Alex Fernandes

Mental Health is the psychological state of mind. Humans resource is the most crucial of resources in an organization and its mental well-being is etremely crucial to the success of any organization. However, this is as neglected as much as it is understood. A positive mental health leads to creating an engaged employee providing organizations a winning edge over the others. On the other hand, an unhealthy mind results in disengaged employee that brings down overall company's performance. Per a study, world wide more than 300 million people are suffering form depression and this number is on rise. In an organization, work place harassment and bullying result in negative mental health. This has a potential to impact all levels of organization; be it a fresher executive or the CXO level in the company. It is imperative that the law makers and corporate take cognizance of this and bring in laws and rules to implement conducive working environment resulting in success of organizations and that of a nation.

NO......completion of a full-fledged DMAIC or DMADV project not be an essential criterion for the hiring of a Lean Six Sigma BlackB Belt professional in an improvement manager job role and this is one huristic that the feternity needs to change. It is important for the interviewer to assess candidate's knowledge and project completion is a good source to gauge from but this is not always true. Reasons: 1. Genuinity of projects cannot always be verified. 2. Success of the project cannot be established. 3. Level of participation of candidate in the project cannot always be checked. In fact, projects could be misleading and could give an upper edge to undeserving candidates. It is important for a candidate to know and apply SixSigma tools and techniques and that could be established even without a full fledged project.

Alex A process, product, or service should be both, efficient as well as effective. Aiming only for effectiveness may mean doing the right thing but doesn't consider cost. E.g, a shoe manufacturer gold plating his product in order to please customer but this comes at exorbitant cost that the customer may not be willing to pay for. Whereas, aiming only for efficiency may have too much if emphasis on controlling cost resulting in impact on quality of product or service. E.g., shoe manufacturer cutting cost by using low grade raw materials. So, it is important to strike a balance between Effectiveness and Efficiency for meaningful product / service.