I must have been in school when I first heard the slogan. I was passing a trade union meeting, and the workers were chanting, “Aath ghante kaam, aath ghante aaraam, aath ghante manoranjan.” Eight hours of work, eight hours of…
Your first job comes with an offer letter, an induction session and,…
HRKatha’s Case-in-Point presents real-world HR dilemmas and invites leaders to weigh competing…
The gearbox If HR were a machine part, what would it be? For…
A manufacturing plant can expand its capacity faster than an organisation can…
Cisco is placing a major software modernisation project in the hands of…
Organisations rarely allow their business performance to go unexamined. Revenue, costs, growth targets and operational efficiency are reviewed at regular intervals. Yet one factor that can determine whether those ambitions are realised often receives far less…
‘Enterprise-ready’ is among the most frequently used terms in the software industry.…
Recruitment has always been a people business. Increasingly, it is also a…
A product manager from a business-critical team resigns, creating an urgent vacancy.…
Many HR professionals aspire to become chief human resources officers, but few…
Amazon has issued new guidance for its software engineers on how to use artificial intelligence (AI) in their daily work. The memo, shared internally…
Employee engagement in the US has dropped below 30 per cent for the first time in 15 years, with remote and hybrid workers recording…
Change management was built around a reassuring assumption: change would eventually end. There was a beginning, a period of disruption and, finally, a new normal. Rajita Singh, chief people officer – India & global delivery HR leader, Kyndryl believes that assumption no longer holds. “Change…
Newgen Software has plenty of talented people. For its global CHRO Kashish Kapoor, that does not necessarily settle the talent question. When Kapoor joined the company, she found what she describes as a huge pool of talent. The harder question was whether the capabilities Newgen…
When performance falls short, training is often the first prescription. Someone is not delivering. A team is struggling. A new capability is required. The instinctive organisational response is to identify a programme, put people through it and hope performance improves. But what if the problem…
When Shailesh Singh, Chief People Officer at Axis Max Life Insurance, talks about capability building, he does not begin with training programmes. He begins with culture. “If it is not consciously anchored,” he says, invoking a Rajiv Gandhi quote on corruption to make his point,…
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