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COVER
STORY
What
If? How to Create a Great Strategy
-- Mark Chussil
Bad
strategy decisions lead to layoffs, budget cuts, ruined careers,
personal stress, and the pain of the saddest words in the
English language: "What could have been." The best antidote
is the words "what if?"... if they're spoken before the decision
gets made.
© 2002 Advanced Competitive Strategies, Inc. (www.competing.com).
Reprinted with permission.
STRATEGIC
MANAGEMENT
HR
Manual - The Resurgence HR Manual - The Resurgence
-- Guruswamy K
In
today's context it has become a prime yardstick in measuring
how people-centered an organization is. And hence the HR Manual
is once again in the news in the organizational horizon.
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ORGANIZATIONAL
MANAGEMENT
Well-being and Occupational Health
-- K Srikanth
No
denying the fact that the productivity of an organization
is dependant on Occupational health and employee well-being.
In turn, the well-being of an employee is a function of various
factors like organizational psychology, job security, work
hours, control at work, and managerial style. The article
analyzes these various factors that affect the employee's
state of No denying the fact that the productivity of an organization
is dependant on Occupational health and employee well-being.
In turn, the well-being of an employee is a function of various
factors like organizational psychology, job security, work
hours, control at work, and managerial style. The article
analyzes these various factors that affect the employee's
state of being.
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ORGANIZATIONAL
MANAGEMENT
Issues
in Employee Retention
-- Madhavi Garikaparthi and Moumita Roy
Employee
turnover is a chronic disturbance that the HR department is
exposed to. The recent times have witnessed a steep increment
in the employee turnover. The article analyses the causes
of the rising employee dissatisfaction and hence the turnover.
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ORGANIZATIONAL
MANAGEMENT
Preventing
Insider Cyber Crime with Sound Hrm Practices
-- Col. RS Prasad
Threat
of hacking from the outsiders is a known fact, but some statistics
suggest that 65% of the cyber crime is accounted for from
within the organizations.
© 2004 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
PERFORMANCE
MANAGEMENT
New
Performance Vision
-- G Girish Kumar
Increasingly,
line managers are expressing frustration at receiving incomplete
performance solutions, weak return on investment, and less
than expected results from performance support departments.
This paper proposes that silos be eliminated and complete
performance solutions be delivered by adopting a new performance
vision, enterprise learning and performance strategy, and
a common Human Performance Improvement (HPI) process.
© 2004 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
TRAINING
AND DEVELOPMENT
Outsourcing
Training and Development
-- B Sumalata
The
strategic move to outsource the Human Resource (HR) functions,
especially training and development, has gained momentum.
Though training is crucial to business, it is not the core
competence of most businesses. The key strategic issue in
insourcing versus outsourcing training and development depends
on whether a company can achieve competitive advantage by
performing the training and development function internally
on a continual basis, or would it gain more efficiency by
simply outsourcing it.
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TRAINING
AND DEVELOPMENT
Preparing the Faculty to Face Teaching Challenges
-- PVL Raju
With
the growing significance of the field of academia, the training
and development has assumed the center stage. The article
narrates the role of IU as a torch bearer in the field
of training and development.
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EMERGING
TRENDS
E-Learning:
The Future of Indian Education System
-- Neeru Maheshwari and NV Muralidhar Rao
E-Learning
has been successful in creating a whirlwind across the academia
with its web-based technology that enabled accessibility to
the seekers in every nook and corner of the world. This paper
aims to examine a web-based education model for India which
offers a lot of benefits. Further, it examines how Internet,
with its present technology limitations and costs, can be
effectively used to simplify all the stages of academic program
design and implementation.
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