Both assessment centres and 360 degree feedback have become very popular new era HR tools. With human resources gaining strategic importance combined with raising costs of talented managers and their scarce availability, organizations are left with no alternatives than identifying and grooming...

This paper presents two cases to demonstrate the application of system approach at micro-level in education. The cases are based on the experiences of the author’s work with school systems. One case deals with the application of systems approach in redesigning a tutorial system in a school and...

This study on 16 small industry entrepreneurs (9 successful + 7 unsuccessful) focused on identifying some personal background attitudinal, organizational and managerial variables that discriminate the successful group from the unsuccessful group. Success in entrepreneurship was identified...

This paper presents a role set based assessment center approach to personnel selection. According to this approach an assessment center should be established in any organization interested in personnel selection and appraisal on a continuing basis. The assessment center should reflect either in...

The UNDP Human Development Report of 1993 ranks India 134 out of a total of 173 countries. This raises serious questions about India’s human development policies and procedures. This paper attempts to examine India’s position in relation to other Asian countries on different dimensions of...

A large number of organizations have been using 360 degree feedback in India as leadership development intervention. This paper is based on the feedback of 43 participants from four companies where the 360 Degree Feedback program was initiated. The study was done using a questionnaire method....

HRD (Human Resources Development) is a new concept that has evolved in the last decade. HRD in USA is identified with training and development and it is only in the recent years other components of human resources development are being included under the term HRD. In our country some...

The need for developing managerial capabilities among executives is being increasingly felt and attended to in Indian Industry in the recent past. Mechanisms like performance appraisal, potential appraisal, training, OD, performance feedback and counselling are being designed to facilitate...

Microlab is a technique evolved originally as a part of T-group technology to unfreeze the participants before their participation in a T-group. This technique has been used in several innovative training programmes to communicate the innovativeness in the designs of these programmes and also to...

This is a continuation of Technical Report No. 77. There are 5 sets of practice stories. Scoring system is described at the end of each set. Reliability coefficients have to be computed on the basis these stories and the keys supplied in this.