Monthly Archives: July 2012

5 Steps to Turn around a Bad Day!

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Like a bad hair day, there comes a morning that forebodes of mishappenings and disasters. Of course, everyone, once in a while has a lousy morning and things look grim in spite of the shiny sun outside. There are a lot of things an employee can do to lift his/her...
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Going Beyond the Trodden…

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Cristo Rei loop
“Leaders don’t flock.  You have to find them one at a time.”  — Ross Perot But imagine doing that every time you are looking to fill in a higher management position. Wouldn’t it be difficult to single out that one best candidate who can do the job just perfect, without...
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Crowd Sourcing Performance Appraisal

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45 percent of HR leaders don’t believe that employees’ annual performance accurately reviews and reflect the quality of their work, according to Globoforce and SHRM’s Winter 2012 Report: “The Impact of Recognition On Employee Engagement and ROI”. In other words, nearly half of all corporate HR departments have no confidence in the systems their companies...
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Why Yahoo needed to hunt down its next CEO?

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The importance of talent management has emerged with its full effect in recent times with Yahoo struggling to find the right CEO for five years. In a recent study conducted by Bersin & Associates (Leadership Development Factbook 2012: Benchmarks and Trends in U.S. Leadership Development), it was found that spending...
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Rage of Recognition!

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Who does not like to be recognized and rewarded for their good work? Wouldn’t you? But exactly how significant can this be to your organizational performance? With HR evolving to “strategic HR” how efficient are R&R programs to become a strategic tool in your HR planning? Before you waive off...
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Act of Appreciation

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Happy guys and girls expressing happiness
I met Jennifer the other day at the downtown plaza mall. I almost couldn’t recognize her.  She looked all classy and jazzy with her tight pants and red polo neck top, a Gucci bag and lots of shopping bags of big branded outlets.  I approached her and said ‘Hey Jennifer!...
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I’m Resigning!

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“I’m thrilled to inform you that I’m resigning. I have been waiting for what seems like forever to inform you that I’m resigning. I’ve hated to work for the company since the day I was hired. I don’t like the work, I don’t like my fellow employees, and I don’t...
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New Age Platforms

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HR has evolved from administrative to more engaging and value generating functions. There are different ways companies have risen to the need of technology, depending on localized or distributed operations. Few went and availed existing comprehensive HRIS and others opted for internal automated tools, especially medium and big size IT...
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Social Business Platforms: Boon or Bane?

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Indeed the industry is buzzing again with a new jargon and this time it is not about marketing or finance but about “Human Resource”. Ever since the advent of social platforms, an enormously large number of its applications have emerged. And now it has hit the HR world. Consider the...
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Motivation in the New Century

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Motivation in the New Century
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it- Dwight D. Eisenhower Even though motivation has been a subject of interest for HR practioners and researchers for a long time, no consensus has been achieved on exactly how to...
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