Wednesday, May 27, 2009

HR entrepreneur: The need of every organization

In many organizations strategies are always from top level management. The recruitment, training and other HR activities have their budgets allotted and HR cannot go out of those budgets. But an entrepreneur will spend everything if he feels that he is going to get a good Return on Investment (ROI). So, in the present economic situation let’s see the advantages of making HR an entrepreneur. When HR starts to take care of every process like entrepreneur the budgets will not stop him from developing the organization.

Entrepreneurial Features of HRM

Human Resource Management (HRM) entirely deals with management of employees, capital and maintaining the work culture in the organization. In all of these functions, the main objective is to checkout whether the hired employee is suitable for the need of the organization or not and a constant check on present work force to maintain the continuity of high performance. Nonetheless, it is taken as an interlinking between employee and employer but a human resource manager has to be more inclined towards the organization to ensure the overall growth. To accomplish these tasks impeccably, entrepreneurial qualities are must in a resource manager.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Managing the supercharged in an organization

The quest for talent in the corporate world is never-ending. In this quest it is not unusual to meet the Supercharged. We have all come across these self-propelled dynamos. The attribute that differentiates them from others is their go-getter attitude, their burning desire to excel continuously and keep surpassing their own standards. How do we keep them challenged all the time and channelise them to maximize organizational goals while providing them the road for their personal growth? Gone are the days when employees stuck to one company for their lifetime due to the loyalty factor. These days employees are quite the individualistic lot and are always keen to know what their employers have got to offer them. So in these challenging times when it is difficult to find right talent, organizations are revisiting their drawing boards to chalk out ways and means to retain the talented lot, the achievers and the supercharged. After all, we know that amongst other factors, it is this pool of talented, self-driven and enthusiastic bunch of people that differentiates the high performance companies from their competitors.


for complete articles you can read the HUMAN EDGE magazine which is going to release soon.

Discipline means success and anarchy means ruin

Discipline and anarchy appear to be two different epistemological constellations but actually they are tied by one simple thread of “logicism”—which we can call as the ‘degree of control’. ‘Control’ or ‘No-control’ determines the character of discipline or anarchy. The presence of absolute control is the situation of absolute discipline whereas the situation of minimal/non-existent control is the state of anarchy. To make things simpler, let’s adopt the systemic analysis to understand the concept of randomness (anarchy) and order (discipline).

A situation of no discipline (anarchy) is in the ideal manner the nullification of different energy vectors possessed by the sub-systems. If we consider anarchic societies, as in case of civil war ridden Iraq or Afghanistan or Sudan or Zimbabwe, we see the small fractions of power brokers concentrate powers in their own hand for their own selfish ends. In the process the national interest is neglected. The result is all ruinous.