ACHIEVING ORGANISATION AIMS

Achieving Organisation Aims



Achieving Organisation Aims

Discuss the process by which an organisation secures adequate talent, skills, knowledge and ability and its effectiveness in achieving organisation aims.

Many managers have made remarkable effort to run their companies through Strategic Planning in the recent decades. It is a well established business reality that organisations in the world over no longer achieve competitive advantage through their products, but rather through people (employees). This reality has therefore place employees as the major differentiating success factor for most organisations. The challenge facing most organisations today has however, remains developing an effective strategy for achieving organisational aims through employee management. To overcome this challenge, organisations must motivate their employees to engage in activities that will benefit and help in the achievement of predetermined organisational goals. In order to achieve this, it is imperative for managers to set in motion work conditions that will help employees to achieve satisfaction achieve in their jobs.

Job satisfaction has been identified as a major requirement for organisations which aim to achieve excellence in their operations. Baron et al. (2006) refers to job satisfaction as the attributes and feelings people have about their work. By extension, job satisfaction will mean positive or favourable attitudes towards one's job whilst a negative or unfavourable attitude indicates job dissatisfaction. Baron et al. (2006) posit that only satisfied employees engage in discretionary or pre-social behaviours that is edifying to the effective functioning of the organisation. Job satisfaction therefore, plays an integral role in the achievement of OCB. OCB can thus be defined as a behaviour that is discretionary, not directly or explicitly recognised by the formal reward system, and that in aggregate promotes the effective functioning of an organisation. It involves employees going an extra mile in the conduct of their duties which is imperative to the achievement of organisational aims and goals.

In order to achieve organisational aims, Collins (2006, 544-60) observes that employee satisfaction is crucial especially for organisations that want to be innovative, provide good customer care, enhance productivity and reduce high rate of employee turnover. Collins (2006, 544-60) submits that organisations are spending huge resources on employee satisfaction initiatives in an effort to reduce turnover and improve productivity which will help organisations to succeed. To help us understand the concept of job satisfaction, Locke (1976) defines job satisfaction as “a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job or job experience”. Job satisfaction represents a collection of feelings an individual holds towards his job, including all aspects of a particular job, good and bad, positive or negative, which are likely to contribute to the development of feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Another approach to the definition of job satisfaction is the emphasis on the facets of the job; that is, the extent to which an individual is satisfied with different aspects of the job. This approach defines job satisfaction in terms of the discrepancies between what one expects and what one actually gets in the work ...