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What is Talent Management?
Talent management is a recent, practitioner-generated term covering a range of long-standing practices that aim at getting the right person into the right job at the right time. It can be defined as the process through which organizations anticipate and meet their needs for talent in strategic jobs.
What is Psychological Capital?
Psychological capital is an essential concept to understand what drives positive organisational behaviours. As human resources practitioners, we are eager to study the application of positively oriented human strengths and psychological capacities that predict performance improvement in today’s workplace.
Dark Triad and Workplace Behaviors
At least 15% of the population is someone who can be accurately described as a deceitful swindler, an overly self-confident boaster, or an uncaring pleasure-seeker. These labels define the fundamental qualities that make up the group of personality traits known as the dark triad, which encompasses Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy.
What is Transfer of Training?
On the basis of the belief that training and development enhance organizational competitiveness with higher employee productivity, the global value of the corporate training market is projected to register a CAGR of 8.0% and reach USD 487,306 million from 2021 to 2030. However, the effectiveness of corporate training programs varies and sometimes being viewed skeptically.
What is Self-Leadership?
Psychological capital is an essential concept to understand what drives positive organisational behaviours. As human resources practitioners, we are eager to study the application of positively oriented human strengths and psychological capacities that predict performance improvement in today’s workplace.
What is Perceived Organisation Support?
Perceived Organisational Support (POS) shows the employees’ awareness of being valued and appreciated by the organisation for their contribution and their mental state. With a certain high level of POS, multiple positive outcomes for the company can be achieved through enhancing the commitment and positive attitude of the employees.
Cross-Cultural Interaction in Workplace
The rate and intensity of cross-cultural interaction in the world are rising exponentially, mostly due to the explosive growth in Internet-based connectivity as well as the ease and increasing frequency of international travel. Therefore, all interaction in today’s world has become cross-cultural and the workplace is not an exception.
Stress Management Intervention
Mental health problems are a leading cause of global disease burden, contributing to significant labour force loss, and costs trillions of US dollars in lost productivity annually. Grievously, 42% of workers across the globe are suffering from work stress, and the numbers climb up to 87% in Hong Kong.
What is Workplace Well-Being?
Well-being is commonly regarded as feeling good or experiencing fulfilment and purpose. It is a desirable state for many individuals and is increasingly targeted by organizations and societies. However, well-being is not stable. It fluctuates within shorter periods (days and weeks), and it can increase or decrease over longer periods (months and years).
How To Enhance Corporate Volunteering Participation?
Corporate volunteering has tremendous benefits for employees, organizations, and the community. Indeed, attracting employees to engage in corporate volunteering programs for once is not difficult, the most challenging part is to retain volunteers in long-term efforts to contribute, so as to ensure the corporate volunteering programs are more than lip services and save costs for volunteer training.
How to Improve Employees' Job Engagement?
Employees are the most important asset of the company because they are vital for the success of an organization. Engaged employees play a significant role in boosting revenue and cost savings. In particular, engaged employees tend to be more motivated and satisfied with their jobs, which leads to higher productivity, better retention, less absenteeism, and decreased stress levels among employees.
Protean Careers at Work
The rapid pace of change, accelerated by technology and globalization, has led to a gig economy characterized by more frequent career transitions, virtual and contingent work, and the decline of traditional employment relationships. Protean career – the exercise of self-direction and a focus on intrinsic values in the pursuit of psychological success, is then essential for people nowadays to thrive and adapt to dynamic challenges.
What is Ethical Leadership?
Ethical leadership can be explained as showing proper and considerate behaviour both in and outside the workplace, honouring ethical principles and beliefs, and being driven by the self-respect and rights of others. Another emphasis of ethical leadership is to perceive and operationalize ethical leader behaviour in terms of behaviour intended to benefit employees.
What is Compassion at Work?
Compassion at work refers to the practice of showing empathy and understanding towards coworkers, clients, and customers in the workplace. It involves demonstrating care and concern for others, even in stressful or challenging situations. Research suggests that compassion within the context of the workplace is relational and process orientated. There are six key organisational aspects that are relevant to compassion at work.
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