A platform is essentially infrastructure that functions as an underlying tool to host different applications and enable their functioning. It serves as a medium for applications to be built and run on. Applications are user-oriented and serve the purpose of fulfilling the end user’s requirements. A standalone application provides rich functionality that aids the client […]
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Most organizations have some sort of a Human Resource Management System (HRMS) in place to manage their human resources. These could be either on-premise solutions or on-demand solutions and both have their own advantages and disadvantages. In this post, we’ll be focusing on SaaS solutions and a few things you should know about online HR
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In part two of this series, we will look at more ways to improve employees’ performance. Show them the reward: To those employees who have the skill and experience to perform but are not performing due to a lack of motivation or due to disillusionment, it might be a good idea to show them the
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For any firm, internal customers are just as important as external customers. Within the firm, the employees and teams depend on one another to convert their raw material into a product or a service. One function acts as the internal customer of another and business operations suffer if this relationship falls into jeopardy. In the
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As an employer, it is as much your responsibility as it is of the employees themselves to take an active interest in their careers. Employees are one of your most important assets and you want to nurture their growth as much as possible. After all, their growth and the organization’s growth are inextricably linked together.
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In the last post, we saw two ways organizations can participate in their employees’ growth. In this post, we’ll see some more. Training & Development – This one should be obvious. For an employee to grow, he has to learn new skills which can help him with his current role and responsibilities and prepare him
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Continuing last week’s post on welcoming new hires, we’ll see some more ways we can welcome our new employees in this post. Introduction (Cont’d): Last week, we touched on the importance of introducing the new employee to everyone in the team. Apart from that, depending on the availability, you could also seek to introduce the
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For any organization, employees are one of the most important assets, if not the most. How well an organization performs depends to large extent on how well its employees perform. With this at stake, can any organization really afford low-performing or non-performing employees? Of course, no organization can be blessed with high-performing employees all the
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In the last post, we identified hiring people smarter than you and emphasizing on quality instead of qualifications as two ways you can hire great people for your growing organization. In this post, we’ll look at some more. Positive attitude: This is something that most recruiters fail to give importance to. In an organization, especially
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In any organization, the Human resource Management (HRM) function is one of the most important. Small or large, every organization has to take good care of its most important assets – people, and this is the most important responsibility of the HRM function. While HRM practices to a large extent are implemented keeping in mind
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