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  Contemporary Human Resource (HR) Challenges Organizational Culture; Introduction of organizational culture. As people working in an organization are in a fast-moving word, the organizational culture is also getting changed accordingly. In fact the culture of an organization affects the way in which people behave and has to be taken into account as a contingency factor in any programme for developing organizations and HR policies and practices. This is why it is important for HR specialists as well. The Organizational culture The pattern of values, norms, beliefs, attitudes and assumptions are known as organizational culture. In fact ‘Values’ refer to what is believed to be important about how people and organizations behave. ‘Norms’ are the unwritten rules of behavior. According to Eldridge and Crombie (1974), he says that the culture of an organization refers to the unique configuration of norms, values, beliefs and ways of behaving. Significance of culture, Furnham and Gun...

  THE CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE Knowledge is known as the peoples under standing towards things, concepts, ideas, theories, procedures, practices and ‘the way we do things around here’. It can be described as ‘know-how’ or  when it is specific, it is known as ‘expertise’. A distinction was made by Ryle (1949) between ‘knowing how ‘and ‘knowing that’. Knowing how is the ability of a person to perform tasks, and knowing that is holding pieces of knowledge in one’s mind. EXPLICIT AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE Nonaka (1991) and Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) stated that knowledge is either explicit or tacit. Explicit knowledge can be codified – it is recorded and available and also is held in databases, Tacit knowledge exists in people’s minds. It is difficult to understand in writing and is obtained through personal experience. As suggested by Hansen  et al  (1999), it includes scientific or technological expertise, operational know-how. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES Two approaches...

  Types of motivation There are two types of motivational approaches called intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation   Intrinsic motivation can arise from the self-generated factors that influence people’s behavior.It is not created by external incentives. It can take the form of motivation by the work itself  Deci and Ryan (1985) suggested That intrinsic motivation is based on the needs to be competent and self-determining. Extrinsic motivation Extrinsic motivation occurs when things are done to or for people to motivate them. These Include rewards, such as incentives, increased pay, praise, or promotion; and punishments, Such as disciplinary action, withholding pay, or criticism. in the mean time Extrinsic motivators  can have an immediate and powerful effect, however it is likely to have a deeper and longer-term effect because they are inherent in individuals and their work and not imposed from outside in such forms as incentive pay...

  The Managerial Role of Pharmacist Introduction A pharmacy manager is a pharmacist who reports to the owner (proprietor) and is responsible for all elements of the business, including hiring and firing employees, business administration, and financial and performance planning. He is also responsible for maintaining and enforcing policies and processes to comply with existing community pharmacy legislation   (Al-Arifi, 2013) on quality of pharmacy practice. Human resource management Human resources refer to the people who work in the pharmacy, or the department inside the pharmacy that deals with hiring, firing, training, and other personnel matters. Human resource management is undoubtedly the most crucial part of pharmaceutical practice. Its goal is to hire a motivated and competitive workforce to meet the demands of customers. It also covers methods and concepts for identifying and keeping a talented and motivated workforce. Human resources are the most expensive ...

  Role of HR in training pharmacy staff Introduction In the retail pharmacy setup training the staff in order to handle prescriptions is very vital. Whatever the experience qualifications you may have which will help you to prepare the medications reading the physicians handwriting is a difficult task. In both general practice and hospitals, medication errors are prevalent. Patients may be harmed by prescription errors made during the writing process (prescription errors) as well as prescribing errors caused by erroneous medical decisions. Any step in the prescription procedure can result in a mistake. Errors can be caused by slips, lapses, or mistakes, such as inadvertent omissions in drug transcribing. Dose selection errors, missed transcribing, and sloppy handwriting are all too typical. Prescription errors, such as the use of potentially unsuitable medications, can be caused by a lack of knowledge or competence, as well as inaccurate information concerning clinical charac...

  Monitoring the mental health of the employees in retail pharmacies                                                  figure 1: different thoughts arising in the mind Introduction   In retail pharmacies in Sri Lanka more people tend to buy there medicines from private pharmacies. Some main reasons the patients choose private pharmacies than the hospital pharmacy is they get a better service in a short period of time. In order to survive in the retail pharmacy business, the pharmacists and pharmacy assistants must provide a better service in a shorter period of time. To complete such task preparing prescriptions one after another with complete concentration one must be in perfect mental health. So it is very vital to monitor the mental health of the employees in regular basis. The routine outcome assessment in adult mental health services is inv...

https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarp/health/drugs_supplements/2016/04/1140-new-coalition-pushesfor-lower-prescription-drug-costs.imgcache.rev.web.900.513.jpg Introduction The drug prices in our country and almost most of the countries tend to increase year by year. The costs are rising in excess of general and medicinal cost inflation, which leads to call of a price hike.   (Kleinke, 2001) . With a price control act implemented in Sri Lanka according to the NMRA for essential drugs which doesn’t cause much problem, but the problematic drugs specialty drugs which are recently founded to treat novelty illnesses like cancer. “Costs for specialty pharmaceuticals are increasing 21 percent per year, compared to 4 percent for traditional pharmacy,” says Steve Wojcik, vice president of public policy at the  National Business Group on Health  in Washington, D.C. specialty pharmaceuticals, including those derived from living cells or organisms (referred to as “biologics”),...

  Human resourcing in Pharmacy Introduction figure 01:https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/portrait-male-pharmacist-pharmacy-16753524.jpg Pharmacists represent the third largest group of healthcare professionals in the world with most pharmacists practicing in community pharmacies, hospitals and other medical facilities (Chan X, 2006). Smaller numbers of pharmacists are employed in the pharmaceutical industry, in administrative/managerial positions and in academia. The size of the labor force depends on several issues, including the number in the labor market of working age, participation rate of those who are working, and availability of those no longer working but who may return to pharmacy employment. Studies conducted The relationship between Human Capital Management(HRM) and Human resource(HR) in pharmaceutical sector is to make understand the importance of HRM in an organization to perform its operations efficiently and at what level HR outsourcing is affecting it. In a pr...

  Education and rewards Introduction As a great leader its is important to us to make sure our team also grows with us. As human beings and as a part of the community we must ensure that as we grow our community also must grow. When considering the early education the parents play an important role. The goals of parents towards their children are shaped by their resourcing activities.  (Nichols, et al., 2009) . In a healthy community there must be more educated personnel. In today’s world more employees enter the job market even before completing their education  (Merrick, 2019) . In company level also we can encourage workers to educate themselves in order to receive promotions.   Figure 1: https://cdn1.teach.com/content/43cb8ff5942d42f4937da1c614682a2d/iStock_000010713644XSmall.jpg       Promoting education in corporate level In order to have a good workplace or to have a good team in the company the character of each member is ...