The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 10, 2006

Culture shocks
Culture of an organisation is `the way we do things around here', defines Dr Ashok Sanghvi in, Strategic Management Processes in Indian Organisations: With Case Studies, from Vakils, Feffer and Simons (www.axiom-consultants.com). In ... More

FOR THE ASKING

Employee retirement option is not the same as VRS
A middle-aged employee of company (reluctantly) tenders his resignation under employee retirement option (ERO). Mind you, this is not VRS but ERO. Of course, he is not ditched. He is being given golden handshake. Can he claim deduction up to ... More

SWATI CA

Do families have to bear the brunt of a feverishly booming market?
Story so far: Last week was one of slogging and blogging. In between, I squeeze in time for a workout at the stadium, where I meet Malar practising high jump. She is frustrated that athletics gets only a step-motherly treatment ... More

RACY CASES

A long wait for maturity
When is it a good time to buy or sell a bond? More

STICKLISH ISSUES

Ramanujan, a forgotten genius?
Responses to Sticklish Issues dated April 3 More

SBI strike
Email: sticklish@thehindu.co.in

BILL OF HEALTH

Healing begins with optimism
Larry Dossey, MD presents `fourteen natural steps to health and happiness' in The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things, from Harmony Books (www.crownpublishing.com). These steps are: Optimism, forgetting, novelty, tears, ... More

AT YOUR SERVICE

Machining for EOU
We are running a small-scale unit. We carry out grinding, drilling and other such operations on various machine components supplied by our customers on job-work basis. We collect only our labour cost. We were told by our customers that they ... More