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Industry Insights
What I Have Come to Believe
-- Ronald J Burke
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COVER STORY
Career Anchors and Expatriation
-- Jean-Luc Cerdin
This article shows how Schein's career anchors can facilitate our understanding of the individual rationale for choosing to become an expatriate. These anchors and their influence on the decision to expatriate are discussed through examples, and an additional `internationalism' anchor, especially relevant to expatriation, is also introduced. Finally, two recent studies, one comparing self-initiated and assigned expatriates, and the other proposing a model of international assignment success, both relying on career anchors, are discussed.
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COVER STORY
Changing Careers: As Challenging and Painful as it Can be
-- NR Aravamudhan
A person who wants to change his/her career frequently can hardly expect any of the well-meaning friends and good old colleagues to raise a toast for the potentially life-changing decision. On the contrary, the career changers may have to face a volley of criticism. But the biggest challenge for any individual is whether the career is giving him/her a sense of fulfillment and adding a meaning to his/her life. This article underlines the factors compelling an individual to switch careers, the possible blunders a career-changer commits and the steps to be taken to make a career change seamless.
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COVER STORY
Golden Handshake: The Need of the Hour
-- T Latha Chakravarthi
The golden handshake is frequently disturbing the proverbial hornets' nest in India, triggering a spate of trade union opposition on the one hand and expression of concern from the armchair intellectuals over the addition of thousands of people to the group of the unemployed on the other. This article focuses on whether golden handshake is really what it means or just an eyewash.
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Leadership
Hiring the Best Leaders…Even in the Non-profit World?
-- Tim H Vanderpyl
Hiring the best job candidates is the underlying motivation of every recruitment effort. This is especially tough to do in non-profit organizations that may pay much less than their for-profit counterparts. Present hiring processes will influence future leadership development in the organi-zation. Hiring the best candidates is essential and this article presents four questions that need to be asked and answered before bringing on any potential candidates to an organization.
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Workplace Issues
Stress at Workplace: A Mounting Concern
-- Smitha Das,Ghosh KB
This article deals with the recently emerged concern of increased workplace stress, its impact and the root causes for the emergence of stress. It answers some key questions such as `is job stress dangerous all the time?' and `who is affected by stress?' It also explains the consequences of stress and provides the strategies to be adopted for coping with stress.
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Diversity Management
Understanding Diversity in Today's Global Workforce and Strategies to Manage and Measure it
-- Saumya Goyal,Amol Gupta
With workforce diversity gaining importance, managing it becomes a difficult task for organizations. First step in developing a diversity program is to define what `diversity' means to the organization. The general trend is towards a broader, more inclusive definition, extending beyond visible aspects. There are `hard' reasons for companies to adapt diversity initiatives and inculcate a culture of diversity in their way of thinking.
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HR Challenges
Measuring the ROI of HR Programs
-- Dharmesh K Mishra
The HR personnel have realized the importance of the "return on investment" on all activities in an organization as they started playing the role of business partners and helping the heads of companies chart out growth trajectories for the next few years. As a result, the human resource departments have started establishing success criteria for all programs in quantitative terms.
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Training and Development
Evaluating A Training Development Program
-- Itishree Mohanty
Evaluating a Training Development Program (TDP) can provide the management with abundant information on the extent to which learning has bridged the gap between intended and actual output accrued through the application of learning, the short falls of the training, etc. This article showcases the importance of the evaluation phase of a TDP which many companies ignore. It also cites a few evaluation models that companies have adopted to understand the benefits reaped out of their TDP's.
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Emotional Intelligence: Lessons from The Bhagvad Gita
-- Samta Jain, Namrata Mehta
Today when the world is witnessing economic crisis, technological isolation and political disturbance, what is required are spiritual standards and emotional intelligence. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is required more than ever today and there is a craving need to understand the human behavior and mind power of the individual. Though The Bhagvad Gita is a masterpiece and was discoursed centuries ago, the timeless lessons it teaches are very well related to the modern day business and management activities. The Gita gives a distinctive flavor to the EI and places itself so well in the current situations of turmoil and stress.
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CASE STUDY
Women Workers in the ITES Hub of Bangalore
-- K Vidyavathi
Bangalore has gained a competitive edge in the ITES segment and has become an end to end ITES hub with the right mix of third-party vendors, BPO arms of software companies and captive centers. This Case Study examines the demographic and socioeconomic profiles of ITES sector employees and studies the characteristic features of ITES work to identify opportunities and challenges of ITES work with special emphasis on women workers.
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