HUMAN Behaviour in BUSINESS Schools

Should the business schools teach HUMAN BEHAVIOUR as a subject?? Quite interesting and a relevant question posed by one of my friends in Linkedin.It inspired me so much that I decided to write a post in Human Behaviour.

Human Behaviour is often considered as one of the important traits to test during HR interviews. It includes they way a person talks, his body language, his views about the people and organization and a lot of factors which influences him to act/react in a certain way.But,as a matter of fact, human behaviour is not stable. The way a person portrays himself during an HR interview might react in a different way under different situations.This gives rise to two important questions:
1)How to train business graduates on "Human Behaviour"? Whether there should be a different subject for them the way they learn about organizational behaviour?
2)How the HRs can use this aspect to hire the best talent?

One of the effective ways to access a particular person and make a person understand human behaviour is Case Studies.There should be case studies on various situations and how a particular person should react given a particular role and situation.This might vary from organization to organization and one role to other.Framing of right questions is important.The case studies should be categorized on the basis of fields chosen by the candidates like Sales/Marketing,Customer Support,Client Interaction/Presentation,Client Interviews in Business Analysis or Business Consulting etc.

Human behaviour can be altered or measured using stress tests.For example,the reaction of a particular employee can be monitored putting pressures on him in different levels.It will give an insight of the employee's stress taking abilities.The same could be applied to the managers in the organization.

Culture of the KNOWLEDGE based Company

A knowledge based company values knowledge workers rather than employees who work from 9-6.Most of the knowledge based companies send their employees to seminar,workshops conducted by creme B Schools and other associations.The employees in a knowledge based company just not focusses on his work rather takes interest in different roles so that he can swap roles if ever the organisation demands.A knowledge based company conducts training and workshops and encourages their employees to take training that can enhance their skill sets and knowledge benefitting the organisation. Apart from that, the Senior Management/Manager conducts meetings where he discusses the initiatives of the organisation with their.his employees and ask their feedback thus involving them in the whole process and make them responsible for their organisation.Carrying this activity,they make sure that the lower level employees are aware about their organisation and are taking keen interest to work in the organisation. Sometimes,knowledge sharing presentations are conducted where the employees are asked to prepare a presentation on different topics and share it with their respective teams.Such initiatives makes the employees more confident and enhance their communication skills.

First Ever CONSULTING MEET in Mumbai

I am thinking to organize a Consulting Meet in Mumbai where like-minded people can gather and discuss topics on Business/Strategy/Management Consulting. The idea is to gather people from varied backgrounds under one platform and organize Consulting Meets in Mumbai once a month where we can know each other,discuss topics related to business consulting and do some business networking.If anyone is interested, reply to the topic and if we have substantial number of people,we can decide the venue and time for Consulting Meet. People nearby Mumbai or outside Mumbai can also join and attend the Consulting Meet.

Well,the common mail id for all the interested participants is
consultingmeetmumbai@gmail.com

and the Password:consult11

All the interested,please drop a mail to this e-mail id or add yourself to the Contact List.

Please do share your views.