Buddhika Perera MBA HR

Gossips at Workplace  Introduction Work place gossip could be elaborated as informal communication behavior which occurs at the work place. This information can be true or false. According to Brady et al ., (2017) workplace gossip is defined as informal conversation or evaluation (Positive or Negative) about the member beyond the person's hearing typically involved with unproven details. Gossip affects to the organization in good or bad ways. It is normal that employees get together and exchanging work related and nonwork related information to each other. Mostly non related and unproven information have been spreading widely in every corner of the organization verbally and written. As per the Kurland and Pelled, (2000) work related gossip is information that focuses on the subjects work life, job performance and carrier progression. Nonwork related gossip focuses on personal events such as marriage, illness or divorce. It would app...

Professional Dress Codes      Introduction  Business attire can be described as employees dress code which they wear at the working place. Dress code can be identified as formal or informal ways to be worn appropriately as per situation. This may  differ as per the organization requirement and environment. Some organizations use the professional outfits to improve their reputation as well, its reflects professionalism and dedication to the organization. According to Refaeli & Pratt, (1993) organizational attire influence several organizational dynamics. Also work attire affects the extent to which employees fulfill role requirement, indicate creditability, influence organizational image and helps identify authority within the organization.  HR Role on Dress code While protecting the employees rights and avoiding discrimination, some organizations are required to develop the dress and appearance policies. Human recourse managemen...

 Managing Work Safety  Introduction  Work related issues such as accidents, injuries and diseases increase the employees stress, frustration and anxiety. This situation is hampering the worker creativity, well-being, productivity and specially the performance. Therefore, occupational safety and health (OSH) programs have been developed to arrest safety and health hazards emerging in the work place. According to Alli, (2008) occupational safety and health is generally defined as the science of the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of hazards arising in or from work place that could impair the health and well-being of workers, tracking in to account the possible impact on the surrounding communities and the general environment. International labour organization (ILO) has laid out numerous principals and legislation to eliminate OSH hazards. As per the ILO around two million occupational fatalities occur around the world every year.   Managemen...

 Collective Bargaining and Organizational Performance   Introduction According to the Kenton, (2020) collective bargaining is a process of negotiating the terms of employment between employer and a group of workers. This dialogue includes such as employment working conditions, work hours, leaves, holiday pay, bonus and health & care benefits. In the most instant collective bargaining occur between organizational management and employee union. Impact of Collective bargaining  Silva, (1998) observed that the sound industrial relationship between the management and employees create an environment conducive to increase motivation, productivity and development of employees. Further this relationship improve employees loyalty and trust. Collective bargaining  Improve satisfaction among the employees and increase job performance.    Improve the quality of behavior of employer and employee at the work place.  Offers opportunity to ...

Impact on Sexual Harassment at Work Place Introduction Sexual harassments in work place can be described as wide range of physical and verbal unwelcome requests for sexual favors or conduct sexual nature behavior which makes a person offended and humiliated. Sexual harassments also notice as unfitting glance, rude jokes and sexual assault. According to Wikipedia organizational sexual harassment is a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promise or rewards in exchange for sexual favors.  Consequences of Sexual Harassment There are innumerable negative impacts occurring in an organization due this untechnical problem. Some are as follows  To the Victim  Suffering from embarrassment  Increase depression and stress  Lost in moral  Reduce motivation Addicting to drugs and alcohol Disinterested in employment Leaving the job Committing suicide...

Pay and The Organizational Performance    Introduction   Many studies have shown pay does not relate to the performance. No matter how much you pay the workers they will continue their routine work. Giving annually increments to the employees, increase the expenditure of the organization. As employees do not get much delighted because of an yearly increase in salary the motivation of the job remains same and productivity comes down. This is serious burning issue in the business world as employers are investing huge amount of money to cover up workers wage bill.  As per Ray (2019) increasing salary in the hope of encouraging higher productivity can backfire on you.  Pay as per the Performance Employees normally expect higher income for above average performance. They think that they are better than others and expect something extra from the organization. This is fair by them as they put extra effort, but problem is when everybody gets equal pa...

Interviewers' Impact on Recruitment  Interview As per the Wikipedia an interview is structured conversation where one participant asks questions and other provides answers. In common practice the word interview refer to a one-on-one conversation between interviewer and interviewee. Recruitments   As per the Luenendonk (2021) recruitment is the process of finding and hiring the best and most qualified candidate for a job opening, in timely and cost-effective manner.    In the business  world recruitments has been done by after a having meaningful interview with the candidate by the employer or employers' nominee.  Problem occurring in Interview process Favoritism                            Favoritism can sabotage the entire recruitment process. This will lead to negative side effects such as discriminations, loss of productivity a...

  Dealing with Bad Bosses Introduction In organizations some managers change their expectations frequently, does not trust employees, slandering and giving favoritism. Therefore, employees are getting in to the problematic situation when organization objectives are not met. But ultimately employees have to responsible for the poor performance. This kind of managers can be introduced as bad bosses. Bad bosses do not respect employees, they do not care about happy and peaceful work environment. They fill a huge work load to the employees and gets all the credit for themselves. These kind of managers focus more on weaknesses than strengths. Actually, these people are more stubborn and bossy and creates a frustrated situation in the work place. How to deal with them Professionally In some instances, employees have to work with bad bosses, whether they like it or not. Therefore, how can employees able to professionally deal with bad bosses.  Employees are r...