China and India Lead Fake Sick Leaves : Survey
A survey conducted by Australian workforce managers Kronos has some interesting piece of information that managers would be most interested in. Majority of survey respondents...
Author : Abhinav Kaiser
Fired on Phone : Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz
Even at the lower rung of the ladder, employees getting fired are communicated to personally or through an email (or the famous pink slips). Through...
What is PDSA?
The term PDCA abbreviating to Plan-Do-Check-Act is quite well known, and the presence of a similar acronym PDSA has raised a number of questions. PDSA...
Resume Blunders that are Out of the Box [Literally]
A CareerBuilder survey was conducted on 2600 employees across US. In the survey, HR managers were asked to recount some mistakes that could be deemed...
Deming Cycle Explained [with an example]
Deming cycle is popularly known as the PDCA cycle, and the acronym stands for Plan-Do-Check-Act. It is an iterative cycle which guarantees improvements for the...
Indian Government to Monitor Facebook and Twitter Content
Perhaps what China did around ten years back was the right thing to do. They started monitoring each and every byte that came in and...
Media taken for a Ride on Internet Explorer IQ Story
Sometime last week, a psychometric testing company called AptiQuant released a study based on 100,000 web users. It concluded that IE users had relatively lower...
Should Bell Curve be Used to Rate People?
It is a common practice these days to rate people in a bell curve. The explanation is quite straightforward – employees’ performance is compared with...