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"Share, Learn and Prosper", I am here to do just that. The Novice HR serves as a vessel to project my views and learning, and clue in my readers as to what inspires me. So, sit back, relax, and read on the tips to successful workplace management.
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Believing in Your Superpowers: Signs that you are prepared for Greater Responsibilities!
Every year, as I take a moment to jot down my career milestones and ensure I'm keeping up with my plans, a recurring thought arises: "How...

The Gazelle Principle: Learning to Balance Differentiation and Objectivity
Performance appraisal is round the corner and I was really trying hard to analyze what kind of appraisal system would work best in the...

Marble or Clay? Sculpting an organization culture
Another weekend arrived. Amidst the mundane dinner conversations about how some batchmate landed a job in his dream company, the question...

Cleaning the glasses and Improving candidate experience
All food delivery apps give us an estimated time of arrival and even help us track our order second by second. Why? If we have paid for...

‘Meritocracy’ in workplace is like ‘Amygdala’ in an emotional brain
‘Amygdala’ is a part of the brain that is a specialist for emotional matters. Without amygdala, the brain would be incapable of gauging...

Saving the 'goose' that lays golden eggs
There is an old tale of a farmer who possessed a goose that laid one golden egg each day. While the farmer was slowly becoming wealthy,...

The Ultron Level Disaster
The Marvel cinematic universe is not just a superhero flick, but also a source of some great life lessons. I have always been a Marvel...

Fixing the ‘Broken Rung’ through Paternity Leave
Fixing the ‘broken rung’ in the ladder of success, is the key to women achieving parity at the workplace. While multiple innovative...

Recidivism models v/s Recruitment Techniques
One of my all-time favorite Tom cruise movies is- ‘Minority Report’. It is based on a concept that in future, a technology makes it...

The Fuzzy Logic behind Exit Interviews
Fuzzy logic is a mathematical concept of many-valued logic which claims that the truth values of a variable may be any real number...

The Theseus Paradox of Workplace
The Ship of Theseus is an interesting thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components...

Pygmalion or Golem! What is your boss like?
The Pygmalion effect stems from the story of Pygmalion, a mythical Greek Sculptor who carved a statue of a woman and then became enamored...

Mutualistic, Commensalistic or Parasitic! What describes your employer-employee relation the best?
Mutualism is a symbiotic relationship in which both the species involved benefit. Commensalism is a symbiotic relationship in which one...

‘Flap’ your way to a smoother Onboarding Experience
The phenomenon ‘butterfly effect’ explains that a small change in initial conditions can lead to vastly different outcomes down the line....

Do not direct, Just show the mirror! – Ways of promoting 'Inclusivity' at the workplace
Today all companies talk about the necessity of diversity. But the thought of trying and opening to something new brings in fears around...

The secret to an 'Engaged' workforce
Human beings for ages have struggled between their innate desire to stand out in the crowd and the need to blend in and all this, while...

Decoding the ‘The Lemon Problem’ of the Workplace
The ‘lemon problem’ is a classic concept of economics explaining how asymmetrical information between the buyer and seller can lead to...

Agility is the Key to Success
What happens when a drop of water falls on a tray of ice? It freezes. What happens when the same molecule of water is dropped in a glass...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going
While most of the companies have some action plan in place for catastrophic events like fire, earthquake and floods, we were pretty...
































