Tuesday, September 28, 2004

TITLE TRACK
People-Delight

Innovative Ideas to Motivate Your Team
By Rajiv Khurana
Vision Books; pages 108; Rs 125

People-DelightWritten by a management consultant, this is a really simple-to-read and easy-to-digest volume on building team spirit. Presented in a fun style, there are interesting visuals to match each of the 101 motivation ideas that make the book.

The book incorporates some run-of-the-mill team-building ideas. But it is the wacky or offbeat strategies that truly enliven the volume.

Sample these: organize JLT lucky dips; run a joke-of-the-month contest; organize a ‘sorry day’; host trash bash; introduce ‘quiet time’ and so on. These man-management mantras may be of use to even a lay person.

The HR Book
Human Resources Management for Small Business

By Lin Grensing-Pophal

Unistar; pages 241; Rs 200

The HR BookThis is essentially a guide about the tools and techniques that can come in handy to evolve a suitable human resource policy for a company or small enterprise.

It tackles, step by step, various aspects of human resource management from hiring new staff to handling exits.

It hands out tips for framing recruitment forms, carrying out interviews, signing contracts with employees, appraising performance, dealing with absenteeism and related HR issues.

Checklists, tables and practical exercises aid the understanding of subjects like benefit administration, checking — and giving — references, deciding upon pay and work hours, etc.

— CKB