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Mr Rajan Dutta, President-Corporate HR, Reliance Communications Ltd. — Shashi Ashiwal
Mr Rajan Dutta, President-Corporate HR, Reliance Communications Ltd. — Shashi Ashiwal

RCom rings in the changes

Alongside restructuring, the company is investing in HR automation and exploring synergies within the ADA Group. »

Watch out! An expat speaks out

Communication gap: Although the Indian workforce is conversant with the English language, expatriates often find that communicating with their Indian colleagues is not so straightforward after all. — Mohammed Yousuf The expat co-worker is often taken aback by the Indian twist to business communication. »

A manager's lexicon

We decipher a couple of more oft-used phrases and what they could possibly mean. A little bit of fine-tuning is needed: A cunning ploy employed by managers when asked by th... »

On campus as ADAG

Even as it manages its employer brand with improvement in processes from within, RCom will partner other ADAG companies — Reliance Entertainment, Capital and Infrastructure — to visit B-schools as... »

Silence at work?

Are casual exchanges in or out? — A. Roy Chowdhury At this high-stress office of over 40 professionals, a minor lapse in concentration can prove pretty expensive. Think data, think reports. It's also a place where people derive energy fr... »

Smoking zones work

Responding to our question on ‘unofficial smoking zones' in workplaces (despite a ban), readers acknowledge that while smoking is harmful, given the law that denies ‘official' smoking zones, such u... »

The fifth column

The ‘Indian Crab Syndrome’ is one of the many things that can impede an organisation’s growth. — S.S. Kumar 5%... 6%... 7%... 8%... 9%... 10%... 9%... 8%... 7%... ( ? ). . We as Indians were used to the ‘Hindu rate of growth' for decades and we somehow muddled along. Suddenly,... »

Should ‘unofficial' smoking areas be allowed?

But what about the unofficial zones? In several organisations, there are unofficial smoking zones despite the ban on smoking in workplaces. In many, ironically, these zones also display the ‘No Smoking Area – Smoking here is an offen... »

Head honcho's kin as head hunter? Doesn't matter!

Most responses to our question on ‘Head honcho's kin as head hunter?' have this underlining thought: “It doesn't matter who the head hunter is, as long as the job is done professionally.” So... »

A manager's lexicon

A tongue-in-cheek look at what modern day managers really mean when they say certain things. Well, at least most of them!We repose great confidence in your abilities: You w... »

Pushing the pedal on profitability

Judhajit Das, Chief, HR, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company. — Shashi Ashiwal Presenting to the board of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance recently, Judhajit Das, Chief of Human Resources, explained what had transpired in insurance since it was opened up to private pl... »

Exploring consciousness for true collaboration

In Western thought, people tend to think of collaboration as one between two entities based on individual brains and consciousness. When you look at it with Eastern principles in mind, this... »

Conscious capitalism and the larger purpose

    Conscious capitalism, by that name, is a relatively new concept. It's starting to get recognition and we possibly see a little more of it in India. »

Renunciation is key to excellence

Seeking answers in Indian spirituality. (Above) A Mahabharatha sculpture depicting Krishna teaching the Gita to Arjuna. — Sampath Kumar

 Renunciation is key to achieving excellence in life as well as business; and to emerge as a true leader, one has to withdraw from ‘self' and move on to serve ‘others', said Prof. Debash... »

A manager's lexicon

 We continue to analyse with interest some more elements from the modern day manager's vocabulary. Some day these words will, hopefully, stand for what the manager uttering them reall... »

Workplace resolutions for 2012

Removing supply ‘constraints' at TACSA

HR transformation floods Mother Dairy

What's your workplace resolution?

Hiring Vision 2012 — a tough call

ISB: Future-ready @ 10

The hunt is on, ‘for those who do'

Does public criticism work at work?

‘Paradigm-shifting innovation is what we need'

Prof. Vijay Govindarajan, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth. — S.S. Kumar Prof Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation. The Earl C. Daum 1924 Prof of International Business at the Tuck Sch... »

A manager's lexicon

We continue to ponder over what managers possibly mean when they say…He is too crucial to our team: This is a powerful statement that seemingly conveys the criticality of a... »

Are women better at sales? Amen, say readers

Some readers point out that generalisation is not appropriate, but most say that some attributes make women better suited for sales roles. Some edited responses:

Realistic Promises

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Do women make better sales people?

Sales pitch: Certain products are best sold by women. H. Vibhu In conversation with The New Manager, Mr Judhajit Das of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance notes that 15 per cent of the field sales force in his company comprises women. He adds, “Women make... »

Business coaching — the next beckoning!

As we wound down our coaching engagement, I could sense some hesitation in my coachee. I asked him if there was anything else he wanted to discuss. “I don't suppose… of course not,” I hear... »

Brain science and principles of Hinduism

Srinivasan S. Pillay In 2007, HR magazine highlighted the fact that the 21st century is likely to be the age of collaboration because many of today's problems are complex, often demanding cross-disciplinary exp... »

Framing a principle-based global economy

The purpose of EABIS (European Academy of Business in Society), which has over 140 members and is an association of over 80 business schools worldwide, is to improve education and research... »

Business and virtue go together

Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Research Professor, Yale University  Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Research Professor, Yale University; CEO, The Roosevelt Group; and author of Doing Virtuous Business, is a champion of spiritual capitalism. Having... »

Don't blame people, blame the culture

No one wants to fail. They just need to discover the will to succeed. (Above) A ‘snake boat’ team preparing for a boat race in the backwaters of Alapuzha, Kerala. In the chain of testing for recruitment, key things one looks at are: behaviour, skills, personality, beliefs and values. The last one, which is as critical as any, is often forgotten. »

Head honcho's kin as head hunter?

There's nothing new with the head honcho's better half, close friend, or even sibling head hunting for the organisation. The examples are many.One school of thought believes this works well,... »

Why Theory of Constraints?

‘Win respect with the value you add'

Readers say ‘no' to public criticism at work

A manager's lexicon

Game on!

A manager's lexicon

A knotty issue

Primary market: Games companies play

SEBI has discovered that the money raised through IPOs flowed mostly into accounts of stock market intermediaries, through many layered transactions. Two of the companies, RDB Rasayans and Onelife Capital resorted to applying for their own offers through ‘benami' or fictitious applications in the retail category. »

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