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ಯಾಕಳುವೆ ಎಲೆ ಕಂದ April 2008
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We often read about people who think out of the box and create jobs for the poor, help the society. Most often these people are from the not so educated backgrounds. Here is Mr.Muruganandam who left his studies at 10th Standard, and started working. He has come up with low cost sanitary napkins. Not only that he invented cheaper way to make hygienic product, he has trained women in rural areas and made them run their own units.
You can know more about his Industry and product here ‘Jayaashree Industries’
I often wonder when people like Muruganandam can contribute so much to the society, why we with double degrees, keeping searching for jobs in Naukri and Ascent??
It is three years since we came to Hyderabad, and one thing I have understood is Telugu people have more passion for movies than Kannadigas. One of my neighbor would regularly watch movies in theatre even though she had a small daughter of the same age as of my daughter. Me on the other hand never went to Theatre to watch movie after Anagha’s birth, almost until she was four years old. I always thought it would be difficult to manage her in the theater or three hours. But this neighbor of mine told, her daughter also likes watching movies, else she will sleep. Anyway I did not have any trouble with Telugu people’s addiction to movies until we moved to first floor in our apartment. We were staying in second floor during first year of our stay in Hyderabad, and the house above ours was not yet occupied. So we never had any disturbance from the flat above. But when we moved to first floor, we started hearing lot of noises during night, from the house above. It sounded like moving the furniture, sometimes things falling down. We always wondered why they make so much noise. We could even hear the sound of opening and closing of wardrobe doors! We always wondered when we stayed in second floor, were they hearing the same amount of noise from our house.
But later we found that they started watching movies every Saturday night, with full volume. This was kind of ritual for them. One Saturday I found it too disturbing, my daughter was not well, and could not sleep because of the noise. Also like most of the Telugu movies, this had lot of Fighting, songs, loud dialogues. We could hear all that. I thought, its 10pm, lets wait, may be it will end. No it did not. 11pm, 12 midnight, the movie continued. We could not tolerate it longer, went to out to check if the sound is definitely from the house above ours or others, after feeling it is from the house above, my husband went and knocked the door, nobody opened. I asked him to press the calling bell. He said, no, their little son might be sleeping, why should we disturb!!
Fine, what do we do now? I asked do you have his phone number? He said yes, ok call him and tell. Then he called him and asked him to reduce the volume. He felt very sorry, and I think he switched off the TV or DVD what ever. After that we never heard the movie sound in the night. Either he missed it because of us, or might have shifted to headphones.
Now they relocated to other city, and we have a new neighbor staying in the house above. We have not yet met them yet. And one day suddenly at midnight, I started hearing TV sound. Sounded like a movie with ghosts or Rakshas of old movie types. The Rakshas would laugh quite often. I thought what kind of movie is this? I could not understand the language either. I waited for half an hour or so, then I got up. I thought of waking up my husband, then I thought, forget it, let me go and talk to them. I opened the door of our bedroom, and found that our TV is ON!!
The program was comedy circus in sony tv. And the laughter I heard was that of Archana!!
I thought how could this happen? Was my husband watching TV and slept without switching it off? No, the lights are off. Then I realized our TV was not working from evening, we tried pressing its power on button so many times, and left it. And suddenly it had become ON. I switched off the TV immediately, and thought how much the sound might have disturbed others!!!
Each one of us, except a few find it difficult to make their kids adjust to the school in the initial phases. My daughter went to play school only until I accompanied her and after that I could see that she has been crying a lot and I stopped sending her. Where as a neighboring girl six months elder to my daughter never had any problem from day one! At that time I felt the reason might be our language. We speak in Kannada at home and had moved to Hyderabad just one year back. But later I found that is not the reason for her discomfort. When I put her to Nursery in Bachpan a year later, she adjusted within a week and though she hesitated in the initial weeks, later she went without much problem. By the time she came to LKG, I put her in Laurus and she went for only two days and refused to go. Then I put her back in Bachpan and she started going happily from Day one, and the timings were 9 to 2pm. Few kids go happily from day one and few don’t, so what do we do about it.
Let me share you my experience, my effort in making her feel secure outside the home. First of all take your kids to your neighbor’s house, stay there for some time. I know it’s a boring exercise, but we need to do it. I have often seen parents asking kids to play by themselves and would not like to stay in neighbor’s house for more than ten minutes. So staying in an apartment was a blessing for me. To add to that we have kids of all age groups in our apartment. She would spend lot of time with her two friends who were of the same age. Initially I would always sit with her for 10 to 15 minutes while she is playing. Then I would come home for few minutes, would go back if she cried. Then I would stay with her for long next time. Like this it went on for few months. Later she started going to these friends house all by herself and would tell me not to accompany her. You just need to make them feel safe there by going with them every time or every day for half an hour or so. After few days they become familiar with everybody in the other house and feel safe. It also gives you an opportunity to understand your neighbor, and how good is their company for your kid. So by the age of 2 and ½ years my daughter was comfortably playing in her friend’s homes. Sraddha’s house, Saanvika’s house and sometimes charisma’s house. She also picked good amount of Telugu.
I liked Bachpan, Nizampet as it has qualified teachers who are fluent in English. Also the Director Sravanti is an Engineer by education. I liked the study material, and it was definitely better option than Lilliput. I joined her in Nursery, and I took her to the school for 2 -3 days before the school reopened. So that I could stay with her while she played in the play area. I made her feel comfortable in school. It was like a park or play house where her mother accompanied her, so she was happy to go. Also I got the uniform before the school actually started, made her wear the uniform and took her to school.
When the school actually began, the Director Sravanthi told us to keep our hearts strong and brave and to leave the kid even if he or she cries. And first week the school was only for half an hour! So first week all Nursery kids went for half an hour, though my daughter cried on first day, she didn’t cry the other days, because she thought it gets over so fast and it was fun! Next week the school was for three hours i.e. 9 to 12, but we brought her at 10.30 itself for one week. Later as she liked to come by Van with friends, we told her then you can come by Van. Coming by van meant staying till 12noon, which she did not realize.
She liked her class teacher very much. The class teacher was available to us over phone. So whenever she came home sad, I would call her and ask what happened, and she would explain. The class teacher Rama had very well understood the psychology of my child. I am sure she would have understood each child in the same way. My daughter enjoyed doing home work, as she felt it’s a matter of pride like other grown up kids. Now she too has got books and home work J
The school took them on outings once or twice. All festivals they celebrate with lot of enthusiasm. Friendship day, blue day, I day, all festivals so and so forth. A dance teacher came to train them for the annual day function. My daughter’s song was ‘O My friend Ganesha’. She enjoyed that too. On the annual day we were supposed to send them at 8.30am, from school they would go to Auditorium, which was near hi Tech city. I was wondering whether she can manage. But to my astonishment she went happily, she was dressed up by her teachers, she did not cry on the stage.
Also at every point, I keep her informed what will happen. I will tell her, they will take you to auditorium from school; your teacher will dress you up. There will be lot of people in the auditorium. They will watch your dance and clap loudly if you dance well. So on and so forth.
She even went to wish the Governor of Andhrapradesh on Rakshabhandan with her school mates. That was again something which we doubted, but she surprised us by completing that assignment also without any crying or troubling teachers.
At the same time she could not adjust to Laurus School at all. I felt neither the teachers nor the ayahs were well trained to handle small kids.
To summarise I would tell that, it’s good to consult few parents and take their suggestion. Also every kid is different, depending on your kid’s upbringing you have to mentally prepare them for school. Never tell a kid that ‘if you don’t eat I will send you to school’ or never make statements like ‘teacher will beat you’.
Since they start walking and speaking, make them feel school is a good experience. Make them long for school. Whenever they tell I want to go to school, tell them you are too young, you should eat properly then we will send you to school. So that the child feels it’s something which it should earn, like he earns a chocolate for doing good things.
Don’t put them in school for three hours from day one. Convince the teachers and principal and leave them only for half an hour. If possible go with the kid to the school on non working days of school and spend some time there. Bring them back even when they want to play more. Put them in day care for only half an hour or one hour. Stay with them for first week, and then leave them for half an hour. For most of the kids it should be a gradual process. Don’t ask them to wear the uniform on day one, sometimes they don’t want to wear uniform because that means going to school. In that case forget about uniform, put the color dress and tell them you will just go enquire something at school. Talk about other kids coming to school. Tell them there will be birthday parties in school. If you attend school you will get more friends, you can attend more parties. I have put lot of effort to make my daughter feel comfortable at other’s houses, and school. One of my neighbor often tells me ‘hats off to you Bindu’.
Thus sharing my experiences. Hope it helps you.
Enjoy parenting.
(November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005)
Biography
Peter F. Drucker was born in 1909 in Vienna, Austria. He was educated in Austria and England and earned a doctorate in public and international law at Frankfurt University in Germany.
A social ecologist, writer, consultant, and retired professor, he has published 41 books. His books on economics, politics, society, and management have been translated into 37 languages. His books and scholarly and popular articles explored how humans are organized across the business, government and the nonprofit sectors of society. He is one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers and writers on the subject of management theory and practice. His writing have predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the decisive importance of marketing; and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning. In 1959, Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker” and later in his life considered knowledge work productivity to be the next frontier of management.
Coordinated with his writings, he developed a series of professional training programs including, most recently, a series of on-line courses on management and business strategies.
Dr. Drucker wrote a regular column in the Wall Street Journal for 20 years. He has published articles in professional journals and publications including The Economist, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, Inc., and Harpers.
As a consultant, Dr. Drucker specialized in strategy and policy for governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. His special focus was on the organization and work of top management.
He worked with some of the world’s largest businesses and with small and entrepreneurial companies. In recent years he worked extensively with nonprofit organizations, including universities, hospitals, and churches. He served as a consultant to a number of agencies of the U.S. government, with the governments of Canada and Japan, and with other nations throughout the world.
Dr. Drucker was professor of philosophy and politics at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont from 1942 through 1949. He was professor of management at the Graduate School of Management at New York University from 1949 to 1971. In 1969, he received its highest honor, the NYU Presidential Citation.
From 1971 to 2002, Dr. Drucker was the Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. In 1987, CGU named its Graduate School of Management after him. It is now known as the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. He continues to give special presentations and lectures at the school. In 1993, he established the Peter F. Drucker Research Library and Archive at CGU (www.druckerarchives.cgu.edu).
Dr. Drucker received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S.’s highest civilian honor, and orders from the governments of Japan and Austria. He holds 25 honorary doctorates from American, Belgian, Czech, English, Spanish, and Swiss universities. He served as the president of the Society for the History of Technology from 1955 to 1960.
In his early career Dr. Drucker was economist for an international bank in London, American economist for a group of British and European banks, and American correspondent for a group of British newspapers. He and his wife, Doris, have four children and six grandchildren.
Some of the works of Peter Drucker “The End of Economic Man: A Study of the New Totalitarianism” 1939, “The Future of Industrial Man: A Conservative Approach” 1942, “The Practice of Management” 1954, “The Effective Executive” 1967, “Post-Capitalist Society” 1993, memoir “Adventures of a Bystander” 1979
Drucker said,
Just finished reading Revolution 2020. Good one. Once you start reading it, you cannot do anything else until you finish reading it.
Somehow I did not like the way the story starts, the author meets the character and he tells the story.
Also it answers some questions which I personally had about some Educational institutions.!! I was wondering how they will manage to open a college, how can they run it so on and so forth… and the novel gave me answers!!
Ends on an emotional note, brings tears in eyes. Definitely it makes you laugh at many places.
As usual reminds us of the student life, the coaching classes, the entrance exams, better performance by friends!!
So buy a copy and read it..
If you are in Hyderabad and have not visited Sudha car Museum, then definitely you missed looking at the effect of Creativity at its best.
Here we can see lots of models of cars which are in working conditions. From Computer, Dining Table to Shivaling you will find varieties of designs. Its a treat to eyes.
The only drawback is you cant sit in them, not even for a photo!!
Not only the new models which are the imaginations of Mr.Sudhakar taking the real forms, but also old models.
The place motivates us to do something new, whether others like or not, we should keep trying to make out dreams come true.
we work with passion towards what ever our heart beats for, I am sure we will reach success. This is the message the Sudha car museum conveys.
I will upload the photos taken there soon. Till then you can watch their website.
Location is : Bhadurpur, Very near to Nehru zoological gardens, Hyderabad.
Distance : around 25km from HiTech City.
Contact Number: +91 40 24463376, 24463257, 24460304. Mobile : +91 93919 05413
Website : http://www.sudhacars.com
Keep exploring the world around you…
6/30/2011 6:37 PM
Not every candidate makes it to the interview. Thus when a firm advertises for a vacant position huge number of people will apply. Then there is short listing of CVs. Once the CVs are shortlisted then the candidates are asked for their expected salary. Then there will be some preliminary discussion over phone about the interest and suitability of the candidate over telephonic interview. After passing through all these stages, if the firm still feels the candidate is almost fits in the position then it will ask him to come and have a f2f interview.
After this stage, if the candidate is selected definitely he will get the good news. Otherwise how many firms have the sense to inform the candidate that they have not been selected and thank the candidate for going through the whole process?
There are firms which do send regret letter even at the first stage where in the CV is not shortlisted. On the other hand most of the firms do not call back the candidate and inform him that he is not selected. Either the candidate will have to request for the status of his candidature or he has to presume that since they did not call he is not selected. Most of the times the candidate might find somebody who offers a job and does not bother about the results of the other interviews he attended.
This might not apply to government organizations where in the list of selected candidates is displayed on their website, and results are declared in newspapers. The candidates will come to know the results of UPSC, KPSC or SBI are announced and thus if their roll numbers are not there in the list they understand they are not selected. Also due to the huge number of candidates going for the interview it might not be possible for the organization to give feedback to each candidate.
Where as in firms where in 4-5 candidates are interviewed for a opening and one of them is selected or none of them are selected… it is the duty of the interviewer to inform the candidate that he is not selected and give him a feedback why he is not selected.
Now you might ask me, why should the interviewer give feedback?
When you are short listing a candidate for an interview, definitely you are doing so because he has the required qualification and experience. You feel that if that person joins your organization you will benefit from that. You are not doing any help or favor to him by calling him for an interview. You are calling him because you feel he might be the right person. After the interview if you feel he is not the right person don’t you think it is good manners to inform him that sorry you don’t fit here? You are not paying him for the amount and time he spent to go through all the process of your recruitment. He would have taken leave at the place where he is currently working. He might have travelled from other city just to attend the interview. He would have kept aside so many other works just to attend the interview. After all this he does not even come to know that he is not selected. He just has to presume he is not selected. It sounds so awkward!
Now how does the interviewing firm gain by giving feedback to unsuccessful candidate?
It is important to inform the candidate about the result of interview, by doing so the organization shows that it is organized.
By giving feedback to the candidate about the reason for not selecting the candidates it will not only help the candidate but it will help itself as the candidate will be better prepared next time when he applies for the job with the organization.
If the candidate comes to know that he does not fit in with organization due to some inherent characteristic of his, he might not apply again and thus will save the time of firm.
The firm will have a healthy relationship with the candidate by giving honest feedback. The candidate might refer other candidates who are more suitable for the job. The candidate might maintain good relationships with the firm or the interviewer and might help the firm whenever necessary.
Let me give you some examples.
Candidate A attended an interview with the firm Z for the position of a counselor. The firm Z was planning to hoist new program suitable for MBA pass outs. The course would help the students better prepared for the corporate world. The interview went on for almost an hour where in the interviewer told in detail about the firm, the course and objectives and the candidate told about her experience and expertise. Candidate A was not selected as the firm found someone more suitable for the job. The firm informed the candidate about he/she being not selected and thanked her for the interest she showed in the opening.
Candidate A later on joined an MBA institution as faculty. Because firm Z was in touch with her and she knew about the course they are offering, she recommended the same to her students who took the course offered by firm Z. Thus firm Z benefited by maintaining good relationship with the candidate who was not selected for what so ever reason.
If every firm starts giving feedback after the interview every firm will benefit. How does that happen?
These days most of the organizations give aptitude tests, psychometric tests to analyses the candidate. Thus a person who is not suitable for the post of a Trainer might be more suitable for the post of a manager. Thus telling the candidate about the results of the tests he/she undertook the firm helps the candidate in choosing right career for him which would benefit every firm.
It’s true that firm wants to be on the safer side, does not want any arguments and allegations for not selecting a candidate, thus it would not like to mention anything like you did not have expertise in that or this, which might lead to arguments like, how can you say that etc.
But at the same time, it’s very much necessary to keep the candidate informed about what is happening from beginning of the interview process till final selection or rejection.
Some firms are very quick in short listing then interviewing and then giving results. Some firms take lot of time like 3-4 months since giving advertisements to final selection. Unless the candidate is aware about the recruitment pattern of the firm he has applied to, he/she will have to undergo lot of stress and uncertainty. Highly qualified and confident candidate might not want to keep waiting for the results and go ahead with any firm that offers her first. At the same time if the candidate is informed about the steps involved in firm’s hiring process and average time taken to arrive at final decision he/she will keep the other offers in hold until they here from their dream firm.
Finally it is mutual dependence when it comes to employer and employee, even if it is an aspiring employee. One should not take for granted the candidate who comes for the interview. The HR team should ensure at every step the candidate is informed of what is happening and final results. If the firm can give feedback on demand, that would be great.
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