Progressing the Governance Standards: Role of HR

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-343
Author(s):  
Rachna Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Professional Conduct ◽  
Business Units

To have a robust governance standard become a practice in an organisation requires both a lucid stating of the principles and code of conduct along with creating a culture where a respect for these principles is acknowledged and positively reinforced. The human resources team plays a critical role in this scenario by offering a cogent professional conduct template as well as fostering a sustained culture, reflective of this, given the interventions which HR can facilitate across business units and different sets of professional segments.

Downsize or rightsize? Changing KESC to K-ELECTRIC (Case A)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Nyla Aleem Ansari
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Workplace Violence ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Content Type

Subject area Organizational restructuring strategy such as downsizing and rightsizing and their effects on organizational performance. Study level/applicability The case can be taught to graduate students of a business administration program for change management or human resources management courses. Case overview The case discusses a structural change strategy followed by a crisis management situation of a Pakistani state-owned enterprise with hierarchical structures, unclear work roles and workplace corruption and its shift toward a profitable company with rebranded mission and values. With the management takeover by the Abraaj Group, several issues were identified as major blocks to K-ELECTRIC’s performance. Drastic changes included information technology advancement, investment in infrastructure of generation capacity, marketing campaigns and corporate social responsibility initiatives with a record profit in 2011-2012, for the first time in 17 years. But, the greatest challenge to quality service and profitability was faced by the human resources department, to retrench 4,459 workers by offering a voluntary separation scheme to non-core management staff in 2009. However, disregarding the successful impact on business performance, only 300 workers (approximately) had accepted the package in early 2010, while the rest questioned the decision of outsourcing non-core jobs and demanded reinstatement with the company, followed by a series of protests in January 2010. K-ELECTRIC needed to make some sensitive and timely decisions to ensure efficient and quality service to its customers as its top agenda. Expected learning outcomes The outcomes include: to understand the challenges faced by a recently privatized public utility service to become lean and efficient without compromising on its public mission of providing electricity to the residents of the city; to analyze the factors that influence choice of restructuring strategies and their effects on the employment relationship and organizational performance; to recognize the critical role of leadership in choosing a voluntary downsizing strategy and analyzing the sense of urgency needed to execute the decision; and to recognize the role of legal and organizational consultancy needed in critical decision-making to prevent workplace violence. Supplementary materials Teaching notes and teaching guide.

scholarly journals The Too-Much-Precision Effect

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 1573-1587 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D. Loschelder ◽  
Malte Friese ◽  
Michael Schaerer ◽  
Adam D. Galinsky
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Statistical Mediation ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Linear Effects ◽  
Scale Granularity

Past research has suggested a fundamental principle of price precision: The more precise an opening price, the more it anchors counteroffers. The present research challenges this principle by demonstrating a too-much-precision effect. Five experiments (involving 1,320 experts and amateurs in real-estate, jewelry, car, and human-resources negotiations) showed that increasing the precision of an opening offer had positive linear effects for amateurs but inverted-U-shaped effects for experts. Anchor precision backfired because experts saw too much precision as reflecting a lack of competence. This negative effect held unless first movers gave rationales that boosted experts’ perception of their competence. Statistical mediation and experimental moderation established the critical role of competence attributions. This research disentangles competing theoretical accounts (attribution of competence vs. scale granularity) and qualifies two putative truisms: that anchors affect experts and amateurs equally, and that more precise prices are linearly more potent anchors. The results refine current theoretical understanding of anchoring and have significant implications for everyday life.

scholarly journals Does Parental Co-creation Impacts Perceived Value? A Mixed-method Study in Indian Elementary Educational Innovations

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-100
Author(s):  
Meeta Dasgupta ◽  
Anupama Prashar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Educational Effectiveness ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
School Services ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
The Impact

Research on building innovative practices for enhancing the educational effectiveness has gained momentum. Schools as business units play a critical role in building effectiveness. Empirical investigation on the role of parents, the primary customers taking decisions with respect to availing school services for their children, as co-creators in conceptualizing and executing educational innovations is thin. To bridge this research gap, a mixed methods study was conducted on a sample of elementary schools in India. The study also investigated the impact of parents’ involvement on their perceived value and satisfaction. The results suggested that schools are undertaking various innovative initiatives in which parents play a primary role in execution both at home and in the school. It was found that parents’ perception of value for innovative practices introduced by the schools is high, irrespective of their low involvement in the conceptualization stage. The findings also indicated that parental involvement in the execution stage of the initiatives impacts their perceived value more than at the conceptualization stage.

scholarly journals Role of Non-Clinical Human Resources for COVID-19: Strategic Way Forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-549
Author(s):  
Ashish Chandra ◽  
P.R. Sodani
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Healthcare Organisation ◽  
Marketing Department ◽  
The Future

When one talks about a healthcare organisation, in most instances it is an automatic assumption that we are talking about clinical personnel. This article addresses the critical role that non-clinical personnel played during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, the authors delineated the critical roles of the marketing department personnel in healthcare organisations. In light of the pandemic, in the future, there will be a greater need for unique training topics that were not even imagined in the years prior to 2020, and using the concepts of marketing, the authors have provided a list of the potential generic topics as well as how to assess its reach, effectiveness and value.

scholarly journals Peran Badan Usaha Milik Desa (BUMDes) dalam Pengembangan Desa Wisata di Desa Ponggok Kecamatan Polanharjo Kabupaten Klaten

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Dwi Hastutik ◽  
Dwiningtyas Padmaningrum ◽  
Agung Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Data Validity ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Village Government

<em>Village-Owned Enterprise (BUMDes) is pillars of village economic activities that function is as social institutions and commercial institutions. An understanding of the role of BUMDes is useful for analyzing the role of BUMDes in the development of tourist villages. The role studied is in the form, the role of awareness (conscientization), the role of community organizing, and the role of delivery of human resources (resource delivery). The objective of the study is to analyze: (1) the process of forming a tourism village (2) the role of the BUMDes in the development of a tourism village. The basic method of research is descriptive qualitative. The research location was determined intentionally, Ponggok Village, Polanharjo District, Klaten Regency. Data analysis used data reduction, data display (data display), and drawing conclusions or verification. Data validity was done by source triangulation and technique triangulation. The results of the study showed that: (1) the process of the formation of the Ponggok Tourism Village began with a pennant in Ponggok Village which was previously only used for daily needs. Over time the village government of Ponggok was aware of the tourism potential in the area. To support the development of a tourism village, the Ponggok Village government collaborated with the academy, SAR (search and rescue) team, and diving team to explore tourism potential. (2) the role of BUMDes in the development of Tourism Village seen by three things, they were the conscientization role, which was carried out with socialization activities and proof of work, the role of community organizing, channeling aspirations and the division of labor into business units, and the role of delivery of human resources (resource delivery), which was training activities carried out together with other parties such as banking and other academics.</em>

The Role of the SLP in Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening and Assessment

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Philofsky
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Prevalence Estimates ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
Screening Assessment ◽  
Critical Components

AbstractRecent prevalence estimates for autism have been alarming as a function of the notable increase. Speech-language pathologists play a critical role in screening, assessment and intervention for children with autism. This article reviews signs that may be indicative of autism at different stages of language development, and discusses the importance of several psychometric properties—sensitivity and specificity—in utilizing screening measures for children with autism. Critical components of assessment for children with autism are reviewed. This article concludes with examples of intervention targets for children with ASD at various levels of language development.

A critical role of iNOS-derived Nitric Oxide (NO) and progesterone in implantation

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 115A-115A
Author(s):  
K CHWALISZ ◽  
E WINTERHAGER ◽  
T THIENEL ◽  
R GARFIELD
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Critical Role
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