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Liberty & Rights : The rubicon crossed, IIPM fails to manage the controversy
Posted by Admin on 11, October, 2005 (5054 reads)
Liberty & Rights

IIPM is fair game now. Gaurav Sabnis has resigned his job at IBM/Lenovo owing to the fallout from the IIPM fiasco.

Expect every Indian blogger worth his salt to write about IIPM. They will soon have their hands full. How many lawsuits do they expect to send? Do they seriously think they can stiffen the voice of hundreds if not thousands? At this very moment, the word is spreading by e-mails, yahoo groups, mailing lists and so on.
Already, technorati search results have reached 11 pages and counting.

The battlelines have been drawn. This issue was a big test for public relations management of IIPM from the point when JAM published their article. They utterly screwed up when they threatened Gaurav Sabnis with a legal notice. And now, the matter has reached a point of no return after Gaurav was coerced to resign.

If IIPM thinks that this will be the end of this matter, well, things have taken a momentum of their own. It won't be long before the main stream media will have to take notice.

Students at IIPM will have to talk to their management and restrain them from causing any more damage. They need to act coherently, responsivily. The ad hominem attacks against against Rashmi Bansal will tilt the public opinion wihtout Rashmi having to say a single word in her defense. The students need to realise that they stand to loose the most.

The advertisements of IIPM are in public domain. Anybody and everybody reserves the right to comment on them, as long they are opinions.
I know how this is going to end. Only sorry for the students though.

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Posted: 2005/10/11 13:42  Updated: 2005/10/11 13:42
 Re: The rubicon crossed, IIPM fails to manage the controv...
"And now, the matter has reached a point of no return after Gaurav was coerced to resign."

No coercion involved. The decision was a purely VOLUNTARY one by Gaurav; one he took to stand by his principles. Kudos to him !!

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Posted: 2005/10/28 12:23  Updated: 2005/10/28 12:27
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 Re: The rubicon crossed, IIPM fails to manage the controv...
Dear Guest, the resignation did not come from Gaurav's whims nor thin air.
There was coercion of the subtle variety.

The real talent of HR is to retain talent from poaching as well as force them to leave when they are expendable even without the victim realising that he has been coerced into a decision to leave.

IBM/Lenovo do have such talented HR professionals. Gaurav had to make it a point to say that he was 'not coerced', but if you read between the lines, he was called for meetings with the hierarchy and what transpired in those meetings can be well imagined.

If IBM/Lenovo wished, they could have ignored the whole Blog thing since it falls OUTSIDE the purview of their business. Just ignored it all since those were personal engagements of Gaurav Sabnis and had NOTHING to do with his employer.
Yet, IBM/Lenovo chose to interfere and this resulted in 'resignation' of Gaurav Sabnis.

Isn't this coercion? Anyways, Kudos to him for standing up. Chests abreast we stand tall with him today.



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