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Performance appraisal and evaluation is at the core of human resource management. We all work to earn appreciation, rewards, and a steadily increasing pay package. At the end of the appraisal period, when all this is denied to us saying we haven’t performed as per company expectations, it comes like a slap in the face. Why didn’t they tell me earlier? You want to scream. If you had sought out feedback on your performance from time to time, perhaps you would have sensed that you would have to put in extra efforts to come up to expectations. You would have understood the deficiencies in your output and would have corrected the areas where you were going wrong. So performance feedback is the key to doing well on the job. Performance feedback constitutes: Periodic exchange of feedback between your boss and you on how you are doing in your job Comparing actual job performance as against what was planned at the beginning of the performance review period Two-way exch...

Right now in India, the raging topic on social media and on television is the controversy related to the Hindi film " Padmavati ", made by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, with reigning Bollywood queen Deepika Padukone essaying the eponymous role.  Since the time Bhansali has started making the film, sundry Rajput groups have claimed to have been offended by the fact that their revered queen Padmini or Padmavati (who was devoted to her husband, and desired by the enemy - Alauddin Khilji), and who had committed jauhar or self immolation to avoid being captured by Khilji, was being belittled in the film.  Somehow, it has gone into their heads, or perhaps been drilled, as part of a political agenda, that the maker was insulting their culture and bravery by making this film. They burnt down the sets, protested violently and created enough ruckus to make their displeasure felt. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that the director had cast the real-life couple of Deepika ...

Aamir Khan has done it again! Put his money where his heart is...backing a small heart-warming film that addresses a number of serious issues, while telling the story of Insia, a teenager dreaming big. Secret Superstar is the story of Insia, a budding singer from an average middle-class Indian family, who makes her dreams happen by sheer hard work and talent. But it is also the story of her mother, a battered housewife, who rises from the ashes to take reins of her life. It is a brave film, for it addresses an issue long swept under the carpet in Indian families - that of wife beating. It happens in almost every backyard, yet no one acknowledges it. It's almost as if wishing that if you don't open your mouth it will go away. Wife battering, domestic violence, gender discrimination, female infanticide, all these are issues we are uncomfortable bringing out in the open.  Secret Superstar not only highlights these sensitively, it also shows the triumph of a battered woman...