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Winning staff commitment and job-engagement
Written by Sue Berry on 30th May 2019. Revised 26th October 2020.
1 min read
• Understanding how people (HRM) practices determine personal and organisational outcomes.
• Learn methods of gaining employee commitment to the organisation.
• Learn the definition of motivation and how people become motivated and on what motivation depends.
• Learn methods that the manager can use to ensure the employee's engagement with their job.
• Understanding how to design management interventions to effect change in organisational outcomes.
Motivating and setting objectives to drive performance
Written by John Berry on 28th May 2019. Revised 26th October 2020.
1 min read
• Defining the performance of a worker in a job and establishing the link between motivation and performance.
• Revisiting the role of the job and job design on motivation.
• Understanding the role of the job description in objective setting.
• Introducing some theory of objectives and the natural human desire to strive to achieve goals.
• learning practical goal setting and introducing the reality of performance appraisal.
Firms can learn from charities and schools
Written by Sue Berry on 25th September 2020. Revised 26th October 2020.
5 min read
A supervisory board holds the management team to account. Since having good governance is important to all organisations, whether profit-focussed or not, it begs the question as to why more firms don’t adopt the two-board model in the UK . It does happen when required by law, and also in a few cases where the MD is enlightened. Could it work for you?
Employee Engagement in Practice
Written by John Berry on 17th April 2020. Revised 26th October 2020.
30 min read
A lecture to University of Sussex HRM MSc 2020 cohort. Focus is the dyadic pair - manager and employee – I aim here to give HR practitioners an understanding of how, in practice, their function, HR, can support managers in achieving employee engagement. Job engagement can be measured. And it can be achieved through management intervention. The HR manager’s role in achieving job engagement is as a consultant to the line manager.
11 reasons why job descriptions are key to your business
Written by John Berry on 5th August 2017. Revised 26th October 2020.
3 min read
It’s only when managers come to rely on a job description at some point of impending opportunity or catastrophe that the importance of that simple document becomes apparent. Coupled with that, most JDs are just a list of duties and measuring performance against them is impossible. Here's guidance on fixing that.
Good, Bad and Ugly Job Adverts
Written by John Berry on 28th February 2019. Revised 26th October 2020.
5 min read
Writing a job advert is a test of communications brilliance - or communications stupidity. Yet, many managers believe that by asking for passion or enthusiasm or by describing the boredom of a job, great candidates are going to apply. So just what is the role of the job advert and what should a job advert contain.
