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Employees’ Grievances Against and Within HR – Part I – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1031

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Employees’ Grievances Against and Within HR – Part I – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1031 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1031 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Credit: Craig Adderley Credit: Yan Krukau This topic was triggered by an article in New York Times. Link at the end. Preamble In this two-part series, I shall talk about employees’ grievances about HR department/ Team/ Function. The employees in any corporate hold a load of complaints against HR, while HR employees themselves have complaints against other corporate employees and management. It appears that both parties are unhappy. In this mini-series, I shall take up grievances that corporate employees carry against HR in part I, and the grievances of HR employees against corporate staff in Part II. Birth of HR (th
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Is Your Learning & Development Functioning? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1030

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Is Your Learning & Development Functioning? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1030 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1030 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Christina Morillo Credit: fauxels Preamble Learning and Development – L&D – is among the cardinal functions of HR. The reason is simple; it is about people/ human resource/ human capital.  In many pharma companies, L&D is either available as Training department, or worse still, as Sales Training Department. Which seems to signify that only salespeople need training which is done for products and selling skills, and no one else is a candidate for learning. Sometimes, Training department arranges external trainers for certain topics which might have come out of the standard TNA – Training Needs Analysis, as part of performance appra
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Drugs Shortage and Supply Chain – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1029

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Drugs Shortage and Supply Chain – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1029 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1029 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Alexander Israb Credit: Chanaka Credit: Mikail Nilov Preamble Supply chain is the major stakeholder in the availability or otherwise of the drugs in the market. It is because supply chain integrates the elements which result in availability of products in the market. Therefore, the credit and discredit both go to them. Let us examine the elements of supply chain individually to understand their role and impact, and then see how it may be improved. Material Planning and Procurement Planning Material planning is the first step. In some organizations, planning is an elaborate affair where several people work. In many other organizations, the system is rudim
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Managing Drugs Shortage – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1028

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Managing Drugs Shortage – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1028 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1028 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: fauxels Credit: Thirdman Credit: Tiger Lily Preamble Drugs shortages occur due to multiple reasons, some of which we shall see in some detail. And these are not always due to disruptions in supply chain. It is also a worldwide phenomenon.  I was reading an article in INSEAD Knowledge and quote a short excerpt here. [quote] An increasing problem in Europe and other parts of the world, drug shortages not only pose significant challenges for healthcare professionals, but they also put public health at risk by making timely, optimal treatment impossible. In worst-case scenarios, patient care is disrupted. In England, pharmacists have warned that drug shortages are a
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Team Power vs Star Power – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1027

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Team Power vs Star Power – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1027 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1027 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Fox Credit: RDNE Stock Project Credit: Ron Lach Preamble Stars are not just sought and pleased and begged to join in sports. Many times, it happens in the corporate world also. Star power starts in pharma companies at the medical representative level. Managers observe someone working in the field and like his style. They may hear some good word from some customer, and they may also somehow find that his sales are mostly good. They decide to woo him and hire him at a higher salary maybe. In my long observation, most of these ventures ended in failure because of these reasons: one, the working standards in every company are different; two, the sales support syste
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Next Generation Marketing Skills – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1026

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Next Generation Marketing Skills – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1026 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1026 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Artem Podrez Credit: Karolina Grabowska Credit: Timur Saglambilek Preamble The marketing landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by technological advancements and changing consumer behaviors. To thrive in this dynamic environment, marketers need to acquire a new set of skills. While consumer companies, rather non-pharma companies, have acquired new marketing tools and techniques, the pharma companies are still sticking to old ways of marketing, mostly.  There are no specific skills for pharma industry in marketing domain, though there are clear indicators in research and development. However, the present relationship between companies and customers has be
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Fear of Letting Go and What to Do – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1025

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Fear of Letting Go and What to Do – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1025 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1025 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Preamble In one of the organizations, I had a colleague who had been working on the documentation of export shipments, and he was good at it. During that time, he also somehow got the opportunity to do business communication with couple of customers abroad and did it well. My assessment was that he had good talent for business, and he should shift to that area of work. It would be good for his future growth because documentation was almost a dead-end job. We talked in detail, and he agreed, but he said he would do both for some time. Understanding his fear of letting go, I agreed. Meanwhile, we hired someone for documentation. However, he kept sticking to the
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