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Use the Right Human Resource
Terms and Conditions
to Engage and Motivate Employees

The human resource departments of organizations need to draft these well. When this is done your organization is in a better position in achieving its strategic plans.

As the Human Resource Manager you are entrusted with the task of looking for the right people, getting them ready and helping in their deployment to the right job and operational area. If you do this, the department will continue to retain its relevance in the overall organizational plan.


Attracting, Engaging and Motivating Your People
Offering the right terms and or conditions of employment will ensure that you do not only attract the type of people that you need but also to engage and retain them.

You may have conducted an excellent recruitment exercise. But your task does not end there.

The next important task is to continuously engage and motivate them.

To ensure that your people continue to perform well see to it that you review your human resource terms and conditions of employment for the purpose of improving their effectiveness. This is subject, however, to certain conditions such as the collective bargaining agreement which may prevent any review of any of these before a certain period of time has passed.

You need to implement the right schemes and programs under which the human resource terms and conditions can come into full effect.

Having effective two-way communication channel can help facilitate this.

Human Resources Employment in the 21st Century
Some had ventured to say that technology will play a widespread role in human resource management in the twenty first century. There are many companies who offer such services or products.

Your organization needs to exercise care when deciding which technology to use. It must achieve the objectives that you have determined as being important, relevant and essential in your organization's success.

One of the questions you can ask is whether it is something "nice to have". If so, it is not worth considering.

Another "must do" is to formulate policy on technology usage by employees.

Research has shown that an alarming number of employees in some organizations misuse the technology implemented by their organizations. These include misuse of emails and excessive surfing of the internet during working hours.

This means that you need to provide for this situation under the human resource terms and conditions of employment.


Crucial Role of HR Department in HR Matters
The Human Resource Department plays a crucial role in ensuring the Human Resource function is carried out well.

This means nothing less than contributing effectively towards the accomplishment of the organization's mission and objectives. It means that the employment policy and activities assist the organization in generating more income. This means adding value to services being provided.

Keep this in mind when drafting or reviewing the human resource terms and conditions of employment. Your success in getting the right people at the right time depends very much of how attractive these are. And they must continue to retain their effectiveness through the years.

For example, effective recruitment and succession planning require re-looking at your human resource terms and conditions of employment to see whether they are still relevant.

The Human Resource Department's existence depends on how well it can perform every activity under the human resource function. To put it briefly, every HR activities must benefit the entire organization.

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