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HR Audit

Introduction to HR Audit

Meaning of  HR Audit: A Human Resources Audit (or HR Audit) is a comprehensive method to review current human resources policies, procedures, documentation and systems to identify needs for improvement and enhancement of the HR function as well as to assess compliance with continuously changing rules and regulations. It is an important management control device to judge organizations performance and effectiveness […]

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Manpower Planning

Manpower Planning

What is Manpower Planning? Manpower: Total supply of personnel available or engaged for a specific job or task in an organization is called manpower. Planning: It is a managerial activity which involves deciding in advance, what is to be done, when is it to be done, how it is to be done and who is going to do […]

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Organizational Development

Values and Assumptions of OD

A set of values, assumptions and beliefs constitutes an integral part of organization development, shaping the goals and methods of the field and distinguishing Organisational Development from other improvement strategies. Belief: A belief is a proposition about how the world works that the individual accepts as true; it is a cognitive fact (connected with thinking or conscious mental […]

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Organizational Development

History Of Organizational Development

Organisational Development has evolved over the past 60 years from the applications of behavioural science knowledge and techniques to solving organisational problems. It started in the 1940s at MIT and is developed by an applied social scientist such as Kurt Lewin. It is influenced by Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow. During the period around World War II, Lewin […]

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Organizational Development

Organizational Development

Organization: An organization is a set up which brings together individuals from different backgrounds, of varied interests and specializations on a common platform for them to work as a single unit and achieve certain predefined goals. Katz, Kahn and Hanna see an organization as a system. An organization is an open system (in science open […]