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"