Jharna Sengupta Biswas

Man…consciously or unconsciously assigns a time schedule for appropriate results, and this is just how long his patience lasts in any venture. He may at first expansively invite association, consultation and participation but once the set period elapses, he reverses direction to head into the conventionally more familiar territory of the mere giving of information or orders.

How and what

In virtually all areas of human endeavour, both ‘how’ and ‘what’ are of concern. The realization that all organizations today are involved in a matrix is perhaps important; no company, organisation or even state can really afford to ignore either of these aspects. The need is always to balance the task compulsions with the task constraints – the ‘what’ and ‘how’.

Women at work

Information technology has helped reduce boundaries between cultures and nationalities, adding fillip globally to organizational change. The impact on women as a representative group however, has not been as distinctive. On the one hand, transformations in social structure and relations have driven changes in roles and behaviour patterns. On the other hand, there are (gendercentric) resistances to change, perversely also on the part of women … [ Read more ]