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Human Resource Management Strategies in Hospitality Industry : Employees’ competence, attitude, behavior and organizational operation (management perspective)Gheliji, Elham January 2019 (has links)
The current study demonstrates human resource strategies in hospitality industry (Hotel segment) and its impact on employee competencies and skills. The human resource management enhances employee performance and their credibility to maximize overall firm goals in hotel segment. Employees with level of attitude and behavior provide best services and performances. In this regard, service managers need to support and improve their employees’ skills and competencies related to the organization structure and strategy. Therefore, it is necessary for organization to have strong human resource management strategies to optimize the employees’ competencies and performance which drives higher organizational productivity. The research question of this thesis is how managers perceive that human resource management strategies influence on employees’ skill and competence in the hotel segment of Gothenburg? The data collection indicates that different human resource strategies executed to sustain employee roles and responsibilities. Various human resource strategies should implement to achieve valuable outcomes contributing to employees’ satisfaction and organization performance. Training practices, recruitment and selection, compensation and incentive practices, performance management and job design are essential human resource strategies which are identified in this research study. The thesis applies qualitative approach. Empirical data are collected through structured interviews. Moreover, the interactive model is used to analyze the collected empirical data.
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Relationship between burnout and work engagement amongst employees within a pharmaceutical distribution industrySonn, Chantel 01 1900 (has links)
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between burnout and work engagement among employees in the pharmaceutical distribution industry. The research conducted on these concepts was geared towards adding to the knowledge base in the field of industrial and organisational psychology, to enable the current organisation from which the sample was chosen and other organisations in South Africa to focus on the effect that burnout has on employees, which directly affects the company. A quantitative survey using primary data was conducted on a convenience sample (N = 204) of full-time employees in a South African pharmaceutical distribution company. The Maslach Burnout Inventory – General Survey model (MBI-GS) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) model were used to gather data.
The work engagement-burnout continuum has received a great deal of research attention (Maslach, Schaufeli, & Leiter, 2001; Schaufeli & Bakker, 2003; Schutte, Toppinen, Kalimo, & Schaufeli, 2000) that has produced contradicting results. One viewpoint regards the core constructs of work engagement and burnout as opposite poles of two continua (vigour-exhaustion and dedication-cynicism), labelled energy and identification, respectively (González-Romá, Schaufeli, Bakker, & Lloret, 2006). Work engagement is ”characterized by a high level of energy and strong identification with one’s work”, while burnout is ”characterized by the opposite: A low level of energy combined with poor identification with one’s work” (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2003, p. 5; Bakker, Schaufeli, Leiter, & Taris, 2008). Hence work engagement and burnout can be recognised as inseparable and co-dependent constructs that share more or less 10 to 25% of their variance and are moderately negatively related (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004; Schaufeli, Salanova, González-Romá, & Bakker, 2002).
The second viewpoint regards work engagement and burnout as being strongly related, but fundamentally different in their separation in the work experience. They are therefore not opposite poles of a continuum (Denton, Newton, & Bower, 2008; Huhtala & Parzefall, 2007; Rothmann & Joubert, 2007; Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004; Schaufeli et al., 2002). Work engagement is defined as a ”positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterised by vigour, dedication, and absorption” (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004, p. 295). Burnout, however, is defined by Maslach and Jackson (1981, p. 99) as a ”syndrome of emotional exhaustion and cynicism that occurs frequently amongst individuals who do ‘people-work’ of some kind”.
The statistical results of this study confirmed the hypothesis. It was found that there is a significant relationship between burnout and work engagement. Burnout is indeed negatively related to work engagement in the contact centre. However, a definitive relationship between burnout and work engagement in the distribution centre was not established. / Industrial & Organisational Psychology / M. Comm. (Industrial Psychology)
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Relationship between burnout and work engagement amongst employees within a pharmaceutical distribution industrySonn, Chantel 01 1900 (has links)
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between burnout and work engagement among employees in the pharmaceutical distribution industry. The research conducted on these concepts was geared towards adding to the knowledge base in the field of industrial and organisational psychology, to enable the current organisation from which the sample was chosen and other organisations in South Africa to focus on the effect that burnout has on employees, which directly affects the company. A quantitative survey using primary data was conducted on a convenience sample (N = 204) of full-time employees in a South African pharmaceutical distribution company. The Maslach Burnout Inventory – General Survey model (MBI-GS) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) model were used to gather data.
The work engagement-burnout continuum has received a great deal of research attention (Maslach, Schaufeli, & Leiter, 2001; Schaufeli & Bakker, 2003; Schutte, Toppinen, Kalimo, & Schaufeli, 2000) that has produced contradicting results. One viewpoint regards the core constructs of work engagement and burnout as opposite poles of two continua (vigour-exhaustion and dedication-cynicism), labelled energy and identification, respectively (González-Romá, Schaufeli, Bakker, & Lloret, 2006). Work engagement is ”characterized by a high level of energy and strong identification with one’s work”, while burnout is ”characterized by the opposite: A low level of energy combined with poor identification with one’s work” (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2003, p. 5; Bakker, Schaufeli, Leiter, & Taris, 2008). Hence work engagement and burnout can be recognised as inseparable and co-dependent constructs that share more or less 10 to 25% of their variance and are moderately negatively related (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004; Schaufeli, Salanova, González-Romá, & Bakker, 2002).
The second viewpoint regards work engagement and burnout as being strongly related, but fundamentally different in their separation in the work experience. They are therefore not opposite poles of a continuum (Denton, Newton, & Bower, 2008; Huhtala & Parzefall, 2007; Rothmann & Joubert, 2007; Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004; Schaufeli et al., 2002). Work engagement is defined as a ”positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterised by vigour, dedication, and absorption” (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004, p. 295). Burnout, however, is defined by Maslach and Jackson (1981, p. 99) as a ”syndrome of emotional exhaustion and cynicism that occurs frequently amongst individuals who do ‘people-work’ of some kind”.
The statistical results of this study confirmed the hypothesis. It was found that there is a significant relationship between burnout and work engagement. Burnout is indeed negatively related to work engagement in the contact centre. However, a definitive relationship between burnout and work engagement in the distribution centre was not established. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Comm. (Industrial Psychology)
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Job satisfaction model to enhance organisational performance in armed conflict societies: a case of Tete Province in MozambiqueTakupiwa, Nyanga 01 1900 (has links)
Job satisfaction is one of the key antecedents to organizational performance, growth and
survival. The attitude employees have towards their work significantly affects employees and
organizational performance. The main objective of this study was to develop a job
satisfaction model for organizational performance in armed conflict societies. The study
examined how the effects of armed conflicts affect job satisfaction among workers working
in armed conflict societies. A concurrent triangulation mixed approach, that is a mixture of
qualitative and quantitative was employed to establish the relationship between the effects of
armed conflicts and job satisfaction. The study population comprised 13 organisations drawn
from Tete province. Quantitative data was collected using questionnaires from 200
respondents while qualitative data was gathered from 20 participants using an interview
schedule.
The Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) and thematic data analysis methods were
used to analyse quantitative and qualitative data respectively. The hypotheses were tested
using multiple regression analysis, correlational analysis and the t-tests.
The study showed that there is a strong correlation between the effects of armed conflict and
job satisfaction. The intensity of the war determines the level of job satisfaction among
workers working for organisations in armed conflict societies. The study established that job
satisfaction in armed conflict societies is also influenced by the destruction of the economic
infrastructure, destruction of interpersonal relationships, intercommunity violence, political
interference, killings and torture of civilians, deterioration of health and education systems,
economic depression and displacement of people. The study further found out that job
satisfaction in armed conflict societies negatively affects key organizational performance
antecedents such as rate of absenteeism, labour turnover, employee loyalty and commitment,
psychological status of employees and health of employees. Job satisfaction in armed conflict
societies directly and indirectly affects organizational performance, profitability, value of
shares, market share and organizational growth. To minimize the consequences of low job
satisfaction on organizational performance, organizations should put in place measures that
propel job satisfaction such as providing counselling services, social services and financial
and non-financial support. The study concluded that job satisfaction can be increased by any
or all of the following strategies:1) flexible work organisation and establishing an effective
team, 2) provision of secure staff offices and residences, 3) compensating employees for war related injuries and deaths, 4) provision of better social services, 5) provision of leisure,
recreational activities and infrastructure, and 6) provision of counselling platforms.
The study contributed to the body of knowledge by developing a job satisfaction model for
organizational performance in armed conflict societies. Furthermore, contrary to other
researchers whose studies concentrated on job related factors of job satisfaction, this study
focused on how the effects of armed conflict influence job satisfaction. / Graduate School of Business Leadership / D. B. L.
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