2 GOVERNANCE IN A HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION. BEST PRACTICE‚ BEST FIT‚ OR RELIANCE ON IDEALISM? 6 Abstract Humanitarian organizations are pressured to professionalize and streamline their Human Resource Management (HRM) governance structure as a means to improve humanitarian aid provision. In the HRM literature‚ two perspectives advocate different ways to achieve this: the universalist (best practices) and the contingency (best fit) approach. Since the humanitarian sector is historically known
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India is rich in water resources‚ being endowed with a network of great rivers & vast alluvial basins to hold groundwater. Conditions‚ however‚ vary widely from region to region. Whereas there are some chronically drought affected areas‚ there are others which are frequently subject to damage by floods.On the whole‚ under the pressure of rapid population growth‚ the available resources of water are being developed & depleted at a fast rate & the situation seriously underlines the need for taking
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Management LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to ● Identify the level of the supervisor’s position in a management team. Describe the major competencies supervisors are expected to bring to their work. Discuss the resources supervisors must manage and the results obtained from them. Identify the key behaviors that are likely to positively affect employee attitudes and performance. Discuss the need for balancing a concern for output and a concern for the people who perform
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Soils Conservation: Easier - Soil is the loose top layer of our planet’s crust. It is dirt or earth in which plant life can grow. Harder - Soil covers a major portion of the earth’s land surface. It is an important natural resource that either directly or indirectly supports most of the planet’s life. Life here depends upon soil for food. Plants are rooted in soil and obtain needed nutrients there. Animals get their nutrients from plants or from other animals that eat plants. Many animals make
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functional residual capacity (FRC) play a very important role to ensure the constancy of alveolar gas tensions. Firstly it is important to understand what the anatomical dead space and FRC actually are. The anatomical dead space refers to the gas in the conducting areas of the respiratory system where air does not come into contact with alveoli. Examples of places in the respiratory system where anatomical dead space is present are the mouth and trachea. The functional residual capacity is the amount of
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1. Introduction: The concept of human resource is changing day by day. Now employees of an organization is not only considered as human resources but also as human capital.This happened because of the increasing importance of human resource to an organization especially to a manufacturing organization. As a result‚ duties and responsibilities of human resource management have become so dynamic and challenging. The span of tasks of human resource management is now not only limited in hiring of employees
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…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The main thrust of this essay is to demonstrate that the discipline of Human resources management (HRM) is in a world of its own in terms of people management using the Guest model of HRM. The Guest model is different from any other models of human resources management because it says HRM is unique rather than what is suggested by other models that HRM was developed by personnel management and it is not a new practice
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Human Resource Planning ^ Brian J. Smith‚ John W. Boroski‚ and George E. Davis - INTRODUCTION Human Resource (HR) planning is the formal process of linking business strategy with human resource practices. Approaches to human resource planning can be arrayed along a continuum ranging from an "add-on" to business strategy to a separate planning process (Figure 1). At one end of the continuum‚ HR planning is little more than a postscript to a business planning process. After engaging in an extensive
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The evolving nature of the economy has shift people’s attention to the term ‘Human Resource Management’. Human resource management according to Danny Samson refers to “the activities undertaken to attract‚ develop and maintain an effective workforce within an organization”(Samson & Daft 2005). Since human resource management it mainly dealing with workforce‚ employee motivation is one important component of this area. Employees’ level of motivation is a crucial component in determining a company’s
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Definition of Enterprise Resource Planning Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP is actually a process or approach that attempts to consolidate all of a company’s departments and functions into a single computer system that services each department’s specific needs. It is‚ in a sense‚ a convergence of people‚ hardware‚ and software into an efficient production‚ service‚ and delivery system that creates profit for the company. While the idea is easy to grasp in theory‚ the reality has been different
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