HR Era,     Issue # 24,       Sep 22nd, 2002

1. Moderator's Space

2. Business Opportunity : Placement Agency & Website Available

3. My Favorite Quotes - by K Soundarraj

4. New Members

Taj Syed Wasifa (Ms.), Neeraj Narang

5. Readers' Forum

Reply on HR Scorecard - by Sathyamoorthy Iyer
Need info on Performance Appraisal for CEOs - Diwakar Loshali
Need info on Designing career paths for Knowledge Workers - Shilpa Yohannan

6. Tomato Soup for the Soul - Physically Fit Workplace

7. Inspirational Story: The Pencil Parable - sent by Ambar Nanavaty

8. More from our Members & HR Era Website

9. HR Training Programs (India)

10. Best HR Jobs (India)

11. Ten Steps For Getting Success - by Maneesh Goel

12. Aims of HR Era, How to Contribute Articles, Legal Stuff.

This fortnight's article on HR is emailed separately as a supplement to this issue. Mainly because Ms. Indumathi Murthy had done the colors, design, & clickable links. We wanted to retain her color choices & design. The title is A Summary of 360 Degrees Feedback Appraisal. Click Here to read.

Rajeev had also written an article on this subject in first issue of HR Era. Then HR Era had 38 members!. Click Here to read. You will find several links on 360 Degrees Appraisal in HR Era's Knowledge Bank .

Regards.

Alka Bhatnagar

2. Business Opportunity : Placement Agency & Website Available

We are a successful IT (Software) Placement Agency with some of the best names in the industry as our clients. We are into the business for the past 2 1/2 years and we boast of a very good database especially in the high end technologies like DSP, EDA, VLSI, Telecom, etc. and in other fields as Mainframes, Banking, etc. We also boast of a very large database of Japanese speaking IT professionals.

We have a website as well which incurs good traffic even without a little bit of advertising. Comments in several publications have been issued about this website.

We now wish to sell of our business and would like to a find a suitor for the same. More details shall be provided on request. Interested parties may revert at the earliest.

With due regards,

Gaurav Bansal

PVC CONSULTING
2246, Sector 21,
Chandigarh - 160 022 (India)
Tel: +91-172- 705431, 722788, 781795, 724148
Fax: +91-172-645310 www.acejobsite.com
Email: gb@aceJOBSite.com
Alternate Email: vartika007@yahoo.com

  

To,

Coordinator, HREra

I really enjoy reading the HREra fornightly. It is very interesting and thought provoking besides I get to know of new HR friends thru email.

From Cochin

I give below few quotes from my collection. These were collected when I visited Cochin University in CII team on 8th Aug 2002.

• Never accept the negative until the positives are thoroughly explored.
• You cannot change the past but you can ruin the perfectly good present by worrying about the future.
• A person who does not understand another's silence will not understand his words either.
• Perseverance makes many things.
• The secret of truth is simplicity.
• Always ask: "Is there a better way?"
• Do not shed blood but shed hatred.
• Never - Give Up.
• There are hundreds of excuses for not doing a thing, but only one way to do it is to decide to do it.

Teachers' Day

On Teachers' day [September 5th] I read this at the entrance of Tamilnadu Institute of Labour Studies.

TEACHER

Tactful
Educative
Approachable
Character Building
Humanistic
Encouraging
Resourceful

I am sure this will be of interest to HR friends.

Contributed by K.Soundarraj

National Vice President, NIPM, Kolkata
Dy General Manager-HR, CPCL, 536, Annasalai, Chennai-18
ksoundarraj@rediffmail.com

Taj Syed Wasifa, Manager-HR in an IT firm

Message: I would like to broaden my wings in HR further .

Taj is a post graduate in MHRM. Her hobbies are to learn things,to know about different people, making friends, listening to music and singing etc. Her area of interest in HR is motivation, retraining and redeployment as it gives satisfaction to HR professionals when their employees improve their performance

Contact : swtaj@yahoo.com

Neeraj Narang, Tata Infotech Limited

Message: I am very glad to join this forum and hope to get updated information about all HR activities. As my hobby is to make friends and building good relationship, I hope I would get many good friends thru this channel. You all are welcome to write (formal / informal)or contact me at my Email Id. Wish you all the very best to you all.

Neeraj is working in Tata Infotech Limited. You would recall Neeraj's contribution in last issue - "Salty Coffee"

Contact: neeraj.narang@tatainfotech.com or neeraj_narang@yahoo.com

Please email your replies to the person asking, with a copy to us at HREra@rediffmail.com for publication. Email new questions to us.

Reply on HR Scorecard - by Sathyamoorthy Iyer

Dear Mr.Ramkrishnarao,

You are really lucky. Just day before yesterday i was looking for this information and contacted all my friends. One of my friends, Hamilton ..., has sent this enclosed 'pdf' file on HR scorecard. I hope will be of some use to you also. Its an abstract of the book!

You can checkout the following links also regarding the same:

1. www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/prod_detail.asp?1364

2. www.chrs.rutgers.edu/scorecard.html

3. www.cupahr.org/HRpubs/HRscorecard.html

Regards

Sathyamoorthy Iyer
L&T- ECC Division
vssm@lntecc.com


[Moderator: I do not know whether Sathyamoorthy's pdf file is shareable. You may like the links.]

Need info on Performance Appraisal for CEOs - Diwakar Loshali

Dear Friends,

I am working on a paper on Performance Appraisal for CEOs. I would be glad to have an [email] discussion and details on this.

Regards

Diwakar Loshali
Junior Exec Member, Sapphire, XLRI, Jamshedpur
diwakarloshali@yahoo.com

Need info on Designing career paths for Knowledge Workers - Shilpa Yohannan

Dear All,

I am a student of PGDM-2 in SCMHRD, Pune. I am doing a project on " Designing career paths for knowledge workers". The project requires me to research the different practices followed by various industries in this regard.

I would really appreciate it if anyone would give me information regarding the practices followed by their companies regarding the same.


With Regards

Shilpa Yohannan
shilpa_yohannan@yahoo.com

Our company requires no further physical fitness programs.
Everyone gets enough exercise:
jumping to conclusions,
beating around the bush,
running down the boss,
going around in circles,
dragging their feet,
dodging responsibility,
Passing the buck,
climbing the ladder,
wading through paperwork,
pulling strings,
throwing their weight around,
stretching the truth,
bending the rules,
and pushing their luck!

From the Net

In the beginning, the Pencil Maker spoke to the pencil saying, "There are five things you need to know before I send you out into the world.

Always remember them and you will become the best pencil you can be."

FIRST

You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand.

SECOND

You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but this is required if you are to become a better pencil.

THIRD

You have the ability to correct any mistakes you might make.

FOURTH

The most important part of you will always be what's inside.

FIFTH

No matter what the condition, you must continue to write. You must always leave a clear, legible mark no matter how difficult the situation.

The pencil understood, promising to remember, and went into the box fully understanding its Maker's purpose.

Now replacing the place of the pencil with you; always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best person you can be.

ONE

You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in God's hand. And allow other human beings to access you for the many gifts you possess

TWO

You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, by going through various problems, but you'll need it to become a stronger person.

THREE

You will be able to correct mistakes you might make or grow through them.

FOUR

The most important part of you will always be what's on the inside.


FIVE

On every surface you walk, you must leave your mark. No matter what the situation, you must continue to serve God in everything.

Everyone is like a pencil...
created by the Maker for a unique and special purpose.

By understanding and remembering, let us proceed with our life on this earth having a meaningful purpose in our heart and a relationship with God daily.

YOU WERE MADE TO DO GREAT THINGS

Contributed by Ambar Nanavaty

Larsen & Toubro Limited, Ahmedabad. ambar_nana@yahoo.com

A Lunch with God - sent by Rajesh V Kamath

A story about happiness - creating happiness in others and being happy.

Sand and Stone - sent by V Bhatwadekar, Tata Steel

How do you handle hurt and good deeds?

Do You Have The Four D's You Need For Success? - by Gordon Bellows

Want to succeed? Here is one recipe for success. It is simple and also workable!!!

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