The Hindu Business Line : Monday, October 13, 2008

THE NEW MANAGER

MANAGEMENT: Management graduates need to change focus
The crisis in investment banks should spur B-school graduates to imbibe practices that will serve them well in the long run. A management graduate can be described as one who has acquired knowledge and developed skills in a number of areas that ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Surviving a merger
An employee’s guide to getting through a merger or acquisition. Rahul Shekhawat, a consultant with an IT firm, was expecting to be promoted to the role of a client relations manager. So the news of his company being acquired came as a ...

MANAGEMENT: The Balanced Score Card
The Balanced Score Card (BSC) is a useful tool to drive performance and monitor the progress made against set goals. BSC was developed 20 years ago by Robert Kaplan and David Norton. Kaplan was a professor at Harvard Business School ...

MANAGEMENT: Organisational culture as an emergent phenomenon
Well thought out company values have the potential to create a favourable culture. Emergence is a phenomenon that has been studied in many disciplines and it refers to the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of ...

BOOKS: CEO has to be like a top athlete
Being a CEO is one of the toughest jobs in the world, write Steve Tappin and Andrew Cave in The Secrets of CEOs ( www.nicholasbrealey.com). They caution that the CEO’s job is not ...

MANAGEMENT: Univ of Hyderabad course in hospital management
With the recent growth in the healthcare industry, the prospects for graduates in healthcare and hospital management are looking up and many institutes such as the University of Hyderabad (UoH) are now wooing students with offers of ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Driving an analytic understanding of HR
HR metrics can realise the potential of human capital. Just about every aspect of work at a corporate office is tied to performance: so we have performance-linked incentives, bonuses and promotions. In an attempt to develop each department as a ...

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