PM batch 08-10 of XISS

hi

i agree with u on the absenteeism part.............hell i would know
all about it.............right??????????
neways.......nice to see that the blog is fully functional.............
i dont have the time or else i would have definetly posted on it
everyday...............
dont confused........m not busy working................m busy
doing............well...............nothing
m at SAIL ranchi.........i go when i want n work on what i
want.............no restrictions on me
above all m still enjoying the ranchi climate............n being bored
as well.......

waiting 4 all of u to return.......

asish

Today I went to the Kormangala store. It was the largest store of MM that I have visited. It has the second highest yearly sales for all MM stores. It is so big that they employ as many as 10 assistants on the floor. Many of the people I have met over the last few days have worked in this store. It is in operation for the last 9 years. The store Manager was relatively new to MM. He joined as a SM, as he had already some experience of managing stores for Big Bazar and Smart retails. I had a pretty long chat with him and it was a knowledgable session as he gave me some industry inputs from his past experience. I couldn't interact too much with the assistants today.
I went out to meet Bivore today. I went near his office. We had lunch today. He is overwhelmed by his workplace ;) He told me about the business of Oracle and how they have different businesses and how busy the work life of its employees is. It was great to know about the efficiency with which they work. He is also enjoying observing the systems and communication infrastructure that is in place. New experience for him and gr8 one at that. Best of luck to him!!!!!!


Tanuj

I visited the store on C.M.H. Road today. The store was a touch smaller. It had three floor assistants. There was no cashier and so the counter was managed by the store manager itself. I had a long chat with him. He was a supervisor at the warehouse before he joined the retail chains. So I got decent idea about how the stocks moved. Then I had chat with the assistants, who was working for this company for 4 years. He told me about how this company had changed in the last 4 years. As I talked with him I came to know a bit about the people who have been associated with these stores and also about the movement of the employees amongst the stores through out the country. Then I had a talk with the tailor and another of the floor assistant. I got some idea about how often these people get trainings and what all they do in the store. I had a chat with the store manager on how the recession has badly hit the sales of the stores. He also talked about the share of responsibility amongst the employees in the store. Then I talked to a new assistant as to how she was inducted into the organisation and what all she has to do. Late in he afternoon when there were no customers, then the SM called in for a training session. In the training session, the assistants were told about the different types of cloths that they sell in their stores. Moreover, they were told about the values of the company and what all they should keep in mind when they are interacting with a customer.

Tanuj

Today I visited the first store that is in C.V.Raman Nagar. Before going to the store I wasn't quite sure as to what I was supposed to do. Then I called up khushboo in the morning. She had visited a few stores in the past few days. So she told me to just go through the SOP and see how much time they take to complete each task. Anyways, so the store was quite close to my house. It is a pretty bright store. I liked the feel of the place. I went through the SOP and had a little chit chat with the store manager. He told me about the things that they do in the stores. He told me about the various processes and stock movement in the stores. How they advertize their store and how the accounts are maintained. Then I saw the registers that were maintained by the security person. As I chatted with the security person, I came to know a lot about him and about the schedule of the stores and those working in it. Thereafter, I went through the store and in the process had a little chat with the floor asssistants. I came to know about their background, their interests and how they work in the store and also bit bit about their experience of woring at the store. All in all a pretty good day.

Tanuj

Hi all,

Today I actually started working on my project. I had some document on employee engagement from websites. So I went through it and started to use the points that I can use for my project. It is a pretty interesting topic, so to say. Also, today I got some idea about the people working in the organisation, I mean the organisational hierarchy. It is great to be sitting with the HR team. They told me about how the organisation is built up. Basically it is Arvind mills that are set up Gujrat, which produce threads for cloth which churns out very fine quality fabric that are used by Big Brands for making their clothing. So Megamart is the retail initiative of this group to give retail space to these brands. Apart from that there are brands like arrow, flying machine, wrangler etc. So there are many other brands that have tied up with megamart to get retail space. Slowly it is starting some in house brands and collaborating with other brands as well. So it is making great leaps with its large stores that it has come up with, in pune, chennai and bangalore.
My next work has been assigned to me. I will be visiting some stores of Megamart over the next few days. I will be looking into the activities in those stores. What do the employees do and how they do it. I am supposed to understand what is it that these employees look for, when they come to these stores. I am supposed to find put factors that keep them motivated. The schedule has been assigned to me by my guide. It will be great. I will be doing some store hopping over the next few days.

Tanuj

Hi,
Today was the day I gave my first presentation. Once I did my analysis, I made a presentation out of it, and then I gave my presentation the HR team with whom I am working. They gave had given me some ideas to work on and I made improvements on those as well. Then I went with the presentation to the guide who discussed the approach that I had taken. He was happy with the analysis that I did. Then he asked me to go through a few documents that told me about the company and its business. I was also given the analysis that the HR team had done. I used that to understand the intricacies of the project. Then based on my data I carried out the analysis. Then I showed the guide my results. He was pretty happy with what I gave him. So all in all a good day for me.

Have fun,
Tanuj...

Hey all you mordern laptop users... Ever worked on a PC with out a mouse, well I did so for three quarters of the day and still completed the analysis in that manner. just think of it, not using mouse but still using all the features of exel and power point. formating cells and applying formulas, creating charts etc. well it was a great experience. I know people think that I am a techie person but to come to think of it I end up in such situations that I am compelled to know how to use things in an unconventional manner. specially when it comes to use of electronic gadgets. Anyways, had great time at office. The months had just ended and it is the time to set the payroll spinning and it was really interesting to see all the different issues regarding salary payment that can crop up in just one day. well the room in which I sit has 3 HR people and it is interesting to see what all questions they have to face and how all they have to resolve different issues. there was a persons b'day so even had a cake there. yuhuuu.
had a chat with Vikash and Sonakshi in the evening. All you people in Jsr, you should be partying yaar. have fun!!!!!!!

Tanuj

Hey finally, I joined office. Today was the first day. I was given the filled questionnaire for the survey recently conducted by the organisation. They asked me to analyze it. It would have been great if I had been provided with a system to work on. Well believe it or not I was doing it on paper, Manually. I mean they expected me to do it on paper, but they were not able to provide me with one immediately. So till that time I had to do something, so I was doing it all manually. It was so messy and I realised what an amazing software Microsoft Exel is. I was seriously missing using it. I got a system to work on in the evening. It is a supercomp. P3 0.8 Ghz 128 mb ram. Well I am working on an antique piece. Once set up it didnt have office installed. so had to wait till that got installed. by the time it was done, my guide called me to ask what all I had done. Well I am not sure if I explained something to him or did I just confuse him. Whatever being the case we had a detailed discussion on the subject and on my growth path over the two months in his organisation. Thereafter, we had an interesting discussion on absenteeism as a psycological disease. He said he had done a study on it as a student. Thus he shared his experience while he was doing it. (Reckon a few people in our class do have a few things to say about absenteeism and its relation to the proxy culture.)

hey amazing weather. I know most of you will be J of me when I say that it rained here today and the weather is really amazing.

Great Da. finally went to meet the person at megamart, though with not much preparation ( A real bad habit I have picked up at XISS). Anyways he told me to speak first, i spoke for a while and then that was it, and then he started and went on and on and on. I hope to remember a bit of it and make some sense out of it. The topic is settled for. It is employee engagement. If anone else has any idea on how to go about it, please share your knowledge with me. For the time being I will be analyzing the a recent survey on satisfaction conducted by the organisation. Once I am done with it, I will get to work on my project. Interesting that I am getting a chance to do analysis first up. I was going to move around with my pen and paper for the next few days. But now I will be working on something so soon. it is great.

Hey its may day. Well kinda sleepy day. everyone is sleeping, so i also got lazy. got up late today. cooked lunch and then had a chat over phone with a few people. Then I travelled to the other end of the city to meet Bivore. We went to forum and had good time chatting. Well one thing I am pretty sure about after seeing him at McD was that he is not getting good food to it. (I hope now he would understand my plight in Ranchi). Anyways, took him to brigade road and tried to make him understand the roads of Bangalore.(Just the way world wors, you might not know about things but you can always explain to others). Anyways we roamed around quite a lot, through the crowded streets and had fun. He is having a good time in Oracle. Then company is good, maybe just a little too organised for his liking. But they have given him a good project and I am pretty sure that it will be very interesting two months. After roaming around for quite some time he left for home and then I met my old school friend, had dinner with him and then returned home.