Shanaka Bandara HRM

  Work Teams in Sri Lanka Work team is a group whose individual efforts result in performance that is greater than the sum of the individual inputs. So, team generate positive synergy through coordination ( Robbins et al, 2022) . Comparing Work Groups and Work Teams Source: Robbins et al, 2022 Types of Teams 1.      Problem-solving teams – Groups of five to twelve employees from the same department who meet for few hours each week to discuss ways of improving quality, efficiency, and the work environment. 2.      Self-managed work teams – Group of five to fifteen people who autonomously implement solutions and take responsibility for the outcomes. 3.      Cross-functional teams – Employees from about the same hierarchical level but from different work areas who come together to accomplish a task. 4.      Virtual teams – Teams that use technology to tie together physically dispersed m...

  INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN SRI LANKA The term ‘industrial relations’ refers to all types of relationships between all the parties concerned with industry. Simply, industrial relations focuses on managing the complex relationships between and employers and other parties ensuring compliance with labour laws. According to Dale Yoder, the term industrial relations refers to the relationship between management and employees or among the employees and their organization that arise out of employment. The parties related to industry are the workers, management representing the owners, union, government etc. But they are found to be pulling the in different directions which leads to industrial unrest. Therefore, it has become necessary to secure the cooperation among parties to achieve good industrial relations. The interference of Government in industrial relations through legal and administrative measures is quite common. Objectives of the industrial rela...

  Workplace Communication in Sri Lanka Communication is a process which transfers and understands of meaning. It is only the way which conveys information and ideas. In perfect communication, the thought transmitted by the sender which would understand by the receiver as the same mental picture (Robbins et. al, 2022). Communication Process Model Source: Robbins et. al, 2009 Key parts of the communication model are: 1.      Sender 2.      Encoding 3.      Message 4.      Channel 5.      Decoding 6.      Receiver 7.      Noise 8.      Feedback Communication consists with five major functions within an organization: information exchange, persuasion, emotional sharing, feedback and management. Direction of Communication Communication in an organization can occur vertically and laterally throu...

  TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN SRI LANKAN CONTEXT Training and development is one of the main functions of the human resource management. Training is a systematic process which considers immediate knowledge and skill enhancement, targeting long term goals and career advancement employees (Putri, 2022). According to Edwin B.Flippo, “training is the act of increasing the knowledge and skills of an employee for doing a particular job”. This increases employee efficiency and effectiveness. Because it involves systematic procedures for transferring technical know-how to the employees doing specific jobs with proficiency. In other words, training and development is any attempt to improve current or future performance of employee by increasing an employee’s ability to perform through learning, usually by changing the employee’s attitude or increasing his or her skills and knowledge. Its purpose is to achieve a change in the behavior of those trained and to enable them ...