This essay will focus on the aging of the workforce and how this demographic shift will impact the human resource function in organizations. The primary focus will be on workers in the United States, as many from the baby boomer generation are nearing retirement age. Feinsod & Davenport (2006) explained that a variety of possible scenarios may occur over the next five to ten years, ranging from a massive shortage of workers as baby boomers exit the job market to a lesser impact if baby boomers continue working past the traditional retirement age. As the workforce ages, employers must utilize innovative techniques to attract and retain older workers, while simultaneously balancing the challenges of managing an intergenerational workforce. This essay will review how older workers can enhance an organization’s success by using their lifetime experience, the reasons older workers plan on working beyond a traditional retirement age, how productive older workers are in comparison to younger workers, and how organizations can balance the value of an older workforce with the potentially higher costs associated with injuries and insurance.
HR Branding -- Human Resources in the competitive global industries
As a part of the marketing engine, HR branding is a fairly new concept, at least in Indian organisations. The development and management of the vital assets of any organisation – its people - needs pre-emptive care and methods. This will ensure reliability on these people, assurance of their service quality and synergy in inter-department teamwork. Internal and external communication to existing employees and potential candidates is the medium to leverage a company’s profile while ensuring cultural fitment and brand value adherence.
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This paper will discuss the ethics of employee privacy in a work environment. Using the six-step decision making model, the case of Michael Smyth, a former employee of the Pillsbury Corporation who later sued the corporation after they terminated him for the content of his private emails during work, will be discussed and analyzed. It will be the author’s conclusion that it is perfectly ethical for a company to intercept an employee’s email messages in the workplace, as employees are utilizing equipment at the expense of the employer. It is expected that employees remain professional at all times while on the job. There are, however, many methods to reduce employee misconduct; it is unethical to terminate an employee for such a trivial reason without administering a prior warning.
The information age demands ready access to critical data for the modern business environment where all transactions are possible across geographies at a speed that would seem magical if we didn’t understand it. In such a competitive and immediate decision taking, any corporate entity would be wise to invest in an infrastructure that allows sharing of knowledge within its organisation while also reducing costs, boosting profit and engaging its employees.
Some of the top intranets of the world have implemented successfully the idea of a common platform for all corporate data, activities and interaction. These companies are mostly large organisations with offices in more than one country or spread throughout a single country. Their aim is to create a task-oriented structure for employee’s benefit instead of the oft seen corporate structure. There are many elements in these portals that make them most favoured business tool for its users. The basic point is to realise that what management looks for in an intranet may not be what users want in the intranet.
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