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Promotional Booklets

Promotional Booklets You can have a booklet in full color of 24, or 40, or 60 pages. Or as many pages as you want above 24 pages. The expected costing of the book and its price of sale to you will be approx 9-10, 12-13, 14-15 dollars at the cost price as quoted by Amazon to us. This we shall know for final only when the final manuscript is ready for submission for printing. You purchase your copies direct from Amazon at the same price + shipping. My job will be to put it up for you on Amazon. No… Continue

Added by PK(Pradeep maheshwari) on July 4, 2009 at 6:22am — No Comments

Conflict At Work

“Speak your mind but ride a fast horse.” Cowboy Wisdom Forty years ago, a neighbor’s bull was getting on my ranch. While visiting, he (the bull – not the neighbor) sowed his wild oats. I am sure he was having a great time, but we were raising only registered stock so it was a major problem. Of course, the neighbor claimed that the fence belonged to us, and it was our problem. So we held a meeting (sitting on a tailgate) to decide the matter for the last time. We came away with an agreement that… Continue

Added by Michael L. Gooch, SPHR on July 1, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Absenteeism

Why do we have an absentee problem? When I was a young man, it was unheard of for someone not to show up for work. There were fences to mend, cow to be milked, chickens to be watered and fed. If someone missed his assignment, it was because he was dead or dying! I’ve seen my father, who would sometimes “get down in his back,” work all day and most of the night and then limp out at midnight in a snowstorm to pull a calf (assisting with a difficult birth). What happened to the work ethic? The furt… Continue

Added by Michael L. Gooch, SPHR on June 29, 2009 at 7:23am — No Comments

Hidden Messages

.Have you ever experienced the situation when you wrote something and the other party misunderstood it or interpreted it differently, sometimes to the extent of even getting hurt or/and insulted. This is what comes when we are too sensitively inclined and read overmuch between the lines for Hidden Messages. “HIDDEN MESSAGES”? What in the name of heaven for? But this is also a pointer to how we complicate our lives by assigning meanings to things by letting our imaginations roam and fly of the h… Continue

Added by PK(Pradeep maheshwari) on June 15, 2009 at 4:34am — No Comments

Letting go and letting live

Let go and let live This subject keeps popping up every now and then. How parents maintain control and run & ruin the lives of their children till “Death doth them part” is a perennial source of many miseries. You won’t need a magnifying lens or lantern to find people who practice strict hold on the psyche on their children and for that matter anywhere they can at home or work. I see this attitude so fairly common that I decided to put down some of the conversations I have had for all to no… Continue

Added by PK(Pradeep maheshwari) on June 4, 2009 at 7:48am — No Comments

Japanese adopting western bonus culture ?

Financial times dated 1-jun says "Nomura's 1600 staff- more than 50% of its investment arm adopted western style contracts" . This will cut basic salaries , provide higher performance bonus and it will be easier to fire them in case of downturn. Read Details here Continue

Added by Santosh on June 2, 2009 at 8:16pm — No Comments

The Satans and The Gods of Talent - Part I

Talent in an organisation is susceptible to inconsiderate handling. An ill-managed talent will always contribute to the regretted attrition levels of the organisation. The widely used saying ‘Employees quit bosses, not organisations!’ drives home this point all too clearly. Talent in any organisation is the ability of its workforce to exceed expectations and deliver value consistently. In an era when technology, strategy or quality benchmarks can be emulated, it is the talent that provides the… Continue

Added by Tushar Walwadikar on May 27, 2009 at 5:53pm — No Comments

Excellent Short film on Communication ,

Do watch it on this blog-page or you tube - really excellent and touching short film about communication. http://hr-universe.blogspot.com/2009/05/communication-excellent-short-film.html Leave your comments please. Continue

Added by Santosh on May 27, 2009 at 3:53am — No Comments

Japan Market Expansion Competition

If you are foreigner in Japan , then you already know that how difficult it is to get insight about how business works in Japan and why certain things - which prima facie looks very normal to you ,don't work in Japan.There is a way to get around this problem and understand intricacies of Japanese business - enroll for JMEC. Read Details here. Continue

Added by Santosh on May 25, 2009 at 6:37pm — No Comments

8th International Social Communication Cinema Conference 2009 selected a documentary by Susanta Biswas

The Government of India as a part of its state planning under the eleventh plan is promoting Small and Medium Enterprise to enhance the rural income and ensure rural development. National Afforestation and Eco-development Board as a working body of Ministry of Environment and Forests, is facilitating Joint Forest Management Committees for their sustenance by implementing seven Small and Medium Forest Enterprise pilot projects through its Regional Centres in seven different regions. The Regional… Continue

Added by SUSANTA BISWAS on May 23, 2009 at 12:45am — No Comments

Commissioned Acquisition

The Election Commission validates that acquisition for acquisition ain’t a bad thing…and how A couple of days ago I got a shock of my life when I visited one of the campuses I am associated with. A huge caravan of matadors, trucks and buses were waiting there to greet yours truly. For once, I thought my job at this institute was at stake: the promoters have perhaps logged onto the transport business to beat the recession mode I thought. My trance was broken in a moment as I soo… Continue

Added by Rajib Kumar on May 12, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Interested to Market to India's top HR and Business Professionals?

Become a sponsor for the XLRI alumni meets being held across the country in June 2009. Every year, the meet is attended by the who’s who of the business world from across industries. Your products/services will have the audience of the Sec A++ category consumers, who are the eyes and ears to many other consumer classes. These consumers, being key corporate decision makers, would be a prime target market for your products/services. Please find below our various Sponsorship Schemes: Rs. 30,000… Continue

Added by Gautam Ghosh on May 12, 2009 at 5:04pm — No Comments

13 May Carnival of HR call for entries

We signed up to host the hugely popular Carnival of HR about a year ago ... how time flies! If you would like to be included in the 13 May event, please email a post from the past two weeks to: susanna.cesar-morton (at) advorto (dot) com. There is no sub theme -- I like a challenge. -Susanna Continue

Added by Susanna on May 12, 2009 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Engaging the new generation employee

Engaging the new generation has been one of the more if not most challenging areas in modern organizations for people managers. How do you communicate with a 23 year old who has every part of his body wired (and therefore rendered himself incommunicable)? He may be into his own brand of “multitasking” ---how chatting on Facebook/Orkut with his latest sensation: a Midwestern country girl now based in DC and catching up with his mom over his newly acquired mobile set; now adding final touches to… Continue

Added by Rajib Kumar on May 12, 2009 at 9:08am — No Comments

To Appraise Or Not To Appraise

Exploring the sensitive gamut of faculty evaluation by students The other day there was a brawl at the quarterly faculty meeting of a leading management institute on the sensitive issue of introduction of faculty evaluation by students. Two senior academicians got into a heated debate; “Some 20,000 students are getting into WBUT affiliated institutions every year now…do you know what kind of students are getting in…you want them to evaluate me? Excuse me…” one thundered at another. I… Continue

Added by Rajib Kumar on May 12, 2009 at 9:01am — No Comments

The 'better half' yet to come!

Contrary to the positive connotation given to the clichéd “Well begun is half done” this article intends to generate curiosity to look at the other half as far as talent management is concerned. Organisations all over have been openly supportive of driving a performance based culture where the best are treated the best. Talent assessment activities are being carried out on a war footing at many an organisation, taking stock of talent issues if any and drawing out comprehensive plans to improve t… Continue

Added by Tushar Walwadikar on May 11, 2009 at 5:17pm — No Comments

Is this the road to Rome?

Discussing sayings (9) Accumulation Vs Passing-it-on. - In the pursuit of learning, everyday something is ac… Continue

Added by PK(Pradeep maheshwari) on May 11, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

The Fastest Way to Reach Quality Candidates, It's Free!

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Added by JackChang on May 8, 2009 at 12:44am — No Comments

What ticks in troubled times?

Economies crashing, bottom-lines dwindling, costs spinning out of control and employees being laid off…. Does it ring a bell?? I could very well be talking about your own company. And for the larger part of the corporate world this is not their worst nightmare, it is their darkest reality. The times are bad and they could get worse. Swine flu spreading over continents only symbolizes the grim scenario we are destined with. But don’t they say that you give your best when the worst arrives?? This… Continue

Added by Tushar Walwadikar on May 2, 2009 at 8:41am — No Comments

When the hunter becomes the hunted

(Ref - ET report citing the growing demand for Head hunters.) Having a lot of free time on your hands gives you the opportunity to do so much that you would have otherwise not done - surf the net, hone your typing skills, read blogs and post them, and when your eyeballs are about to pop out after having stared at a computer screen for hours you can always soothe them with cool water and a change of type font by reading the newspaper. Today's session ended with yours truly scanning the ET for a… Continue

Added by Madhudhar Bohra on April 30, 2009 at 5:13pm — No Comments

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