From correspondents in Delhi, India, 09:28 AM IST

With the rapid expansion of global markets, managers in business enterprises are struggling to balance the need to think globally & act locally. Re-engineering, consolidation, acquisition and mergers are now commonplace. In the latest book by Sterling and authored by noted Human Resource professional & Analyst Saugata Mitra, titled 18 Management Competencies-Business Professionals Cannot Ignore, Human Resource has been identified as the only living resource without which none of the other businesses can move to deliver the business outcomes.

The uniqueness of the book lies in its simplicity in defining the basic nature of a competency, apart from providing valuable insights into the core of HR issues and an understanding of the new challenges being faced by HR professionals in a rapidly changing business environment.

Saugata Mitra has over two decades of experience in Fortune 500 companies and is a well known business analyst & HR Professional. Having started his career with American transnational & Union Carbide, followed by Japanese Multinationals Sony and Sharp, Saugata also successfully dabbled in India-Entry strategy for Japanese companies as the COO of an Indo-Japanese business venture. An MBA from the highly coveted Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, major part of his professional career has been with Japanese Transnational organizations. Recipient of many National and International Awards, he has been guest speaker at business forums world-over. Saugata, known to have aligned HR with the common language of business, has been advising many corporate leaders on important issues like leadership, best business practices & Human Resource Management.

“My work does not pretend to be the last word on competencies, but can be useful as an invaluable reference guide for HR practitioners at various levels. The illustrations encapsulate a competency through humorous depiction of a real life business situation & micro case studies attempt to show how successful people have demonstrated a specific competency,” says Saugata Mitra who is presently working as the Chief People Officer with India’s most admired and one of the largest Dairy and Food Giant- Mother Dairy.

The book has interesting case studies depictingbusiness competencies of National & International business leaders like Ratan Tata, Narayan Murthy, Jack Welch, B.M. Munjal, Mukesh Ambani, Sunil Mittal, Azim Premji, Naveen Jindal, Dhirubhai Ambani, Jacques Nasser, K.M.Birla, KV.Kamath, Deepakh Parekh, Bill Gates, Deepak Puri, Tulsi Kanti, Akio Morita, Jagdish Khattar, Kiran Majumdar, E.S.Sreeddharan and many more.

The book has been co-authored by Seema Bangia, a HR professional with almost two decades of Corporate experience and a certified assessor from Thomas International and the Association of Psychologists and Jayati Mitra, Founder & CEO Abbscissa Consulting, a fast growing company in the realm of Human Resource Consulting which has propelled into a company with Pan-India presence & multiple offices with the present employee base of one hundred & fifty one in a very short span of time. Abbscissa,s strengths lie in CEO Search and recruitment and Competency Assessment for Fortune 500 companies & Indian business conglomerates.

This book from Sterling, recently launched at the London Book Fair and priced at Rs 600 is a great handbook for HR & business professionals, apart from management students looking for in-depth knowledge of competencies and would surely be seen as a welcome change from the existing dry management books in the market.

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