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Flexible
work options
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You have heard people
say “Thank God, its Friday”. What would you say
if you heard about “Thank God, its Thursday”?
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Alltel Information
Services telecommuting programme, a seemingly impossible
task was a great success, as nothing was left to
chance.
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Sound advice on telecommuting
from Jack Heacock, Vice-President TManage Inc.
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Environment
Management
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The new virtual world
has opened job opportunities for this willing yet
under-utilised section of the workforce.
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Social awareness, environmental
consciousness, community conscience and balanced
work/life to employees are hallmarks of “Best Managed
Companies”.
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As a HR professional would
you like to be known as an eco-friendly organisation?
Log on to Future Forests!
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Exit
Interview
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By
leveraging exit interviews companies can find out
a lot about the job, not just about the exiting
employee. 
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Exit
interviews are useful, and should be done whenever
an employee leaves a company, voluntarily or otherwise.
However, care should be taken by Indian HR managers
to avoid lawsuits while in the US
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Nick
Corcodilos’ Roach-eye-view of the HR worldHave
you been through an exit interview? It still remains
an underutilised way of finding out what’s
going wrong in an organisation.
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Outsourcing exit interviews,
function as invaluable retention tools. Somerfield
and Body Shop’s experiences prove the point.
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A successful exit interview
enabling HR to gain meaningful employee insights
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Effective exit interviews
uncover hidden truths to make a difference in employee
retention.
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Have you been through
an exit interview? It still remains an underutilised
way of finding out what’s going wrong in an organisation.
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| Mentoring |
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A strategy for
HR development
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What
type of mentoring programmes does your organisation
need?
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Instill Corp’s innovative
plan for leadership development.
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A guide to create
the right mentoring relations...
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A success story of
a pharmaceutical company in implementing mentoring
solutions.
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Organisational
Behaviour
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| Motivation
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How
do compensation schemes act as motivators?
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Innovative
ways for motivating employees!
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An
effective training method for employee motivation.
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Motivation
today is more that just carrots and sticks.
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| Time
management |
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Don’t
try to fight the clock, travel with it
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How
to juggle your time to execute the HR policies without
any distractions?
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Four
common time killers and their antidote
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| Decision
Making |
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MicroStrategy
Inc. helps employees to make better-informed decisions.
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| Organisational
Change |
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As
the rules of recruiting changed, one old-line recruiting
organisation in US embraced the Web to make job-hunting
more convenient.
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How
to operationalise learning organisations in practice?
How does a traditional organisation transform into
a learning organisation?
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Tackling
change from the motivational point of view, the
Worthit Paper Products Corporation way.
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to know how a UK government organisation successfully
navigated through the choppy waters of change.
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in organisations, is not an overnight miracle. Successful
transitions have a framework that is down-to-earth,
pragmatic, committed-to-excellence process that
kept the organisation, its leaders and employees
on the track through out the long process.
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| Perception
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When
all else fails, there is always humour.
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More
than a simple game.
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People
by nature, do not resist change. A contrary view
to the universally accepted axiom.
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People
Management
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| Employee
Turnover
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Ever
wanted to keep the exodus of employees low?
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How
does the financial statement look after deducting
the employee turnover costs?
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The
ability to retain quality employees is critical
to a successful HR function
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Google
is the only dotcom to achieve the rare distinction
of zero percent employee turnover
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As
the talent war becomes fierce, HR of IT companies
has found a unique way to bring down employee turnover
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| Ethics
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Unethical
practices by employees may cost the organisation
a fortune. Tips to HR professionals on how to train
their employees on ethical standards.
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Fine
Line Consulting’s insights into why corporates need
women at the top.
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A
multicultural organisation’s tale on its diversity
initiative programme.
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| Discipline |
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Superior
performance is not an excuse for not disciplining
a temperamental employee feels Prof. Peggy Anderson.
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| Team
Building |
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To
accomplish better team needs information flow, through
regular briefing
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Professor Hackman of Harvard
University observes the finer nuances of making
your team succeed.
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In
this highly self-centred world, building team spirit
through outdoor adventure activities has become
an important HR strategy. Indian HR practitioners
are increasingly adopting this concept to overcome
organisational problems
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Working in teams, improves productivity and profit.
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Creating
a winning team for innovative solutions.
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| Counselling |
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Counselling
disgruntled employees to reinstate a sense of commitment
and appreciation helps reinvent working relationships.
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| Corporate
Health |
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Linking
employee health and well-being to organisational
outcomes is a vision for healthy organisations.
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| Employee
Turnover |
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It
is not the competitive compensation or benefits
but the way the employees are treated that makes
them work and stay.
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Performance
Management
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| Post
appraisal blues |
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Would
you like to say, ‘Great! It’s appraisal time!’?
Listen to Dr. Hendrie Weisinger and Michael Scott
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Focus
on attempts of three corporates to link performance
assessment to developmental needs.
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| TQM
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Venu
Srinivasan and the Deming Prize. Kudos for India.
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TQM
tools and techniques, properly implemented, have
the power to create a sustainable competitive advantage
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Organisations
can use TQM as the hub for change management
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| Appraisal |
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The
process of employee appraisal- The Chrysler and
Adaptec way.
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Good
feedback is the key to improve employee performance.
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An
HR manager’s checklist for self-directed 360-degree
appraisal.
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Seven
steps for HR professionals to help improve the process
of performance appraisal
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Saving $20 million with a new appraisal system
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Formally documenting your perceptions of your employee’s
work can be contentious and demotivating. How to
document your message without ruffling too many
feathers
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Feedback when
used as a stand-alone tool may not serve the purpose.
British Nuclear Fuels PLC experience
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Performance
appraisals often lead to heartaches, both for the
manager and the employee. Here’s a five-step strategy
to get rid HRD’s off the pain.
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Get
rid off the appraisal blues by adopting proactive
measures.
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Like
it or not the ever reliable and much debated 360
degree feedback is here to stay. Want to know how
the Fortune 1000 companies have made use of it?
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A
distant subordinate, a techno-savvy employee, one
with lot of ‘grey’ hair and another who is highly
compensated! How would you appraise performances
in such tricky situations? Advice from performance
appraisal guru Dick Grote.
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Have
your employees approved of your existing performance
appraisal system?
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Recruitment
& Retention
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| Employee
Retention |
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It
is becoming increasingly clear that, in today's
dynamic business environment, companies that want
to remain competitive must adopt a more strategic
approach to employee retention.
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How
do you slow down the exodus of employees? Check
out the innovative employee retention measure given
below.
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Do
your employees carry a ‘here today, gone tomorrow’
attitude? Here’s a solution to such problems.
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| Interview
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Tell
me something about yourself’ - the most enjoyable
part of the interview
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An
Effective behavioural interview of CEO interviews.
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The
Mensa-Style questions aid HR managers to gain a
subjective view of the prospects
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| ESOP
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Retaining
employees has become a priority for companies. ESOPs
have proved to be one of the most powerful strategies
to employee retention.
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The
perplexity of stock options needs cautious handling
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Employee
ownership and corporate performance are correlated
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| Online
recruiting |
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Creating
The Right Website To Attract The Right Candidates…
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How
successful is your recruitment programme? Metrics,
to guide in your decision to hire.
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With
numerous job sites in the cyspace, how do you select
the right ones…
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| Compensation
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Whetting
the insatiable appetite of employees for the better
things of life…find out more.
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Organisations
with a culture that foster team spirit and treat
employees equal have a lower cost of compensation.
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Employee
ownership and corporate performance are correlated.
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| Training
& Development
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| Learning
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Informal
learning is the new frontier of employee and organisational
development at Motorola
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To
generate big ideas and encourage creativity P&G
is practising “Experiential Learning”
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Motorola’s
self-directed learning global strategy is not only
attractive but also necessary.
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| Induction
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New
employees may exit early if employers leave the
induction process to chance
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HR
should inform new recruits about their e-mail policy
during the induction programme itself.
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An
effective induction programme can boost new employee’s
job satisfaction and help in retention
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| Computer
Based Training (CBT) |
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The
magic of the Internet and Web technology has transformed
employee training.
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As
an e-trainer are you looking for ways to improving
your techniques?
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Technology-based
learning enables HR officials to monitor employee
progress.
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Training
online is fast, flexible, costs less and also allows
HR to monitor the employee’s progress.
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| Training
the Trainer |
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Training
that incorporates comedy, magic, dramatics and music
makes learning enjoyable and increases attention
levels while boosting information retention.
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Trainers
have more accountability for performance.
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“What
I hear I forget, what I see I remember, what I do
I understand” – Confucius.
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The
value of ‘humour in training’.
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| Management
Trainee Programme |
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Organisations
can reap immense benefits by providing necessary
tools for those with special needs, thus turning
disabilities into skills.
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A
training programme developed to train the future
leaders, either internal or external has high per-trainee
development costs while a consortium programme cuts
the cost of leadership development and enhances
learning through participants’ sharing of knowledge
and experiences.
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How
does an organisation with an existing safety effort
continue its progress on the path of ongoing injury
and incident reduction?
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