Naradha Senanayake HRM blogs

    Working remotely, To Be Continued. Figure 1: Working From Any Where (Source: (Kubos, 2021) Breif History, In the year 1973, Jack Nilles coined the concept of telecommuting, a term for working remotely, and was soon adopted by IBM (Gupta, 2020).  The concept came a long way with the improvement of information and communication technology and got boosted with the Covid 19 pandemic. With this development, more employers and human resource management teams are keen on encouraging staff to work remotely.  Covid and Post Covid Up to now it is more than 02 years since the Covid pandemic was  affected globally and due to its effects working remotely is more applicable, but what it will be like in the post-Covid era. Working remotely means that an employee performs his duties other than his or her allocated place to work by the employer. Mostly working using electronic equipment   (Dharmasiri, 2021),  based on network connections, more and more employee...

D i v e r s i t y  in the  W o r k p l a c e  for  P r o d u c t i v ity,  E f f i c i e n c y, and  P r o f it Figure  1 : Diversity in Work Place (source:  (mia.org, 2019) In the global context, businesses are mainly focused on profit and but still, there are some organizations out there who expect social values in addition to profit. But at the end of the day, the most common goal of a business organization will be how much they earn as a profit and how much they invest in the future of the organization. To meet their own set of goals, they will strive for different methods of professional approach according to market to satisfy their customer needs. What will be the most efficient and effective way to address the changes on the market and what is the best approach is a question in the corner for a long time. The one who does not adapt to change will vanish to dust in today’s rapidly changing world. On the organizational level, all hired empl...

  Power Nap, a Booster? Figure 1: Power Nap (Return2Health, 2019) Commitments, which most people are bound by today, whether it may be personal, social, financial, or work, but still there should be fulfilled. But most of them will not be achieved all equally, and 10 out of 09 missed one will be taking care of our own mental and physical health. Health, “Sleep plays an integral role in health. A good night’s sleep empowers the body to recover and lets you wake up refreshed and ready to take on the day ” (Suni, 2021), According to  Sleep Foundation (2021),  For healthy adult, 07 to 09 hours of sleep per night is needed to which powers the mind, restores the body, and fortifies virtually every system in the body. Coffee, Other than taking coffee or refreshment to boost yourself more, tend to have a nap. Power naps can fill in the gaps of insufficient sleep from last night (Return2Health, 2019), but are not an alternative to sleeping at night. Time, Power nap should no...

  Effectiveness in LinkedIn on Recruitment      Figure 1: LinkedIn For Recruiters (Source: (Abbas, 2012) What is LinkedIn? LinkedIn is an online social network platform providing employment-oriented online services that operates via websites and mobile apps which started in the year 2003.  This social platform is primarily used for specialized professional networking and career development and allows job seekers to post their resumes and employers to post jobs, creating real-world professional relationships. LinkedIn is the largest professional networking website having 756 million members in more than 200 countries worldwide in 2021 (Agrawal, 2021). Figure 2: For Best Recruitment Ideas (Source: (Wilkinson, 2019) Recruitment, Recruitment can be defined as the process of retrieving and attracting able applications for employment (Price, 2007).From traditional job boards to using virtual space job posting has come a long way. Nowadays most leading organizations an...