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Prasad Oommen Kurian's blog on Human Capital Managment and Organization Development

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Specialist roles in internal HR : An endangered species?

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Let me begin by clarifying what I meant by the term 'specialist roles in internal HR'. Here I am taking about those roles in interna...
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Friday, January 19, 2007

Mass career customization : Is that feasible ?

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Recently, I came across an interesting article in Knowledge at Wharton titled "Plateauing : Redefining Success at Work" that tal...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The curious case of missing 'solution orientation'

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One of the most frequent complaints that I have heard about the employees in BPO /Shared Service Centres is that they lack 'solution ori...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

"Nature abhors vacuum" - HR Reengineering efforts hope so !

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It was Aristotle who came up with the hypothesis "Nature abhors vacuum". While this hypothesis might not be strictly true in the o...
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Unorthodox concepts in HR : Part 1 - The 'attrition principle'

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Let me begin with a warning. I did not learn this this very interesting HR/People Management related concept at XLRI (or from any of the oth...
Tuesday, January 9, 2007

'wisdom-level' consulting

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I worked as an external consultant for the first five years of my HR career. Consulting allowed me to play to my strengths and it gave me an...
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Monday, January 8, 2007

Competency frameworks : An intermediate stage?

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I have done quite a bit of work (both as an external consultant and as an internal consultant) in the area of developing behavioral competen...
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Friday, January 5, 2007

Measurement as an intervention

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I started my career as an alleged 'rocket scientist'(as a scientist/engineer on the satellite launch vehicle side of the Indian Spac...
Thursday, January 4, 2007

Of competencies and carbohydrates

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Today I saw an e-mail message from one of my previous bosses. Actually, this person was my first boss in my career in HR. This mail brought ...
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everlasting or timeless ?

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While I have always wanted to 'go to heaven when I die', I was often a bit concerned about one aspect of the common descriptions on ...
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Life at the intersection of theory and practice. Exploring the paradoxes and possibilities in Human Resources, Organization Development and Personal Effectiveness - using stories, myths and concepts from a wide range of fields
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