The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 02, 2006

Going lean and lean — Surviving the German corporate jungle
HERBERT Spencer, the British economist, is often credited with introducing the phrase `survival of the fittest' in his 1851 work relating to free market economics. Companies which offer better goods and services at ... More

Individual, freedom and organisation
LET's face it. With very few honourable exceptions in the IT industry, individuals in most manufacturing organisations virtually surrender their individuality on joining an organisation, after signing a one-sided appointment letter. Freedom ... More

RESTRUCTURING

Index funds to sell RIL shares on Jan 17, buy back the next day
SEVERAL index funds tracking Sensex and the Nifty are planning to sell shares of Reliance Industries (RIL) on January 17 and buy back them the next day when the stock is traded, without the value of de-merged companies. Managers of these index ... More

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS

KIOCL employees keeping their fingers crossed
WHAT we did yesterday, shaped today. What we do today, shapes tomorrow," says a board at Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd's (KIOCL) pellet plant at New Mangalore. But the employees at KIOCL's pellet plant and at the mining site at Kudremukh are not ... More

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