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Monday, December 22, 2008 5:36 PM

Of managing families and organizations

I almost had a feeling of déjà vu when I was speaking to chief executive officers who admitted that employees often know better about wastages in the organization than executives at the top. Many years ago, in 1988 to be precise, my maternal grandfather...
Posted by Rajeshwari Sharma | 1 comment(s)
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:13 PM

17 years in a company? Gosh, that's so old fashioned!

Last weekend I was at an HR conference where a complete session was devoted to "I am 26, do not count on me to stay in this company". It told you what you already know – how the earplug and G-chat generation puts the grasshopper to shame as...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:48 AM

At Citi, there go the colour copies and BlackBerrys...

Citibank just told its employees to get a better handle on costs, including measures as saving colour copies for presentations, making double-sided copies more often, restricting mobile expenses to just business calls and limiting the BlackBerrys... Sounds...
Posted by S. Mitra Kalita | 1 comment(s)
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:15 PM

Pay attention!!!

A lot of things have changed in the last six to eight months in our lives. Among many things, unending battle with flab has become more challenging, bills have gone up for the same amount of stuff purchased, payouts made to maid and cleaner have risen...
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Friday, June 13, 2008 8:48 PM

Background score

Fake resumes have been a bane for human resource managers for a long time now. The enormity of the issue, however, came to the light two years ago when technology companies Wipro Ltd and Infosys Technologies Ltd reportedly fired employees due to discrepancies...
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