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COVER
STORY
Peter
F Drucker (1909-2006): The Father of Modern Management
- - Sanjib Dutta
Drucker
was a visionary and many of the management concepts
and philosophies that are commonly used today owe their
origin to him.
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GENERAL
MANAGEMENT
Getting
Ahead with Political Savvy: An Ethical Approach to Managing
Organizational Politics
- - Laurainne Theogaraj
Politics
in organizations is a fact we all have to live with.
This article offers insights into organizational politics
and its inevitability in the workplace.
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GENERAL
MANAGEMENT
The
Essentials of Empowerment: The Five Ps
- - Patrick Low Kim Cheng
Empowering is all about seeing a group of motivated
people brought together with the same objectives.
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GENERAL
MANAGEMENT
Managerial
Leader: A Relook
- - Colonel VRK Prasad
Managers
are meant to deal with the incompatible forces while
leaders must harness the synergy. Thats where managerial
leadership comes into play.
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GENERAL
MANAGEMENT
Effective
Communication: Are You Communicating or Miscommunicating?
- - Niharika Joshi
Often
the communication process is given so much importance
that it outweighs the purpose of communication.
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GENERAL
MANAGEMENT
The
Making of a Successful MBA Graduate: The Best is Yet
to Come
- - Sharad Kamra
Mentoring
plays a very important role in the making of a successful
management graduate.
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STRATEGIC
MANAGEMENT
Why
Companies Fail? Lessons from History
- - Amit Singh Sisodiya
Most
often companies fail to read market signals, leading
to their failure.
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STRATEGIC
MANAGEMENT
Sustaining
the Competitive Advantage: Way to Stay Ahead
- - Deepak Kumar, Sadhu Ramakrishna
Some
companies have shown consistency in bringing out superior
products, earning profits, and thus sustaining their
market position.
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LEADERSHIP
The
Change Makers: Transforming Small Business Ideas into
Great Success Stories
- - Pradip Sinha, Sujoy Dutta
What
makes an entrepreneur successful? What are those unique
qualities by virtue of which entrepreneurs manage to
transform small business ideas into great success stories?
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MARKETING
Unethical
Dimensions of Marketing: Consumers Beware!
- - K Suresh
From
serving customers needs, marketing, as a discipline,
has acquired unethical shades. Which are the unethical
actions common in marketing and what are the reasons
for these?
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HUMAN
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Performance
Appraisals: How Do I Force Fit My Team into the Normal
Curve?
- - S Nandakumar
Performance
appraisals should aim at weeding out the bottom ten
percent and bringing in fresh talent.
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CASE
STUDY
Managing
Attrition in the Indian IT Industry
- - Ruchi Chaturvedi, Aisha Khan
The
year 2004-05 was an other successful year for the Information
Technology (IT) industry in India with total software
and services revenues recording a high of $22 bn for
the year (Refer Exhibit I). The employee base also showed
a huge increase to cross the one million mark in the
year 2006. However, despite the growth in the overall
employee base, companies are struggling to retain their
existing employees. s observed that managing
attrition in the industry is important because skilled
professionals formed the crux of this knowledge-in-tensive
industry.
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BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT
Indias
Biofuel Policy: Is it Foolproof?
- - KP Prabhakaran Nair
The
Government of Indias biofuel policy has many holes
which need to be plugged.
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BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT
Revenue
Management in Indian Telecom: Emerging Scenarios
- - Hari Prasad KV
Revenue
management is a challenge in telecommunications industry.
The external factors with ulterior motives and the intricacies
of the internal systems are putting the service providers
in a state of constant pressure in ensuring their revenues.
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INDUSTRY
ANALYSIS
KPO:
A Strategic Shift
- - Harsh Bhargava, Kashyap Parcha
Indian
companies, in addition to their regular BPO activities,
have slowly started focusing on knowledge or skill-based
operations which in outsourcing terminology, is known
as Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO).
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INDUSTRY
ANALYSIS
Competition
in the Indian TV Industry: An Analysis of Trends
- - VS Pai, Dheeraj Sharma
The
Indian Television Industry has evolved from the regional
nature of competition in the 1970s, to one where almost
all global brands are competing, in the 2000s.
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