Performance appraisal is a critical task in any organization, it not only a tool to measure and boost human resource productivity but also a critical aspect to consider while measuring organizational performance. With the changing face of the way new organizations are evolving, these are the times where the win-win between employee and organization lies [...]
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August 5th, 2011
Performance Evaluation in a Matrix Organization
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April 5th, 2011
5 Leadership Lessons from MS Dhoni
The Indian cricket team won the World Cup 2011 and the nation enjoyed the moment. The country has been led to the victory under the able leadership of MS Dhoni who is believed to have captured all possible frontiers in his tenure as a captain by winning the T20 and ODI world cups alongside attaining [...]
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March 10th, 2011
Piracy & Management
If you have lived or live in India, the street vendors who sell the pirated movie CDs or DVDs or the MP3 CDs would be a part of your everyday landscape. This holds true even more for the vendors in the tier 1 cities. There are couple of things which I really admire about this [...]
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May 7th, 2010
Why Indian Cafe Market Needs Customer Engagement
The café market in India has grown leaps and bounds in past 5 years. There has been a surge in the local as well as global players. The new outlets have been opening up across the country like mushrooms. The café revolution has now ensured there is a huge competition in the space with big [...]
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December 1st, 2009
Processes for Entrepreneurs with Multiple Start-Ups
I was sitting with one of my friends who is a first generation entrepreneur, he runs an two ventures. One of his ventures is a successful one with a relatively constant revenue stream through good clientele; however the other one is still in a nascent stage to generate sustainable revenue stream. He was discussing his [...]
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April 14th, 2009
Organizational IT in Downturn
Considering the current economic scenario & downturn, the first and foremost thing about the organization strategy which needs to be observed is, the primary impact of the downturn has resulted into a credit crunch situation. This essentially means that the cost of capital for an organization has gone higher and it also means that the [...]
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April 14th, 2009
Learning Culture
Learning Organization & Culture has been one of the most clichéd and misused terms. It is one of the terms which actually got highlighted and most of the organizations started including it in their sales pitch before actually implementing it. With my experience commonly the organizations have assumed the best way of implementing learning culture [...]
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April 9th, 2009
Cost Cutting Syndrome
In the turbulent times like these all the corporations are running haywire to cut costs, increasing efficiency and productivity. A lot of tough measures are being taken across corporations. The reality behind a lot of these cost cutting frenzies is a bit dark. Here is what I see around when I see corporations rolling out [...]
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March 24th, 2009
Management By Walking
I believe that “Management by Walking Around” is more of a concept or philosophy than a management style. The major point of contention between the two sides on disagreement is majorly because of the way the people might have tried to practice it. As per my interpretations of the philosophy the core message is the [...]
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