People and Organisations: Principles and Practice in Global Contexts

In the health sector technological changes are taking place at an alarming rate suggesting that competitiveness of health sector organisations to succeed will depend on their ability to implement these changes constantly to be competitive. Which means that HRM professional such be able to provide HR services to meet the changing needs of the institutions in a variety of ways such as Recruitment and Selection, learning and development. Additionally, they are also faced with new problems such as IT security from hacking, Phishing, Identity thefts, and white collar crimes. Furthermore, challenges of how to support the employees who bring their own personal mobile devices to work. All these changes have affect the Workers, Work Place and Workforce according to a research conducted by CIPD (Megatrends, 2013). Learning and development needs have also changed in the global firm in that today learning programs are executed using online connectivity, mobile technology and they are even...

Introduction  Scholars are of the view despite the importance of culture in organisation context that little research is available in the health sector even in the UK. Seconds any effort to influence or implement cultural concepts in health sector organisations has not been successful in the UK. Excellence in organisational culture can be beneficial to the company in numerous ways and assist to enhance organisational performance (Heathfield, 2016: CIPD, 2016) Organisational Culture can be reviewed from three perspective they are: - Basic Assumptions: These are taken for granted the world-wide views, how one understands and intervenes in the process- this is ontology and epistemology. Example medical research is traditional predicted using rational scientific methods as the foundation for creating and accumulating knowledge (in other words controlled and quantitative rather than qualitative methods) Therefore the results are measurable, transferability of knowledge whi...