Top Corporate Leaders

Top 25 corporate leaders of the world according to the CNN in 2005

1. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
2. Sam Walton, former CEO of Wal-Mart
3. Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric
4. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
5. Lee Iacocca, former CEO of Chrysler
6. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
7. Herb Kelleher, chairman of Southwest Airlines
8. Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer
9. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve
10. Carl Icahn, 1980s corporate raider
11. Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel
12. Michael Milken, former junk-bond wizard
13. John Reed, former CEO of Citigroup
14. Ted Turner, founder of CNN
15. Jim Clark, former CEO of Netscape
16. Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay
17. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
18. Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney
19. Peter Lynch, manager of Fidelity's Magellan Fund
20. Phil Knight, CEO of Nike
21. Katharine Graham, late CEO of Washington Post Co.
22. W. Edwards Deming, influential business consultant
23. Ken Lay, former CEO of Enron
24. Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster
25. Lou Gerstner, former CEO of IBM

LEADERSHIP

Concept of leadership

Leadership is a term used for a man who has the qualities to persuade people to do what they don't want to do, or do what they're too lazy to do, and like it.. Leadership is the quality of a superior to influence the behavior of a subordinate or group working under him and persuade them to follow a particular course of action for achieving the organizational goals. Leadership is the art of influencing and directing people in such a way that will win their obedience, confidence, respect and loyal cooperation in achieving common objectives. The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization.

A Grueling Interview Session

Nowadays a common problem is observed with the students pursuing professional qualification, they think that having course knowledge is enough for them to get a job and they don’t focus upon the PDP and general awareness. They sometimes don’t even care to search about the company details for which they are appearing for and lack to prepare themselves for an interview.

Some Common Interview Questions...

Some common questions to practice:

1. Tell me a little bit about yourself.

2. Why are you interested in this position?

3. Why did you choose this type of career?

How To Prepare For An Interview???

An interview can be defined as a face to face oral communication between the interviewer and the interviewee in order to assess the views, attitudes and ideas of the interviewee. However the interview process also enables the interviewee and observers to assess the skill and ability of the interviewer. Thus, an interview is a test of both the communicants and parties engaged in the interaction. Intelligence, knowledge, personal qualities and character are revealed and both parties are required to be well prepared. The process allows everyone involved to make some important decisions. The candidate decides whether he should accept the position and the interviewer decides whether the candidate should be appointed; this decision may affect the organizational interests.

Golden Handshake: A Boon or a Bane

"GOLDEN HANDSHAKE" - the term is not new we have listen it many times but do we actually know what it is?

Parameters of QWL

There are ten parameters of QWL. Let's discuss them:-

1. Compensation
2. Work-life balance
3. Safety and health of employees
4. Opportunities
5. Satisfaction from work
6. Involvement and responsibility at work
7. Support from superiors
8. Work stress
9. Work environment
10. Benefits to enhance economic security

Quality of Work Life

Definition: QWL has been defined as the workplace strategies, operations and environment that promote and maintain employee satisfaction with an aim to improving working conditions for employees and organizational effectiveness for employers.

Quality of Working Life is not a unitary concept, but has been seen as incorporating a hierarchy of perspectives that not only include work-based factors such as job satisfaction, satisfaction with pay and relationships with work colleagues, but also factors that broadly reflect life satisfaction and general feelings of well-being. More recently, work-related stress and the relationship between work and non-work life domains have also been identified as factors that should conceptually be included in Quality of Working Life.

Importance of Human Resource Management

Attracting the most qualified employees and matching them to the jobs for which they are best suited is important for the success of any organization. However, many enterprises are too large to permit close contact between top management and employees.

Personality: HR Tool

Personality of an individual explains why people do what they do. It is very essential even for understanding the performance and behavior of an employee or individual at workplace. It is useful for understanding how to manage and work with a particular person.

Are you a New Generation Manager!!!

PRINCIPLES FOR NEW GENERATION MANAGERS

1. Recognize your Uniqueness: We all are different regarding physical and psychological traits. It helps us to ask what our unique selling propositions (USPs) are, because every thing is sold in the market on the basis of USP. No one is free from weaknesses, study shows that the person have maximum strength have more weaknesses but you need to highlight your strengths (USP) to get competitive advantages and ensure positive image in front of others.

Job Enrichment: Part-2

Principles of job enrichment:
1. Formation of a natural work unit:
Assign employees a complete project (a complete unit of work). It increases their sense of accomplishment. They can see their work results more clearly. It also increases their accountability for that work & fosters pride in a job well done.

Job Enrichment

Concept of Job enrichment:
Job enrichment is an attempt to motivate employees by giving them the opportunity to use the range of their abilities. It is an idea that was developed by the American psychologist Frederick Herzberg in the 1950s. Job enrichment has been described as 'vertical loading' of a job.
An enriched job should ideally contain:

Does Management Know Their Staff.....

On walking into the factory, the Managing Director of the Company noticed a young guy..
leaning against the wall and doing nothing.

He approached the young man and calmly said to him, "How much do you earn?"

Role of Human Resources in M & A

PART 3
HUMAN RESOURCE:  KEY FACTOR
It is reported that one of the main reasons for failure of a merger or acquisition is based on Human Resources neglect. People issues have been the most sensitive but often ignored issues in a merger and acquisition. When a decision is taken to merge or acquire, a company analyze the feasibility on the business, financial and legal fronts, but fails to recognize the importance attached to the human resources of the organizations involved. 

Mergers & Acquisitions

PART 1
INTRODUCTION
Companies today need to be fast growing, efficient, profitable, flexible, adaptable, future-ready and have a dominant market position. Without these qualities, firms believe that it is virtually impossible to be competitive in today's global economy. Executives have at their disposal a wide range of strategic alternatives for inorganic growth. They may decide to grow incrementally by introducing not only new products but also gain entry into new markets by investing in research and development. However this mode of growth will have a long gestation period i.e. long time to realize the actual growth.

Are you a professional?????????

This story is about a man & his little daughter.

A man is a successful professional in a reputed MNC. The life’s going very good, man has enough money to fulfill all the needs, wants and desires of his family. As the man was so busy, he daily arrived home late at night and this is the reason he got up late in morning. But the little daughter has schedule according to school that is early to bed and early to rise. This makes the papa and daughter apart from each other; being living in the same home they won't be able to spend enough time with each other.

Are you Serious Or Sincere????

Speech by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis ...must read...

Don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a
balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful.
Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all
in good order.

WEB RECRUITING

In a world of technology where most of the things are connected to gadgets and web, how recruiting can be an exception to that?

HUMAN RESOURCE AUDIT

 

 "The things that get measured gets managed"

“HR Audit is the systematic examination & evaluation of policies, procedures & practices to determine the effectiveness of human resource management.”

•    It’s not the core function but the supporting function of HRM.

•    It’s not legally mandatory.

•    HR Audit is conducted by the companies on their own because it provides various useful information which helps in developing better systems for managing human resource in an organization.