Abysmally high aussie strike rate - IIPM Think Tank

April 7, 1998 marked the beginning of the biggest industrial relations dispute in Australia, when Patrick Stevedore, a port-related services company, sacked its entire waterfront workforce impacting 1400 employees.

Soon after the decision was announced in parliament by then workplace relations minister Peter Reith, security guards, accompaniedby dogs, reached the Patrick Stevedore docks around the country, ordering employees to stop work and leave the sites immediately. The employer said the sackings were necessary to improve productivity. However, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) said the dispute was a breach of workers’ rights and an attack on the trade union movement.

The workers staged protests outside the 17 Patrick Stevedore docks around the country. Their protests intensified with support from community assemblies, attracting other unionists and their families, academicians, artists, actors, singers, sporting heroes, politicians and community leaders. An industrial dispute had turned into a full-blown civil rights protest, not seen in Australia since the Vietnam War and major peace rallies of the ’60s and ’70s. Click here to read full IIPM Editorial...

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‘How HR can be Change Catalyst’

A workshop on ‘How HR can be Change Catalyst’ was facilitated by Dr. Ashish Pandey, Assistant Professor in HR & OB, SJMSOM, IIT Mumbai and Ms. Uma Sundaram, HR & OD consultant. Using models of change such as Ken Wilbur’s quadrant and an interactive method, the workshop addressed questions like:

? To bring organisational change, what do I need to change in myself?

? HR cannot be a leader to bring about change, but can it not play the role of a facilitator and trainer?

? We can approach change in an organisation either as a guest, host or partner. Which one do you choose?

Mr. Prasad Phanasgoankar, entrepreneur and winner of Shiv Gaurav Puraskar, shared his life’s story in a special session on ‘Social Change through Personal Transformation’. Despite being confined to a wheelchair, Mr. Phanasgoankar went on to start his own rental vehicles business. He then designed a special wheelchair-accessible car. The valedictory session took humorous swipes at change stuff. The Human Factor was print media partner for the event. Click here to read more...

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Best foot forward

On June 25 this year, Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal set into motion a unique teacher-training programme to be conducted by IIT Bombay under ‘Talk to a Teacher’ project of the National Mission on Education. It is a first-of-its-kind initiative where 10,000 engineering college teachers will be trained simultaneously with the help of broadband network and ICT tools.

Such programmes are increasingly becoming a hit in India, with the government and private players investing heavily to increase the academia efficiency. The initiative by IIT Bombay, albeit the biggest, is not the only case.

In Kerala, the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has developed a programme to improve the management capacity of teachers and to enhance the quality of teaching-learning process in government and private schools. SRM University in Chennai has offered to fund short-term training programmes for teachers of technical education across the country.

Maharastra government has signed an MoU with the British Council to train 17,000 English teachers, who will then travel across the state to train those in primary schools. Assam government has joined hands with Microsoft Corporation India to accelerate information communication technology adoption in schools, to improve the skill sets of teachers. Click here to read more...

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For effective learning, teachers should be trained to work with their students’ varied interests.

Q. How well are nations doing in improving teaching efficiency?

A. Finland and Singapore have done a great job and are known for effective teaching. These nations practice equity – they try to share equal resources with everyone. For example, Finland has a strong policy of equal resources for all schools and they work hard to avoid discrimination based on background.

These countries understand that if their students get poor resources, they will learn less effectively, which will impact the nation’s growth. Reports from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) indicate that countries that have equal distribution of resources across schools have better outcomes.

Q. What motivates one to become a teacher?

A. There are different reasons why one takes up this profession. There are people who enjoy teaching and are quite good at it. Some teachers are effective with a lot of students, while some are more effective with only a specific type of student.

Q. Do you consider teaching as an art or a science?

A. It is both. Teaching is an art because each teacher has his or her own strength and own way to be effective. Teachers need to use their skills by adapting their practices to what is effective and what is not with different kinds of students.

Q. What are your thoughts on the effectiveness of teaching and training programmes in the United States?

A. We need to evaluate the effectiveness of our educational practices, otherwise we will miss an incredible opportunity. An educational programme for children, Sesame Street (started in the United States in 1969), has become popular around the world. It has based its assessments and educational effectiveness on research since the time it started. Every programme has been assessed to see what works with children and what does not. Hence, all its programmes have been successful. It is not a very difficult research. It simply looks for evidence about whether a student pays attention, does he or she actually learn something of all the things that are taught. Sesame Street is an economical initiative to see what is effective and what is not. When we do such assessments we can produce successful educational programmes. Click here to read more...

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