#5 Working Towards Employee and Organizational Goals

"There is no more powerful engine driving an organization toward excellence and long-range success than an attractive, worthwhile, achievable vision for the future, widely shared." - Burt Nanus

Understanding the important correlation between employee and organizational goals plays a critical role in Human Resource management creating the desired success of an organization.

When Human Resource management fully understands the goals of the employees the focus becomes on assisting them in achieving their personal objectives. This in turn, leads to the positive contribution by employees to the organization and its goals. But how? Well let me explain. 

When employees feel valued and cared about by their organization through helping them achieve their goals they begin to take pride in working for the company. This pride then leads to them to engage in actions and behaviors that move the organization closer to its goals. For instance, employees working to their best ability resulting in increased productivity for the organization- a goal for many companies.

So how can an organization possibly meet it’s goals if the goals of it’s employees aren't met? The answer is…THEY CAN’T. 

If employee goals are ignored in the system, then employees will most likely engage in behaviors or actions that instead move the organization away from its goals causing the organization to be stagnate and potentially fail. It's like why help a company grow in achieving their goals if they don't care about my personal growth? 

Therefore, the only way of ensuring the success of an organization's collective goals is through HR firstly identifying the goals of what some would say is most important asset of a company- the employees. Think of it as a domino effect, when HR tackles employees goals, employees tackle organization goals and so on.

I guarantee that when present or future HR's begin to see employees not as workers, but as the foundation for an organization and assist them in reaching their goals they too will be one step closer to creating a successful future for themselves, alongside the company. After all, with an HR's educational background and developed skills, regardless of the various job choices, one should be proactive in ensuring both employee and organizational goals are met.

Just remember happy employees equals happy organization! 

Don't believe me then also check out this link below: UPS Merck Employee Pride
                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOHaudCvG7Y 

Test Question: The development and application of employees' skills and energies to accomplish the goals and objectives of the organization is called:

                                                      a. human resource management.

                                                      b. human resource planning.

                                                      c. selection.

                                                      d. recruiting.

The answer is: A

 Question of the Day: Do you feel prepared to one day  start your HR career the best way you know how? 

Please post your comments and answer to this question below!!!

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Reference: For more information on employee and organizational goals you can check out the 10th Edition Canadian Human Resource Management Book by Schwind, Das, Wagar, Fassina and Bulmash.