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Employee Engagement Importance During A Pandemic Happiness is definitely part of the formula for successful employee engagement, but there are many other elements to consider as well. For example, a happy employee can cheerfully turn up to work and get on with the tasks of their job, but still put not put any extra effort into their role, or care about the overall success of the company. You need your employees to feel an emotional commitment to the business and its goals. This is one of the key drivers of employee engagement. Kahn (1990: 894) defined employee engagement as ‘the harnessing of organization members’ selves to their work roles; in engagement, people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively, and emotionally during role performances’. There have been dozens of definitions since the explosion of interest in the concept during the 2000s. Harter et al (2002: 269) stated that engagement was ‘the individual’s involvement and satisfaction with as well as enthusiasm f...
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  motivation during COVID 19 situation for health workers . Motivation is the strength and direction of behavior and the factors that influence people to behave in certain ways. (Armstrong 2013.) Motivation is the desire to act in service of a goal and in this pandemic situation, it is essential to keep staff motivated. The 21st century has already seen many severe epidemics like Ebola, SARS, MERS, H1N1, and most recently the infamous pandemic of COVID-19. All of them have challenged us in ways never thought of before and, as health workers, are the frontline fighters who are directly taking care of patients and fighting against the spread of the virus. Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) can cause mental stress, physical strains, and demoralization. In this instance, motivational support from leaders is required. Staff motivation is a challenge for any organization, in any industry. But because of the high-stress nature and emotionally-charged events that doctors, nu...
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  How Can Manage Stress in the Workplace   Stress is a dynamic condition in which an individual is confronted with an opportunity, demand, or resource related to what the individual desires and for which the outcome is perceived to be both uncertain and important (Stephen P.Robbing, Timothy A.Judge, Neharika Vohra, 2017). Furthermore, the word ‘stress’ was generated by Hans Selye. He defined it as an unexpected and unpredicted response of the brain and body to change. Stress is a self-produced pain occurring in thoughts. It varies in different situations and environments. Managing stress is nothing new. For more than a century, leaders have recognized that stress is a significant factor in the workplace (Cannon, 1915/1929; Quick, Wright, Adkins, Nelson, & Quick, 2013). Stress affects a broad range of issues salient to organizational leaders; for example, Quick et al. (2013) demonstrate the relationship between workplace stress and performance, job attitudes, psycho...
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  PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE The drive to improve the quality of healthcare performance has been a consistent theme for several decades. Performance managing the health and social care system helps involve staff in raising standards and ultimately provide taxpayers with proof of progress in areas that matter most to them. In today's fast-changing healthcare sector, decision-makers are in greater demand for both Clinical and administrative information to comply with legal and consumer specifications Requirements. Thus, performance management (PM) is becoming more and more important with increasing information requests. However, there is not much knowledge about the use of PM in health care. Public sector organizations are differentiated in comparison with their commercial counterparts in the private sector. “There is no profit maximizing focus, little potential for income generation and, generally speaking, no bottom line against which performance can ultimately be ...
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    Impact of Communication skills for E mployee Development An organization is nothing without clear and concise communication. Broadly speaking, effective communication is “leader-driven and attempts to help people understand the market forces that shape the actions and strategy of the business.” (D’Aprix, 1996) This means that communication planning should incorporate how to drive employee behavior to fulfill business outcomes, not simply the tactics and channels used to disperse information to a workforce. In its absence, employees are working and reworking problems, in a buddle, with NO shared knowledge, insights, or diversity. The key is creating an open format, encouraged by all team members. Here are the skills that we’ll group under Communication, and the various ways to develop each. 1.     Teamwork Promote group efforts and shared project responsibilities, encourage group outings, team building activities, and shared goals. Always think and...
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  Public Sector Industrial Relations Comparing employment and labor relations in the public sector, and more specifically in central government, is not an easy task. Compared with the private sector, employment relations in the public sector are deeply rooted in country-specific legal, normative and institutional traditions, which make comparisons difficult. Moreover, problems emerge in the conceptual definition and statistical identification of the central government and the public sector. For instance, their boundaries and size can vary significantly depending on the analytical perspective from which they are classified.   Definition of relationship ‘The approaches and methods adopted by employers to deal with employees either collectively through their trade unions or individually.’ (Armstrong, 2017) Industrial Relations What are Industrial Relations? Encyclopedia Britannica defines IR more elaborately as “The relations of the state with employers, workers, an...
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