Best Practice approach & Organization adaption to the Best Practice approach

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Best Practice Approach

‘Best Practice’ model describes certain good practices that are needed for an organization to bring the output effectively and efficiently, putting in to practice the best methods to enhance the organization’s work environment giving equal employment opportunities (Mondy & Noe, 2005 cited in Radzi et al, 2016). 
Armstrong(2006) explaining that this methodology indicates on the best universal HRM practices fits with any condition or circumstances to bring the best organizational performances. Further Best practices of HR leading organizations reach higher level of growth rate of industry or product (Redman and Wilkinson, 2009). According to (Pfeiffer, 1994) characteristics of best practice approach have been identified as follows. (Amstrong 2010 P.42)

  •  Employment Security
  • Selective Hiring
  • Self-Manage Teams
  •  High Compensation Contingent On Performance
  • Training To Provide Skilled And Motivated Workforce
  • Reduction Of Status Differentials
  • Sharing Information

(Guest, 1999) Explains Few Observations on Best Practice Approach,

·       Selection & Selection Tests To Be Taken Place To Identify The Possible Candidate
·       Training & Development
·       Job To Be Design As Employees Use Their Own Talents In Full By Making Them Flexible And         Motivating Them To Build The Moral
·       Two Way Communication
·       Awareness Of The Employees Of Individual Contribution To The Organization

Best Practice Strategy Around the World
Google
Google is a very good example for the best practice model. Liane Hornsey VP People operations explains the best practice strategy in their organization. They recruit high talented candidates to fulfil the organizational tasks. Further she emphasized that the usage of new modern methods instead of traditional work procedures. And clearly explains the features illuminated by Guest (1999) On Best Practice Approach such as Two Way Communication, job design, team work. Also they keep employees motivated, measure employees with positives & don’t monitor employees in their every move. Overall they keep the place that their employees want to be.

 Best Practice HR Tips from Liane Hornsey, Google VP Operations


                                           Source: (Meet The Boss)


Further google take care of the family by providing sports facilities & special facilities to the spouses of the employees. (Robinson Resource Group 2013)
Shell
Shell has empowers performance by creating additional HR Best Practice policies to  improve employee and line manager satisfaction by making cultural and behavioral change, empowering HR operations employees to take more accountability, make decisions at the lowest acceptable level, and take personal ownership for development, Providing positive mind and growth mindsets supported by training simplification and automation (Donaldson,2019).

References
  •  Armstrong, M. (2006) A Handbook of Human Resource Management practice.10th ed. London, Kogan Page Limited.
  • Armstrong, M(2010) Armstrong’s Essential Human Resource Management practice London Philadelphia New Delhi.
  • Best Practice HR Tips from Liane Hornsey, Google VP Operations | MeetTheBoss (2012) MeetTheBoss [Online]. Video. <https://www.youtube.com>. Accessed on 12th October 2019.
  • Donaldson, T(2019) How Shell empowers performance by creating exceptional HR experiences
  • Hsieh, Y. H. and Chen, H. M. (2011) Strategic fit among business competitive strategy, human resource strategy, and reward system. Academy of Strategic Management, 10(2), pp.11-32.
  •  Radzi, S.M., et al (2016) Heritage, Culture and Society. Research agenda and best practices in the hospitality and tourism industry. London, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group. 
  •  Redman, T. and Wilkinson, A. (2009) Contemporary Human Resource Management. 3rd ed. UK, Pearson Redman.




Comments

  1. Chandran Thivajanaarthan31 October 2019 at 08:29

    I agree with above content. The best practice approach claims that certain bundles of HR activities exist which universally support companies in reaching a competitive advantage regardless of the organizational setting or industry (Redman and Wilkinson 2009). Best practice models state a close connection between HR practices and organizational performance and are often associated with high commitment management (Paauwe & Boselie 2003).

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    1. Anne Camaleen3 December 2019 at 10:33

      Further putting in to practice the best method to enhance the organization’s work environment giving equal employment opportunities (Mondy & Noe, 2005 cited in Radzi et al, 2016).

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  2. Oshantha Perera13 November 2019 at 08:13

    Well explained. In addition to that Johnson (2000) stated “Best practice approach can be described as HR method and system that have universal, addictive and positive effect on organizational performance”.

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    1. Anne Camaleen3 December 2019 at 10:40

      Sure, its Universal, Based on team work & its employee talent oriented.Above huge samples are explained these features very well by resulting the performances of the organizations.

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  3. J.Radchika13 November 2019 at 10:28

    Best practices are transferable across organizations and units and, thus, require little trial and error and distractions at the unit level (Samnani and Singh 2013). However, best practices are not without drawbacks, a major disadvantage of a best practice HRM system is that it may result in standardized HR practices that are sub optimal at the unit level (Becker and Huselid 2010;Samnani and Singh 2013).

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    1. Anne Camaleen5 December 2019 at 00:52

      Agreed, This approach claims that certain bundles of HR activities exist which universally support companies.Have to make internal comparisons before establish ‘best’ practice. and need to review the outcome of analysis. Above video nicely explains how google evaluate their works through random reviews.However these type of procedures not supported with every organization. The approach depends on the type of organization.

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  4. Yohan Gunasinghe20 November 2019 at 19:24

    I agree with your explanation on best practice approach. Adding further, as per Wolf et al (2015), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is another aspect of external best practice where it mainly considers on carrying out community projects for the benefit of the needy people of the community.

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    1. Anne Camaleen5 December 2019 at 00:10

      Strategic sustainability firm use the best practice approach widely, Thanks Yohan, adding this new area of Best Practices.

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  5. Nayani Poornima25 November 2019 at 11:07

    A well-written article, The best practice is a method or technique that has continually shown the results. It is a path to become good to better performance in an organization. The best practice is consist of evidence-based or value-based, where the value should be described and quantify (Farkas & Anthony, 2006).

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    1. Anne Camaleen3 December 2019 at 11:20

      The all features that you emphasized here , well explain under the examples Google & Shell.Continuous results, better performances, evidence & value based as you described here.

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  6. Sithari Udeshika Perera3 December 2019 at 02:18

    Hi Anne, HR best practice states that companies should invest heavily in training time and budget for their employees. Today Employers increasingly invest in skills-specific forms of training. In addition to formal learning, on-the-job learning also plays an important role and learning is also becoming increasingly important for the latest generations. As you mentioned according to Pfeiffer (1994) training for employees is considered one of the best practices approaches.

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    1. Anne Camaleen3 December 2019 at 11:16

      Sure Skill investment comes to the greater level in modern world.In my previous blog posts few samples & success stories explains well the importance of skill investment.The highlighted feature of this approach is training, learning & teamwork.

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  7. Shan Amarasekara3 December 2019 at 14:38

    Dear Anne, it is important to identify the approach of an organization to the best practice methods. Unless the best practice methods are aligned with the organization's expected outcome, it might lead into a downhill impact towards the success of the organisation (Menon, 2015)

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    1. Anne Camaleen5 December 2019 at 00:16

      Sure Sahan, The approach to be used depend of the organizations structure. Pfeiffer, (1994) explains the above characteristics of Best Practices the organization structure, type , size & culture should be matched with these characteristics.

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  8. Sheron Joseph4 December 2019 at 01:59

    Yes Anne, the Best-practice model claims that certain bundles of HR activities exist which universally support companies in reaching a competitive advantage regardless of the organizational setting or industry (Redman and Wilkinson 2009). Which means that it contemplate those bundles of HR practice that can be applied in most of the organizational context to increase performance that helps produce better outcome.

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    1. Anne Camaleen5 December 2019 at 00:19

      Sure Sheron, This approach increase performance that helps produce better outcome, by providing motivation, measuring employees with positives and much more.

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