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Out of the box thinking: The real Challenges for leaders

Out of the box thinking: The real Challenges for leaders
by Guest Contributor May 14, 2012 General / Interesting

When new leaders take over their roles, they are often know to change the ways of business. This has essentially two dimensions: (i)The business situation is constantly evolving, thereby, calling for new ideas and business paradigms and (ii)The stakeholders have different comfort levels on the appropriateness and competencies of particular leaders, thereby, supporting and welcoming change through the [...]

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U.S., Japan and Asia in World Business-A Brief

U.S., Japan and Asia in World Business-A Brief
by V S Rama Rao May 2, 2012 General / Interesting

The United States; Dashed expectations for Limitless Growth. US operations managers had spent much of the 1980s and 1990s responding to the assaults of Japanese and other Asian competitors. This had forced them to embark on a variety of improvement activities, many of which finally appeared to be bearing fruit. They had downsized their organizations, [...]

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Managing Silos – Is Executive Education a Way Out ?

Managing Silos – Is Executive Education a Way Out ?
by Nabomita Mazumdar April 18, 2012 General / Interesting

How far is executive education relevant while bringing a change in the organization? Does it make us theoretical or does it draw theory close to the practices? How is education at the senior most level , put into use ? Here are a few posts from CiteHR , which reflects the need and the tone [...]

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Learning in Spurts : Sprinting through Knowledge

Learning in Spurts : Sprinting through Knowledge
by Nabomita Mazumdar April 16, 2012 General / Interesting

Do you learn when you buy a cook book ? Does that quench your hunger ? Strange thought though, how many times has it happened to you, that you learnt something in a discussion far more than you did it in your reading? Lets look into this cook-book parable. Do you learn how to cook [...]

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My PhD in HR – A journey that changed my life!

My PhD in HR – A journey that changed my life!
by Guest Contributor April 16, 2012 General / Interesting

My PhD in HR – a journey that changed my life! Why did I chose to pursue a PhD in HR? Having been in the HR field for over 20 years, the only next move, I thought appropriate was topursue a PhD, particularly focused on Global HR. Since, I am based in the US for [...]

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Factors Influencing Satisfaction

Factors Influencing Satisfaction
by V S Rama Rao April 14, 2012 General / Interesting

Previous : significant / significant Commitment: significant / significant Partner’s reputation: not significant / significant Definition of objectives:  significant / not significant Communication: not significant   / significant Conflict: Significant / not significant Organizational design: not significant / not significant Geographical proximity: not significant / not significant Therefore, the preferred structure for an alliance will depend [...]

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HR Summit on transforming leadership : HRM in turbulent times

HR Summit on transforming leadership : HRM in turbulent times
by Guest Contributor April 2, 2012 General / Interesting

The HR Sumit with the theme : Transforming Leadership : Human Resource Management in Turbulent Times opened a window of opportunity for many of the attending corporate dignitaries to understand the importance of employee retention through appreciation of their contribution towards maintaining and nurturing the invaluable human resources. The Session began with Forbes Marshall CEO [...]

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HR Professionals too are ‘human’

HR Professionals too are ‘human’
by Guest Contributor April 2, 2012 General / Interesting

More than a decade and half since now have been into HR. Gradually realized how HR is looked upon by the individuals from other depts. Probably since they all are into business & their business is HR business. Say, an employee from Purchase is clear about his role and operates within the required limits. HR [...]

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Bench-Marking: An organization’s technique for continuous improvement

Bench-Marking: An organization’s technique for continuous improvement
by Guest Contributor April 2, 2012 General / Interesting

In the past despite inherent capabilities many Indian companies were non-competitive and complacent due to the protectionist in inward looking economic policies. The present business environment however requires both private and public sector enterprises to continuously hone their skills, inculcate the best practices across divisions and functions, reengineer their business processes and keep inventing themselves through continuous learning [...]

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Success of Alliances and Collaborations

Success of Alliances and Collaborations
by V S Rama Rao March 19, 2012 General / Interesting

Some factors which contribute to the success of an alliance include: The alliance is perceived as important by all partners. A collaboration champion exists. A substantial degree of trust between partners exists. Clear project planning and defined task milestones are established Frequent communication between partners, in particular between marketing and technical staff. The collaborating parties [...]

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Multinationals and World Trade

Multinationals and World Trade
by V S Rama Rao March 16, 2012 General / Interesting

The rapid growth of war-torn economies and previously underdeveloped countries, coupled with large scale economic cooperation and assistance led to new global marketing opportunities. Rising standards of living and broad-based consumer and industrial markets abroad created opportunities for American companies to expand exports and investment worldwide. During the 1950s, many US companies that had never [...]

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Managing Collaboration

Managing Collaboration
by V S Rama Rao March 15, 2012 General / Interesting

Collaborations can also be used as an opportunity to learn new market and technological competencies in other words to internalize partner’s know-how. Collaboration is an inherently risky activity and less than half achieve their goals. A study of almost 900 joint ventures found that only 45% were mutually agreed to have been successful by all [...]

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