Category Archives: Employee Performance

The SCAMPER Approach to Creative Problem Solving

Creativity is necessary to stay alive in today’s business world. Organizations will continue to be confronted by strategic challenges unmatched in business history. Creative problem solving approaches, like SCAMPER, will help organizations successfully face these challenges.

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Improving Organizational Communication Skills

Assertive communicaiton is based on the belief that you and others have the responsibility to ask for what you want or need. Continue reading

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Learning Organizations

Learning organizations are significant in the modern world where technology and competition call for better service delivery. Learning organizations have the potential to offer better services and have better employees who are knowledgeable and skilled and can respond well to change.

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Knowledge Management

Organizations must be aware of their own abilities, expertise, and competencies in order to identify knowledge and be able to manage it. Internal knowledge, such as best practices, should be made. Continue reading

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Establishing a Learning Organization

In establishing a learning organization, partnerships should be established within and without the organization. When the people in the organization come together with a collective vision and they start working together, they are able to draw upon the strengths of the group process. With their collective ideas and attitudes toward work, they can help generate knowledge and contribute to the learning process.

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Employee Training and Development

Employee resignations and turnover is also increased when people are denied opportunities for learning and development. Continue reading

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Enhancing Employee Satisfaction

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a practice that combines training, organizational development, and career development efforts to encourage improvement of individual, group, and organizational performance.  Its purpose is to enhance employee performance and productivity, which leads to employee and customer … Continue reading

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Psychological Contracts in the Workplace

Organizations can gain a clear understanding of their employees’ psychological contracts by offering a realistic view of their organization at the stage of recruitment, clearly defining the rights and benefits of employees, and opening the lines of effective communication. Organizations can maximize employee satisfaction by meeting the needs of the psychological contract.

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Leveraging the Power of Intellectual Capital

Organizations are realizing that the knowledge residing in their intellectual capital is important in creating economic power and value. Continue reading

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Informal Learning

Rather than controlling knowledge sharing, some organizations are attempting to facilitate its growth by creating knowledge sharing events, such as employee trade shows and open forums to encourage employees to share knowledge with each other. But before implementing knowledge sharing practices or new collaboration tools, organizations must have a good understanding of the organizational culture and its readiness to share. They should test new approaches with selected groups before implementing them across the organization. Continue reading

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