PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS

AUTONOMOUS WORK GROUP - AWG Similar to an individual with autonomy at work, an autonomous work group is a team of employees granted autonomy or independence over the work they do within an organization. This autonomy includes independent decision-making related to a specific work function, project or job and independent freedom to assign individual members specific tasks within the group ( Neil Kokemuller) In an autonomous work group, employees self-organize to accomplish a task. Upper management holds the group as a whole responsible for its productivity and efficiency, but scheduling and task assignment are left to the group itself. This approach to management can improve work life and possibly increase productivity, but there are also disadvantages(Stan Mack, 2017) S Function Autonomous work groups vary, depending on organizational need. Some groups might be permanent, while others are temporary assignments to address a short-term project. The key is that employees in ...

CROWD WORKING Crowd employment is a new form of employment  that uses an online platform to enable organizations or individuals to access an indefinite and unknown group of other organizations or individuals to solve specific problems or to provide specific services or products in exchange for payment’. Crowd employment is also known as crowd sourcing or crowd work, and aims to organize the outsourcing of tasks to a large pool of online workers rather than to a single employee. Technology is essential in this new employment form, as the matching of client and worker, as well as task execution and submission, is mostly carried out online.  This form of employment is based on individual tasks or projects, rather than on a continuous relationship. A larger task is divided into smaller subtasks that are relatively simple or standardized, can be done independently of the other tasks and have a specific output. Crowd Work Basics 1. What is this “crowd-, pla...

PERFORMANCE IN HRM HRM is becoming a highly competitive department of the entire organization regardless of its size or nature. Throughout history the human element has passed number of stages in the political and corporate arena. When an organization is in need of achieving a set of objectives it is unavoidably the people who make it or not. HR department is the key in supplying the talents, resources etc… and providing training, development, motivation etc… to achieve the organizational objectives. Hence it is the HRM is a core of making it happens. It is apparent that the recent revolutionary changes in the concept of HRM have further extended and expanded to SHRM where it talks about strategy part. SHRM deals with top management and is sitting with the board of management to argue with the implication of HR functions in achieving organizational corporate goals as a whole. A more often repeated word in the organizations is “performance”. It is the term related with not...