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A fool's paradise - WAKE UP!

At everyday life we come across people who believe that whatever the situation is, it doesn't concern them and things can go on without being change or disturbed. Especially in the Corporate world where there is a cut throat competition, you will find one or two individuals sitting in the office, and acting as if nothing concerns them.  Such people act in a very dismissive way, usually half lying on the seat, their legs spread in front of them  and day dreaming....acting as if something very serious and important is going on in their heads while staring at the Computer while doing little.  These characters also when asked to do some innovative thinking or change the pattern of their work, can start acting like bulls! they do charge on you and then you have to cover your ears because of all the cribbing that will start happening. In my experience, and i have experience such an individual rather recently, the image that come to my mind is that of a man with an iron cap! Nothin

From Therapy and Fitness Retreats to being HR Business Partners

HR is still a baby in Pakistan and there are still many organizations where HR is just 2, 3 years old. Keeping in mind this scenario HR is more or less considered as a clinical therapy department, providing psycho analysis and doing cosmetic surgeries….however that’s not what HR is meant to be.  From what little exposure I have received in the last 7years, one thing that I found in a   local concern, is that “HR’s work is not important”, “What HR is doing can be done by anyone in the Company”, “If you want to cut down Manpower, start from the HR Department”. Yet despite so much frustration felt by the HR people, a rising hope exist now ensuring a changing role of HR. HR initially was considered more like a “Post Office” for the business function of the Organization. Now with a growing realization by the CEOs and managements towards the need to have a strong HR in order to have a healthy organization; has given HR more room to grow and develop. Now we find HR Com