Learning Objectives 1. What is the difference between an employee and an independent contractor? Independent contactor works for‚ and receives payment from‚ an employer but whose working conditions and methods are not controlled by the employer. An independent contractor is not an employee but may be an agent. Seven criteria to be a contractor include: Worker can exercise control over details of work. Worker’s occupation is distinct from that of employer. Worker does not follow employer’s
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THAT INFLUENCE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT. B.Brinda‚ II MBA‚ KCT Business School‚ coimbatore brindabaluu@gmail.com Contact No: 9751168450. E.Vishalatchi Preethi‚ II MBA‚ KCT Business School‚ coimbatore slithy.p@gmail.com Contact No: 8012590902. ABSTRACT Employee engagement has emerged as a popular organizational concept in recent years. It is the level of commitment and involvement of an employee towards the organization and its values. Employee engagement
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workforce becoming more diverse‚ the importance of employee has also been increasingly highlighted in the organizations. QUALITY OF STAFF People are employed to perform the various hierarchy roles in the different divisions of an organization. They are mainly the Admin‚ Sales & Marketing‚ Finance‚ Production‚ Information Technology‚ Customer Service and Human Resource. In order to gain a competitive advantage in the market‚ it is vital to have the correct people in their respective role in these
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CRITICAL REVIEW: EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION A Powerful New Model Summary Employee motivation a powerful new model explores drivers of employee motivation‚ the levers the managers can pull to address them and the local strategies that can boost motivation despite organizational constraints. Finding of new research introduce a model that establishes the four basic emotional need people exhibit; they are the drive to acquire‚ bond‚ comprehend
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approaches and definitions of “what employee relations is”. “Employee relations is a common title for the industrial relations function within personnel management and is also sometimes used as an alternative label for the academic field of “industrial relations”. The term underlines the fact that industrial relations is not confined to the study of trade unions but embraces the broad pattern of employee management‚ including systems of direct communication and employee involvement that targets the
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Beginning in the 1970s‚ two developments dramatically changed in employee selections. First‚ the development of meta-analysis‚ arguably one of the most influential methodological developments in recent decades‚ made it possible to cumulate quantitatively the results of large numbers of small-scale studies‚ resulting in a quasi-massive-scale study. Second‚ the results of large-scale studies of military personnel and others also became available. The results of both kinds of studies provided strong
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primary subject matter of this case involves the job satisfaction and employee engagement of a spa company’s workforce called Bella. The case depicts a new general manager Kris Jenkins’s concern that Bella’s numbers had deteriorated dramatically in the past year. Profits were down; absenteeism was up; turnover‚ while not dramatic‚ was higher than it had been in the past five years. This report shows how important the employee engagement to bring job satisfaction which overall leads a company with
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Employee Resourcing Employee resourcing‚ also known‚ in certain places‚ as people resourcing‚ is ‘that part of personnel and development which focuses on the recruitment and release of individuals from organisations‚ as well as the management of their performance and potential while employed by the organisation’ (Pilbeam and Corbridge‚ 2002). According to Armstrong (2008) employee resourcing strategy is related to the attempt of the organization not just of obtains and retains the people it needs
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Jeannot Bile EMPLOYEE RELATIONS 13/02/2014 A MARXIST (OR RADICAL) PERSPECTIVE OF THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP LOCATES ’THE ASYMMETRY OF POWER BETWEEN EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE’ AT THE HEART OF ITS ANALYSIS. (BLYTON AND TURNBULL‚ 2004: 34). The conviction that there exists a power imbalance in the employment relationship which gives employers a prejudicial benefit over employees takes its existence for several centuries. Karl Marx known for his theories and contributions related to the employment relations
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perspective views all the people in the organisation as part of one big team. Unitarists view everyone within the organisation as part of one team with one loyalty structure. This immediately says that there are no barriers between different groups and departments which could lead to poor communication and animosity‚ which would go against the notion of common values and common goals as that would not be advantageous to the common goal‚ of the success of the organisation. The set of common goals and values
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