Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Managing cold war - The soccer way

A discussion was raised in CiteHR about a cold war between two teams in a department. http://www.citehr.com/262597-cold-war-department.html

Here we consider the situation taking a leaf out of the Soccer principles. The situation is defined where two teams have freezed their goals and drawn a line between each other . The HR Manager may require to play the role of a mediator or even a coach to the game. Hence we take a deeper look into the situation . We realise that the two groups have polarized under tow conflicting believes. At this point we assume that both the team wants to excel by working towards the organizational goals.

Identify the mental terrain : The first task of the HR Manager is to map the motivational terrain for the two teams . Identify what are the goals and approaches , so as to predict report the ideas suggested

Talent Hunter : Every talent in the teams and their behaviour would differ. The performance of a talent is directly proportional to the right fitment . Hence realise who are he performer who becomes most productive
Signature Behaviour : the HR Manage needs to identify manging styles for the talent . Every talent is sure to have a motivation . Its quintessential to understand that For eg : if monetary benefits are valued more than potential opportunities , the award system needs to be designed accordingly.

To continue reading Citeman Network Management Article
http://www.citeman.com/9596-managing-cold-war-the-soccer-way/

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