HRKatha’s Case-in-Point presents real-world HR dilemmas and invites leaders to weigh competing business and ethical choices. Company: Orion Manufacturing (fictitious), a listed industrial conglomerate with 18,000 employees, operating across heavy engineering, infrastructure components and industrial automation in India and South-East…
Transformation looks different depending on where one sits in the organisational hierarchy.…
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A company can have respectable gender diversity numbers and still have a…
There is always that one employee who volunteers for the extra assignment,…
‘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…
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,…