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Cross-cultural
training: the melting pot
When organisations become cross-border entities, cross-cultural
factors start affecting every aspect of the business. Whether
in multi-cultural teams or in business interactions, the variants
of cultural nuances eventually end up affecting the business.
Creating
high performance teams
Research shows that most employees cannot do something they
have not been shown how to do. Many corporate executives like
to talk about team players, but they do not practice the concept,
leaving employees to wonder how their experience on the school
cricket team 20 years ago could possibly relate to the workplace.
Because they don’t know what it means, they simply go
about their tasks.
A
cool code factory
AdventNet Software is into developing IT and telecom management
products at its Chennai development centre. Promoted by students
from IIT-Madras in 1996, this company has built a truly developer-friendly
code factory, an ‘F5ing’ (refreshing) workplace
for its 400-odd developers.
Addicted
to challenges
Santanu Paul was born in Duliajan, an oil town in Assam, and
didn’t have any formal education till he was old enough
for class four. But his informal education helped him acquire
self-learning skills right from childhood. He joined Kendriya
Vidyalaya and later Ramakrishna Mission at Narendrapur near
Kolkata.
International
human resource management
It is not easy to provide a precise definition of international
human resource management (IHRM). What an HR manager does
in a multinational corporation varies from firm to firm. It
also depends on whether the manager is located in a global
corporation’s headquarters or onsite in a foreign subsidiary.
Five
Skills
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