It was the first class of HBO when my learning team had presentation about "What makes Best Employer?", I was pretty excited about the subject content and researched 2 days for understanding different topics in first part of course. It was exciting experience because, it was first lecture and we had no idea about the expectation of Professor and whole class. While preparing for the first seminar, I asked myself what is HBO? is it really "Human Behavior Organization" ? And if it is then why is it so? Is it for me to manage other people or is it to work in some organization effectively. Interestingly as course commenced I understood that it is both ways, it is to manage your team effectively as well as to perform efficiently in an organization.
As course advanced new aspects of behavioral patterns got unfolded, I started relating it with my previous experiences. I also understood the importance of Personnel Management and found that it is a systematic and methodical process. As I worked in both Old and New (decentralized) cultural environment, I used to wonder why my manager behaves like a dictator. Why did he always try to do things in his ways? It also gave frustration to young and enthusiastic team members like me. It was the HBO class in which I understood advantages and disadvantages of both approaches of personnel management. It was not just theoretical experience; professor also asked practical questions like what if employee is simply lazy. As mentioned in first paragraph, it was not just for us to decide what should be done with such employees but it was also directed to us that we should be always be active and energetic in a responsibility based cultural environment.
Wyeth Philippines Inc. (de Carlo) case was very interesting and "take home" was that confident & strong leaders can change organization's future. It was fun when many people tried to do "firework" (even though it was hypothetical), but objective was using power in right direction in right proportion. Only thing I observed that students get drifted away in particular direction where class is not supposed to go. I observed this while discussing "People are Our Great Asset" when students spent lot of time discussing actual entries of Human Resource of a company. Finally Professor intervened and told class that it is just metaphor.
