Human Resources Articles

“Its that time of the year” said Dean, turning to his spouse.

“Expectation is a recipe for disaster” replied Sue.

“This time i am surely going to hit the nail on the head”.

Fastforward. Dean sits at his workstation looking haggard, dejection etched across his face. All confidence shattered, demotivated beyond the pit of self recognition. The seed of doubt planted, sprouting into a question against his own abilities and the option of resignation swirled in his head.

Human Resource Managers have come a long way since the dark ages, from being only human ‘liabilities’ managers to human ‘resource’ managers to people managers to strategic business partners. They have been constantly rebranding themselves from reactive functions to pro-active functions. With the advent of technology and analytical tools, HR Managers have not only been able to quantify their contributions, but also project their achievements of translating investments into profits, and hence instead of asking for a seat at the table, they now own the table, make strategic decisions with the board and are highly valued for their two – fold abilities: being able to analyse data to make predictions and being excellently intuitive in decision making since they are also sensitive to the psychology of the average employee.

Creating New Knowledge in the Class Room is one of the major challenges with organizations and institutions are facing. Large number of corporate scandals, employability gap and decrease in responsibility among today’s youth have shown that there is a lacuna in the present day curriculum. And the prescribed content in the curriculum has not reached the other end as intended. The two major factors responsible are substandard education and lack of moral and ethical values. B schools in particular have to keep this in mind since they manufacture managers.

The day when performance rating gets disclosed to employees, there is typical behaviour observed. Everybody wants to check their own ratings without somebody else knowing it. At the same time the person tries to spy on other’s system to know other’s rating. As the day progress, somebody initiate the topic and small cartel gets formed. This cartel then asks every other team member to login into system and show the ratings.

Role of Psychology in Business & Management is an extremely important aspect in the world today. Understanding the human psychology, be it either employees or customers or business partners, helps companies in better management and grow their business.

The difference between personal and interpersonal skills, both of which are of great importance in management, are discussed elaborately. A skill refers to an erudite ability to perform an activity in a given amount of time, energy or both. In short, it refers to the ability that one possesses. Personal and interpersonal skills are the two of many skills which form a predominant part in the life a human being. The human beings have evolved with unique abilities compared with other creatures in the world. They are capable of using tools, communicating, learning, analysing and synthesizing. Such abilities are termed as Personal Skills which are important for one to succeed in life. Without such skills, we, the human beings, would be as same as other creatures on this earth.