What is Leave Management?

Hi everyone!

Our topic for today is on Leave Management. This benefit may have become too common in companies that people might not think the importance of leave and how its management is actually crucial in employees' performance.

What is leave management? 

As humans, we need rests and may sometimes require to take leave in order to not be overworked, and thus, reducing our productivity. By taking leave, the employee is able to relax, rest and be fully recharged and increase his/her productivity in his/her work.


Leave management is one of the simplest yet one of the most important HR activities that often consumes a significant portion of the HR team’s time. Besides ensuring that employees are satisfied, HR team have to ensure compliance with policies, any government requirements and at the same time, ensuring that enough employees are available to ensure that the business can run without disruption.

Therefore, it is very important to have a reliable leave management system for your company. Research has shown that poor leave management practices may negatively affect employee performance. It can also affect employee morale and therefore impact project deliverables. According to a research conducted by Singapore based recruitment firm Robert Half, most employees want more days off. The survey of 500 employees in Singapore found 36 percent put more annual leave at the top of their wish list, followed by more flexible hours (32 per cent) and professional development opportunities (20 per cent). This shows how employees highly value time-off from work.

What is your take on your company's leave management?

Malaysia Employment Act 1955

Are you looking for Malaysia Employment Act 1955?

Here I attach the act for your reference:

Malaysia Employment Act 1955 from Khairun Nisa Aziz

What is Human Resources Management?

This title may sound too simple.

But not all actually understand what is Human Resources Management.

Almost all companies employ workers to run the business. And of course, these workers are the human resources of the company which needs to be managed.

Human resource management (or its short form HRM or HR), is the management of human resources in a company. It is designed to maximize employee performance in the service of an employer's strategic objectives. HR is mainly concerned with the management of people in organizations, focusing on policies and systems.

Normally HR departments are responsible for the following:
1. Attracting talents
2. Recruitment
3. Overseeing employee-benefits design
4. Training and development
5. Performance appraisal
6. Rewards (managing pay and benefits systems)
and more.

HR also concerns itself with organizational change and industrial relations, that is, the balancing of organizational practices with requirements arising from collective bargaining and from governmental laws.

We go back to this point: It is designed to maximize employee performance in the service of an employer's strategic objectives.

This is actually the main point of HR.

HR will identify the needs and requirements in order to achieve the strategic objectives, and plan out and carry out the actions in order to maximize employee performance towards that objectives.