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induction and socialisation

Induction and socialization Introduction Induction also called orientation, and it is design to provide a new employee with information which he or she needs to function’s comfortably and effectively in the organization. When a new employee joins an organization, he is completely a stranger to the people, work place and the work environment. Therefore, he is likely to feel insecure, shy and nervous. In the absence of information and support there is likely to be anxiety and fear in his mind. He may undergo reality shock caused by a gap between his expectations and the real situation. Meaning Induction or orientation can help overcome these problems. Once an employee is selected and placed on an appropriate job, the process of familiarizing him with the job and organization begins. This process is called induction. Induction is “the process of receiving and welcoming an employee when he first join a company and giving him the basic information he needs to settle down quickly an

employee welfare

Employee welfare “Employee welfare or labour welfare means the efforts to make life worth living for workmen.” “Labour welfare means anything done for the comfort and improvement, intellectual or social, of the employees over and above the wages paid which is not necessity of the industry”. ARTHUR JAMES TODD. “Workers welfare may be understood as including such services facilities and amenities which may be established in, or in the vicinity of undertakings to perform their work in healthy and congenial surroundings and to avail of facilities which improve their health and bring high morale.” International labour organization. Employee welfare is in the interest of the employee, the employer and the society as a whole. Welfare measures help to counter act the negative effects of the factory system. These measures enables the employees and his family to lead a good life. Welfare facilities like housing, medical and children’s education, recreation, etc help to improve the family

Employee empowerment

Employee empowerment Empowering refers to passing an authority and responsibility. Empowerment occurs when power goes to employee who then experience a since of ownership and control over their jobs. Empowered employees becomes “self-directed” and “self-control”. this is possible only when there is mutual trust between the superior and his subordinates. The superior has full faith that his subordinates will not do anything which is harmful to the organization. Similarly the subordinates has confidence in his superior that he will support his decisions and actions. Definitions “empowerment is simply gaining the power to your voice heart, to contribute to plans and decisions that affect you, to use your expertise at work to improve your performance and with it the performance of your whole organization”. Hello, readers of my blog if u like it my post then please click on advertisment or add in followers list. its beneficial for you and me both.

Corporate objective and human resource planning

Corporate objective and human resource planning Corporate objective does not mean that they only satisfy the organizational objectives as we know human resources, and organization will produce the products with the help of human resource. In order to satisfy the needs of the customers with the satisfaction of customer’s fund will be generated by which organizational objectives will be achieved. So, we can say that for fulfilling their own objectives the company will also consider the main parties who are helpful in achieving the objectives. Thus organization have these objectives which are as follows: -  Organizational  Human resource  Social objective Organizational o Establishing strategy o Profit earning o International strategic o Organizational development Human resource o Working condition o Fair wages o Empowerment o Industrial relation Social objectives o Satisfy consumers o Offer right product o Increase employment o Environment management Human

statistical quality control

Statistical quality control Introduction SQC is the application of statistical technique to accept or reject products already produced, or to control the process and therefore, product quality while the part is being made. While the latter is called process control, the former is named acceptance sampling. Meaning SQC is the application of statistical technique to determine how far the product confers to the standards of quality and precision and to what extent its quality deviates from the standard quality. Techniques of SQC 1. quality control during production : - the standard quality is determined through careful research and investigation. It is quite impractical to adhere strictly to the standards of precision, especially in cases where human factor dominates over the machine factor. Some deviation is therefore, allowed or tolerated they are referred to as tolerances. With in the limits, set by these tolerances, the product is considered to be of standard quality. SQC brin

Maintenance management

Maintenance management Introduction The efficiency of the production function solely depends on the functional reliability of the production facilities which are nothing but a package of land, building, plant and equipment, tools and plant services such as material handling, power plant, gas and steam lines, water supply and firefighting facilities etc. all these facilities are subject to simply by elapse of time or by the frequency of their use. For the maintenance of the functional reliability of all these facilities, plant maintenance is considered as an important service function of modern production management. Meaning Maintenance management of an industrial plant involves maintenance of machineries, their automation and complex designing. In today’s world, the production work in plant has become simple and is done at high-speed rate due to the built-in automation of the machineries with the help of advancement of the technology. To maintain the high productive rate of a pla

Acceptance sampling

Acceptance sampling Introduction When materials are purchased in a large quantity or articles are produced on a large scale, there may be defective items in each lot of materials, parts, components etc. purchased or finished products manufactured by complete inspection of the whole lot i.e. by 100% inspection acceptance and use of production of defective items can be avoided. But because of the following reasons, 100% inspection (piece to piece) is not done; o The cost of inspection is high. o Destructive methods of testing will result in 100% spoilage of the parts. o Time taken for inspection will be too long and require more labour. o When the population is large of infinite, it would be impossible or impracticable to inspect each unit. Therefore, to assure better quality on one hand and to come out of the difficulties as mentioned above acceptance sampling method i.e. method sampling inspection is used. Meaning of acceptance sampling When the decision regarding acceptanc

hindustan unilever limited

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hindustan unilever limited

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) (BSE: HUL) is India's largest fast moving consumer goods company, touching the lives of two out of three Indians with over 20 distinct categories in home & personal care products and food & beverages. They endow the company with a scale of combined volumes of about 4 million tones and sales of over Rs. 13,000 crore. HUL is also one of the country's largest exporters; it has been recognized as a Golden Super Star Trading House by the Government of India. HUL was formed in 1933 as Lever Brothers India Limited and came into being in 1956 as Hindustan Lever Limited through a merger of Lever Brothers, Hindustan Vanaspati Mfg. Co. Ltd. and United Traders Ltd. It is headquartered in Mumbai, India and has an employee strength of over 15,000 employees and contributes for indirect employment of over 52,000 people. The company was renamed in June 2007 to “Hindustan Unilever Limited”. In 2007, Hindustan Unilever was rated as the most respected co

International organization for standardization

ISO (international organization for standardization) Overview ISO is the world largest developer and publisher of international standard. ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 159 countries. One member per country with a central secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system. ISO is a non-governmental organization, that forms a bridge between the public and private sectors, on the one hand, mans of its member institutes are part of the government. Structures of their countries are mandated by their government. On the other hand, members have their roots uniquely in the private sector, having been set up by national partnerships of industry association. Therefore, ISO enables a consensus to be reached on solutions that meet both the requirements of the business in the broader need of society. Introduction It is an international standard setting body composed of representatives from various national standard organization founded on 23 feb, 194