personal experiences, social environment, the number and the intensity of individual needs. Furthermore, it can an also be viewed as the overall reaction of people to hypokinetic forces. The individual behaves in one way or another, because it meets the motivational forces that act in some specific way. Motivation shall be defined by Robbins, (1993) (as cited in Ramlall, 2004) as: “the willingness
growing evidence that nurses experience worsening work conditions, with increasingly unsupportive work environments, non-family working hours and increased stress. The supervisor-nurse relationship is often the buffer between organizational demands and professional workplace expectations. Notably, effective supervisor-nurse relationships predict high
Workplace violence has become an alarming phenomenon and a dangerous act worldwide. The increased prevalence rates of workplace violence show that violence is a more common phenomenon than previously believed. Workplace violence has been recognized in three main levels: the organizational, the societal and the individual level. The most vulnerable health care workers are nurses as they are the most effected by workplace violence. The reason behind is that nurses are in close contact with their patients
1.1 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND COMMITMENT Organizational culture and commitment have extensive significance in industrial and organizational environment. Culture is a coherent system of assumptions and basic values, which distinguish one group to another and familiarizes its choices. Hence, organizational culture implies 'a prototype of basic assumptions that imaginary exposed and urbanized by a given group as it learns from external and internal implementation. It has worked well enough to be
Who’s taking your lunch while you’re at work? Garie Namie, founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute states, “Workplace bullying is like domestic abuse without the physical violence.” Most people have experienced some type of bullying at some point in their life whether at school or work. Either they were the bullier or the one who is being bullied. Based on the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a bully is a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker (2015). My definition
The importance of human resource management The main purpose of the Human Resources Management is to manage the culture of the company and employees, to exercise every possible avenue to recruit, train and keep employees while reducing expenditure so to maximize profits. Essentially, the purpose of HRM is to maximize the productivity of an organization by optimizing the effectiveness of its employees.Perhaps they are some key functions of the Human Resources Management (HRM) team include recruiting
Sportsmanship is also defined similarly, defined as exhibiting no negative behavior when something does not go as planned--or when something is being perceived as annoying, difficult, frustrating or otherwise negative. In the context of a sport, sportsmanship might mean congratulating the opponent team celebrating their success