Human Resource Alignment

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Human resource alignment

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The Arab Council for childhood and Development (ACCD) is a non-governmental development

that has a legal entity and it basically operates in the field that relates to children. The vision of

this ACCD is that it seeks to become the leading organization in the field of children rights in the

Arabian world i.e. within the Arabian countries, and also as a reference for the institutions,

individuals and the families to the raising up of Arabian children who are able to participate in

the development of their societies and to deal with the rapid global changes.

Vision of ACCD states that it seeks to work towards the developing of Arabian environments

that promote the children rights in development, protection, participation and also integration,

within the context of the family and the society, through cooperation and effective partnership

with the governmental, non-governmental, regional and international organizations, in order to

enable children to participate and interact positively in life, accept others, and love their

homestead.

Strategies of ACCD seeks to the encouraging and adopting ideas, studies, projects legislations

and policies, that aim at activating child rights, and integrating them into the development plans

and projects through; providing data and information and developing specialized knowledge

related to Arab child rights, in addition to exchanging them with concerned research centers and

institutions. Mobilizing and promoting the Arab public opinion to support child rights in

cooperation and coordination with the media and other developing institutions among others.

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Performance management system of this organization is run by the managers who work together

with the employees in order to plan, monitor and review an employee’s work objectives and the

overall contribution of the employee to the organization. This will seek to improve the

effectiveness of the employees in a much and wider perspective. An effective performance

management system will have the following; supporting of administrative decision making

concerning promotions, terminations, compensations amongst other duties. Supporting of the

staff members in achieving their career goals and objectives by training properly on their needs

and also on their desired goals. (Kessler,2003)

Ensuring of the work plans of the employees do support the strategic direction which is given by

the company in order to ensure the ease of achieving its goals. There is need to have an inclusion

of both positive feedback when a job has been done satisfactorily and also when the job has not

been done to reach the required standards so that improvements can be done on the same and

steer the company forward. There is also need to establish a clear channel of communication

between employees and managers so that they can get to understand what is expected of them to

accomplish. (Henderson,1984).

Performance appraisal of the company has six steps namely; establishing performance standards,

communicating performance expectation to employees, measuring actual performance,

comparing actual performance with standards, discussing appraisal with employees and initiating

corrective actions.

First looking at the establishing performance standards, in this step the managers have to

determine the outputs, accomplishments, and also the skills that need to be evaluated in the entire

step. (Arminio & Creamer,2001). The standards under review must have actually evolved from

the job analysis. This performance ought to be very clear and objective so that it can be

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comprehended well be employee. The second step is the communicating performance

expectations to employees, this will help the employees to understand what is expected of them

and what they are supposed to do. Research indicates that lack of communicating performance

expectations to the employees leads to appraisal problem and this can actually lead to the

organization losing much. In this case, information transfer is only communicated and regarded

as communication once the information has been received by the employee and has been

understood. The employee has to in return communicate back and concerning the standards that

have been obtained. (Brown,1988).

Measuring of the actual performance is really crucial since it measures the actual performance of

the employee basing on the information that has been relayed from different sources like for

instance observing the employees on how they are conducting themselves among other ways.

The fourth step is the comparison of actual performance with the standards, during this stage the

actual performance is then compared with the standards that are required when doing a task. If

everything reaches the needed means then the evaluator can move to the fifth step. (Cummings &

Schwab,1973).

Discussing the appraisal with the employee, it enables the employees to know their weaknesses

and strengths. Its challenging to the managers but it has to be done since it has an impact on the

future performance of the company. The impact may be negative or positive sometimes having

depended on the kind of appraisal that was given and discussed together with the employee. The

last step in this appraisal process is initiating corrective action. In this step, all the required

measures have been conducted and now the managers have the option to pick the better action

like; training the employees afresh, coaching them and counselling if need be. (Gote,1996).

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ACCD as an organization uses the following approaches to address raters bias. First, they

encourage year-round journaling and feedback, this helps providing an accurate feedback as

compared to the annual feedback. If managers sit and start the collection of the employee

performance once they are prone to develop bias unlike in the cases where they will be doing it

on a journal basis like they record the performance now and then. This will provide for a better

view of the performance unlike the annual view which may be faced with bias.

Adjusting rating scales can play a great role, since if managers are relying on judging instead of

observing the employee performance, then the possibility of biased rating are at high chances of

increasing. There is a probability of having more bias if the managers use the traditional means

in rating of employees. Benchmarking and calibration is used by managers and the supervisors to

give answers on why they rate the work the way they do. This will help to maintain the rating

consistency among departments hence kicking out bias.

The use of custom forms in which are electronic help in doing away with bias since they use

performance management technology which does help in the elimination of bias since using

electronic means it allows for quick building appraisal templates which fit the specific

department unlike the use of forms which are hardcopy and can easily be manipulated.

Monitoring can help through the use of electronic means like the use of emperform which

actually indicates the rating by managers which is up to the minute. Any kind of anomalies like

sore thumb can help catch up with manager who can therefore explain the kind of rating style

they are using. (Kessler,2003)

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There is need to align human resource practices are aligned to strategic human resource

management and its one of the fundamental policy objective to ensure that the human resource

policies are applied by the managers as their daily routine work. (Ehlers and Lazenby, 2007) and

this goal can be achieved if the resources are allocated in a way that supports the short and long-

term strategy. This can be achieved through the following; aligning and setting hr. goals,

formulating specific actions to hit those goals, get every individual to buy in and lastly to

measure.

To start with there is need for the hr. manager to set his own goals which he will use to make

estimations and know when you are successful, test the hypothesis and know if you are right and

then lastly this can help increase productivity. There is need to formulate specific actions in order

to hit your goals like now decreasing the turnover where its necessary and the evaluation of your

onboarding process. There is need to buy every individual in and make sure that they align with

you like for instance ensuring that employee satisfaction surveys are given and digitalizing

onboarding paperwork. (Lopez,1986)

Alignment can be achieved through taking the proper actions and measures discussed above and

this can lead to better performance management.

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