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Is This Engagement ?

18 Tuesday Aug 2009

Posted by Prem Rao in Executive Effectiveness

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employee engagement, people management, Rob Briner

Terms like “engaged employees “and ” psychological contract” are frequently used by HR practitioners when they speak of successful people at work. Some believe that intrinsic motivators like a sense of achievement and the challenges that go with the job really influence performance. Others argue that there is nothing like a rich pay packet to make the employee set aside everything else to perform well at work.

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Best Companies To Work For in 2009

04 Wednesday Feb 2009

Posted by Prem Rao in Organisations, People

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Fortunes Best Companies To Work For, NetApp, people management

A year fraught with economic turmoil. A year which could be the beginning of a new epoch. Most organizations have faced tough times – some more than others. Big names have vanished and most others wonder how to sustain themselves in uncertain times. Yet, there are a few organizations that are considered The Best Companies To Work For in 2009 as per Fortune.

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Re-naming the HR Function

08 Thursday Jan 2009

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Paul Sykes, Prinicipal Presentation Coach at The Speakers Friend Ltd recently asked a thought provoking question in LinkedIn. He asked: What should the HR function be re-named? There were many suggestions in this debate. I recommended it be called the “Organizational Effectiveness” function. Let me explain why.

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Ducking People Management

01 Monday Sep 2008

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My friend, Mike Chitty has an interesting post titled ” Why Do Managers Duck People Management ?”.

He starts with a quote from research from IBM and the Human Capital Institute which says that 84 % of organisations know that workforce effectiveness is important to achieving business results but only 42 % of those surveyed say managers devote sufficient time for people management.

To me the best managers have been those who are “good with people”. I clarify that being ” good with people” is not the same as being ” good to people”. Effective managers know when to be tough and demanding at the same time know when to be sensitive and understanding. Being good with people does not mean pampering to their every whim.

As is often said, management at the end of the day is not a popularity contest. We should seek to be effective managers rather than popular managers. If you can be effective and popular, you have the best of both worlds.

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Salary Hikes to Be Lower

25 Monday Aug 2008

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Inflation is hitting the Indian economy and hitting it hard. Recent reports suggest that the rate of inflation has gone up even further and touched 12.63 % for the week ended August 9. This is the highest in the last 13 years. What is amazing is that inflation was only around 4.3 % a year ago! We are speaking of a three fold increase in such a short period.

With this kind of increase, somethings had to be hit- one of them is salary hikes in corporate India for 2009.

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Family Life Cycles & People Management

07 Saturday Jun 2008

Posted by Prem Rao in A Step A Day

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Marketing pundits have always advocated that the buying behaviours of people vary as they move through the different stages of the family life cycle. This is reflected in their tastes, their needs, their state of health and well being, the extent of their responsibilities, the level of their disposable income etc.

Why don’t we in the business of people management use this age old knowledge profitably?

The family life cycle, typically has 6 stages:

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“Can Management Gurus Manage?”

31 Saturday May 2008

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Read T T Ram Mohan’s interesting article in the Economic Times. It’s called ” Can Management Gurus Manage?”.

Its amusing to think that the Professor of Organizational Behaviour is going through a major crisis in his personal life and that the Professor of Economics is virtually broke. This reminds me of a story.

Many years ago when I was studying at the XLRI, Jamshedpur, the construction workers carrying out building work on campus  went on strike.

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