INTERVIEW

Mr. Sanjay Kshirsagar

Head of Manufacturing Department
Mahindra & Mahindra
Work Experience - 16 years
Interview medium - Telephone

INTERVIEWEE PROFILE HIGHLIGHTS

Type of Leader - People oriented
Expertise - Technical SME
Decision making - Deliberate
Key Traits - Structured thought process,
Group oriented, Assertive, believes in holistic
development
Emotional Intelligence - Moderately High

KEY CHALLENGES

#1

HIRING VS
FIRING

#2
TEAM
CONTRIBUTION

Non - uniform work

Fit of the employee
contribution
Awareness of the Role
Regular Meetings
Constraints/Promotions
On spot recognition
Internal Issues - Rectified
External Issues - Growth Review points for Overall
performance

#3
WORK
ALLOCATION
Employee
dissatisfaction
Division of Power
Status Characteristics
theory
Interacting Groups
Conformity

KEY TAKEAWAYS
Avoid Ambiguity in Roles and
Responsibilities
Awareness about Ethical Issues
Motivation not necessarily money Rewards and Recognition
Switching across verticals/Skill
expansion - Holistic development
Talent pool
Unparalleled focus on training

VIDEO
On Personalities in
Organisations

HERO
They put too much efforts & also
expect the same level of activity from
their subordinates
Short-term oriented
Solution:
Encourage them to assess the overload
signs on themselves and the team
members
Reward them for turning down their
volumes, but not switching it off
Make them understand the importance
of long-term goals

MERITOCRATS
They do not believe in the office
politics, and consider merit as a
measure of performance
Solution:
Create awareness about good relations
importance
Encourage them to try and sell an idea
in the organization
Politicking

BULLDOZERS
They get the work done, but run
roughshod over others in this process
Solution:
Awareness about enemies
Help them in listing out the victims of
their acts, and also support them in
the process of apologizing to each one
of the person on the list

PESSIMISTS
They micromanage to every detail,
thus restrain creativity within the
team
Solution:
Importance of evaluation of every
proposal cautiously
Teach them to assess result of doing
nothing

REBELS
Habit of fighting the authority
Solution:
Make them responsible for an
important project that would require
him to obtain cooperation
Challenge them to take action, rather
than just complaining

HOME RUN HITTERS

Try to achieve too much in a very
short period of time
Solution:
Show them their career path very
clearly
Appreciate their ambition, but convey
clearly that the pace of progress of
organization and individual cannot
differ

THANK
YOU