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