Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jul 5: K Rajesh Nayak, head of the department of training and development, National Bank of Oman, stressed the importance of human resources in the success of any concern.

Delivering a speech on 'Staff Engagement-Latest Buzzword in HR' organized in the city by Mangalore Management Association (MMA) in association with SDM College of Business Management at the SDM College conference hall on Friday July 4, he said that individual employees should be involved and committed to the tasks assigned to them. He defined an engaged employee as the one who is totally involved with the goals set out for him as well as the concern, and is enthusiastic about his work.

Adopting time-tested changes and transforming average employees into engaged ones results in large scale improvement in the employee productivity and business volumes of the concern. Engaged employees help the concerns to reach their goals easily, he explained.

The companies should follow individuals closely and recognize strengths of individual employees. He advised the managements to follow the principle of praising in public and reprimanding in private, to ensure that the ego of the employees is not hurt and their morale is kept high. Prompt and on the spot recognition of good work encourages employees to strive for more, he reasoned.

SDM College of Business Management dean Prof M C Pinto presided over the programme. Karnataka Bank senior manager P Ravindra Rao and MMA president M Shekhar Pujari were present.