The Workosaur Blog

Effective organizations in today’s world are facing enormous challenges. Downsizing, diversity, global competition and total quality are a few harsh realities staring the organization in its face. However complex the challenges may sound, it is ultimately the human resources that make the organisation either go or not go. An organisation as an entity has multiple dimensions to it – conceptual and human, technical and functional, cognitive and behaviouristic. In the organizational behaviour context, a cognitive approach has traditionally dominated through units of analysis such as perception, personality and attitudes, motivation and goal setting. The behavioural decision-making area is concerned with the cognitions involved in judgment and choice. Hence, it could be stated that the cognitive framework is a crucial factor for an organisation to reach closure on hiring employees. Read the rest of this entry »

In today’s high stress corporate world, workosaurs can use all the help they can get in managing stress. Dr. Robert Sapolsky (Stanford University) has studied stress his entire life. How stress affects us and how we can deal with it. He found the answer studying Baboons in the Savannah. Turns out we are not all that different… Read the rest of this entry »

This is a guest post by Avnish Anand. Avnish is a philosopher of sports (a more apt description than a sports expert, sports journo, or sports enthusiast). He watches almost every sport and has an opinion on every issue in each of these sports. The opinions are compiled on his Sports Site, A Common Fan.
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The world of sports is extremely performance driven. It’s the hardest “industry” to continually stay at the top. No other industry is as competitive. Winning in sports is everything. There is no place for non-performers – winners thrive and losers perish. Business organizations also aspire to create a similar kind of culture – one which is completely performance driven and breeds excellence. However, few HR teams know how to go about doing so. What they need to do is take a break from what they have been doing all along and start doing what people are doing in the world of sports. So what are the key things that people in the world of sports do? Read the rest of this entry »

Dear Investment Banks / Brokerage Firms / Insurance Cos,

The way the cookie has crumbled has resulted in your employees rushing for jobs on workosaur. The recruiters who use our services have started complaining about their inbox being flooded with resumes of your employees. Many of the recruiters have started using your firm’s name as a filter for detecting spam.

So, please get back in shape. Shift to economy class flights. Move your offices towards the city’s outskirts. Build a leaner and smarter business. Use the extra money to retain most of your team.

And, allow me to pacify the recruiters on workosaur.

Sincerely, workosaur.com

This is a guest post by Mr. Hari Joshi - Director, Foreign Languages Institute (Bangalore). They offer courses in Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, Dutch, German and Chinese. In this post, Hari talks about the benefits of learning a foreign language - especially for managers who are and want to be a part of organizations with a global workforce. Read the rest of this entry »

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