Facebook the new menace

Networking is the need of the hour and especially for HR but this new report released by ASSOCHAM (The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry) shows how productivity is going down thanks to "FACEBOOK"

According to the report

Facebook is becoming a problem for employers at offices in India, as employees have started spending so much time on the social
networking site that it is beginning to affect productivity, a new survey has revealed.

The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) have found in their survey that office staff on average spend an hour a day on sites like Facebook, resulting in a loss of productivity measuring 12.5 per cent.

The study noted: "Close to 12.5 per cent of productivity of human resource in corporate sector is misappropriated each day since a vast majority of them while away their time accessing social networking sites during the office hours."

Seemingly, the workers use Orkut, Facebook, Myspace and Linkedin for "romancing".

"As a matter of fact, [the] growing use of browsing sites can be dangerous for overall productivity and IT companies have already installed software to restrict its use," the BBC News quoted Assocham secretary general DS Rawat as saying.

As part of the study, a total of 4,000 employees between the ages of 21 and 60 from different cities in India including Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Surat, Mumbai (Bombay), Pune, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Kanpur, were questioned.

It was observed that nearly half of office employees accessed Facebook during work time.

Moreover, four in every 10 workers built their entire Orkut or Facebook profile at office.

Also, 83 per cent of the employees think there is no harm surfing at work during office hours.


This report puts one question to me is whether access to Facebook, Myspace and other social networking websites is allowed in organizations? If yes does it put to rest the myth that these websites were banned which may encourage more employees to use it using proxy links or is it access via mobile phones? And the usage of these websites for romancing? I think this puts a serious question on the long standing question of employability. If people cannot resist the temptation of romancing while in office through a social networking website then how trusty can this employee be ?

Questions to be answered

Cheers

Arvind

Organizational romances

It is but obvious that in any organization where a large number of people work for sparks to fly between and flirting to go on. There has been a huge question pondering me was “is it alright if the staff of your organization to display romance of their private life with someone of your same organization itself into the office premises.”

Does the organization allow couples to work in the same office premises? Many organizations ensure that both husband and wife should not work in the same organization even if it were different locations and offices.
Is it advantageous or is it outrageous?
My major question of concern was as a HR is it a moral policing job we must take up trying to stop the romance or let it be as it is?

Some advantages of it can be

1)The productivity could increase given if their services were used aptly
2)Staff absence could go down
3)Will give a good impression about the organization

While the demerits could be

1)It could lead to gossiping among other employees which can hinder the group morale
2)It could hinder productivity
3)It could reduce social capital as people will be preoccupied with their partners and may forget others
The Jury is still out on what could be the impact but the question still wrangles in my minds do we have the job of moral policing?
Cheers
Arvind

Matrix management

There is famous saying "The farther you pull back the forward you go" and this is something i can relate in context with the matrix management. Fredrick Winslow Taylor created the functional foremanship where one person had to report to many superiors for various needs. This concept was thrashed by the purists saying it violates unity of command and it was thrown out and thus in the past few years we have this Matrix system of reporting where a person may have to report to more than one boss, If we look at the sheer structure of functioning of this style it is atleast to say the least inspired from Taylor's model and that made me think on certain things about this matrix style its Pro's and Con's

Advantages

1)Loss of communication through channels can be decreased
2)Direct interaction with clients and customers
3)The employee knows what is required by the customer and can modify accordingly

Now to the critical part its flaws

1)The communication if in Oral may not be the same for different reporting heads as it depends on the interpretation of the superior
2)It cause conflicts especially in certain conservative Indian organizations
3)The need for competent employable individuals for ushering in this kind of system

Now if we analyze it we can easily see its like a dynamite !!! give it to the right guy who may use it for cracking up mountains or if it ends up in the wrong hands it has deadly implication.

Cheers

Arvind

PAPA approach

The most hated and often most used word in the HR dictionary has got to be "ATTRITION" and with the economy picking up expect salary packages to go up and poaching and raiding to get in full flow. Though we can talk about this being unethical and all we have to analyze something is that if an employee is not interested in working with an organization he will move out for a new job in the same sector regardless of what is on the table for him.

in a recent conversation with one of the GM HR of a pan India organization i put forward this question and he answered and he said that most of the time this attrition is high because of a lack of proper induction of the employees into the organizational fabric and ensuring they fit in well he talked about a technique which resembled to like what a father does for a kid. It is essential to understand not all candidates who enter a job are Industry ready and it is essential to guide them it does not mean put them in training program but rather in the field of work where he should be guided in his activities he said it was like what a father does with a kid going to school

1) Like a father who needs to get the confidence of the kid that the school will help him the manager or superior needs to assure him that he can perform well and give him a buffer time for performance.

2) It is essential that like a father who drops his kid at school and guides him the manager should do essential acts that ensure confidence and help in development of skills.

3) Keep progress on his performance and like a good father coach him during the tough situation to overcome it.

These things appealed to me as it appeared to create a sense of belongingness which will help the employee to perform efficiently and thus helping his productivity to grow up and enabling him to stay with the organization. But the success of this plan depends on the temperament of manager and the employee.

Cheers

Arvind

Ideating

The past week has been quite a learning experience in terms of skill lab sessions. There have been various moments and learning’s which have groped my attention and one of those was a session on idea generation.

I could sense one thing which was very key that most of the idea's which the employees generate are considered but how many of them generate idea's and by generating we don’t only talk about getting an idea or prompting an idea but rather putting it in a framework and shaping it out so that it can upgrade any process or downsize the time in the process and an idea can be from any source and it is essential to ideate but one thing which is obligatory is to accept the ideas which most line managers are unable to, because of the work load and deadlines thus my belief is that HR can accept in helping this out this idea process because they become like the face of the organization to them and can open up to them easily but for this it is essential the HR's of the organization are in sync with the business and services to ensure they can find out employees flair for innovation

But for an idea like this to succeed it is critical that HR is a strategic part of the organization and not a support function and thus requires more skilled people with the need of the hour being not just people skills but business knowledge

Cheers

Arvind

Pranav mistry a legend

A change in topic and i was checking my mails when i saw this amazing talk by this guy called Pranav Mistry on his invention called sixth sense please watch the video its for 13 mins and regardless if you are a tech guy or not u will applaud his work

Football and HR

During the last NHRD conference I heard this beautiful anecdote by Mr. Natarajan Sundar a man of great experience and great knowledge. He was started off with this question "Name the only activity in which all the people compete are not different" people came close with the answer but the answer was football where it is 11 vs. 11 and the intentions of both teams are same to put the ball in the back of the opposite team's net and winning the game and the job of a coach is to motivate them

He talked about using Welch curve while grading the players as indispensable the essential ones and the ones who could be replaced and it was the most interesting anecdote as it combined the two passions i shared in football and human resources
and one special person i remembered was a footballer called ole gunnar solskajer a person who sacrificed his personal choices for the team and helped the team to do personally an under rated player who is a legend

U rock Ole Gunnar Solskajaer, coz of the fact he was able to take a backseat and excel in the role he is given just like in any corporate world where a manager expects his subordinates do well in the job they are given and it was more special because when he came to Manchester united from Norway he was prolific scorer who averaged a goal per game which was so high and starting every game and then to come off the bench which was not a certainty as it was up to the manager to use a substitute so he could never play during a game if the coach felt if it was necessary but to be focused and do the job on the keen occasion was great work.

And this is even more admirable because if I was in his shoes I would have quit and moved on to another club but to see what sustained persistence can do is breathtaking.


Cheers

Arvind

The goal and the decision

There are days you get up and you just cannot wait for the activities to begin and there are days when u feel sandman has cheated on you and well it was the latter case when I had to go attend the soft skills class for this semester and as usual there were people talking on usual aspects of self confidence, goal setting and all stuff and I never had any expectations from these classes but today I had a really good class on decision making by a person called Mr.G.Ramasubramanian and the crucial thing I liked about his whole session was the way he finished it off, It was a great way to end of a session. He performed a small activity and told the essence behind it

The activity was simple. He called a person as the volunteer and asked them to collect six objects from the class and keep it on the table and then he asked the volunteer to first remove three objects and then two and finally the remaining object was a pen and he asked to lift his diary where there was a plain paper and on the reverse of the paper the word "PEN" was inscribed everyone was amazed how it was done and came up with long theories of attention, ignorance and blah blah!!! But he put it to us in a simple way and it was as follows

He had already written down the word pen on the paper and when he asked the person to volunteer he ensured if they took a pen from someone as a object if not he would offer it and then when it came down to eliminating he said that among the objects if the pen was when which the volunteer selected he would ask them to remove the non selected ones and so on to somehow ensure the pen comes and this he said is how we should be in our life with our goal should be firmly set and our decision process around it whatever be the target it is essential to ensure you have the goal and work to ensure the goal is reached

I personally felt so much attracted to his thoughts and just wanted to share it

Cheers

Arvind

Straight from the gut

i had this magnificent chance to read the autobiography of jack welch and what a book it was aptly titled straight from the gut rather it should have been about his guts. A beautiful book on how he succeeded in life through tough situations and there were a lot of things you could relate to and some of them which i could relate and found very motivating were

1)The role his parents had in shaping him up their insistence on religion and also to encourage him to venture out

2)The way he waited to find green pastures with education rather than take up a job even when he was offered

3)Accepting the rejection of a higher university and moving to a lesser known university which helped him to do much better and strive much more harder in life

4)The way he wanted to learn and keep move forward

5)to trust his instincts and take on a new challenge and prove it. Not believing on the doubts people lay on you but rather on your abilities

6)The willingness to fight bureaucracy by taking it head on

and many more it is a must read book for any management graduate

Cheers
Arvind

Keep standing to view the top

It's so often easily pointed out on how as Human resources professional it is indispensable to ensure we stay connected with the employees and no denying how bare essential but at some time you have to question is it the duty of HR to dig out information from employees and help them out ?

In an interaction with a senior HR professional I posted this question to which she pointed out one thing which was very crucial was that it is essential we don't stoop too much into a simple issue relating to a particular case and if we do that we are not able to act as the link between organization and the workforce but rather we end up taking sides and thus we leave ourselves short of Hara-kiri, but if we dint do that properly where will we go?

Here came the answer that the responsibility was there but it is also to remember the level because only if you are standing up only you can see the top of a tower and in this context the tower refers to a business and pinnacle refers to the peak performance so in order to do this it is essential petty things are cleared out and important issues are focused.
A famous incident she said to connect with that was of a famous Indian conglomerate where there was the position of AGM was open and the existing HR mangers were given a chance to see if they fit the bill and one senior manager with over two decades of experience was shortlisted and when asked the question what will he change for better efficiency he started pointing out individual cases of employee grievance rather putting it as a complete picture to make it appear big and get the solution and thus he was put out of running highlighting how pointing out small things can lead to !!!

Cheers
Arvind

I QUOTE

This quote was said to me by a senior HR manager who has had diversified experience and this quote epitomizes the role of a HR person.

all the products in the world come with a product catalog the only exception to it is humans

And i have a chosen a profession which deals with people and i emphasized on the inner meaning behind that was the unpredictability of what you could face and how to face it


Cheers

Arvind

Talent retention and prediction analysis a critical view

I was recently at the Chennai chapter of NHRD and the topic discussed was talent retention and management which was thought provoking.

But there were certain things which I felt needed proper addressing the speaker Priya Gopalakrishnan was talking about her experience in HLL and "how a person was almost shaped up to take over from others because of the sheer experience under them and today it is not possible so and people have to be promoted early.

But I felt that this was the case cause if we take the scenario 15 years back employees still had the lingering sense of loyalty as changing jobs very often was not socially acceptable unlike now where it is a part of the culture.

And based on that I was reading this article on prediction analysis where people try to find out how long an employee can stay with a firm. My frank opinion is it that I can’t figure out how it works? Now if you are pessimistic with your predictions then you expect nothing from your people and that is worse or if you’re too optimistic you end up banking on one guy which violates the basic HR principle.

So my take on this is that prediction analysis needs more time to grow to be assessed how powerful it can be as a tool.

HR at its worst

The reason why I am writing this post is still unclear to me. This was about the practices in an organization which disturbed me to an extent that I was questioning myself how I can share the same profession with these people. The actual incident was when I was speaking to a family friend of mine and in a general discussion about his office and my foray into asking for fieldwork and internship. His organization is one of India's biggest private organizations in renewable energy with a concerted presence pan India and then he revealed me the facts that it was worthless to try it in his organization as the HR managers do not even interact with the staff and only talk with their bosses. I felt shocked but this was just the tip of the iceberg the next incident he narrated caught me off guard and I was stunned. He told me about a HR practice which is followed on the presence of the managing director he described the incident so vividly that showed the anger in him. He told me that whenever the MD arrives to the office in Chennai. The office of the organization is bolted inside and people are supposed to stand in a queue like school children to wish him this is a must for all employees and then when he leaves this process has to be followed again and he was venting his fury at the HR department. I was wondering in the time we are wondering on employee engagement and employee morale we are seeing these things also. If anyone has heard practices like this I would be more than eager to listen and just hope this acts are removed.

Cheers
Arvind Srikantan

Solid start to the season

It's that time of the year when I analyze the performance of Valencia and we have made solid but not a spectacular start to the season sitting on 4th but as usual all the action is off the field with the David’s being linked to man utd. Now this season is crucial minimum targets

1) Top 3 finish
2) Later stages or win of Copa Del Rey
3) Later stages or win of Europa Liga

If these are not happening or things are not on the right path I think the worst would have come then and we would have to see our stars leave
Hope it does not happen
Cheers
Arvind Srikantan

"Walking in the fire"

Being in the firing line is pretty common but walking between two lines of fire?? To clear up am not blabbering but this was the fire walk activity conducted by priya Kumar at the MTHR SHRM event in Chennai on Saturday and her session was a breath of fresh air for the following reasons
1) She did not talk and motivate like others
2) She was very genuine and was talking about fears what everyone has gone through
3) She did not make herself a larger than life image which trainers normally do

Normally people will just start leaving towards the final session of a daylong event but no one dared to walk out she had every single person's attention fixed on her and man she was good

Then we had the fire walk exercise where initially it appeared it was like the Tamil movies where you had to walk on a bed of coals but later when i mustered up the courage to walk I realized it was just grass and mud and the path was surrounded by flames.

Then I wanted to do it again and I did it!!! But the important thing was to break out of the fear and go in it. So many people shied away from it but only those walked on fire will be the one who can face the barrage!!!

Cheers
Arvind Srikantan

Thank you saikat saha

Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
Without the giver
Is bare.
~James Russell Lowell
Reflecting back on a hectic day of activity i think it is essential to thank people who helped you. i used to blog but in my old blog I only thought of making money it was never even an idea to express your thoughts and views till I met Saikat Saha my senior at MHRM in Madras School Of Social Work who told me about blogging and how he has taken to it and how it has helped him and now I can realize how it has helped me !!! I think the poem on top reflects for that

Thanks a lot brother
Cheers
Arvind

Human Relations and Media

When you talk about people and perception the biggest contributor to it is media and this has a profound impact. How?? Being in a profession which deals with humans and which ask people not to make judgment of people based on appearance ironically I am blessed to be in an environment which exactly does not do that. I was talking with my friend and she was talking about her family and she was commenting how harsh her mother and how bad she is and that a mother should not be like that and all. I thought how does a person know how a mother is supposed to behave??? The following are the major sources
1) Surroundings
2) Neighbors and friends
3) Media

Now why do I highlight media is that in an environment where social interaction is lowering day by day the electronic media is rampaging and portrayals of mothers as larger than life who will sacrifice everything for their kids but I just would reality to be as true as that and it is not ??? Why because every individual is different with different characteristics and they behave different the portrayal of a Chinese to be a martial arts expert or a German to an engineer won’t take us anywhere and the Biggest contributor to it the cinema is bad in India and horrible in Tamilnadu. It is a simple deal you make a good movie which is logical and good we will ensure you don't make a movie again and that is the sorry state of affairs we are forced to cope with unless our people grow over and make their own judgments stand back Sardars you are the butt of jokes stand back blonds you are brains are not given and everyone else

Cheers

Arvind Srikantan

Attitude

Well this is one of my most favorite video's where you can listen to Zig Ziglar one of the top motivators of all time and this is to all my friends who want to think negative and eradicate the negative mindset.

Lack Of Commitment

how do you ensure u get the best satisfaction from an event ?? You do so much and at the end of the day we are humans and would expect some recognition for it. Well there is a great way for you to satisfy yourself i was speaking with my senior Saikat saha the famous blogger on this and he gave me two tips to get the best out of any event

1)Show your full passion for the event in the prepration
2)And jus before the event show a tinge of dispassion in a sense don't be so involved mentally but do all the work you are supposed to do properly and dont worry on other aspects this will ensure that you get the ideal recognition for the work done by you

Cheers
Arvind Srikantan

Ethics And Human relations a look into it

The perennial question and the moderate answer Ethics and Human Relations can it go Hand in Hand ? Now why am i bringing this topic is of recent developments.

This issue popped up in my class when my good friend Tanvir put forward a question that in terms of a conflict between Management and Workers whose side should we as HR be and this boiled down to Ethics and HR and thus from an impromptu discussion it became into a fracas with people aligning them with Ethical or Unethical and this threw open some serious questions and it was a brilliant session.

Important Questions which came up
1)Isn't ethical practice for one company become unethical ?(ERP and raiding)
2)How do you stamp your authority with respect to being ethical
3)Will being Ethical reward me in short run and Long Run
4)Should Ethics be a facade am putting to distance myself
5)Who am i loyal to the Organization or Myself

Now these Questions drew varied answers from varied people but something people are not aware of is rating companies by what they have heard of them and not trying to find into it.

People consider Infy to be a great company (Even i do) and Satyam to be a fraud company but lets be honest has Satyam done anything wrong with its employees or had any sort of major case by employees against it ???? It was only their CEO who made the mistake and it had nothing to do with work of employees and he came out and accepted the mistake it was not discovered.

So i just hope people do not classify anything based on face value

Cheers

Arvind Srikantan

Is attrition good for a company ???

The first thoughts of anybody on reading this topic would be ensure if am sober or not gone mad. As a HR professional even the mere thought of a high attrition can cause madness to a person more than Rakhi Sawant stunts. But i was discussing with my cousin Satish Salivati (Head Services Delivery, Asses people) and i was discussing enthusiastically about exit interviews and attrition when he put forward a nice idea which he said was shared by quite a few in the HR community that an attrition is like an inflation to a moderate extent like 20-25 % its actually good. Why?? well the potential answers can be
1)Brings fresh employees and freshness into the organisation.
2)Ensures the burden of promotion job increase is removed.
3)No use of trying stop people from leaving not all people can be same
4)Ensure you use his help to find an adequate requirement

It does not matter which people are leaving even if the highest performers are leaving take it for good after all the organisation is bigger than the individual and then it will open chances for others

Let us take an instance of employee D who is winning the best employee award and has been outstanding in contribution for five years and when he decides to move on this will create for someone else to come into this space and ensure they step up so that is the whole deal

Cheers
Arvind

Why we don't trust !!!!!!!!!!!

During HR symphony conducted by us there was a plenary session on corporate goodness by dr M.V.Cherian DGM HR National Head ONGC Schools. He gave a brilliant narration on one of the important topics of today it was on concepts of paperless office and using less paper. He took a dim view of this and told it would be close to impossible to have a paperless office in india !! Why ? Because it is based on the fact that we never trust each other and every little thing has to be in writing and is preferred like thatand what is the root cause of this issue is in childhood itself where i can say every Indian child would echo this the parents always say to their kids do not meet with x person or y aunty do not trust them do not talk with that person and so on and so forth with this being inculcated into us how would we change after a quarter of lifes are over and when we come to office where we are supposed to trust others. I think its like those great facts its sad but true and hopefully atleast the next generation grows up on a more trusting relationship with the society

Honestly words straight from the heart and i was really taken aback during this

Cheers
Arvind

The feeling of gratification and accomplishment

My first major event in my PG program was "HR SYMPHONY" and it was based on theme of HR trends in 2010 and the chief guest for the evnt was Dr.Kanimozhi Karunanidhi the evnt started of slowly and was actually pretty dim and there was a tea break for which people were craving for it. I think the tea had the magic in it the session after that was enthralling to say the least the panel discussion was amazing with Mr.Muthukumar Thanu(VP)as moderator who livened up the whole crowd with his anecdotes and quirky jokes and the highlight of the day for me was Mr. G.Udaykumar of coremind i think i should thank my classmate Madhumitha Soundarajan for bringing him his points and views were like a tracer bullet he hit the nail on the head when he spoke and any budding HR practitioner should have listened to it i have jus three words for him. "TAKE A BOW" sir it was so eye opening and then it was our event the corporate event me and my partner Upasika had practiced our lines for about 5-6 times and were so much tense cause we were behind schedule and many corporates started to leave but we spoke with a few of them and ensured they stay back and i was so scared cause during the practice i was putting all sorts of accents and i dint know what to do. But there was some divine intervention thanks to which i was able to do really well and i was commended by all for my performance and you know that feeling was so nice to be said that it was done really well and i felt i had the crowd in my controls they would laugh to my jokes and empathize my feelings of appreciation and that was a moment of glory i was basking in that moments of glory and what a feeling it was !!!!!!!!!

But the came the dark moment when the vote of thanks was announced i felt i had done so much work and thought it will be acknowledged but it dint happen and it was bad but the feeling sulked in and i jus took the positives in it ................ :)

Nostalgia

The many people i have interacted in the past 2-3 months have emphasized on youth and to ensure you are young at heart. Nostalgia is what i was experiencing today i was travelling in the local MRTS from my house to my institute and i was reading "false impressions" by jeffrey archer till in the mylapore station i saw a boy aged about 10 and his sister who was a year or two younger than her and then their mom enter the train from the moment they came something kept striking me of how these siblings looked like me and my sis and then i was not able to read the book and was seeing them both had an exam and had finished it the boy took away his sister's crayons and she was crying for it in between the mom was asking if they had written the answers on the paper properly to which they gave reasons like only 2 lines were there and not responding to the questions these strangely reminded of 12 years back when i used to squabble with my sister like this uninhibited not bothered by what is around but just that wish to get what we want. seriously miss those times and hopefully i can have some of those good times with ma sis again...

Teacher

For people who have seen me age has always remained a mystery!!!! They are never able to believe that am the youngest person in most of my classes and activities but am one of those people who stands up for all the activities!!!! This was never my persona I was always the timid shy character who always preferred to stay alone and think and read I was in the shadow of my sister for 12 years where she bagged all the honors(deserved every one of those) and I was running to all nooks and corners to hide myself. My parents knew i was supremely talented but never had a chance to show what i was capable of I was like hanuman of Ramayana supremely talented but never knew what he was capable of , Like he had a Sriram i also had a Sriram in my life before any wrong conclusions are reached i will clarify Prof R.Sriram HOD Dept. of Business Administration RKM Vivekananda college(evening) was the person who put my career on track i remember my first meeting with him a short stocky man but one thing which was and always will be bigger than his frame was his energy and enthusiasm he took an interview for 2 mins and selected me for the stream and thus began the great journey for a person like me who was so scared he put me in office bearers position and allowed free interaction with him I could talk personal problems and anything under the sun to him i still remember the day he said about selecting me for an inter collegiate quiz I had barely been in the college for 50 days and i was pushed into the spotlight ahead of quite a few seniors and said "i trust our team to do well" we may not have then but any event we went after that we ensured people stood up and noticed us and this was the case for 3 years he trust he had on me was great

On this teacher's day I have jus few words for him "Sir thank you for guiding me like a parent hope you do that lot of students and one day I will know I will be famous and that day I will still cherish these beautiful memories about you"

HR recession and CSR

the following is an article i have given for the newsletter of my college magazine


Name the only thing which can grow during recession in corporate world? Obviously not the balance sheet and yes layoff list but what can actually grow leaps and bounds is the CSR initiatives taken by major organizations. This is because of the fact as there is a perceived lack of demand in the market for products and thus the production marketing and sales are all cut back and people have to be fired or retrenched.
The question of CSR initiatives growing was highlighted by Infosys when it asked many of its employees who could not find projects to work on to service for INFOSYS FOUNDATION and where paid close to 60% of their original compensation this created two good things for the organization
One it was able to generate goodwill among the rural society from where they could get future employees
Secondly it prevented them from having a confrontation with unions and political institutions regarding layoffs
One who truly believes that society awareness and social initiatives will go up is local entrepreneur E.Sarath Babu in a recent session with him he was mentioning that as the job market is pretty tight the organizations can use this time to increase CSR and secondly with Corporate governance and CSR coming up high on agenda of many organizations one soft skill improvement of freshers could be their community involvement activities which are now being recognized
He stressed on the fact how important HR should play in encouraging this they should talk to the employees on taking CSR activities and involving themselves there should not be a feeling that as there is no work they are doing this because this will ensure they will perform not to their best standards they should try to affirm people that changing the society in which they live should encompass them and then it will move forward
So hopefully community activities get better and recession gets over soon

The best explanation for recession

The Paul Krugman's and Amartya sen's are trying to slog out the causes for the economic slowdown and the job losses but no one can give a Slobberknocker answer like the people of chennai now its upto you to classify it great or bad

The exercepts of a conversation between the driver and conductor of an MTC bus regarding the slowdown translated loosely

The bus was packed throughout the travel and only by the last but one stop when it got empty and thus the discussions during a traffic jam i overheard

dri: what a crowd not even peak hour
cond: Yes my head is paining need to go to the terminus and have a beedi
dri: You know smoking beedi can ensure u lose job !!!!!
cond: what
Dri: all these young kids smoke and drink everyday and thus do not go to work everyday and that is why they are fired and there is no jobs
Cond: Yes very much they have no limit we only drink a quarter a day and go home properly (lol) these kids lay flat
Dri: Unless the govt takes action for the job cruch the recession will go on
Cond: Hope they wont take our jobs i will ensure i do not show my activites in public
Dri: Better do that



I was literally laughing my head out after listening to this move over economists here comes the new financial experts lol

HR sangam

A lazy Sunday afternoon as it was put was the time for the august gathering of HR sangam an informal forum for people from industry and students to discuss on various issues and also to build contacts.

This was the first time i was attending a conference of this nature and as expected i was a little bit apprehensive on meeting with industy people and knowing about them but i later came to terms that if i have to break out and talk with people this is the chance i met with quite a few industry people and then there was a session on "employee misconduct and disciplinary problems from a HR perspective" which was the most interactive corporate session and topic i had sat for a long time people were questioning and answering them randomly but that was the best part people were ready to share their ideas with everyone hope this goes to the next level till then adios

Confessions of a crooked mind

The title is plagiarized from Hollywood movies and i don't mind it but this post after a long time will speak on my mind on what i intended to and on my thoughts.

Whenever people call me out on weekends i mostly say no unless they are my close friends and thus people branded wrong stuff but the truth was that i spent that crucial time with my best friends my parents and this close relationship has had its advantages like peace of mind but it has had its drawbacks how?

One thing is that my mom is a very orthodox Brahman (She was born and bred up in Delhi) One thing she always said to me was never mingle with smokers and she kept repeating to that level they were demons in my mind and then when i came to coll i saw people addicted to tobacco vapors and i considered them bad and kept away but after coming to my PG i have forged a good friendship with a person who is a chain smoker and this is when i realized by inhaling tobacco no one becomes a devil and that's a point am trying to put in myself do not discriminate anyone esp wid my career dream as HR no space for that and to close out my first blog with indiblogger...:)

The big Etoo Ibra Swap !!!!!! who wins

The biggest story to hit rafters after the CR7 transfer seems to be the Etoo Ibra swap between Barcelona and Inter Milan !!! the whole football world was saying barca got better and inter lost a star but honestly i have a gut feeling that barca are going to suffer from this deal and inter might not get better but if it is more a question who losses more i have to say Barca ! why? just rewind 3 years back when they had Henry Ronaldinho Messi and Etoo and they failed miserably. They were so successful last season because if u watched them hey were so exciting coz iniesta and xavi were the creative minds and you had Henry Etoo and Messi to finish of all the chances in Etoo they lost a true 25 goal a season poacher look at the guys record 108 goals in 145 games thats an average of 75% which is terrific and they lose him now Ibra is not the quickest and not a poacher he is a great striker and will work well with a system like inter where he instigated most of the openings for himself or for others




now in guardiola style they have to run to the box and score which i doubt of ibra on other hand inter get a top class poacher in etoo and if the deal for Snejider is confirmed then they have got a brilliant creative midfielder and two poachers in sammy and milito

to conclude this will not make inter champions league winner contenders but will make them firm favorites for SERIE A

arrivideci

The group dynamics

In any organization or an educational institutions the first thing the members are asked to do is not form clique's but inevitably we end up with many of them

Now this is what i can make up of why they are formed

1) Insecurity hat they may be left out so trying to forge a group and taking initaives to ensure they are satisfied
2) To adhere to the stereotypes they have seen in the movies of groups while being in college
3) To try to brag and show that i have a group of friends and boast it over others
4) To ensure they have a power coterie for their personal works

I have never been part of a clique and am not sure if i want to be but they make great groups to study

HR

is hr a career for me ?? thats the belief i have and hope the decision i have taken will be correct

I am shy of interacting with people and think of 10 times before interacting them but i have a gut feeling with its practical approach and my analytical mind i will be able to kick it up

Tough times for Mitch Kupchak

now tha lakers have wrapped up the NBA championship redemption for Kobe, jerry buss and Mitch after trading Shaq now lies the important decisions for mitch. Is phil coming back ???? he must if this team succeeds or can he get mike kryzeswki ? what about Odom,Ariza and shannon brown ? they were 3 crucial players and all free agents ? what about draft i would love 'em to take nick calathes wont count on cap next year and will be a great addition in 2010

The lakers run riot In game ! of the nba finals

Its friday morning and anxiously i check out my espn NBA widget score to see the score of the first game and in the end the lakers blow it out with a comfortable 100-75 win thanks to the black mamba who posted "lebron-esque" stats of 40 pts 8reb 8assists and great zone defence to ensure the long range snipers of magic are kept at bay great defence by ariza and odom on turk and lewis and kudos for andrew bynum dint have a greatgame by stats but 9 pts and 9 reb. and limiting superman Dwight howard to jus one field goal if they can keep momentum and win game 2 i think it will be then curtains for the magic and their terrific season

mein Karia munda ye shapath leta hoon........

You sometimes the little birdie in your head makes right guesses about right people and Karia Munda is one of them. I was so fascinated by his name and the first time i heard his name was in 1996 during the lok sabha oath and speeches i was a 6 year ol' kid who loved to watch tv and the only channel accessible was Doordarshan or DD 1 and it used to have these seasons i got so bored of these that i remember i made a small own pledge which went like this "Mein Karia Munda desh ka nalayak ye kasam khata hoon hi ki jhoot hi boloonga aur kuch kaam nahi karoonga". This oath came into existence because of frequent parliment failures and every week a new govt. i dint realize that only thing i realized was it was an hindrance to my programs and i was angry young man(lol) but suddenly when i heard that he was nominated as Dy. loksabha speaker i felt that birdie singing in my head and spoke with my mom about it i was able to laugh out thinking how this guy can handle a parliment when even kids were bored of him !!!!!!!! it is upto u mp's dont sleep

conspiracy theory : the nazi followers run all the reality shows

The only other thing other than political parties which are mushrooming up are the Television channels and each one has its reality show for dancing, singing, kids and who knows what next infants and its really horrible watching them especially when everyone in your family except of me wants to watch some guy/gal croon or shake a leg and better than that cry for votes i think these could be the breeding grounds for aspiring politicians awesome training for vote begging and coming back to the heading i concluded after watching zillion reality shows that these shows are staged by some F******g Nazi following white supremacists who are directly responsible or own the channel !!!! Why such an abrupt conclusion just look all the participants they are fitted with a code like the Jews got in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Warsaw among others and they could really forget their names but not their codes and then you have them on stage crying for votes and sympathy for their horrendous performances abd we have people who feel pity for them. And as soon as the event is over they are jus thrown regardless if they have won or lost one in a million becomes a Naresh Iyer he lost the comp. but became famous what happened to the winner it is jus a vicious phase of use and throw !!!!!!! time people realized it

Looking for old players but young coach

after the immense success of pep guardiola at barcelona everyone is looking for a young ex player to be their gaffer milan are looking up to leonardo (full report) and juve looking at antonio conte it is a kind of mystery why the english league has less younger managers than compared to the continent for eg: Valencia are lead by Unai emery who is 37 and espanyol were saved by mauricio pocchetino who is 36 and many others so i all my friends who are fans of united have a deep look at fergie's son darren ferguson he has just lead his team peterbrough to the championship and was the league one coach of the year it would be great if they can get an agreement where they could bring him by the end of the season

Paanch rupah Chutae do

No this is no new madhur bandharkar movie or anyother movie this was the line uttered to me by a bus conductor for change. now this is normal in Delhi or Mumbai But in chennai ???????????????????????? excuse me this is the place of anti hindi riots and then this... This incident took place yesterday when i was returnin back after submitting an application and was coming back home when i got into this AC bus and the conductor gave me a ticket of 25 rs i gave him a 100 rs note and then he uttered that phrase "Paanch rupah Chutae do" i dint understand at all what he was tryin to say i asked him what he repeated it and this shocked me for all the loyal tamil followers and faithfuls this was like the destruction of planet krypton the language they hated was used in public by state govt employees and what pleasure for those who fought for hindi..... and i was there dint what to do... i jus took a 5rs coin and took my seat for good the whole trip i was thinking abt this and i still cant digest this

The curious case of chennai climate

In our primary classes it has been trashed into our heads that there are 4 seasons in a year and suddenly in chennai i can see either of these cases... 3 seasons(i.e.autumn,spring and winter) are bored to come out or have been kidnapped by local political lynch pins.
Either way the summer is taking out its fury the climate is horrible here its constantly close to 40 degrees and 90% humidity am cursing myself why dint i make more of my chance to leave this city. I still regret missing out on tiss.

Fear of the Middle One

we are very heard of claustrophobia, Xenophobia and phobophobia but hereby i disclose my biggest phobia and it is Eunuchs. Oh am scared of them i once got so scared i ran away just to help myself to get a barrage of abuses from the people on platform into whom i ballasted in...( he he you don't want a near 5'10 170 pound guy to run into you) but coming back to the point of my phobia am still searchin on wikipedia if there is a name for this fear if not i have to christen one for it and belive me it will be horrible i hate transgenders and this fear dates back to about 10 years when every summer vaccation i used to go to delhi or come back from bombay and normally we used to come in the air conditioned coaches or so once we could not get the tickets and had to go by normal sleeper class and here is where i saw my nemesis i was laid back at that time reading tinkle digest(i was just 8) and i was in the upper berth suddenly this gigantic character shows up and with one hand it literally picked me up and asked " PAISA DO " like a killer threatning his prey i was scared and all my family members were fast asleep and i dint know to do anything i gave 2 rupees (that was worth a lot for me at that time) and i thought he/she or that will leave me instead it put its hand in my troussers and took away my hard earned ... :) 20 rupees and threw me man i was scared and i am stilll.. the latest encounter was in bombay when i got out of the airport and went to catch an autorickshaw for santacruz bus terminus and as soon as i reached there out of the blue it jumped and caught my head and asked me to pay as i was paying the auto fella and demanded 500 rupees or else it wont leave me i was cursin god !!!!! why me ......and i gave the 10 rs change of auto and said i dont have a single penny and i dont earn so leave me and it dint belive me i jus pointed out my money is with my dad and it turned towards him and boy i ran away from it have to say the air of freedom is so nice ... and thankfully till now that is my last conflict with it i jus pray that IT does not antagonize me and make it a lost conflict

With Dayanidhi maran

Well this post was supposed to come to weeks ago but i postponed it due to exams..... :). But this was a great experience we had for a program called youth for change in NDTV where we quizzed Dayanidhi Maran on the recent issues as young first time voters and surprisingly we got pretty clear and straight forward answers we were mentally prepared to do the best of our acts of David Frost and Jeremy paxman put together and we did put him in a lot of uncomfortable situations especially me with whom we had a conversation of upto 5 mins on a topic relating to dynasty politics he thought i will be ignorant and wont answer back to him but i stung him with my quick answers and he resorted to an contentless question just to show as if he knew more as it was going in vain..soon we realized that i was hogging up the light and other people had to ask questions so i let it go...... but it was a good feeling of not giving up to a politician and was cursed by a few guys as their part of questioning in the video was cut and i had the biggest share yipeeee.............

The first blog in 2009 and SANGHARSH

well its a bad habit of being a lazy and i have been just that in 2009 lol

but 2009 has started out great with "SANGHARSH " well sangharsh is not my pet animal it is my inter collegiate event and what pressure man for weeks it jus ripped me off was not able to do anythying and atlast it went well

We had guests like "badava" gopi athavan and the chief guest was Venkat prabhu
holy experience and the overall winners of SANGHARSH 09 were loyola college congratulations to them