People in an Organization

People in an organization

1. People is an essential element in an organization

i. It is about putting people in the first priority of an organization. That is why many organizations have labor unions and the managements would like to know more about what they think.

ii. People-centered management by Pfeffer’s Seven People-Centered Practices

i.e. Job security, careful hiring, power to the people, generous pay for performance, lots of training, less emphasis on status, trust building.

iii. Provide quality of work life, is a indicator of overall quality of human experience in the workplace. It is also true that high performance in any work setting can be accomplished by high levels of job satisfaction.

iv. On the contrary, if the quality of work life is not good enough, staff would change job easily when there is better pay in the market. Sense of belonging is important to maintain morale in companies.

2. How to be a manager

i. Successful vs Effective – it is important to be in balance between successful and effective.

Successful managers are those who are doing networking successful and being promoted quickly. Effective managers are those who have satisfied, committed subordinates. He/she also bring his/her whole team up in their abilities. In other words he/she would also be a good teacher/coach.

If the manager is only successful but not effective at all, then he just keeps on using most of his time on socializing and interacting with outsides. It is resulted in low efficiency and bad quality of the work. On the other hand, being only effective managers are not happy as well because their efforts may be probably overlooked due they just work hard without sowing it to their seniors

Combination of these two characters is important in our management. For example, when we doing a project, manager should possess skill of 1) communication - communicate and deliver the project requirements to the team...