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There are several myths about employee motivation that exist today. The most popular one is that people can be motivated. Well, not really. “You can bring a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink,” as the old saying goes. You cannot motivate people. The key is, however, to set up an environment that will empower the employees to motivate themselves.

Engineers in the global semiconductor industry typically have considerable control over their work. Processes are pretty straightforward, sequential, and logical – and satisfying for an honest day’s work.

However, due to the ongoing global economic downturn, many of these engineers are rapidly losing control of more of their professional lives. Caught like the rest of the world in a recession, they are losing control of what work they are assigned to do, how they do it, in what sequence, by when and with whom.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation provides information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services to global clients. The company boasts 50 global delivery centers and approximately 61,700 employees as of December 31, 2008.

KUNMING, China — Two lovebirds in a wooden cage. A dozen turtles in a blue plastic box. Hundreds of black beetles eating watermelon rind. Thousands of mealworms squirming – food for the lovebirds. These animals share space with thousands of others here in Old Kunming. Any can be had for a price. But strange animals are not the only things for sale in this crumbling quarter of Southwestern China’s largest city.

I found a seat on the subway and within seconds a middle-aged man sat next to me and began sending text messages. Or maybe he was playing a video game. All I know is that I could hear EVERYTHING he was doing and it was terribly annoying. Beep, boop, beep, beep, boop…

I gave him the death stare. He didn’t notice. I coughed a few times and leaned closer. He still didn’t budge.

Reprinted with permission from the Korea IT Times

This year is Visit Korea Incheon 2009. Incheon’s city government has focused on creating sightseeing programs and building sightseeing infrastructure. For these, the city government, the Incheon Tourism Organization, and the committee managing the event finished their overall preparations. First they selected a symbol with three colors: yellow, blue, and red. This trinity stands for Global Incheon. Yellow symbolizes the hope, blue shows the dreams and red signifies the passion of Incheon. Then, they selected a slogan: Come together, Fly Incheon. Through the slogan they expressed their hope to see a rapidly-rising Incheon.