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Ninety percent of the HR activities end up in the routine chores of paper, interviews, reference checks, hiring, payroll and firing letters. As this swallows the maximum time, HR professionals have little or no time to concentrate on other strategies or find time to keep abreast of the latest...

Many strategies were evolved over a period of 8 – 10 years but it has been not easy to analyze the psychological changes and attitude of an employee on the long run. We could call this run to span a few months as is the trend. A serious look has to be given to leverage the human capital and...

The recruitment team that relaxed for a while suddenly gets into feverish action and the team members stop not till the goal is achieved. On an average, an employee with rich experience in India or abroad also shows low enthusiasm and the heat is on the down beat. As India is emerging successful...

the way projects are planned, in the impressive art of delegation of work, the manner in which constructive utility of manpower is exercised and the sense of job satisfaction blended with job security are the dependable factors for a lasting cordial relationship with the employer. The distaste...

‘The right man for the right job’ may be the HR mantra. On the lines of this saying, candidates are interviewed; the good or better among the brain pool is offered the letter. All is good for the first few months and slowly from somewhere a pungent smell of dissatisfaction spreads across the...

‘Human Resources’- the magic words are murmured by everyone in one context or the other. All businesses around the world are continuously looking for better ways to recruit smart brains. Much has been said and written about the factors behind the HR factors. Many companies are considering some...

What is worrisome is not the existence of vacancy duplication, but the prevalent myopic attitude. Its time the vendors of vacancies, be it placement, print or electronic, looked a few years ahead and asked - "ANY TAKERS?"

Who calls the shots? The jobseeker is certainly getting the short end of the stick. The information supply lines of jobs are numerous, but unfortunately the actual number of jobs are not. The repetitive nature of information is making its utility redundant.

There was a time when the problem was simple. One vacancy being handled by several recruitment firms - and it stopped there. The job seeker either banked on luck to get headhunted, or a little careful spreading of nets amongst placement firms would get in the catch. The law of probability was...

Nothing has had a greater impact on the Indian jobseeking professional than the simple computer related process of Cut & Paste. Vacancy duplication has reached unhealthy levels. Today, with so many players in the recruitment business - I mean not only the placement firms, but also magazines...

Timely Support And Help When Requested Or Needed. This is an issue of priorities for most sales managers. It's deciding what your job is. Are you there to track numbers and quotas, or are you there to support your people? Clearly, both jobs have to be done, but the job of coach is the critical...

Positive Rewards For Appropriate Or Approximate Performance. Selling is like playing tennis: Very few people get it right the first time. Sincere, positive reinforcement ("You did that really well." "You really understand this." "You're doing a great job.") helps people learn. Catch people doing...

Clear And Attainable Goals. People perform best when they have specific goals. Goals that are reachable yet that stretch them. Don't tell people what to do, or how to do it, but give them the map, the destination, and sometimes the general direction in which to start. Frequent Objective...

A Shared Sense Of Mission Or Purpose. It's the culture equivalent to purpose. It answers the questions "What's expected around here, what do we do, and why do we do it?" If the only answer that you have is "making money," be prepared for your people to ask for as much as they can get for doing...

The best of all possible worlds is a consistent, positive, reinforcing culture--and good sales managers are discovering that the best way to leverage their efforts is to manage the culture. After more than 10 years of research, we've come up with five factors that are critical to creating and...

The work culture is the key to high performance. More important, influencing the work culture is a manager's best opportunity for creating high performance. "Culture" is a 24-hours-a-day training program that exists inside any organization. It's teaching and influencing all the time. Sometimes...

Classical conditioning is a simple form of learning in which conditioned response is linked with an unconditioned stimulus.

In order to explain the complex topic like human learning , various researchers have approached the problem from various perspectives. This has given rise to different theories of learning. We will review some of the most important theories of learning which are: 1. Classical Conditioning, 2...

But in a general way we may say that in the process of learning, people behave in a changed way as a result of learning. Thus we infer that learning has taken place if an individual behaves, reacts, responds as a result of experience in a manner different from the way he formerly behaved.

These periods of no apparent change in behaviour is called the ‘incubation period’, where the assimilation and internalization of learning take place.