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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

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

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