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| Ten things you wanted to know about Outsourcing your Human Resources |
When one starts thinking of outsourcing the HR function, whether partially or totally, there are a lot of questions that crop up in the mind. We've attempted to put together some of them and tried to present potential solutions so that these questions do not act as roadblocks in the journey towards greater efficiency and professionalism in the HR function.
Outsourcing is now a norm, people have realised that they should concentrate on their organisation's core competencies and not share limited bandwidth in trying to run functions that can be run by someone else better, either because that someone else is better trained to carry out these functions, or because it does not make commercial sense to have an in-house function that would probably not have its hands full all the while.
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Formulating a Leadership Development Program |
"The impact of one perceived strength moves leaders to the top 64% in effectiveness, three strengths puts them in the top 26% of the effectiveness."
Meet Mr. Just Promoted, as the name implies he was just promoted to a leadership position within his firm. He was an executive and he did his work well; that is before he was promoted to a position he had no clue what to do in.
I guess everyone has to reach their respective levels of incompetence according to the Peter Principle. It happens everywhere time and time again, competent people are promoted to positions they don't have the requisite skill sets for (e.g. A programmer promoted to a Team Leader and expected to be good with MIS and presentation skills), and then asked why they can't continue their streak of success?
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| Don't make these mistakes at your new job! |
Getting a job that you always dreamed of is no mean feat, agreed. But are you continously doing what is required to make sure you stick to it? Small behavioral changes may someimtes be the need of the day when you're moving into a new organization.
Here, instead of telling you what to do, we're telling you what not to do at your new job in order to set off at the right note.
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| Who's that guy? |
In the fast paced urban life of today, people are expected to play many different roles depending on the situation, time or place they find themselves in. For example if you are an aggressive go-getter, you would not think of showing the 'my way or the highway' side of yours in a PTA meet at your child's school, or would you? The truth is that there are some traits in our personality that are invariably constant, our responses remain the same even though the context might have changed... these could be learned responses or inherent personality traits. Hence the old adage "you can tell how a man is by looking at the way he treats the waiter at a restaurant".
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The Union Budget came and went - had a hugely negative impact on the market, even though it's picked up lately. Missed opportunity, I think - the first two years of the government is always the time that you can push strong reforms, even if they hurt. Third year onwards the elections suddenly start looming on the horizon, and that's the end of reforms. With a strong government, wanted to see a little more aggression than what we witnessed. Maybe the're waiting for next year - sure hope so.
On to my favourite topic - I find this Australian snowball gaining momentum as it rushes down the international cricket ratings really fascinating. A 75 year old Lords jinx broken, a tied first test where the Australians again howled and hollered about non-gentlemanly behaviour (look who's talking, mate), top order floundering yet again, bowling without teeth - all the drama associated with an ungainly fall from glory. On the other side of the chart was the Bangladesh team - even though they beat a hugely watered down West Indian team - it was still history being made, and something to remember. Glad that the West Indian problems have been sorted out, would have hated to see teams from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the likes to take the cricket field.
The point is, there is nothing permanent, and nothing that may not change tomorrow. Just like the mindset around HR outsourcing. Things are a-changing, and changing in favour of outsourcing non core competency areas. Why carry the burden on your shoulders when there are professionals who can manage stuff better? Have a look at one of our articles in this edition on this. Continue Reading here...
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Failure: It is what you need to succeed |
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Eve Lupert |
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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill.
Winston should know. He was last in his class. It took him three attempts to get in the college of his choice, and he took third place in his first campaign for parliament. He was considered a disaster as the First Lord of the Admiralty, he even got demoted.
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Motivation in Recession |
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Sangeeta Malhotra |
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We are living through a phase of economic slowdown in the global markets including in India. These are uncertain times and with the declining state of the global economy with credit crunch and layoffs happening all across, most companies have to deal with these complex situations in their organizations. The question on everyone's mind today is how to survive and sail through a recession.
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