HR Department: The worst everywhere, the best it should be

HR Department:

The worst everywhere, the best it should be

Human Resource Management, perhaps the most discussed section of the business organizations.

Most of the companies or owners think that HR Department is a Cost Centre, and not a profit Centre. Actually it is not. Invest in the people is the best way than you spend lot of money for Marketing & Advertisements.

Here I put some points which will help you to know the route path on how HR is important to the company and how much it is related to the company’s overall policy and how it is helping to achieve the goals.

Vision and Mission

A company will have certain goals and objectives or Vision and Mission. The aim of the company is to achieve this goals or the consistent achievement of this goals.

Vision will be answers to these questions:

1.      What we should get out of this project?

2.      What we are aiming with this project?

3.      What is the overall result we are expecting

Mission will be answers to these questions:

1.      How we reach the aim?

2.      What is our motto behind such aim?

3.      What are our constraints to achieve such vision?

Now, that is our aim. The Director Board, Management and employees are appointed to achieve this aim, to realize this mission and vision.

Short term and Long term achievements

If the goals are not near and far reaching, it has to be bifurcated into Short term achievements and long term achievements.

The Board of Directors (That should include a team of 6-8 people, who can monitor the activities, and they will be the final word. It also comprises CEO and COO and invitees when meeting). The Board of Directors is the overall custodians of this mission and vision and to watch the company is moving towards the aim.

Manpower Planning

Board of Directors to achieve their aim, will appoint CEO, COO and other key positions, whom they think, as integral part of achieving the goals. CEO and COO are the key positions to make strategies and plans to achieve short term and long term goals.

To implement these plans, so as to achieve the goals, we need workforce. Work force the most important as they are our dependence to achieve the goals. Here where, Manpower planning is coming.

Manpower planning is a work of CEO and COO to achieve the goals. This gets approved by the Board and handed over to the HR Department to recruit.

Recruitment

HR Department is the custodian of preparing Job Descriptions for these positions in coordination with CEO, COO other department heads etc…, and then starts recruitments.

In each step, it is ensured that we are getting the right person to suit the position. Recruitment is more concentrated on Vision and Mission and short term and long term achievements. So the cost of recruitment is less considerable when considering the achievement of Goals.

Up to this stage, Do you think HR is very much important as it is part of the organization to achieve its goals?

Until now, we said that how HR strategically important to achieve the goal. Now we reached the recruitment stage.

Performance Management:

Once the employees recruited, we need to ensure that the employee is performing according to the expectation, thought while proposing this position in the manpower planning.  Here where HR Department coordinating with departments to bifurcate the Job Descriptions to yearly task and targets.  These task and targets appraised annually of half yearly.

Training & Development:

While managing the performance, we usually notice that, there are certain gaps in the performance of the employee in his skills and expertise to perform full-fledged as visualized while preparing manpower plan. These skills can be provided by analyzing the training needs and planning training & development plan for the employee. This training is also to achieve the goals.  This is also done by HR Department.

Compensation Management:

When employee is recruited his salary and other benefits has to be reached on a monthly basis to his account. So all the claims, benefits, salary, insurance has to be managed in proper way. This is also HR work

Leave, Grievance handling and Employee retention:

Employees are human beings and well trained employees are the source of the company to achieve its aims. So retention of an employee is important as separation of one employee will invite additional cost of recruitment, and loss of talent and expertise. For this purpose, his leave has to be managed in a proper way, his grievance to be handled in a proper way and a lot of offers has to be made for the employee. This is also HR work. Frustrated employee’s productivity will be very less compare to a motivated employee. An employee friendly company’s employee retention rate is high that may reach to 10-15 years

Administration

All the other issues related to paper works, documentation, legal formalities related to the company, stationery management, transportation management, accommodation management, inventory management, facility management are the works of the administration section, it also HR head ache.

In short, HR is the backbone of a company.  The most important thing to notice is that, HR is not a powerful position to make decisions. But HR is the custodian of company policy and procedures. If HR asks the employee certain things, it is not actually from HR. it is from the management. But, in my experience, always HR department is blamed by the employees in many of the organizations, knowingly or unknowingly that they are only a mirror that reflect the company over all policy and code of conduct.

Oman should harvest rainwater

Development Talk

Oman should harvest rainwater

Do you have ever noticed some interesting things about the water resources in Oman? I have witnessed for a lot of torrential raining in different regions of Oman and the typical flood cross (Wadis) areas on the roads. It is really a magnificent experience and strange that you are caught on the roads for hours as wadis crossing the roads. The typical wadis appear and disappear within hours.

At the same time I have seen a lot of Omani villages suffering from the scarcity of water. Many of the householders depends water tankers to get their daily usage water and an average payment for the same is around RO. 20/- per month for a small family. The householders mentioned here are in interior areas where no municipality taps have been fixed so far. They are either in a place where no well within their premise or no water resources available free of cost.

But, why the shortage of water is? Is it because of not having enough raining? The annual rainfall in the sultanate is 760 mm in the mountain regions and 150 mm in the coastal areas. Surprisingly the annual rainfall in the Sultanate is either half of or one third of the rain falls in India, and more than what United States is having. Then, why the country is suffering from the scarcity of the water? Why, because, the country is not able to preserve the rained water as the genuine and dependable source of water. 

Here I wish to put forward some use of preserving water for the benefit of the country in total. I am damn sure that I am nothing in this regards and people who are experts in this field, from within Oman or without can contribute more.  The basic idea behind this is how we can put forward measures or reducing the amount of water flowing to the sea without dammed anywhere.  How much rain water we can preserve and to be used for the future use? Here are some tips for what we should stop rain water from flowing into the sea.

1.      A great solution for the water scarcity faced by the sultanate in total including drinking water, daily use water, cooking and other daily use purposes. It will decrease the efforts of putting the taps and pipes to distribute water into remote areas. This water can be preserved by areas and can be distributed locally

2.      Agriculture and Irrigation use: Oman is a fertile land of agriculture and farming. We can see in interiors a lot of lands with scarcity of water have stopped farming. The dried and weaken date trees will really worry anybody who loves farming and agriculture. Moreover, dates and farming was the backbone of Oman’s wealth in the past. So preserving agriculture should be a must.  Self sufficiency is must in the agriculture as the food and vegetable export countries, when they suffer from food shortage, they will first cut the export.

3.      Industrial use: Industries is booming in Oman. Water is a must and unavoidable for the industries. So preserving water will be a boost to industries as it can be provided with low cost.

4.      Township use: New developments and townships is a common sight in Oman. So the preserved water will help to meet the needs of townships as well as the needs of the existing towns

5.      Revival of streams and wells: The preservation of the rain water will help to revive the dead streams (Aflaj) which was a prime water source of the past in all the places and at present in many of the villages. Also preservation of rain water will help to revive the well water sources and to have water in the existing wells. It is mentioned that in India a small check dam helped to revive wells to nearby villages at least 15 sq km surrounding.

Now let me come to the ways to preserve the rain water. Again, I wish to say that, mine is some small suggestions, and there will be experts who can put more lights in to these thoughts. The following methods are common and experienced by the countries like India, Netherlands and Latin American countries to preserve water.

1.      Small dams or check dams: check dams are small hindrance to the flow of water. It is the block built across a small channel or wadis. This is not an expensive effort as check dams can be built out of stones, logs or sandbags as per the availability. It can even be constructed with wood and rock fills. The result will be like this. The wadis will be transformed to a small stream pools. Once water reaches the heights of the check dam, it will over flew and move to the next check dam. In one Wadi, a lot of 2 or 3 meter height check dams can be done with the effort of the villagers.  A 2 meter height check dam will help to preserve water to an extend of at least 300 - 400 meter for days and weeks where the land will be forced to drip down the water a little bit. This will definitely revive the nearby streams and wells.

2.      Rain pits and ponds: This is making of the pits and ponds in an intention to preserve the water poured in that area. Also, if it is big ponds, small wadis can be channelized to these ponds. The existing water in the ponds will help the dripping down to the earth and it will revive the streams and wells. The pits on the top of soil rich mountains will result in nourishing of new waterfalls and streams. This can create wonders

3.      Big dams: As far as I know, this is an ongoing project with the Oman government. The preserved water can be utilized for irrigation purpose, to solve the scarcity of the drinking water and all other kinds of water usage. 

4.      Mountain lakes: This is a small idea, but can create wonders. Suppose there are four mountains nearby, which shares a common valley of 100 or 200 sqmtr. The gaps in the mountains can be blocked by walls and the rain water can be preserved. The place will soon be transformed to a lake. This kind of lakes will invite a lot of trees and thus inhabitants including flora and fauna. Also these locations can be transformed into tourist attraction places with boating.

5.      Individual Harvesting: Individual harvesting is by the householders. The amount of rain poured on the house of an individual will be routed through a pipe and will be preserved in a big tank or an artificial pool with cement belt, which can be used for future purposes. This is an existing model in many countries. There as specific advises available on the net on how to preserve the water individually.

If I continue, the writing, I think, there will be lot of tips to incorporate. So, I leave the matter to those who take development as their spirit and work for the individual, society, and their nation.

Training and Development

HR Talk

Train to get out the best

Training is preliminarily bringing a change. Even development is also bringing the change. So what will happen when an employee is changed but the atmosphere is still idle without any change? Here is where, we should examine the money we spend on and the effort our department put towards individual development.   

Some of the Organisations have created a scenario in Oman and in some other GCC countries, which is not that much suitable to the working environment. In this practice, training for employees is a token given to them to fly to New York, Malaysia or outside the country and enjoy the star hotel stay as well as good food and be away from work atmosphere for two three days.  

This approach is somehow OK, if the organization is considering it is thus and rewarding employee through that way. But this approach is not fulfilling the actual aim behind the training and development activities. Training and Development activities are core for an organization as it plays a vital role in the progress of the company and increasing turn over.

Most of the organizations take training as a section in HR and some organization as independent. But almost all organization, especially in Oman, doesn’t have an idea on how training and development is related to the sales turn over. That is why some think that training is an expense, and not as an investment. We can trace it like this.

We identify one position in the plan as this position is very much important and eventually we make a Job Descriptions for the post which will include the experience and qualifications required for the position. As we feel difficulty to hire a person with 100% specification mentioned in Job Description, we try to adjust and satisfy with a 70% candidate. Here, the full fledged performance of this candidate will only produce 70% of the required performance. So in performance appraisal, we understand that this employee is having difficulty to perform his duties because of his available qualifications and experience. As part of Training Need Analysis (TNA) we identify, in what are all the areas, this employee needed to be improved. These areas are identified and his acquired caliber in that specific area is measured and further training is suggested and implemented for this employee.

Now come to the result. This employee has undergone a training programme and it has given him a wider understanding on the subject and he began to implement in his daily work. This has resulted in an increasing the performance from 70 % to 85 percent. So thus training brings good results. Once his performance is up to the expectation, the company will have the desired result. The desired result will definitely be seen in the turnover.

We will further explain this with an example. A young marketing salesman is working with a computer supply company. His target is RO.1 Million sale per month. He is very good in writing and talking Arabic. But week in English both written and spoken. This created a big issue for him to go and visit the non Arab purchase managers of different companies. He is sure, once he master English, he can bring another 50% business thus he can meet or cover his target. While analyzing the manager has to understand his difficulty and plan for his English Training. The company spent RO.250 and sent the salesman for one month long English course. After the evaluation, once again he sent to the next level of English course until he started talking English fluently.

Here the evaluation comes. To understand whether training was useful or not, just to check his business. By this he was able to penetrate the Non Arab market and thus sales increased by 50%. So the result is obvious. Company had an expense of only 500 RO to increase a sale of .5 million RO. So the Return on Investment (ROI) is very high in this area.

While we take marketing salesman it is easy as the result is before us. But it is not related to marketing field only. It can be for any department and any section in the company though it is not as visible as a front end salesman.

Servant Leadership

HR Talk

Leadership: ‘Be a servant of your Subordinate’

It was a Friday and I was in my holiday mood enjoying a sleep after early Morning Prayer. Around 8 am my mobile rang. It shows that Managing Director of the company calling me. Surprisingly I myself adjusted my throat, not to feel him any uncomfortable while talking, and attended the call. He was just asking me whether I am at home, and if I am free whether I could come to the office as he needs my service at office. It was a little bit annoying that I couldn’t complete my sleep as my target was up to 9. But feeling his own commitment to be present at office 8 am on Friday, I agreed to reach 9 am after refreshing myself.

He came to my cabin and sat before me explaining the work I should do for him. I started working in my computer and he became busy with emergency works. In between he was coming to me asking about the progress in work. I continued working as there was lot of reference needed to complete the report he asked to do. And I was convinced about the emergency of the document; otherwise he would never disturb anybody on holidays.

The he disappeared for some time. I thought he might be gone out for any urgent matter and I continued working on the document. Suddenly he appeared before me with two cups of tea. He offered one to me. Alas! He has made himself a tea for me. I asked him like that. “Why you did like this, if you have told me I would have made it for you”.  His reply was like this. “It is common; I wish to have a tea. So I thought to make one myself. As you are working here, I thought I will make one for you as well, I don’t want to you to break your work, because the work is important”.

We may get into these kinds of leaders very rarely. They might have making tea themselves, but will not make one for their subordinate. Most of them think that if they do like this, it is a shameful action. So they prefer not to do this. Also think about managers coming to the cabin of the employee and discussing with them the issues. It is advisable as employees feel more comfortable in their seats than being in Manager’s room.

What was the output of this incident? It really helped to increase my respect towards my Managing Director and I became more committed to him and his organization in total. The more the managers are simple the more the respect they will gain. If they are arrogant and questioning always, the respect the manager getting may probably be a physical one, not mental. The employee will respect you and will show respect towards you by keeping hatred upon you deep inside his heart.

I don’t know, Mohammed, the owner and Managing Director of a well known Department stores and hypermarket chain across UAE and Oman, did attend the workshop on ‘Servant Leadership’ an idea put forward by Robert K Greenleaf in Seventies and recently gained momentum. But whenever I read about Greenleaf’s servant leadership theory I remember Mohammed, the true leader.

I have heard from other staff, when they ask one day off because of sickness, he used to ask about the details of the sickness and suggest the best doctor to be consulted. For most of the staff, he was a solace before whom they can tell their grievances, personal issues and seek remedies. Besides, some of the staff told me that he used to invite them to have dinner with him and he was the person who serves them, though there were a lot of servants and housemaids.

May be the history will go back, when I read about prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, quoted telling that ‘ the leader of the people should be their servant’ and he used to walk at the end side of the caravan while travelling in order to attend and serve the weak person and encourage them.

The following were the specifications of the servant leader put forward by Greenleaf:  Listening, motivation, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship and commitment towards the development of the subordinate both professional and spiritual way.

Study shows that ‘servant leadership’ can produce better result than conventional autocratic leadership.  Are we really ready for challenge?

Flexible Working Hours

HR Talk

All about Flexible working hours

Salman was speeding the car. The speed of the car has crossed 120 and has reached around 140 as he is eagerly looking upwards to nearby radar cameras to apply brake so that to escape from catching by camera and thus fined by the traffic police.  

Why Salman driving fast like this? For he was late to office and his office timing starts by 8.00am and he will be reaching the office only by 8.15. That means he is late by 15 minutes. As per the policy of the company if somebody is late by 15 minutes for three days, it will lead to a salary cut of half day. Salman is not much bothered about the salary deduction, but he rather fear his managers blaming on him for not becoming punctual. And he will start advising him right and left by bla bla bla…..He will take minutes and hours to advise him for being late by 15 minutes.

For Salman, it was not intentional. He was on his time table as usual. Wake up the same time. When he finished his bath and came out of the bathroom and was wearing the dress, suddenly he felt a small pain on his abdomen as outcome of a stomach upset. He had to go to the bathroom again and it took around 15-20 minutes to come out of the bathroom. Now he understood that he has become late and his manager will not be sparing him.

The moment tension starts. He was not able to enjoy the breakfast prepared by his beloved wife for him. At once he took it and his mood was not good. When he entered the car, he was tensed and was thinking about the office and manager’s approach of that day, about the lecture on punctuality and the spoilt day.  Not wishing to hear his manager’s lecture, he started speeding the car to cover up 15 minutes that lost in the bathroom.

On the road, he just narrowly escaped from two three accidents as he was not concentrated in driving because of the tension he is having as he is late. His heart was pumping and his pressure was rising to further extend and he himself was feeling uncomfortable. Finally he reached 13 minutes late, but he saved 2 minutes because of the fasting and the journey was full of tensions. For his best luck, his manager was also late by 20 minutes that day.

Why we should be that strict on timing? Is punctuality is that much an appreciated quality these time? What is the actual meaning of punctuality? Is it being on time? Can it be before the time as well? If it is before the time, how much before?  If you reach for an appointment 15 or 20 minutes before is it appreciable? Or if you are late by 15 minutes is it admirable? So punctuality means, not much before, not much after it should be on time.

Do this concept is still much valid? Because, you anticipate traffic block in your way and start half an hour earlier. But fortunately there is no traffic block and you reach well before the time.  You cannot meet somebody half hour before the appointment.

Now a days, where unpredictable blocks can hinder our journey or block us from reaching the office on time, it should be treated in a fair way. For this purpose Flexible working hours is a good option to adopt by companies.

I was not aware even about this concept until I heard in 2007 when Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), appointed a new HR head who brought this flexible working hours concept there in the company. As an HR professional, who is keen to know the changes in the areas, I was really attracted to this concept.

It operates like this. The office time will start by 8.00am and will end by 4.00pm. But employees can utilize flexible hours as they can come and swipe their card in between 8.00am-9.00am any time and they can leave any time in between 4.00pm-5.00pm once they complete 8 hours at the office. This was well accepted and admired by the HR professionals around the region as it brought big easiness to the employees.

Now, think about Salman’s company implemented flexible working hours. Salman is only 15 minutes late because of the unexpected stomach ache. He can come to the company and can report 8.15 or even 8.20 without any tensions. No salary deduction will happen; no manager will blame him or lecture on him. He need not to be tensed or no need to speed that may cause dangerous mishaps in his life.

Now why don’t we think about flexible working hours????

Mould your website

HR Talk

Mould your website

‘What is the purpose of having a website for a company’?

One of the senior executive of a company asked me. 

‘To propagate your company and to let people know about your product and services, so that attracts them to your company’. Immediately I replied with a questioning eye sensing the strangeness in the question.

‘Then they will contact you either by email, telephone and any other mode, right?’

‘Yes, that is the idea behind the website, it is an additional advertisement and comparatively cheaper’ I replied.

‘Then, whey these people are not providing their contact details on their websites?’

I further astonished.

This is a real case scenario that I have faced a lot of times before in my professional life. I used to search for some companies, when I was able to find out their websites, some of them didn’t have the contact details on the website. So what happened? I couldn’t contact them. They lost the business. I was able to find somebody else as there were enough competitors in the market. Let me say still competitor as we are waiting the wonders of ‘blue ocean strategies’.

When designing your website there should be some simple and important things to be noticed.

·         It should give overall picture of your company: The website is a prime source for many people to know about your company, its who is who, it nature of business, the mode of venture, the people behind it, the products, the services etc

·         It should provide all the updates about your company: The website, if possible to be updated daily. If no, at least monthly. Keeping a website without updating for months and years is not at all good as it will spread a lot of wrong information about your company

·         It is prestigious: The website is a hint to know that how professional your company is. The design, the spreading, the details, the language, the updates all give the on looker a clear message about your company

·         Website is a detailed advertisement: There are time limitations in TV and radio advertisements. TV and radio will tell you the amount you should spend for seconds. Newspaper will tell you the amount you should spend for the space. Website is a detailed advertisement, where you can tell all what you want to tell the public in which you detail each and every aspect of your company.

·         Those who need looks into it: unlike TV, Radio and newspaper advertisement, all will not look into the advertisements. The audience of a TV or reader of a newspaper may skip your advertisement as they are not the target audience of your product. But those who are looking into the website are really your target audience who really wish to know about your company and its products and services. So we should spend something better on the websites to keep it updated and detailed

·         Don’t ever do a website for name sake: I have seen some website address on some FMCG products and when entered to the website, it shown, ‘under construction’ for many years. So if you want put a www.xyz.com  a mere web address in your address part, to show that you have a website, or you misunderstand that it is inevitable in modern signature part, it is wrong. Website is an indication that you have a website and you will get further information about us from website. So when somebody enter to your site and he is not having anything from there means, you deprive yourself before the public.

·         Don’t ever miss ‘About us’ and ‘Contact us’. These two parts are very important in your website as it gives the user a clear picture about those who endeavored the company and a notion that somebody can contact you. If you are not providing these details mean that you don’t want customers to contact you.

·         It should be easy to open: I have seen many companies having wonderful and colorful websites. But some of them have used a lot of flash player and music to keep their standards up. Flash players normally slow the operation which will result testing the patience of the onlooker until he close it down. Also adding music to a website is not at all advisable. Because, people may be peeping to your website from offices or from anywhere and the music from your site is an unwanted guest. I have closed a lot of sites only because they have music while opening it.

·         Have an attractive but simple design: The design should be attractive, no doubt. But business entities and user-friendly websites should not use dark colors as it will affect the stay online. Dark colors will probably have more effects on your eyes and you wish to close the window down.

·         New windows and pop ups: I have seen a lot of websites, when we click to further service, it will go to another window or pop ups. The best way to keep the customer in place is provide maximum on the same page and it is not a difficulty for the visitor to go back and front as far as the buttons available for that purpose. I have stopped looking into many sites, only because they do have a lot of pop ups and new pages.

At the end, let me conclude like this. If you have a website, treat it well. Or better close it down. Nobody will blame you for not having a website.

HR Talk- Manage the Talent

HR Talk

Retaining the talent

Recently one of my friends forwarded to me a mail. It was a small story that portrays the conversation of a camel to its kid.  The kid is asking to the camel: Mom, why we do have this much strong eyelids? The Camel replies: It is to protect our eyes from sand storms. Kid: Why we do have our teeth like this? Mom: Because we eat the thorny bushes of desert and we are desert ships. Kid: Why we do have a back where a lot of water can be stored? Mom: because we are living in deserts and it is difficult to find out water sources in desert, so by this storage humps on our back, we manage our food needs. Kid: then, for what we do have this much big foot? Mom: Because we are walking through the sands, and we need to strengthen our steps in order to move. Finally the kid is asking like this: “what is the use of all this as we are in the zoo?

Yes, it is a good question. What is the use of its super eyelashes, stretched feet, strong teeth and sturdy mouth and storage humps, while it is kept in the cage in a zoo, where it will get food and water whenever needed and no threat of storm or sands while walking. Likewise what is the use of your skills and capabilities when you are in a company where you are spoon-fed and no one caring about your talents?

The prime reason for not able to retain the employees is absence of “family feeling” in the company. Most of the companies don’t engage employees with extracurricular activities and to opportunities to mingle with. Thus employees working in the companies will have ‘colleagues’, but no ‘friends’. Because, they are not getting time to understand each other and to understand the situation what his colleague faces. In the team building activities, and grouping activities, companies should involve employees in these kinds of activities and should encourage casual visits to others home during weekends. During the celebrations and occasions like marriage and joy of employees, top position holders should attend it and make the employee feel that he is important to the company.

The compensation and benefits are the best way to retain employees without any doubts. But I have seen a lot of employees are not thinking about changing their company as they are happy with the atmosphere and the workers in the company are as their relatives those who are caring each other. While the other side, if they were thinking to move, they could have been paid better.

What is your policy behind attracting and keeping the talented people motivated with your company? If we ask this question to many a companies of the region, the answer is a big silence. Most of the region’s top most companies have no policy in employee retention as well as they lack most of the modern best HR practices.

At least some of them think that, paying money right and left is the best way to hold employees. Perhaps, it may not. Because, if an employee feel restlessness at his work place, that will be the first hint that he is not happy with his work even though he is paid a high salary.

Above the compensation and benefits, employee should have a ‘family feeling’ when he enter to the country. When an employee feels that I am inevitable part of the company and contributing for the benefit of the company, he feels satisfaction. So companies should ensure that all employees are contributing to the company in one way or another, and this idea should be cascaded to all the employees that their service has brought drastic changes in the performance of the company. This feeling will force employee to stick with the company further and to think about how much more he can contribute to the company. Loyalty will increase when people get recognized their effort and get respected by the company or its high authorities.

A study brought forward that most of the employees using their only 30-40 percentage of caliber for the sake of the company. The rest either is idle or utilising for extracurricular activities. A company through their vigilant managers should be able to identify these calibers and take appropriate measures, to utilize the caliber of the employees in a manner that will benefit the company in total. A recent study of exit interviews found that money was not the reason good talent was leaving. They wanted to be part of a worthwhile enterprise, be influential in decision-making, and create and contribute to mutually agree upon objectives.

Health is a gift

Health is a gift from the God. The slight changes in our health condition will decide whether we are healthy or unhealthy. Physical health is very much needed for your mental health as well. With a weak body you cannot be productive either by wisdom or by physically.  So what is health?

Health is the level of functional and metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person in mind, body and spirit, to be free from illness, injury or pain. The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in 1946 as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

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I have prepared a small book on this subject with the following content. Those who interested to read please email me at rmagribi@gmail.com, will be sending to you a pdf copy of the same.

Content

1.       Health is a gift by God (1)

2.       Needed healthy equations in one body (2)

a)       Body Pulse

b)       Body Temperature

c)       Respiratory Ratio

d)       Blood Pressure

e)       Cholesterol

f)        Sugar

3.       Human Body Specifications (7)

4.       Look before  you leap (11)

a)       Neat & Cleanliness

b)       Food preparation

c)       Expired foods

d)       Precautions regarding diseases

e)       Healthy way for kids

5.       Healthy Life (16)

a)       Wight & Height comparison

b)       Table comparison

c)       Less weight problems

d)       How to increase weight

e)       Over weight problems

f)        How to lose weight

6.       Daily food needed (20)

a)       The calories

b)       Needed calories for daily life

c)       Needed water as per body weight

d)       Table of calories in fruits

7.       Healthy life and Healthy food habits (24)

a)       Food habits

b)       Different foods

c)       Junk foods

d)       Timing of the food- how many times

e)       Fruits and vegetables

f)        White and red meats

g)       Tin and canned foods

8.       Exercise and be healthy (30)

a)       Yoga

b)       Swimming

c)       Jogging

d)       Martial arts