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Thinking out of box
July 18, 2014 @ 07:02|0 Comments
Thinking out of box wins tricky interview questions Interviewer said to the candidate: "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!"The candidate thought for a while and said: "My choice is one really difficult question.""Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. "What comes first, Day or Night?"The candidate was jolted into reality as his admission depends on the correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while and said, "It's the DAY sir!""How" the interviewer asked."Sorry sir, you pr...
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How Managers Monitor and Control Worker Behavior?
July 10, 2014 @ 04:57|0 Comments
How Managers Monitor and Control Worker Behavior Managers have to monitor the activities of their team and the external forces. Without that monitoring you won't know whether your plan is working or if it needs to be adjusted. And managers must then control those elements that they can control to keep everyone moving toward the goal. In the control task, you monitor the work being done. You compare the actual progress to the plan. You verify that the organization is working as you designed it. If everything is going well, you do not need to do anything but monitor. However, that seldom happens...
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5 performance management tactics to boost employee engagement
June 30, 2014 @ 04:43|0 Comments
Isn’t performance management about driving relentlessly for results while engagement strives to humanise that and keep employees motivated? It is true that engagement and performance can be seen as standalone programs, but if we take a moment to look at them together we can see how naturally good performance management can create engagement. This research by award-winning talent management vendor Halogen Software and industry expert David Creelman, CEO of Creelman Research, takes a closer look at performance management and describes five ways organisations can implement a best-practice proc...
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What confident people do not do
April 30, 2014 @ 05:58|0 Comments
What confident people do not doHighly confident people believe in their ability to achieve. If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else put their faith in you? To walk with swagger and improve your self-confidence, watch out for these fifteen things highly confident people don't do. 1. They don't make excuses. Highly confident people take ownership of their thoughts and actions. They don't blame the traffic for being tardy at work; they were late. They don't excuse their short-comings with excuses like “I don't have the time” or “I'm just not good enough”; they make the time and t...
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Motivating minds and procrastination
April 15, 2014 @ 06:41|0 Comments
People procrastinate when asked to think in the abstract TO SOME there is nothing so urgent that it cannot be postponed in favour of a cup of tea. Such procrastination is a mystery to psychologists, who wonder why people would sabotage themselves in this way. A team of researchers led by Sean McCrea of the University of Konstanz, in Germany, reckon they have found a piece of the puzzle. People act in a timely way when given concrete tasks but dawdle when they view them in abstract terms. Dr McCrea and his colleagues conducted three separate studies. First they recruited 34 students who were of...
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