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This research paper focuses on the details of designing and executing an assessment center towards an endeavor for leadership readiness in organizations. The paper is designed to help today's managers and professionals about the fundamental information required to create the assessment centers that can act as a springboard to develop the employee's leadership abilities. Being a talent development practitioner, the author could trace and provide insights on how assessment centers can provide an ideal platform for the high potential performers in organizations to be successful in an increasingly complex world. Based on literature review and the contemporary work done the most critical need today in business leadership is a new kind of leader: authentic leader- and the assessment center approach can serve as a pedestal and tool in evaluating the leadership traits and competencies. The efforts involved in designing and executing an assessment center is outlined that can be used in nurturing the high potential performers for leadership readiness. The assessment center is depicted to be a reliable platform and tool for gauging and evaluating the existing leadership pipeline in an organization revolving around the scope of this work. Assessment center methods can help organizations achieve the mission critical goals-helping its leaders to be successful in hostile, turbulent, ambiguous and uncertain business environment on increasing the organizational competencies to sustain the strategy. An original piece of work, this research paper can be of immense value not only for the academicians but also for the HR and Talent Development professionals more in terms of identifying, nurturing and developing leaders of tomorrow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Marx's diagnosis that the chief defect of materialism and idealism lay in their inability to fully appreciate the sensuous side of human activity remains true today, apropos of current modes of sociological thinking. One need only quickly peruse the dominant figures or models used to conceptualize social action in order to realize the degree to which an appreciation of human sensuality is still largely absent from social thought. While sociology has understood action to be a product of the meanings employed by agents, the calculations they make, and the structural regularities and disparities that shape them, rarely has it attempted to understand the passions and other embodied sensitivities that compel agents to act. In its development as an 'objective' science of society, official sociology has managed to ignore, or at least overlook what is experientially known to all 'folk sociologists' - that we are beings of flesh and bone with desires, compulsions, and preoccupations whose lives consist of varying states of apathy and engagement, or as Marx would put it, we have forgotten our sensuality. Thus there is an obvious lacuna in how we currently approach and/or understand social action and the need exists for rigorous theoretical and analytical categories with which to probe and explain the sensual components of action. This paper is intended to be a step in that direction as it seeks to lay out a theoretical framework with which to begin to understand the genesis and functioning of passions as modalities and components of social action. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]