In today’s competitive world, companies are in constant race to garner maximum profits from minimum costs. This brings in targets and deadlines and the desire for more output from fewer people. The result is longer working hours for the employees under the stress of meeting deadlines without compromising quality. In course of time, it begins […]

“The stick and the carrot” is an old technique for changing a person’s behaviour. Systematic researches by psychologists like B. F. Skinner have given this axiom a scientific foundation and taken it from mere reward-and-punishment to a systematic approach of changing the work-culture of an organisation. In an organisational set-up, a reward is called an […]

I started my life as an academician, then joined the police and performed multifarious roles as a member of the Indian Police Service and then on the last day of 2013 retired and returned to acadmics. Even as a police officer, I remained a teacher and learner: the period of 32 years spent as a […]