Just Thinking

OFFICE main khali baitha hoon to socha ye likhhoon. Khas baat ye ahin ki mughe pata nahi main khali kyon baitha hoon aur mughe yebhi pata nahi ki main aage kya likhne wala hoon. Parso raat ko sote samay kuch line dimag main aayi thi kuch is prakar thi

“Main hindu nahi, agar hindu hone ka matlab kisi dharma ya jaat se door rahna hain.” Doosri line soch hi pata usse pehle need aagayi. Aur abhi fir kuch socta use pehle sir ne kam ke liye bula liya. Iska matlab bhagwan signal de raha hai ki line sochne layak hi nahi hain.

Freedom at Midnight pedhte samay kale ek bahut hi touching description aaya. Ye Juda tha Indian army ke division se. ADC to Viceroy Louis Mountbatein, Yacoub Khan who hailed from family of nawab of Rampur decided he had to go to Pakistan, because he can’t see his future in Socialist India. He tried to convince his mother but she didn’t budge from her ground that she won’t leave India. He left her with promise he would visit her every year. He didn’t kept his promise because he was leading a battalion of Pakistani army into Kashmir and facing him from India Side was another Moslem, a Khan who also belonged to Rampur but made different choice from the ADC to stay in India. Named Col. Younous Khan, Yacoub's elder brother.

I thought this should be the high point of today reading and closed the book and went to sleep. Depending upon their thoughts and perceptions people choose at the time of partition some decided to stay back and we the Indians didn’t treat them the way we should have.

JUST FOR FUN

OCEAN

This is the speech which I gave as a part of our training at Staff Training College of State Bank of Hyderabad. The option was we could speak on any topic of our choice. So what I did is I selected some litrary and screen characters and tried to explain the Big Five Personility Traits wid the help of them.

The First character is the richest duck in the world. Very miser and would hire you immediately if you would work for free. But what he teaches us is the respect for hard work and self dependence. Despite owning everything he desires he continues to work and explore new opportunities. Some what like greek demi god Sysphus, you have to work for next thing when one thing ends. So what we learn from Uncle Scrooge is Openness to New Experience, the first personality trait.

The Second character which I have selected is another billionaire, he was voted as the number one Super Hero by the public of USA well ahead of Superman and Spiderman. He is the Cape Crusader- The Batman. Why he won was simple because he doesn’t have any superpower. He is simple human being in flesh and blood like us but he plans and organize everything to perfection. For every situation he has plans not one or two plans but multiple plans taking into account multiple variables and you would not believe it but he has a secondary plan to solve the problem even if he dies. Thus for his planning, organizing and performing to perfection Bruce Wayne is an example of Conscientiousness.

The third character is from very popular TV series How I Met Your Mother. He can speak the language his customers are speaking whether its French, Japanese or Thai doesn’t matter, always suited up, can sell any idea to you by just looking into your eyes and has slept with over 200 women. He is Barney Stinson for you. He is perfect example of 3^rd personality type extroversion.

Next in line is Sameer from Dil Chahta Hai. He is cute, He is innocent and he is fun loving. But, he doesn’t know what to do in his life. So whatever is proposed to him he agrees to do it without thinking about results. Whether its about breakup with his girlfriend or going to Goa. He represents Agreeableness.

And now we come to final personality trait Emotional Stability (opposite of Neuroticism ). The Character which I picked up to represent it is the man who says “Keep Your Friend Close and Enemy Closer”. He is the perfect marketer because he will make you an offer you can’t refuse. He is the Original Don, the Godfather- Don Corleone. Whatever the situation is he never gets angry he never losses his cool.

With this the BIG 5 Personality Trait are complete also represented by abbreviation OCEAN (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism)

LEARNING HR THROUGH CELLULOID

“A picture is worth more than a thousand words”

Dr Biswajeet Pattanayak (former Head, HRM-IIM, Indore) made headlines when he used ‘Lagaan’ as a case study in organizational behavior at IIM Indore. He is now famously called the ‘Lagaan Professor’. There are numerous incidents in movies which can be used to identify or even learn different HR perspectives. Movies work as course material because of their wide appeal. People easily understand movies, and if some business lessons can be taught through them there’s nothing like it.

To understand this subject better we can take certain examples from some movies and the HR Lessons they teach. Let’s start with ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, George Clooney makes a plan to rob the biggest casino in Las Vegas. The first thing he does is manpower planning and selects ten other people who are good in their respective field. Each one brings his expertise to work and what follows is full autonomy and brilliant team work to achieve the desired result. This is the best example of hiring the right people for the right job.

Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s ‘Golmaal’ is a good example to study Halo and Horn effect at play. When Utpal Dutt was taking interview he was clearly against elderly workforce and was finding faults in the youngsters. A candidate without a moustache, with a modern name and sense of fashion wasn’t considered for the job. This is Horn effect at work as the questions asked to them were only from their field of interest and nothing related to their competencies or abilities at work. When Amol Palekar enters the office in Kurta Pyjamaa and sporting a moustache, at that given moment Mr. Dutt gets impressed by him and Halo effect comes into play. One scene of Golmaal it’s also shows how to motivate people. Its common knowledge that rewards motivate people but it should be understood that rewards should be relevant to the achiever. In the movie when Devan and Amol were searching for a woman to act as Amol’s mother they come across Dina Pathak. She was a wealthy person and had everything in life. To make her agree to play the part they tell her that Amol has a sister who is of the age of her married daughter and that this could help her in feeling less lonely.

In the movies ‘Remember the Titans’ and ‘Chak de India’ the way coach Denzel Washington and Shah Rukh Khan respectively transform a group of individuals into a team that bonds and stays motivated until the ultimate purpose is achieved is a example of transformational leadership at work. Although ‘Remember the Titans’ was a period film and ‘Chak de India’ a contemporary one both display the skills and innovative techniques required for handling a multicultural team.

In one scene of Raju Hirani’s ‘Munnabhai MBBS’ when the protagonist Munna (Sanjay Dutt) sees a sweeper in a very angry and frustrated state of mind he goes to him give him a big hug and tells him he wants to thank him for his work as every one praises the doctor when a patient gets well but not him, since he is as much responsible for the speedy recovery of a patient as the doctor is because he keeps the hospital clean and hygienic. The fact of just giving respect to him and recognizing his work makes him happy. The same concept can be applied to real time situations by showing respect to each and every employee and making them understand how their role, however small it may be, is important for the organisation’s success.

Conflict Resolution and Negotiation are skills are common to all styles of working and most commonly viewed in offices. The movie which catches the essence of conflict and negotiation and how important it can be is shown in ‘12 Angry Men’. The movie shows how a jury has to decide the verdict of a murder case and they have to do it by consensus and not majority. In the start they have an opinion vote in which 11 out of 12 of the jury members find the convict guilty and the remaining one of the view that the convict was innocent. Conflict and Negotiation begins as one person tries to convince the others and all of them show hostility towards him. He goes on giving his view point sometimes very peacefully and sometimes in an animated manner and in the end convinces all the others that the convict is innocent. In this way he saves the life of the convict which shows the importance of negotiation.

Hence academicians must promote the understanding of management concepts through an entertaining and fun way through watching movies and analyzing them.