Gerald Ainomugisha 
A company’s core values can often be found on their website, office premises and their marketing literature. These statements, words or phrases, tell employees, customers and the public who a company is. They foster connection between teams and help HR to recruit the right candidates. Research also supports the fact that core values boost staff … Read more
It takes a number of different ingredients to make a team work well. Somewhere at the top of that list is team trust. Team trust isn’t something that is born overnight but companies can foster it using some of these tactics. According to Schoorman, Mayer, and Davis (2007), trust is defined as the willingness of … Read more
Hiring the right person for a particular job is taxing. There is the advertising for the role, receiving applications, carrying out interviews, vetting applicants and finally making an offer to the best candidate. Hiring involves an investment in time, productive employee hours and money. After all that has been done, it can be very disappointing … Read more
The major reason companies carry out leadership development is to grow the capacity of employees to take up leadership positions. These employees will contribute to the future success of a company or business. As businesses adapt to survive in a fierce global market, there will be a need to re-examine leadership development. Currently businesses have … Read more
Leaders are charged with a number of things; guiding teams to achieve their objectives, inspiring them, resolving conflict and so much more. In today’s work places, leaders are also charged with creating a healthy workplace culture and one way to do this is to adopt the positive leadership model. Positive leaders work to improve positive … Read more
Human resource management is heading into a working environment that has drastically changed. People no longer stay at jobs for a life time, instead, the average worker will change jobs every 4 years. Add to that the digital and technological transitions, the shift in workforce demographics and you have a landscape that will greatly impact … Read more
Competency models are a tool that helps human resource departments plan the talent management and employee performance management processes. Unlike employee job descriptions that may only have skills necessary for a job, competency models will list the behaviours necessary to succeed at the job, what success looks like and how it will be measured, what … Read more
The authentic leadership style follows the principle that leaders should be genuine. That they should not cultivate a work self and separate it from their personal self but instead lead with both their hearts and minds. By being open about who they are, they are able to inspire teams for better performance. Authentic leadership leans … Read more
Engagement can be termed as the commitment towards work or the emotional investment employees have in their jobs. Engaged employees are assets to a workplace because, amongst several reasons, they are more productive, perform better and score highly across wellbeing metrics. There are a lot of factors that determine whether efforts to engage employees will … Read more