Best HR Practices for Organizational Growth Link to The Education Industry

  What is Motivation? In Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Practice he describes motivation as the strength and direction of behaviour and the factors that influence people to behave in certain ways.  He also mentions how the word came from as below: The term "motivation" drives from the Latin word movement ( movere).  People are motivated when they expect that a course of action is likely to lead an attainment of a goal and a valued reward - one that satisfies their needs and wants.  While Armstrong explain above as motivation, he also brings up motivational theories introduced by different authors.  Ganta V.C has described Motivational strategies as below in his article, Motivation in the workplace to improve the employee performance (Ganta V.C, 2014) Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Source:  Plateresca / Getty Images   Abraham Maslow presented his model of motivation in 1954. The basic idea of Maslow's model was tha...

What is Learning? Learning : A qualitative change in a person's way of seein, experiencing, understanding and conceptualising something in the real world (Marton and Ramsden 1988).  People learn in different aspects. Ever since you are born, you will be learning until your last breath. Learning is a continuous process. Even if you join a new job or even if you start a new journey of your life, you will be learning.  Workplace Learning The simple act of observing more experienced colleagues can accelerate learning; conversing, swapping stories, cooperating on tasks and offering mutual support deepen and solidify the process. This kind of learning – often very informal in nature – is thought to be vastly more effective in building proficiency than more formalized training methods. Reynolds (2004) Workplace learning is largely experiential learning – learning by doing. But is also social or cooperative learning – learning from other people. It involves self-managed learning ...