Types of Management Training Programs
Training programs play a crucial role in honing skills of employees, making them responsible, productive, efficient and well rounded managers. Let us go through various types of management training programs: Employees need to be trained on how to interact with their fellow...
What is Ghosting and How it Disrupts the Hiring Process and Ways to Tackle this Menace
What is Ghosting and Why it has Become a Serious Problem for All Stakeholders We often hear the term, Ghosting, in Human Resources or HR Literature and Practice used in context of how jobseekers who have been recruited or called for interviews...
What is Assertiveness?
It is essential for individuals to be assertive and speak their mind without being rude and aggressive. Do not say a yes to others if you do not agree to what they are saying irrespective of their designation and level in the...
Training Needs Assessment – An Important HRD Function
Whenever training programs have to be conducted, there needs to be an assessment of the training needs which needs to preclude everything else. Assessment of the training needs should be done in an elaborate and methodical manner and should be comprehensive. Before...
What Do Employees Expect From Managers?
It is essential for managers to know what their employees expect from them and the organization. Let us find out what an employee expects from his managers and superiors: Every individual is hungry for recognition. A manager needs to acknowledge the hard...
What to do if You are Laid Off from Your Job
In these tough economic times, layoffs have become common in the United States and in Europe and the trend is spreading to all over the world. Therefore, the chances of being laid off from your job are increasing and hence, there a...
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence refers to the ability of an individual to keep a check on his/her emotions not only at workplace but also otherwise. There are very few individuals who know how to express their emotions in the right way and also control...
What is Creativity ?
Do you see various shapes in a crumpled ball of paper? Do you see various colours in a drop of oil mixed with water? If your answer is yes, then certainly you value creativity. Creativity is nothing but the process of creating...
What is Second Chance Hiring and Why It Matters in the Present Times of Distress?
What is Second Chance Hiring and why it has emerged as a Trend in the Present Times? We consider it an axiom that once someone is fired from a job or has done time in prison or otherwise, have a bad or...
What is an Assessment: Definition, Objective and Principles
Assessment itself can be defined and interpreted in several ways like financial, educational or even psychological assessment however, for the sake of the current discussion we shall stick to the context of HR and define assessments within it. Assessments are systematic methods...