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| Why is it that some corporations fail to use their human resources for their strategic advantage, while others use it to build strong and lasting organizations and Institutions? |
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HRD Audit by TV Rao is an answer to this question. The book intends to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the HR function in an effort to align it with business goals and strategies. It presents the need for HRD audit, gives in detail the various aspects, including its relevance.The book also proposes a new measure called the HRD Score Card to grade organisations with respect to their HRD maturity.Read more |
| | | Praise for the First Edition! | | "The HR function is the next horizon Indian firms are out to conquer. Rao’s four parameters for good HR functions—HR linked to business, systems-driven HR, HR values and employee competencies—are today’s catchphrases."” | | Businessworld | | “There is a wide recognition that the HR function can be a key factor in business success and improved organizational performance. Yet, in many organizations, the HR function has either not performed upto expectations or has been unaware of its required role. Hence, a thorough evaluation of the HR function is imperative both to rejuvenate it and to make it more business-driven. HRD audit makes such an evaluation possible by examining the adequacy and appropriateness of the existing HRD systems.” | | Financial Express | | “A unique feature of the book is the HRD Score Card which has been developed and tested by the author. This Score Card can be used to access and benchmark the maturity level of the HRD function in organizations and make them business-driven. Written in a readable and accessible style, this practice-based book includes several cases, examples, illustrations, detailed questionnaires and checklists.” | | Business Line |
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| About the Author |  T V Rao is Chairman, T.V. Rao Learning Systems Pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad, a company devoted to behaviour systems and HR research and consultancy. He had worked as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad between 1973 and 1994 and subsequently as a Visiting Professor until 2004. He started the Centre for HRD at XLRI, Jamshedpur in 1983 and founded the National HRD Network in 1985. |
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Hundreds Of Mountaineers Climb The Alps For Epic Photoshoot
The sheer cliff wall or snowy, wind-blasted peak of an icy mountain is a rough place to create large-scale photographic works of art, but that’s exactly what Swiss photographer Robert Bösch does. His photos can involve hundreds of mountain climbers braving difficult conditions to get the perfect shot.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn ridge in the Alps by Edward Whymper and his team, Mammut, a Swiss mountaineering equipment company, asked Bösch to take a special photo to mark the occasion for the brand’s 2015 ad campaign. A team of mountain climbers ascended the Matterhorn’s Hörnli ridge and lit bright red lights that, at dawn, illuminated the path that Whymper took with his team to make the first successful ascent.
You can see this year’s photo, and many other incredible feats of mountain photography by Bösch, below!
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