 BEST PRACTICES FOR WOMEN - A REVIEW OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS APPLICATION IN INDIAN IT INDUSTRYAkanksha Ritesh and Rajesh Mehrotra No 2015-06-09, Working papers from Voice of Research Abstract: Due to liberalization and globalization, competition has become so intense, that managers have less time to respond to changing market situation. In order to remain competitive they have to cut cost, enhance efficiency in operations and increase profitability. Rapid developments in information and communication technology have provided enormous data to the managers to arrive at decision, comparable to market standards. This leads to complex process. How to make decisions in this complex and competitive environment? How to manage the employee retention? In the today era no one can deny the importance and credibility of roles and responsibilities of Human Resource Management in an organization with reference to women participation as it ensures the achievement of maximum growth for the organization. Now the employers also having strong opinion that,’ their “Human Capitals” are one of the important key drivers in their growth. Women today are present in every field of work. Research has consistently indicated strong correlation between diverse senior management and financial performance of organizations, highlighting business benefits from having considerable number of women employees as part of the workforce. The scarcity of global talent has led to many organizations pro-actively doing their best to recognize, retain, and develop women. In India, keeping women employees on the job has proven difficult in a traditional patriarchal society. With the changing work force demography, and the talent war among the companies to attract and retain the best-in-class candidates, Indian companies continue to work on improving existing policies and facilities for womenwhich projects that now the ability to manage effectively the employee talent within the organization is necessary and becoming more critical everyday due to switchovers in this competitive environment. Employee relationship management (ERM) is a process that companies uses to effectively manage all interactions with employees, ultimately to achieve the goals of the organization. Happy employees are productive employees. Successful businesses know how to manage relationships to build lasting employee satisfaction. The most important part of any business is its people. No business can run effectively without them. But people don’t work in a vacuum; they need to communicate and work with others to get their jobs done. To be successful, employers need to manage relationships in the workplace to keep the business functioning smoothly, avoid problems and make sure individual employees are performing at their best.The purpose of this paper is to investigate the new approach of ERM with special reference to women who are working in software industry and suggest possible ways to communicate the concept more effectively so that this concept could be implemented more successfully in Indian Industry. The objective of this study is to understand Employee Relation Management Role in enhancement of employee performance and it is essential to understand the effectiveness of Employee Relations activities and practices which are contributing positively towards women Employee Performance. This study will be undertaken basically on theoretical Ground and by examining the Annual Reports of Indian Industry and interaction and the collected information will be arranged and analyzed systematically. ERM with especial reference to women includes both quantitative and qualitative factors of Performances. The Employee Management tool is a strategic business tool that can help Indian Software Industry to take more focused approach to developing operating strategies and measure the women workforce retention outcomes. This paper will lead to the awareness of the importance of Employee Relationship Management for women workforce retention in software industry. The organization can introduce assigning appropriate importance to the activities – as they deem fit for women retention. Key words: Employee Relations, work-life balance, safe working conditions, attrition Date: 2015-06 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vor:issues:2015-06-09 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working papers from Voice of Research The Editor, Voice of Research E/1, Samay Appartments, Behind NID, Paldi. Ahmedabad. 380007. |
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