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LUCKNOW
Panel discussion organised by Lucknow
Chapter saw a galaxy of corporate heads
and management experts discussing
'Organizational transformation from a
people's perspective'. The respectable panel
comprised of Shiv Kumar (CGM SBI), Jayant
Krishna (RM & principal consultant, TCS),
Prof. Archana Shukla (Prof., IIM-L) & Vijay
Sahi (President Lucknow Chapter & GM,
TOI).
Archana Shukla emphasised on the need
of "speed and innovation" which an
employee has to bring to his/her
organisation. "The two things come from the
individuals who are needed to be managed
accordingly," she said.
Shukla pointed out that there were a few
organisations which tried to challenge the
conventional methods to success. "And the
idea has actually worked," she said while
mentioning the name of a software giant
known for its search engine. "The
organisation does need to be given that kind
of flexibility to grow," she said.
She added that the employees needed to
feel empowered and have a sense of
ownership of the company in which they
were working. "Stress today is on the
horizontal links, rather than the vertical. It is
the horizontal links which bring the team
work into the picture. Something needs to
be done at the behavioural level...the
treatment level of employee. It is only then
that innovation would come," said the HRD
expert.
"Money is an important factor. And that is
surely having an impact," Kumar said. He
cited the example of SBI where a number
of executives were lured by private sector
banks on hefty packages as they were best
trained, were hardworking and honest.
"We need to retain them or else the
knowledge they had acquired over the years
would be lost," he said. The SBI CGM said
that the key to success of an organisation
was the honesty and the transparency which
the employees maintained.
Regional head of Tata Consultancy Services
(TCS), Jayant Krishna stressed on the need
of identifying oneself on the global scale.
"No one is working in isolation. In fact we
are part of a global supply chain. In the
present scenario, the world is getting flat,"
he said emphasising on the need of
identifying cross-cultural issues and
becoming sensitive towards them. All this,
said the TCS head, would come only if, "we
find that latent manager in our employee.
Only then value would be added to a
product. And product is the most important
thing in the business," he said.
Broadly, it was concluded that human
resource management is not only the
business of the HR department, but the
practice has to be there with each and every
individual of the organisation.
The event was the outcome of efforts on
the part of Himanshu Kumar(TCS) & Ujjwal
Kapoor, Chapter coordinator.
PATNA
Members of the Executive Committee
Founder President
Shri Akhaury Maheshwar Prasad
Founder Secretary
Shri Vijay Pratap Singh
Founder Treasurer
Er. Deepak Kumar Baxi
Core Committee
Dr. Gyan Shankar, Ms. Leena Singh
Mr. KK Verma
Mr. Ratnakar Misra, Coordinator.
PUNE
AGM Update
The AGM for the Pune Chapter was held
on Saturday, 15th March 08. This AGM was
important since it also marked the change
of guard for some of the key members of
the Chapter's executive team. The chapter
appointed a new President, Ms Prameela
Kalive, who is the Global HR Head of Zensar
Technologies, a leading global software
services and BPO provider. Ms Kalive has
taken over from Dr Uma Ganesh who has
ably led the Chapter as President for the
past three years. Prameela brings with her
an experience of more than 20 years which
includes a ten year long career as a missile
scientist and technologist and several
leadership portfolios in Zensar.
In addition, the members also nominated a
new Treasurer, Mr Kumendra Raheja, who
takes over from Ms Anusha Chokani. Mr
Raheja is currently with the Indira Group of
Institutes and brings with him vast
experience in the Academics. The other
members of the Executive council who will
continue in their tenure are Aman Rajabali
as the Vice President and Riya Arora as the
Secretary
Prameela presented the Chapter's plans
and agenda for the year ahead - the focus
areas being focus on the HR Student
community and HR professionals. The
presentation made by her is available on
the website.
Talk on 'Cultural Integration' By
Mr. Anniruddha Limaye On Feb 22 2008
Two instances of cultural integration -
Mergers / Acquisitions and large scale hiring
of new employees, particularly experienced
ones, either in leadership positions or as
subject matter experts. Assessing strengths
of two or more cultures that are coming
together and objectively determining what
amalgam is most suited for effectiveness in
the coming times, and then, bringing about
that cultural change or integration. How can
HR professionals play this role effectively
and proactively?
It has now become an important issue of
integrating culture in organizations due to
high attrition rate. Employees are leaving and
joining in a very short span of time. Hence,
the unique culture of an organization is
changing by obvious reasons. Institutes are
facing many problems on this issue. What
could be the model for the retention of talent
in organizations?, How should the HR people
act to retain the employees? What could be
the right strategy to understand the root
problem of HR in order to let the organizations
understand the value of participation of HRD
in the strategic decisions?
Probably we need to dive beneath the
iceberg to understand the root problem.
While merging or acquiring companies, it
becomes an important concern to for parent
companies as well as for the merged
companies to react appropriately in order
to inherit the unique culture of the
organization.
We can create an enchanting & beautiful
garden so that we must not go behind the
butterflies with a net in our hand.
Looking at all the prospects and concerns it
becomes an important task for HR
professionals to think over these problems
to sort out them quickly and efficiently.
Submitted with respect by Dinesh
Pandye.
CARTOON CORNER
Boss, I appreciate the generosity of the
management
in giving me the chance to sort out the
union strike only
on my second day. However, please tell
me what strategy
the management prefers in conflict
resolution - Competing,
Collaborating, Avoiding,
accommodating or compromising?
Col. P Deogirikar, Indore
p_deogirikar@ruchigroup.com
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