| COVER
STORY The
Dynamics of Corporate Stress
- - KK Banerjee and Shivaji Banerjee
The
article explores the varied dimensions of stress and lays down essential guidelines
to combat the incidence of stress in an organizational context. It looks at the
various causes, symptoms, and strategies adopted to cope with stress and manage
it effectively. The article also makes an attempt to analyze whether stress is
for real or is just masquerading as such because of a person's erroneous interpretation
of the situation. The article is thus an honest endeavor to paint the elephant's
portrait in full glory.
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COVER
STORY Organizational
Strategies for Effective Stress Management
- - T Lydia Nuthan and T Moses Christopher
Stress is a negative consequence of modern living. While distress affects
a person's physiological and psychological well-being, eustress refers to the
healthy, positive, constructive outcome of stressful events. Many organizations
do not have any formal process for handling concerns or grievances relating to
stress. However, a number of strategies or initiatives are available to cope with
work-related stress. This article focuses on a few such strategies, which may
be adopted by organizations to prevent, minimize and overcome stress.
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COVER
STORY Stress
Management
- - Sunaina
Regular
practice of yoga and meditation not only helps employees to manage stress but
also helps create a peaceful and cordial environment to work and produce better
results. Staff training, organizing formal meetings, rewarding people for their
performance and extra-curricular activities are some of the means by which organizations
can make employees feel valuable and enable them to overcome stress.
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TEAM
LEADERSHIP Team
Leadership
- - Swarnika Dixit
Globalization
has brought about many changes in the business environment. To survive in today's
ever-changing environment, organizations need to respond adequately to market
demand. Teams are one way through which an organization can respond quickly and
adapt to these changes. To effect positive change, organizations require effective
team leaders. This article discusses the various aspects of team leadership and
how team leaders can facilitate the smooth functioning of the teams and the organization
as a whole.
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KNOWLEDGE
MANAGEMENT Knowledge
Work and Knowledge Workers
- - Eldos Mathew Punnoose
Anachronism
is a curse on both organizations and individuals alike. Organizations which failed
to cope with time have been wiped out and have become history. This article attempts
to provide a deeper understanding of knowledge work and knowledge workers. It
identifies the prerequisites for an organization to create and manage a culture
conducive for knowledge work. It also looks at the implications on core HR practices
like recruitment, selection and performance of management practices.
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GLOBAL
HR Building
a Global Competitive India : Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless World
- - Poonam Sharma
Building
a competitive India is a challenge. Consumers look to global brands as symbols
of cultural ideals. They use them to create an imagined global identity that they
can share with like-minded people. Like almost every country, India too has welcomed
globalization as a development paradigm with its entrepreneurial talents, skilled
manpower and huge stock of scientific, technical and managerial people. But the
mantra of the new economy involves acquiring the necessary skills to survive and
thrive in the same. The challenge is to build a competitive India for global leadership.
scientific, technical and managerial people.
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PERFORMANCE
MANAGEMENT HR
Practices and Business Performance
- - SVVS Vara Prasad
In
today's competitive business environment, intellectual capital will be critical
to business success. So if organizations are to generate profits through people,
HR practices were particularly significant. In this article, an attempt has been
made to reveal that how the use of HR practices contributed to enhance employee
commitment and is in turn linked to higher levels of productivity and quality
of services.
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HR
ACCOUNTING Human
Resource Accounting : The Unresolved Agenda
- - PK Chakraborty
Though
HRM is considered to be a critical factor for the success of a business and human
capital being a major contributor to this success, valuation of human resources
and its accounting is yet to find its proper place in the financial statements
prepared under the present system of financial accounting. But with the emergence
of knowledge economy, the valuation of business without considering human resources
is being questioned in various forums on different occasions. It is being argued
that the human resources are to be included in the total value of a business,
as people constitute the core element of an organization and their efficiency,
knowledge, quality and character can make or break a business. The various facets
of these emerging challenges have been highlighted in this article.
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CASE
STUDY Karoshi
- - Christoph Zacharias
The
Japanese word karoshi means death from overwork. The first reported case of karoshi
was in 1969. Since then the karoshi phenomenon drew a lot of media and public
attention in Japan. By the 1990s, karoshi had become a buzzword. The National
Defense Council for the Victims of Karoshi estimated that annually about 10,000
workers were the victims of karoshi. Most of the victims died of heart failure
and a few were driven to suicide. The main reason for the incidence of karoshi
was the disproportionately long working hours in Japan, which is rooted in the
very nature of the Japanese Production Management system.
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