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The
Future of Work and Companies
Rolf Jensen predicts the shape of work and companies of the
future.
He suggests that the concept of work is undergoing a remarkable
metamorphosis. The author contends that in the future, purely
materialistic and physical aspect of work will be supplanted
by the mental, emotional and social aspects. Similarly, organizations
will also become more human with only participants, not employees,
and intellectual capital will take precedence over physical
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Unlocking
Profit Potential - Is Knowledge the Key?
Opportunities for sustained profitable growth of enterprises
depend on knowledge as the key resource, declares P N Rastogi.
Nature of a firm’s knowledge spectrum, techniques of
knowledge acquisition and a rich inventory of valuable ideas
and insights are outlined briefly in this context. The author
believes that development and deployment of knowledge are
deeply embedded within a dense dynamic nexus of social and
human capitals. Intellectual capital is the resultant from
this nexus, and represents a firm’s holistic and super-ordinate
capability to exploit opportunities for creation of wealth.
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Spanning
the chasm of culture gap
Culture of a nation is soul deep and is inseparably woven into
the social, political and economic fabric of the land. So when
one deals with people from other countries, one ought to take
cognizance of their habits, values, attitudes, sentiments and
expectations, advises Richard R. Gesteland. The author discusses
the implications of cross-cultural differences on business transactions
and prepares the reader for overcoming cultural barriers through
effective communication. |
Politicking
- The Smart Way of Management
David Butcher and Martin Clarke analyze the role of organizational
politics in the corporate world. Politics is an inevitable facet
of the corporate environment and consequently, being a politician
is part of the job for every manager. The key objective, however,
should be to use politics in a positive and constructive way.
The authors describe key capabilities for constructive politics
and also propose ways to work with legitimate politics. |
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Keeping
pace with the mercurial shift
The advent of the 21st century has brought with it turbulent
changes. These changes are both fascinating and unnerving and
only companies who are dynamic, integrated, effective and responsible
will survive these changes, warn Jerry Yoram Wind and Jeremy
Main. The authors discuss the changing needs of employees, customers,
communities, technology, global markets and also suggest sensible
responses to combat the stressful changes. |
Corporate
Ethics
Corporate Ethics is too critical a subject to leave it to chance.
Left to individual discretion, what is ethical is likely take
different shapes and colors, cautions Shashi Malgonkar. The
author highlights the importance of a meaningful, written code
of conduct as being instrumental in helping create a high ground
for ethical practices in an organization. According to the author,
pragmatic corporate ethics works to produce a positive image
and a fine reputation for the firm. |
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Thomas
Cook Towards better governance
After a spate of internal and external challenges, TCIL adopted
strict corporate governance practices. An exhaustive BPR exercise
and many new policy decisions acted as a foundation for putting
sound corporate governance into practice. Manoj Khatri and Reeta
Gupta present a case with details of the problems TCIL faced
and the steps it took to combat these problems. |
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