National Institute of Technology 2009 M.B.A Human Resource Management - Question Paper

Sickness
Length of notice due to and form employee
Grievance procedure
Disciplinary procedure
Work rules
Arrangements for union membership
Arrangements for terminating
Employers right to vary terms of the contract subject to proper notification being provide.


Q.4 :( B) Explain:
1) Orientation:
ANS:
Orientation is a systematic and planned introduction of employee to their jobs, their co-workers and the organization, it is also called induction.
Orientation may be done informally or formally, informal induction is brief, the employee is expected to familiarize with the new environment by him self or her self while working on the allocated job.
Formal orientation is lengthy and may last even a few months. Formal induction is shared by the HR rep and the line manager. The latter briefs the new employee about the specific job duties while all other details are given by the HR rep. a few companies even conduct anxiety reduction seminars.
Preparing for the induction of the new employee, determining the info the new employee should know and presenting the info effectively are the requisites of an ideal orientation programme.
After orientation, comes the placement, placement refers to the assignment of a new employee to his or her job. It is a simple task where the job is independent, where the jobs are sequential or pooled.
2) Placement:
ANS:
Placement: is understood as the allocation of people to jobs, it is the assignment where employee is assigned to a new or various job, placement includes initial assignment of new employees and promotion, transfer, demotion of current employees, in this part placement of new employees is emphasized.
Placement issues the difficulty with the placement is that we tend to look at the individual but not at the job often the individual does not work independent of others. Whether the employee works independent of others or is dependent on the kind of jobs; Independent portal service or field sales. Here non overlapping routes are allotted to every worker in such situations the activities of 1 worker have little bearing on the activities of other workers.
Sequential activities of 1 worker are dependent on the activities of the fellow worker Pooled there is high interdependence among activities the final output is the outcome of contribution of all the workers. it is the team work which matters. Project teams, temporary task forces and assembly teams represent pooled jobs.
The difficulty with placement is that we tend to look at the individual but not at the job, the individual does not work independent of others, whether the employee works independent of others or is dependent depends in the kind of jobs. Jobs in this situation may be classifies into many categories.

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