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Learning organizations In today’s context, developing a culture for a Learning Organization seems a vital step to move forward. Learning organizations create space to all the individuals to clearly understand the purpose of the business, generates the genuine interest with in the individuals, makes the platform to share their views, innovation in a common group without fear and to work as a group facing the new challenges / changes that comes on the way in the achievement of the vision of the company. Let’s look at few definitions on learning organizations.   As per the HBR – Building a Learning organization (David A Gravin, July 1993) it is explained a learning as an entity that exceled creating, obtaining transferring knowledge, and also changing its behavior   in order to adopt new knowledge and updates with new perceptions.   In “What is a Learning Organization?” by Moya K Manson it is explained with few definitions, one can be noted as “A learning...

PM Vs HRM While having a look through few articles on the above two widely spoken topics, Michael Armstrong views Human Resources as (A handbook of Human Resource Management Practice,10 Edition) ”Human resource management is a strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organizations most valued assets-the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of its goals”. Meanwhile about the Personnel management in Armstrong’s book it is mentioned that as per the studies of Torrington (1989): in his point of view about the PM, it is    ‘‘Personnel management has grown through assimilating a number of additional emphases to produce an even richer combination of experience… HRM is no revolution but a further dimension to a multi-faceted role.’ Hence, I would note down the comparison between Human Resource Management & Personnel Management as below, Human Resource Management Personnel Management Very much con...

Commonly identified Leadership Styles Having observed the styles of leadership, and also on the practical day today occurrences that we come across in our organizations, it’s no doubt that we have come across different types of leadership styles depending on different scenarios. Many it be a change of the General Manager of the organization, an incident such as sudden fire on the office floor that we work in, a new system / procedure placed in, A newest of targets given related to a launch of selling a new product introduced, the leadership patterns emerge is different to one another. These also can be irrespective of the level you are placed in your organization too.    Generally there are few types of the types of leaderships styles identified. Below could be mentioned as the most common styles, which elaborates as  Autocratic Leadership, Bureaucratic Leadership ,  Charismatic Leadership ,  Democratic Leaders ,  and Laissez-Faire Leadership. ...

Assessment centers Under many methods of Strategic Employee Resourcing and Talent Management, among the few topics for selection of new team members, traditional and modern recruitment methods, e-recruitment, psychometric tests and assessment centers have been identified. Having looked in to more details of Assessment centers, this method is widely being used as selecting certain level of candidates, especially management level. The process has been understood that the potential candidates are being placed in a conference space where the recruitment team / management can observe them on different tasks given to them and how they individually or as a team come up with the proper solutions. And the behavior and the ability to react, decision making, w orking with a known/unknown team or rather personalities will be monitored by the panel. Assessment centers are ideal to train and develop the current team to select the set of managers who are to be promoted, or to select ...