Joseph George Anjilvelil

Joseph George Anjilvelil

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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  • Life-Histories amid short-attention spans

    Life-Histories amid short-attention spans

    Why, would it surprise you to know that RK Narayan and HG Narahari were classmates in Mysore, when one (the latter) was…

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  • The Use of Self in Practice Opportunities - A Glimpse

    The Use of Self in Practice Opportunities - A Glimpse

    "In the group we have resolved our disagreements, shared our point of views through open dialogue and a commitment to…

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  • Between Work and Learning

    Between Work and Learning

    Almost half the year is done. A certain someone in my neighbourhood saw me after a while.

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  • CH Conversation Themes on OD : Covert Processes... 1st Oct 21

    CH Conversation Themes on OD : Covert Processes... 1st Oct 21

    The conversation began with moderators’ effort of holding up the frame of Covert Processes as made formal by Bob…

  • On HR and OD, Aug 21, 2021 - A chat

    On HR and OD, Aug 21, 2021 - A chat

    Gist for Recall : HR and OD – the Clubhouse Conversation on 21st August 2021 In keeping with the decorum of the…

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  • Of Eyes and Line of Sight

    Of Eyes and Line of Sight

    I got a call from an old colleague X who offered to help me with a domain I had no expertise in. I was asking around…

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  • Notions on Effectiveness 2021

    Notions on Effectiveness 2021

    In early March 2021, I thought of asking my fellow learners to list me their concerns in realising effectiveness in…

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  • BEING PEOPLE

    Productivity and Quality Publishing Pvt Ltd Chennai

    This book is dedicated to the memory of Ranjan Acharya, former Senior Corporate Vice President, HRD at Wipro. Being People features Ranjan Acharya and five other HR professionals who, in a young independent India, humanised workplaces with their courage, candour and consistent calling to ethical service. Unfolding these profiles in a life-history like format, the author, Joseph George A, traces their antecedents and defining choices in socio-psychological frames. The other five HR professionals…

    This book is dedicated to the memory of Ranjan Acharya, former Senior Corporate Vice President, HRD at Wipro. Being People features Ranjan Acharya and five other HR professionals who, in a young independent India, humanised workplaces with their courage, candour and consistent calling to ethical service. Unfolding these profiles in a life-history like format, the author, Joseph George A, traces their antecedents and defining choices in socio-psychological frames. The other five HR professionals are George Menezes, Aroon Joshi,George Kunnath, Vivek Patwardhan and Dr. Pallab Bandhopadhyay. Being People goes beyond unearthing the journeys these unique achievers have taken since their childhood. In the familial backdrop of Indian society, these accounts speak to the quintessential potential of common citizens who wish to make a mark on human relations at the workplace. An alternate timeline to the history of the profession in India, the book serves students, academics and professionals with rare insights into the distinguishing characteristics of these prolific HR leaders.

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  • BRIDGING THE CHASM BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE

    Vertical Distinct

    The two worlds of academia and practice, although related and interdependent, often assume very distinctive characteristics. Their lexicon and purposes are very different and have been influenced by different sets of institutional norms and how ‘success’ and ‘performance’ is measured. In this paper, the authors provide a reflective account of their experiences of putting together a collection that attempts to bridge the gap between the widely debated issue of academic rigour and practice…

    The two worlds of academia and practice, although related and interdependent, often assume very distinctive characteristics. Their lexicon and purposes are very different and have been influenced by different sets of institutional norms and how ‘success’ and ‘performance’ is measured. In this paper, the authors provide a reflective account of their experiences of putting together a collection that attempts to bridge the gap between the widely debated issue of academic rigour and practice relevance of academic research. We do this using the learning from a recently edited collection that integrates academic and practitioner voices in the context of the Indian IT industry as it attempted to satisfy utility and generalisability demands.

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  • Innovation Championship - Agency and Advocacy in Indian organizational context

    TISS

    India’s progress as a nation since its economic liberalization of the 1990s has been noted in several forums. While a lot has been attributed to ingenious resourcefulness in India’s resource strapped society (jugaad), systemic features of innovation within organizations in India have been less attended to. The paper here examines the usefulness of understanding linkages between individual variables on the one hand, and group level variables on the other that most affect innovative behaviors…

    India’s progress as a nation since its economic liberalization of the 1990s has been noted in several forums. While a lot has been attributed to ingenious resourcefulness in India’s resource strapped society (jugaad), systemic features of innovation within organizations in India have been less attended to. The paper here examines the usefulness of understanding linkages between individual variables on the one hand, and group level variables on the other that most affect innovative behaviors. The case for identifying ‘innovation champions’ distinct from ‘champions of innovation’ are one such feature of organizational dynamics.
    Inverting as it were the neurological levels of learning, the authors trace individual behaviors in the Indian organizational context in a culturally relative frame. Learning patterns may lend a conformist or non-conformist identity and related goal seeking behavior in organizational systems. The tolerance for alternate thinking that may aid innovation is viewed accordingly. Notions of performative efficacy and innovative gestation are context-sensitive paradoxes to overcome in a high-power distance context of India. India’s 64th rank position on the Global Innovation Index 2012 may actually take away from its underlying innovation efficiency. The authors seek to explore reasons for how, for example, the creation of intangibles scores over impact of knowledge and its diffusion in India.
    The authors further the exploration to understand if profit oriented deterministic models of market capitalism may differ from socially conscious evolutionary innovations that are likely to be more sustainable. The special emphasis on ecological soundness of innovative contributions is underlined as the sustainability of innovative endeavors.

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  • What's next in Learning and development?

    SHRM India

    A Practitioner view of how Learning and Development is being shaped in India and some anticipations from a reflection of work experience. 10 points considered as Subject Matter Expert for SHRM India.

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  • Leadership Development in India - an experiential perspective

    ODN, USA

    Based on the role leaders play in affirming values in the midst of business and social environment as context, this paper gives a view to the experience WIPRO as a company had in instituting Leadership Development in India. The only company from India to have presented at the ODN so far.

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    • Ranjan Acharya
  • OD Behaviors Measurement using a Reliable Survey Based Tool

    Global OD Summit

    Based on a meta-analysis of OD interventions studied by Porras and Hofer, I instrumented a scale to measure OD behaviors in a survey based evaluation of OD implementation. This was awarded the Best Paper Award at the Conference.

  • Leading in the face of Change

    The TMTC Journal of Management

    A sociological take on change in turbulent business contexts.

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  • Counter-Point to the Strengths based approach of Marcus Buckingham

    People & Strategy

    To put it briefly, a blind allegiance to the strengths based approach is likely to produce perceptual errors, just as blind allegiance to objective performance measures will cause its own share of perceptual errors. Human essence is what needs respect. That too in a systems view of organisations.

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    • Ranjan Acharya
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  • Process Consulting and Adaptations of Organisation Development in the IT Industry

    Routledge

    The values of professional practice and the value of economic surplus have been richly explored in literature. In the IT industry’s evolution in India, pragmatism sprung up many ‘firsts’ for managements and employees in the creation of ‘open’ climates and ‘enabling’ workspaces. Employee stock options, liberal pay packages, the five-day workweek and employee friendly benefits such as crèches and gymnasiums became tell-tale signs of the industry. However, with scale-based growth these apparitions…

    The values of professional practice and the value of economic surplus have been richly explored in literature. In the IT industry’s evolution in India, pragmatism sprung up many ‘firsts’ for managements and employees in the creation of ‘open’ climates and ‘enabling’ workspaces. Employee stock options, liberal pay packages, the five-day workweek and employee friendly benefits such as crèches and gymnasiums became tell-tale signs of the industry. However, with scale-based growth these apparitions began to be challenged on complexity and strain on role and work relationships. The author draws upon his practitioner insights in facilitating organisational learning and development and treats them through the avowed values of Organisation Development. He uses the lens of covert processes to trace unconscious tendencies that are likely to be stressful to the longevity of the industry and the resilience of its workforce. He traces individual, group and organisation level dilemmas that need tending to in the Indian IT industry’s context.

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Projects

  • Study of Gerontology based attitudes to Retirement among workmen

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    Mini Research among workmen at Rallis India (fans division) to understnd how workmen approach attitudes to retirement and their perceived dimensions of core job characteristics.

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  • English

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  • Hindi

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  • Marathi

    Professional working proficiency

  • French

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  • German

    Limited working proficiency

  • Malayalam

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