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COVER
STORY
Making
Sense of Intellectual Infrastructure: A Benchmark for High
Performance of Organizations - - Radha Mohan Chebolu
An
organization's dynamism and performance depends on the extent
of its understanding of the utility of "human capital" and
its effective management for value creation in the long run.
The successful stories of many corporate enterprises speak
about the need for developing proper "intellectual infrastructure"
in its true sense for efficient management of knowledge resources
that enables a company to create its own mark in the global
market. The digitalization of essential services for facilitating
a proactive role by the HR managers is found to be one of
the tools suggested for promoting a learning atmosphere in
the organization.
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COVER
STORY
Achieving
High Performance - - Sumati Reddy
This
article aims to provide a perspective on some approaches to
performance management. Some of these approaches are specifically
meant to enable the design of an effective Performance Management
System (PMS). A few approaches provide a basis for analyzing
performance. Other approaches are not solely aimed at enhancing
employee performance, but include employee performance management
as an integrated goal in the overall scheme of things. The
consideration of these approaches in the design of a PMS will
serve several objectives in congruence with organizational
needs.
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COVER
STORY
High
Performance Work Practices - - Sireesha Mamidenna
High
performance work practices have gained a lot of currency in
popular management jargon. However, there is not much clarity
as to what constitutes high performance work practices and
their applicability in a global context. Are they really panaceas
or another passing fad? The issues related to high performance
work practices have been discussed.
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COVER
STORY
High
Performance Work Systems and Organizational Culture: High
Performance is High Quality - - Swapnika C, Amitabh Kodwani
Ever
wonder why some organizations are super-performers and some
cannot even reach a sustainable level? If you are thinking
that the "super-successful" organizations excel because of
their technological competence or financial soundness, think
again!
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QUALITY
OF WORK LIFE
Employee
Relations and Business Strategies - - Ramakanta Patra
Employee
Relationship Management (ERM) is a cutting edge, complex,
and critical business process which enables and energises
employees and gives them an effective drive, with additional
motivation to do their job better in comparison to the conventional
HR practices. It is simultaneously an effective tool to manage
the cordial relationship between employees and the HR practices
and creating a dedicated and effective work force. It is an
integrated HR system which allows employees to participate
in a transparent communication in the organization, which
helps to achieve organizational goals without any ambiguity.
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GENERAL
MANAGEMENT
Positional
Competencies: A Checklist for Product and Brand Managers - - Suresh Garimella
Any
functionary needs to have a certain level of knowledge and
skills. These need to be supported by an appropriate attitude.
The abilities of individuals are not uniform across the organizational
edifice. Competency requirements vary based on the requirements
of the functions and the organizational level of the functionary.
The competencies required by various people in the product
management function have been reviewed here.
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STRATEGIC
HR
Strategic
Human Resource Management: Why, What and How - - Nayantara Padhi
Typically,
Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) bridges business
strategy and HRM, and focuses on the integration of HR with
business and its environment. SHRM has become topical in recent
years but the definitions, reason of integrating business
strategy and HRM, and the process of integration widely vary.
Keeping this as the background, this paper tries to contribute
to the debate by understanding the genesis, concept, approaches
and features of SHRM.
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ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOR
Indian
Wisdom on Human Behavior and its Superiority over Transactional
Analysis - - K Nagarajan
Organizational
Behavior studies the behavior of people in an organization.
Though people have many things in common, every individual
is different from the other in terms of behavior patterns.
The philosophy of organizational behavior recognizes the individual
differences between people, the basics of these differences
and the scope for their improvement.
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BOOK
REVIEW
Inspiring
Leadership - - Jane Cranwell-Ward, Andrea Bacon, Rosie Mackie
Drawing
on research findings from the world of competitive sport,
Inspiring Leadership is a case study that applies the universally
accepted frameworks of motivation, communication, conflict
management and organizational culture to gain insight into
leadership. What makes the leader an inspiring model for the
followers is a complex process unraveled through a scientific
and well structured research applied to BT Global Challenge.
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