Business management tip: Directing people in an organization

Directing is considered as the most humane function of management. It is also called as the heart of management. This function involves influencing human behavior through motivation, communication, coaching, leadership, discipline, development of interpersonal skills and assistance for the achievement of individual’s personal goals. In this function, managers are transforming into good leaders – that is, they are considering not only the organizational goals but also the personal objectives of their people. Directing tries to align the future of the organization and its people. The philosophy behind this is that, the organization cannot be considered as successful if its members are failing. Read more

The importance of organizing your business organization

The business management function of organizing usually follows after planning. This involves the assignment of tasks, grouping of these tasks and the allocation of resources and people inside the organization. An organized company is an entity which its elements (people, systems, policies, information, properties, etc.,) are rearranged and placed in order. It is important for a company to achieve effectiveness and efficiency in its business operation. A simple capability to find things in the fastest possible time saves money. Why? Time is gold and gold is money. A minute lost in searching a certain important stuff misplaced in a disorganized work environment, is already a cost convertible in money. If you earn $100 an hour, then a 5 minute wasted time in searching a particular office document will already cost $8.33.  Read more

Management tips: Dealing with employees turnover

What if your employee resigns tomorrow? And another good employee resigns the day after tomorrow? These questions form fears inside the minds of many employers – perhaps these employers include you.  The fear is considerable since a high employee turnover rate insinuates ineffectiveness of a company’s management (particularly human resource management). Moreover, it hurts an employer and his company whenever an employee resigns. It may involve emotional pain on the human side of managers and employers. It may also involve financial and operational pain on the business side of companies and organizations. But many companies, especially large companies that maintain effective “Human Resources” departments, can manage this kind of emotional and business pains.

In small businesses, high employee turnover is very common since these companies usually don’t have HR departments or HR officers who oversees and preserves harmonization between companies and employees. Maintaining HR departments or hiring HR personnel may be costly for small business owners. But what we can do to eradicate a high employee turnover rate in our small firms? Do we really need to invest a lot of money for that? Read more

Management tips: Listening to your employees

Listening to employees plays a very important role in maintaining their morale and commitment to you (as their boss) and to your company (as their organization). Accordingly, if you are an employer or a manager, you should listen very well to your employees. Of course, most of managers do listen to their subordinates. This is a common employer–employee practice. But the question is…what is the proper way of listening to your employees? Is mere lending your ears to your employees enough? The answer is no – it’s not enough! Read more