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COVER STORY
Career Plateau : A Plateau at Which You Put Your Thoughts in Order
and Prepare to Try Again
-- Silpy Sarker
The need of continued existence and escalation, in this rapid altering environment has
forced the enterprises to dwindle their hierarchical positions, leading to slow rate of promotion
and increase in competition among the employees. Thus, employees hit a terrain in career
termed as career plateau, perceived negatively as a phase of no new opportunities and
challenges, which results in dropdown of their performance. This article tries to look into the
different rationales behind plateauing and change the way of thinking from pessimistic to
more optimistic by adopting the right approaches.
© 2011 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION
Motivating Employees : An Everlasting Challenge
-- D Christopher Amrutham
Motivating employees is always a challenging job to be performed by the
manager. Theoretically stated and practically proved point is, employees can only be motivated
by satisfying their needs. The needs are not consistent and stable for the employees. They
keep on changing with the changing business circumstances and human requirements.
Hence, motivating the employees depends on identifying their needs and thereby fulfilling them to
the best possible extent, which is always a challenging task for the employers. This
article therefore looks into these issues so as to highlight the everlasting challenge of motivating
the employees in relevance to the current scenario.
© 2011 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
HR METRICS
HR Metrics : Moving Beyond Absenteeism and Turnover Statistics
-- Dr. Samta Jain, Dr. Namrata Mehta
In today's world, realization of human resource has become quite prominent and
pronounced with companies assigning dollar values to their staff. HR department is entrusted with the
role of creating and enhancing the value of human resource and, in turn dealing with the
competitive challenges in the changing market scenarios. In the rapidly changing work conditions, there
is an acute need of strategic human resource practices and its successful implementation.
HR metrics is one such instrument which measures specific outcomes and criterions through
its design.
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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Knowledge Management Through Effective HRM
-- Shashi Tiwari, Mananjay Dubey
Today, the business environment is characterized by three Cs, namely—Change,
Challenges and Competition. In this tough and challenging competitive environment, it is very essential
not only to survive but also to emerge as winners—the only key to stay in competition in the
long run. To serve this purpose, the strongest assets available to organizations are its
human resources, who are the source of ample amount of information and knowledge. The
challenge today is effective utilization of this knowledge to gain competitive advantage, and hence
the importance of knowledge management via effective talent management.
© 2011 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Role of Organizational Culture in Shaping Buyer-Seller Relationship: A Critical Analysis
-- Dr. Pradip Kumar Mallik, Dr. Pradyumna Kumar Tripathy
Culture is an abstract entity. But, it has practical meaningfulness particularly in
the organizational context. Culture creates the identity of an organization. It lends
specific business climate where employees are nurtured. The buyer-seller relationship,
indeed, reflects assimilation of two organizations bearing distinct cultural identities. This
article identifies the cultural complexities and the process by which it moulds the relational
dynamics between the buyer and the seller. The article further explores some contextual incidents
with reference to effective assimilation of culture, fostering the relationships between the
buyer and the seller in real world scenario.
© 2011 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
ERGONOMICS
Achieving Organizational Effectiveness Through
Health Management
and Ergonomics : An Overview
-- Dr. T Munirathnam Naidu, Dr. G Ramesh
Ergonomics is the science of balancing between employees and the work they do. It
is concerned with designing jobs by integrating socio-technical factors of the job
and characteristics of a jobholder. It provides a safer and comfortable workplace solution
for increased efficiency and enhanced
productivity. The principles of ergonomics are being
used to improve man-machine system so that an employee can perform the job effectively.
Good ergonomics in the workplace results in less absenteeism and minimum turnover due
to health issues. It can keep employees healthier, happier and energetic.
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CASE STUDY
Cisco's Organizational Structure
and its Collaborative Approach
to Decision Making
-- Debapratim Purkayastha
Cisco Systems, Inc. (Cisco), an Internet technology company, has an organizational
structure comprising of various cross-functional teams. The key decisions in the company are taken
by councils, boards and working groups. These committees (around 60 as of 2009) working
at different levels are cross-functional in nature. According to John T Chambers (Chambers),
the Chairman and CEO of Cisco, the company had reorganized to break free of the silo culture in
the company prior to 2001, so that it could remain agile and innovative in a rapidly
changing industry. The company felt that the traditional command-and-control model had lost
its relevance, and the future would be about collaborate models of decision making. He
also claimed that the new organizational model had served the company well and helped
implement its aggressive growth strategy amidst the economic downturn. Industry observers
and organizational experts are however divided in their opinion about Cisco's
organizational structure and approach to decision making.
© 2010 IBS Center for Management Research. All Rights
Reserved.
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