Category: Articles – HR Management

Leader and Needs for Achievement

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Mr. Jon reflects himself as a person who has high aspiration to be a leader. He has strong intention to lead others and does not hesitate to be man in charge. If given role as a leader, he is likely to be a dominant leader who exerts intense control and uses strict rules to manage his followers.

Although he has true feelings to lead and influence other, he is apparently not willing to force others to accept his opinion or intention. When interacting with others with different opinions, he would appear passive. Instead, as he narrated, he would listen to others emphatically — understands their concern and finds the best solution to respond to problems. He took this kind of step as he believed that it could avoid conflict or confrontation with others and help him to build mutual agreement. Continue reading →

Labor Union and Management

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Behind his calm and relaxed appearance, Mr. Johny is a tough and persistent worker who makes sure that his tasks are completed based on prior work plan and schedule. He has accumulated 20 years of collections experience and claims that honesty, perseverance, persistence, and diligence are the essential ingredients in order to be successful in conducting this kind of job in collections.

Towards his team, Mr. Johny always emphasizes on following work schedule persistently as he will monitor its progress through daily reports. He applies a situational leadership style as he would become tough or supportive depending on the situation. In the normal situation, he will only monitor the work activities of his subordinates because the work system and schedule are already well set up. Continue reading →

Career Path and Job Experience

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Mr. Harry is an organized and tidy worker which is probably due to the nature of his job as a housekeeper. From the lengthy years of work experience in housekeeping, this has made him the practical person he is today. He handles problems quickly using his knowledge gathered from past experiences. Task committed, he will not stop something he started until it is finished.

Mr. Harry is very disciplined and strict when it comes to the rules and regulations of the hotel. He is always on time and he trains his staff to also be on time. He coordinates his crew with authority and is always consistent regarding the consequences for disobedience. He tries to guide them so they can work carefully, which are the important part of housekeeping. He would talk with his staff personally even outside the job. As an example, he does not tolerate non-serious workers during working hours, but lightens up and jokes around with them after work. Continue reading →

Sales Manager and Leadership

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As a Senior Sales Manager in Banquet, Mr. Jonsen has 16 direct subordinates comprising of five sales managers, two sales executives and nine sales administrators. He and his team’s main duties are to market banquet facilities as well as sell food and beverages products. Given soft external market, he admitted that he and his team find hard times to meet the revenue target that has been established by management.

Mr. Jonsen seems to be confident with his leadership skills. In leading his staff, he tends to give autonomy and empowers them so that they can have liberty to choose the best action. He does not apply strict control to monitor his staff performance and prefers informal approach in dealing with his staff. He is quick in making decisions although at times he may overlook detail and ignore accuracy just for the sake of fast decision making process. He also regularly consults to procedures and his boss to make critical decisions about his jobs. Continue reading →

Becoming an Effective Purchasing Manager

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Mr. Ben has been the Assistant Purchasing Manager in- charge for three months now. He is organized and neat in doing his work because his major responsibilities among others are to deal with entities, money and people. He gives an extreme regard for details and prefers to attend to a task one at a time. He is practical and uses his past experiences as basis for his decisions. He regards work as something important to fulfill the needs of his family and himself.

Mr. Ben does not have much opportunity to develop and exercise his leadership skills for he rarely interacts with subordinates directly. He is, however, responsible for managing and coordinating them. He uses his social skills to communicate orders to his staff and rarely uses a strict and autocratic form of leadership. Continue reading →

Building Corporate Culture

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Mr. Gery has been with Sun Hotel for almost 20 years now and admires what he calls the “Sun Corporate Culture”, which is evidently seen in the way people help each other in order to reach a common goal. He mentioned that it was the strong sense of belonging in Sun Hotel that motivates people to cooperate and work together and which makes him enjoy his work.

While holding the position as Assistant Chief Accountant, Mr. Gery is also the Chairman of the Union here in Sun Hotel. He has proven his leadership skills by being able to make quick decisions as head of the Union and at times trusted to take charge when his superiors are absent. His critical position as someone playing dual role as Assistant Chief Accountant and as Labor Union Head in Sun as a whole makes him someone who acts as a very useful middleman. This gives him the ability to analyze both sides’ interest before making a decision, hence, achieving the meeting of minds between the two sides producing a win-win situation. Continue reading →