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Human Resource Management Course Work

Question no.6 (a) Good people management is the utilizing high performance work practices. Discuss (b) What do you understand by mentoring?

(c) How can mentoring be used as a good modern training tool? (d) Describe some basic action an organization can take to ensure that it promotes balanced and fair employment.
6 (a)

Good people management refers to the situation when an organization delivers in the most efficient and effective way using the right people in the right place at the right time. For an organization to have Good people management it has to have following; Human resource factor in an organization should not be regarded as a cost factor

Employees should be given adequate orientation when business decisions are being made. Every day decision making has a negative impact on employees and therefore it should be minimized.

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[Type the document title] An organization should not change frequently and rapidly if an organization is to be good people management.

There should not be us against them attitude in the organization hence team work should be emphasized.

High performance wok practice refers to the process that effectively communicates company aligned goals, evaluate employee performance and reward them fairly. High performance work practice can be attained in the following ways;

Employees should participate in decision making.

Employees should be encouraged to be innovative/ creative for example allowing them to give suggestions. Employees should organization. The Organization employees. have should clear train goals and of the

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The organization should pay rewards to employees for their performance. Employees should be provided with good quality life. However If the management is not people centered and tends to view the human resource as a mere production tool and doesnt care about human resource, the
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[Type the document title] employees will be de-humanized because there will be poor quality work and work itself will be meaningless. The company will not meet its strategies and its intended goals.

6(b) Mentoring is a form of training, learning and development; it is also a supportive tool for supporting personal development. Mentoring is a long term passing on of support, guidance and advice. Mentoring is used specifically and separately as a form of long term tailored development for the individual which brings to the organization. The following are characteristics of mentoring; It essential supportive form of development. It focuses on helping individual to manage their carrier and improve skill. Personal issues can be discussed productively.

Mentoring activities are both organizational and individual goals. passes experience and is

Mentoring normally normally senior.

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[Type the document title] 6(c) Mentoring can be used as a good tool in the following ways:

Accompanying; it involves take part in the learning process side-by-side with the leaner. Showing; making something understandable by using your own example to demonstrate the skill.

Sowing; it necessary when you know that what you want to say may not be understood but I will make sense and have value to the mentee when the situation requires it.

It is usually used to create awareness of what was learned by experience and to draw conclusions. For example what have you leaned and how useful is it. Mentoring activities are both organizational and individual goals.

6(d) Basic actions an organization can take to ensure that it promotes balanced and fair employment Human resource planning; this involves innovation, quality enhancement, cost reduction, speed highly skilled people, team work & allow changes in an organization.
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Human resource acquisition; selection, recruitment and orientation (using the right people in the right place at the right time)

Performance management; Are the employees performing to their expectation and is the employer doing his obligation to make sure that there is a balance between the employee & employer. Human resource development; right number of people, right quality people and the people. Compensation; employees should be rewarded for the good and quality work performance. Human resource maintenance; there employees carrier management, good industrial relations and quality work life.

References:
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People, Strategy and performance: Results from the Second Work and Enterprise Business Survey, DTI/Work Foundation (2005) Strategy

http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/emar/People Performance ERRS46.pdf

2)Employee Involvement Employers Organization (2002) (http://www.lgemployers.gov.uk/relations/involvement/index.html)

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[Type the document title] 3) http://www.cipd.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4EC1D40F-6F9D4143-ACAE-44A292D40660/0/mentoring programmeApplicationFormMay2011.pdf 4) Human Resource Management ESTHER.N.TUMWESIGYE. 1st Edition by

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