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5 Book Recommendations For Aspiring HR Managers

A company or an organisation is only as good as the employees that work in it. And you as HR Managers or to be HR Managers, will be responsible for bringing the best out of your employees. If a laptop breaks, you can just call for another one, but when an employee leaves, albeit replaceable to a certain extent, the cost is higher. Processes, from recruitment to employee engagement and appraisal is in your hands. Since being in HR involves dealing with people every time, the most important skill that you need to garner is the ‘people skill’. Although this list of books is in no way comprehensive, it offers a way to get you started. And why learn from your mistakes when you can learn from research and mistakes made by others?

Innovation Is The Way Ahead – Tesla Story

Innovate, a word said by many, understood by very few. What is innovation? Is it doing something that has never been done? If that were the case, the Wright Brothers can’t be called innovators, because there were various others thriving to make that one vehicle that could fly. Is innovation coming up with something no one has ever seen? Apple could then never have been called innovative.

4 Ways The US H-1B Visa Bill Could Be A Blessing In Disguise

The $143 billion Indian IT industry is currently grappling with an issue of truly epic proportions that promises to demolish its fundamental leverage. This is an industry that has for long been considered India’s sunrise industry and a huge foreign exchange earner. But, all that is set to change.

What The Leaders From Top B-Schools Say About Union Budget 2017

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley’s budget for the year 2017-18 has evoked diverse reactions from politicians, industry leaders, experts, academia and social media. Good for some, not so good for others but one sector which has not seen much is the Higher Education Sector. Did the Government miss out on Higher Education especially beyond the government colleges?

The Union Budget 2017 Decoded

Budget 2017 announced by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is very comprehensive given the fact that it impacts both lower and upper strata of the society to a very large extent– reducing the individual tax rate from 10% to 5% for the lower slab, reducing the tax rate from 30% to 25% for MSMEs having a turnover up to Rs.50 Crores; imposing a surcharge of 10% on individual incomes in the range of Rs.50 lacs to Rs.1 Crore are the breakthrough proposals announced. Relaxation in the promoters’ holding limit for carry forwards of losses and the 3 –year tax holiday provided to start-ups will further boost the Prime Minister’s “Start Up India” campaign. For the educational sector, the FM announced online education portal- “Swayam”, which offers virtual education for 350 online courses, which provides more thrust to the government’s Digital India movement.

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IIM Lucknow Hosts Panel Discussion On 'Expectation From Union Budget 2017-18'

While the nation eagerly awaits for the upcoming Union Budget, Industry Interaction Cell of IIM Lucknow decided to find out people's expectations from it. In the quest to do so, Industry Interaction Cell with event partner Business Standard hosted a Pre-Budget Panel Discussion on the 12th of January 2017. The panel consisted of eminent personalities from the field of journalism, industry, academia and public administration.

Information - Are We Informed About It?

We are living in the Information Age – sharing all kinds of information through computers, mobile phones, etc. Information flows to us and the world in many ways – through newspapers (such as Times of India, Hindustan Times etc.), research/consulting firms (such as Nielsen, Bain Consulting etc.), magazines (such as Outlook India, India Today etc), business publications (such as Construction World, India Business Journal etc.), news websites (such as Bloomberg.com, Reuters etc.), and now social media (Facebook, Twitter etc.). The latter is what is the most concerning.