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Monday, March 26, 2007

Strange case of 'wrong' HRIS reports

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As far as I know, there are only a few things that HR leaders (at the corporate level) across companies agree on. One of them seems to be th...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Goal setting and 'zero error'

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I came across this interesting situation in a Business Process Outsourcing ( BPO) company. The issue was with 'target setting' for ...
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Thursday, February 8, 2007

HR professionals and Multiple Personality Disorder

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Encyclopedia Britannica defines multiple personality disorder as follows: 'Dissociative identity disorder, formerly called multiple pe...
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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

At the receiving end of 'change management'

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If one looks at the job description of any 'strategic' HR position, it is highly likely that 'management of change' (or ...
Thursday, February 1, 2007

Of shibumi, areté and personal excellence

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I have been working on developing a 'Personal Excellence Model'. Though I have used the term 'model', this is more of a pers...
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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...
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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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