The Spiritual model is getting a sense of how people’s spiritual and religious beliefs, values, and practices might be related to their presenting problem and can also provide direction to clients in constructing solutions for their lives. Spirituality is individual, subjective and can be expressed in different ways. Some people choose to express their spirituality through religion or religious practice, while others may not. Spirituality can also be described as the search for answers to life’s big questions, why is this happening to me?
Day 4 Report Nordstrom Case Study Background Nordstrom was founded as a small shoe store in 1901 and its service-oriented strategy accelerated the company to become the nation’s leader in the retail industry. In the mid-1960’s, Nordstrom introduced an innovative incentive system-SPH to support its high-service strategy and motivate its sales force. SPH was a compensation system evaluated by the sales per hour. During the first two decades since introduction, the SPH system played an important role in the phenomenal success of Nordstrom. However, at the end of the 1980s, the SPH compensation and performance measurement system were distorted and Nordstrom was even sued by some of its employees, trade unions for claims of unpaid work.
Instead of having a normal work setting, because of technology people are able to work at all times: whether it be through a cell phone, Bluetooth, email, beeper etc. By having technological advances in the way employees can communicate, work can be done around the clock and people do not have to be close together to complete projects. Instead people are distancing from each other. Additionally, it is important to promote efficiency because the more efficient a person is the more work that will get done quicker and the more money that can be made. The social disease of consumerism has touched all Americans and has influenced Americans to just want more and
Business Studies Task 1 – Human Resources Introduction The human resources function employs a number of strategies to respond to legal influences affecting the business. These influences include the employment contract, work health and safety(WHS) and worker compensation and Antidiscrimination and Equal employment opportunity (EEO). These influences are overcome with a range of strategies that help a business combat problems such as absenteeism and accidents and also reach benchmarks set and improve corporate culture. These strategies include leadership style, job design, recruitment, training and development, performance management, rewards and the management of workplace disputes.
Human relations approach deals mainly with relationship among management, frontline
Despite employees investing more time at work, they are achieving less, i.e. the output rate per input unit as measured by the number of hours worked per worker, the productivity keeps plummeting, reaching the lowest levels in twenty-five years (Seager N.p). The author attributes this dramatic deterioration in productivity to various reasons including the rising wage inequalities which have "barely increased in the past 15 years, " and the country has been subject to the greatest decline in real pay after the recession among all OECD countries (Seager N.p). Further, there is a lack of motivation to keep the employees on the job due to the inadequate wage compensation, short-term contracts, and inadequate employee training for efficient service delivery. She sums up by suggesting that employee motivation (autonomy, fair remuneration, engagement) is crucial to enhancing productivity for corporates in the long
As leaders, we must aim to empower our employees to improve their dedication to the company and to their job responsibilities. “To fully understand and promote empowerment, collaboration and dialogue within organizations, the leader must not see them as separate activities” (Carey, 1999, p. 103). The connectedness of an employee to the organization has a direct effect on their productivity, which in turn has a direct effect on profitability. Our employees must be on board with
Increasing organizational productivity is one of the most important objectives of the organization. Selecting, hiring and training the right people
5-4 Short Response There are many aspects that can help ensure that there is a stable and efficient staff in the workplace that work together like a well-oiled machine. In this short response paper we will be expanding on three major points that can enhance the workplace dynamics by showing how they correspond with one another. These three topics include motivation, stress, and time management.
DELEGATION Delegation in nursing helps the administrators to concentrate on on other managerial functions, and delegating the nursing job to the staff nurses. It increases the quality of nursing care because more hands are involved in rendering the services. It enables the staff nurses to improve and expand their skills and knowledge.
In terms of psychology when you take an approach within the context studies of a whole person, and the uniqueness of each individual; it would lead for this definite phrase to be reflected towards the expression of Humanistic, Humanism, and Humanist concepts that are inputted to structure the psychological field. Now, humanism is definite as a psychological perspective that underlines the study of a whole person. While, Humanistic psychologists view the human behavior, through the vision of the person doing the behavior. Indeed, it would lead for Humanism to reject the assumptions of the behaviorist perspective that would be characterized in the following traits of deterministic, focused on reinforcement of stimulus- response behavior and heavily dependent on animal research.
The reading “The Human Side of Enterprise” written by Douglas Murray McGregor analyzes the importance of considering human organizations in the management of organizations. More importantly, the author described the theory of “X” and “Y”. The theory of “Y” provided better results when considering the visions of clear expectations about the assumptions of human nature. Additionally, this theory allowed for the development of organizational goals in the management which allows administrators to advocate for participation to voice their opinions. On the other hand theory of “X” is more directed towards the authoritarian forms of management in which the managers are worried about the proper performance of individuals and control of the organization.
The link between more investments in information technology (IT) and productivity has always been tenuous to demonstrate. Nobel Prize Laureate Robert Solow coined the term “productivity paradox” to explain the difficulty in observing the actual gains in productivity as a result of investments in information technology. Throughout business, economics, healthcare among other fields, observations of “productivity paradox” have been well documented and researched. In the areas of healthcare, researchers have sought to establish the links between investments in IT on quality or care; costs and efficiency; and IT professionals’ tasks and roles and found inconclusive evidences on the impact of IT on healthcare (Lapointe, Liette et al, 2011). Similarly,
It refers to the patterns of communication, interpretation and adjustment between individuals. Both the verbal and nonverbal responses that a listener then delivers are similarly constructed in expectation of how the original speaker will react. Workers contribution is more involved in this theory. (Markes, 1999) Contributions 1)
Scientific management (also known as TAYLORISM) is an approach that was created in order to increase the productivity of workers and to ensure that there was no hostility between the workers and the management. It included a set of principles that were drawn up as a conclusive result of systematic study of the work in industries. The father of the ‘human relations’ approach is Elton Mayo (1880-1949). He is famous for his well-known “Hawthorne Studies”.
