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Netra Shetty
Lucasfilm Limited is an American film production company founded by George Lucas in 1971, based in San Francisco, California. Lucas is the company's current chairman and CEO, and Micheline Chau is the president and COO.
The company is best known for producing the Star Wars films, and has also produced other box office hits, including the Indiana Jones franchise and American Graffiti. It has also been a leader in developing new film technology in special effects, sound, and computer animation, and because of their expertise its subsidiaries often help produce non-Lucasfilm pictures. Lucasfilm is set to move away from films and more into TV, due to rising budgets.[2] They also have a policy of offering no group discounts to their movies, probably for this reason.[citation needed]
On July 8, 2005, Lucasfilm's marketing, online, and licensing units moved into the new Letterman Digital Arts Center located in the Presidio in San Francisco. It shares the complex with Industrial Light & Magic, and LucasArts. They are also best known for The Deep Note, and THX.
Lucasfilm has collaborated with the Walt Disney Company and Walt Disney Imagineering numerous times to create rides and attractions centered on Star Wars and Indiana Jones for various Walt Disney Parks and Resort attractions worldwide.
Over the past few years, India has seen a healthy economic growth. India is emerging as the fourth largest market in the world with its GDP measured on the scale of purchasing point parity. Often referred to as “sleeping giant”, development in India has been its move from a “working power” based on supply of low-cost labour to a brain power comprising of skilled and educated workforce.
The country has strong macro-economic fundamentals. The economists are now trying to find out the microeconomic phenomenon that is driving this change. With growing middle class with increasing aspirations, large consumption due to easy access to finance, powerful media and strong judiciary, somewhat muddled up democracy, Indian society is witnessing small order behavioral changes. These changes aggregated and over a period of time results in big and fundamental change. India is currently witnessing a virtuous cycle of growth. In the virtuous cycle of growth as Freidman (2005 p378) points out as the countries “begin to produce enough food for people to leave the land, the excess labour gets trained and educated, it begins working in services and industry; they leads to innovation and better education and universities, freer market, economic growth and development, better infrastructure, fewer diseases, and slower population growth. It is that dynamic that is going on in parts of urban India, enabling people to compete on a level playing field and attracting large investments”.
This has dramatically changed the face of employment opportunities in India. Till about mid-1980s, it was employers’ market. There was little job-hopping; engineers, doctors and civil services were most coveted. After that, till about 1995, job opportunities expanded as multinational corporations came in; MBA became a middle-class dream degree. Between 1995 and 2000, there was a boom in the services sector; manufacturing shed jobs and the multinational corporations continued to be big hirers. After 2000, manufacturing has rebounded; exports are doing well and the services sector is continuing to boom. There is now a scramble for qualified people. A leading news weekly-India Today- in its cover story on March 7, 2005 identified ‘Top 10’ emerging job opportunities in India. These were - hospitality, biotech, education and training, animation, aviation, event management, research and development, fitness consultancy, fashion designing and the NGO sector. A recent CII Employment Potential Study for 36 sectors that an additional 2.5 million jobs would be created the automotive sector, while the financial sector could employ another 1.1 million people. The construction industry could employ 9.9 million more people, whereas the defense equipment sector sees the possibility of generating only 160,000 jobs. Employment potential in banking & financial services sector is 1.1 million jobs. Other important sectors where high employment is possible are oil & gas (2.3 million), gems & jewellery (3.16 million), healthcare (6.1 million), horticulture (2.6 million), khadi (1.9 million), media & entertainment (1.0 million), retail (9 million), tobacco & tobacco products (6.4 million), tourism (19.6 million), railways (1.9 million), state transport undertakings (2.3 million), and food (2.1 million). The Study makes a case for major initiatives to provide skilled manpower in these sectors failing which future growth may not be constrained.
Integration of labour markets globally accompanied with technological changes offer an opportunity to India. The demographic differentials provide a distinct advantage to India due to the young profile of its workforce. Report of a High Level Strategic Group in 2003 that by 2020 India could possibly generate (direct or indirect) job opportunities for 10-24 million people by providing an increasing array of services to advanced countries that currently face skill shortages. An additional 10-48 million jobs could be created by servicing overseas consumers of services such as medical, tourism and education (AIMA 2003). The emerging global occupational structure offers an opportunity for India to provide workforce for the knowledge economy beyond the national borders.
Further, India also has opportunity by sending its people for work abroad. For a country like India with large population and huge capacity to generate skilled professionals at home and by education abroad, out-migration of professionals is now seen as an opportunity and not a threat. It is seen that advanced countries have a big appetite for skilled professionals. In a globalized economy countries compete for markets by creating and attracting technically skilled talent. A large part of such flow is through education abroad. In all, outlook for job opportunities for Indians looks good. India can become a magnet economy attracting high skilled and high waged investment capital from the MNCs, and offer high value added services to the rest of the world. This would require India to adopt an outward looking approach to reach out to the global markets and focus on sectors where it has resource advantage. This transformation is also reflects the emerging global occupational structure on the basis of a more efficient division of labour across nations. Technological changes, particularly rapid growth of new information and communication technologies is responsible for this. Two specific sectors, namely - IT/ITES sector, the manufacturing sector and the personal and community services sector are examined below further.
In conclusion, the HR function plays a great role in the execution of company’s goal. Through effective implementation from the start up to the end, it will yield to higher employees’ productivity and increase of revenue. All HRM functions are deliberate and directed to the success of the organization. Richard Pinola, chair and CEO of Right Management Consultants, Inc., has identified what administration officials require from lead professionals in terms of HR. he also added that to increase real value to a company, HR must relate to the organization’s overall strategy. When this approach is accomplished, affirmative changes can occur in talent management, leadership development, and organizational performance (Hornsby & Kuratko 2005, p.26).
The function of HRM is for the betterment of the organization’s working force. It is very essential for the HRM officer to concentrate on the feature wherein it needs special kind attention. Everything changes. In order for companies to go with the flow of current trends, they must be fully equipped with all the necessary factors affecting a satisfactory HRM system. As from the conception of an employee up to the end of his/her service to the organization, the HRM function will always be directed to the purposes of holistic human development to attain the ultimate goal – competitive growth rooted on people’s trust, commitment, loyalty, adaptability, and high-quality knowledge and abilities.
The company is best known for producing the Star Wars films, and has also produced other box office hits, including the Indiana Jones franchise and American Graffiti. It has also been a leader in developing new film technology in special effects, sound, and computer animation, and because of their expertise its subsidiaries often help produce non-Lucasfilm pictures. Lucasfilm is set to move away from films and more into TV, due to rising budgets.[2] They also have a policy of offering no group discounts to their movies, probably for this reason.[citation needed]
On July 8, 2005, Lucasfilm's marketing, online, and licensing units moved into the new Letterman Digital Arts Center located in the Presidio in San Francisco. It shares the complex with Industrial Light & Magic, and LucasArts. They are also best known for The Deep Note, and THX.
Lucasfilm has collaborated with the Walt Disney Company and Walt Disney Imagineering numerous times to create rides and attractions centered on Star Wars and Indiana Jones for various Walt Disney Parks and Resort attractions worldwide.
Over the past few years, India has seen a healthy economic growth. India is emerging as the fourth largest market in the world with its GDP measured on the scale of purchasing point parity. Often referred to as “sleeping giant”, development in India has been its move from a “working power” based on supply of low-cost labour to a brain power comprising of skilled and educated workforce.
The country has strong macro-economic fundamentals. The economists are now trying to find out the microeconomic phenomenon that is driving this change. With growing middle class with increasing aspirations, large consumption due to easy access to finance, powerful media and strong judiciary, somewhat muddled up democracy, Indian society is witnessing small order behavioral changes. These changes aggregated and over a period of time results in big and fundamental change. India is currently witnessing a virtuous cycle of growth. In the virtuous cycle of growth as Freidman (2005 p378) points out as the countries “begin to produce enough food for people to leave the land, the excess labour gets trained and educated, it begins working in services and industry; they leads to innovation and better education and universities, freer market, economic growth and development, better infrastructure, fewer diseases, and slower population growth. It is that dynamic that is going on in parts of urban India, enabling people to compete on a level playing field and attracting large investments”.
This has dramatically changed the face of employment opportunities in India. Till about mid-1980s, it was employers’ market. There was little job-hopping; engineers, doctors and civil services were most coveted. After that, till about 1995, job opportunities expanded as multinational corporations came in; MBA became a middle-class dream degree. Between 1995 and 2000, there was a boom in the services sector; manufacturing shed jobs and the multinational corporations continued to be big hirers. After 2000, manufacturing has rebounded; exports are doing well and the services sector is continuing to boom. There is now a scramble for qualified people. A leading news weekly-India Today- in its cover story on March 7, 2005 identified ‘Top 10’ emerging job opportunities in India. These were - hospitality, biotech, education and training, animation, aviation, event management, research and development, fitness consultancy, fashion designing and the NGO sector. A recent CII Employment Potential Study for 36 sectors that an additional 2.5 million jobs would be created the automotive sector, while the financial sector could employ another 1.1 million people. The construction industry could employ 9.9 million more people, whereas the defense equipment sector sees the possibility of generating only 160,000 jobs. Employment potential in banking & financial services sector is 1.1 million jobs. Other important sectors where high employment is possible are oil & gas (2.3 million), gems & jewellery (3.16 million), healthcare (6.1 million), horticulture (2.6 million), khadi (1.9 million), media & entertainment (1.0 million), retail (9 million), tobacco & tobacco products (6.4 million), tourism (19.6 million), railways (1.9 million), state transport undertakings (2.3 million), and food (2.1 million). The Study makes a case for major initiatives to provide skilled manpower in these sectors failing which future growth may not be constrained.
Integration of labour markets globally accompanied with technological changes offer an opportunity to India. The demographic differentials provide a distinct advantage to India due to the young profile of its workforce. Report of a High Level Strategic Group in 2003 that by 2020 India could possibly generate (direct or indirect) job opportunities for 10-24 million people by providing an increasing array of services to advanced countries that currently face skill shortages. An additional 10-48 million jobs could be created by servicing overseas consumers of services such as medical, tourism and education (AIMA 2003). The emerging global occupational structure offers an opportunity for India to provide workforce for the knowledge economy beyond the national borders.
Further, India also has opportunity by sending its people for work abroad. For a country like India with large population and huge capacity to generate skilled professionals at home and by education abroad, out-migration of professionals is now seen as an opportunity and not a threat. It is seen that advanced countries have a big appetite for skilled professionals. In a globalized economy countries compete for markets by creating and attracting technically skilled talent. A large part of such flow is through education abroad. In all, outlook for job opportunities for Indians looks good. India can become a magnet economy attracting high skilled and high waged investment capital from the MNCs, and offer high value added services to the rest of the world. This would require India to adopt an outward looking approach to reach out to the global markets and focus on sectors where it has resource advantage. This transformation is also reflects the emerging global occupational structure on the basis of a more efficient division of labour across nations. Technological changes, particularly rapid growth of new information and communication technologies is responsible for this. Two specific sectors, namely - IT/ITES sector, the manufacturing sector and the personal and community services sector are examined below further.
In conclusion, the HR function plays a great role in the execution of company’s goal. Through effective implementation from the start up to the end, it will yield to higher employees’ productivity and increase of revenue. All HRM functions are deliberate and directed to the success of the organization. Richard Pinola, chair and CEO of Right Management Consultants, Inc., has identified what administration officials require from lead professionals in terms of HR. he also added that to increase real value to a company, HR must relate to the organization’s overall strategy. When this approach is accomplished, affirmative changes can occur in talent management, leadership development, and organizational performance (Hornsby & Kuratko 2005, p.26).
The function of HRM is for the betterment of the organization’s working force. It is very essential for the HRM officer to concentrate on the feature wherein it needs special kind attention. Everything changes. In order for companies to go with the flow of current trends, they must be fully equipped with all the necessary factors affecting a satisfactory HRM system. As from the conception of an employee up to the end of his/her service to the organization, the HRM function will always be directed to the purposes of holistic human development to attain the ultimate goal – competitive growth rooted on people’s trust, commitment, loyalty, adaptability, and high-quality knowledge and abilities.
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