Category: Work Behaviour

What mattered most for Pradeep at that moment was his own analysis of his own plus and minus points. He had joined the company just a couple of years ago…Continue reading“One’s own analysis”-10 December 2013

The issue was simple: How much time should a company allow for its staff for recreation. During working hours, extracting such a time looked almost impossible, and even blasphemous. For,…Continue reading“Recuperating from work-stress”- 25 November 2013

The staff found it extremely difficult to follow the new set of instructions at workplace given by the new boss, Jagannath Kumar, a young man who wished to leave blazing…Continue reading“Only for opposition’s sake!”- 12 November 2013

When Dilip Rao took over as GM of the manufacturing Division of the company, he found that a strange silence had fallen over his core team. People did not seem…Continue reading“Keep talking to them” -29 October 2013

The meeting started as usual at 9.30 in the morning, the first item on the CEO Dilip’s agenda. All were present, except one – Manoj, the technical assistant to a…Continue reading“Power of disagreement”- 8 October 2013

Kiran Prakash came to the company as a hot favourite to lead a Division. For the present, however, he was a probationary officer who would head a Division at the…Continue reading“Two of a kind”-24 September 2013

The task before new CEO Jagjeet was monumental. The Board had mandated him to carry out a massive internal population transfer from one plant to the company’s new plant in…Continue readingDeveloping ability to see larger picture- 10 September 2013

In spite of the state of the art technology and very well trained technical or marketing manpower, the company’s products were not selling well in the marketplace. Somehow, the customers…Continue reading“Pride of one’s company and prejudice”- 27 August 2013

The company was going downhill for the past some years. The Board tried various formulae but could not arrive at any credible solution. For, it has assumed that the Big…Continue reading“The difficulty of being an autocrat”- 13 August 2013

The bosses felt good that most members of the new team of trainee executives were meritorious in their education and some had good work-experience, too, in their earlier jobs. One…Continue reading“The reliability count”- 30 July 2013