This is a summary of the four-weeks report on an internship visit to CICPA organization

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Introduction

This is a summary of the four-weeks report on an internship visit to CICPA organization. The report covers my visit for four weeks starting from 6th, October 2013 through 7th, November 2013. The report covers the duties I carried out, to whom and where and the reason for performing them .

Organization experience

The backbone of any organization is formed by the people it engages in the day to day of its key activities. People engaged in the day to day organizational activities need to be strategically placed so as create a coherent organizational culture that can propel an organization into the right path towards the quest for success and realization of the set goals and objectives. As such, the element of strategic and organizational human resource management (HRM) in an organization is multifaceted in CICPA organization. It encompasses the sound recruitment, training, allocation, motivation, and development of employees in a bid to achieve both the short and long term organizational goals and objectives. In extension, in CICPA organization, how an organization through its HRM department juggles these independent yet complimentary people management tasks greatly determines its overall success as none is more special than the others

Organization seriousness

Drawing from the notion that that organizations’ should endeavor to create strong employee foundations so as to guarantee a bright future, the structuring of the CICPA HR officer job specifications were a true reflection of CICPA’s future expansionist goals. In extension, this notion also played a key role in shaping the overall hiring process in CICPA which comprised a number procedures. Multiple testing instruments were used to test these multiple qualities, they included verbal and written interviews, psychometric tests, as well as team exercises were all employed. The multiple testing was meant to predict the future job performance of the individual candidates as they created almost similar job situations. For instance, the candidates were tested on their overall responsiveness, emotional stability, the ability to relate with strangers, how they made decisions on relatively sensitive and urgent issues, how they handled workplace stress, their overall assessment capabilities on workplace emergencies, as well as their ability to pick out constructive discussions with colleagues at workplace. Apart from providing the best opportunity to gauge what the candidates were capable of doing relative to what they said they could do, these several testing instruments also created friendly environments capable of enhancing maximum candidate interactions. Such friendly interactions enhanced the candidates’ opportunities for sharing knowledge, and reinforcing positive advancement of worthwhile skills and knowledge toward the achievement of key recruitment tasks. As a matter of fact, Armstrong (2003) opines that, employees tend to learn and shape their behaviors traits based on their immediate social environment.

Cooperation of staff and officials

There is high teamwork cooperation in CICPA organization. A significant factor in employees commitment to a particular job role in CICPA organization. In CICPA organization, organizational commitment can be resulted due to combined efforts of teamwork, which he termed it as the core factor for organizational performance. Teamwork is commonly recognized as the planning and distribution of responsibilities as well as power controlled by top managers and departmental supervisors. Teams are also perceived as quick respondents to demands of business trends and where there is also need of decision making in sharing direct information concerning employee commitment. It is through well-established team groups that ill result to organizational performance. Employers should be in a position to increase the employee commitment as well as motivation. This will lead to increased morale among the employees hence high organizational performance. Cooperation in teamwork also leads to higher productivity and committed organizational relationships among the employees. Firms that recognize employee commitment create a workplace that is committed to survive through difficult and challenging decisions.

It is through managerial power that the degree of participative decision making and employee commitment is achieved. In some organizations, participative decision making is viewed as a way of sharing power that is bestowed to the senior levels of management. In this case most of the workers and other middle level staff in CICPA organization are not invited to participate in any decision regarded to the company.

Computer skills

Majority of employees and am computer literate and proficient in use and application of Microsoft Office Word, Excel and Power point.

Teamwork

The aspect of individualism in any organization structure promotes recognition of the individual employee or group that is been involved in participative decision making. Employee commitment due to welfare activities will also focus on the CICPA organizational performance. The rate of employee retention is high in CICPA organization due to the activities of the welfare. A worker’s participation as an individual in the process of decision making should not be regarded as collective business to all other workers of the organization.

On the contrary, participative decision making and employee commitment emphasizes much on facilitation of employee retention in an organization. Employees participating in any decision making will be responsible for the results delivered by the outcome of the decisions whether positive or negative. This therefore in most organizations, leads to control of the groups to ensure that no individual employee comes up with his or her decisions without been approved by other members of the participating group.

There is also a participative decision making that involve direct face to face interaction between the supervisor and the subordinates. In this method, employees are said to have been involved in the process of decision making although a research by Witte in 1980, argued that employees who only got involved in this kind of decision making were only the ones who had adequate knowledge as well as advanced sources of information that their superiors could not possess. This indicates that majority employers provide employee commitment and decision making according to the employee performance. Employee individualism indicates indirect participation of organizational staff in decision making process. This is mainly through advisory committees and trade unions.

Implication of the study on your work/.

The study has indicated that high cooperation and collaboration among staff and employers in CICPA organization has led to its effectiveness.