Author: Abhinava Sarkar | HRKatha

German industrial manufacturing conglomerate, Siemens, has appointed Shilpa Kabra Maheshwari as executive VP and country HR head. Maheshwari will manage over 9400 employees at the Company. Siemens has 22 factories located across the country, eight ‘Centres of Competence’, 11 R&D centres and a nationwide sales and service network. In her new role, she will be based out of Mumbai. The position was rendered vacant when Ramesh Shankar retired from the organisation. Shankar was EVP & head-HR, South Asia. After 38 years of corporate life, Shankar has now founded his own startup, Hristi. Maheshwari, meanwhile, has moved from National Engineering Industries…

There have been some key changes in the top management at Hindustan Unilever (HUL). Anuradha Razdan has been appointed as executive director, human resources. She will be joining HUL’s management committee with effect from 1 June, 2019. Razdan has had a two-decade long stint with HUL, right from her management trainee days in May, 1999. Prior to her escalation to this new role, she donned the hat of VP-HR, Unilever and was based out of London, UK. She holds an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur. All through her growing years, she had to change schools and colleges across cities, and also…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is setting a new benchmark in employee benefits. Called ‘Work that fits your life’, the programme offers hordes of benefits for its employees across its offices around the world, which also includes India. Some benefits, such as six months’ parental leave, for both women as well as men, is something unheard of till now. The progressive programme revolves around life beyond work. HPE wishes to go hand in hand with its employees at different stages of their lives — whether they’re growing their family, re-entering the workforce after an interval, or nearing retirement. Speaking to HRKatha…

Last evening, at office we celebrated a colleague’s birthday. When we finished our work at around 7pm, he asked all of us to wait and ordered pizza from Dominos. Why Dominos? After all they promise to deliver within a span of 30 minutes and none of us would get too late for home. While we were waiting for the delivery, one person mentioned his experience with the delivery boy once when the pizza got late by 5 minutes. He was quick to remind the guy about the 30 minutes delivery policy and demanded it for free. Upon saying so, the…

Businesses are changing. Many successful companies treat their line managers as entrepreneurs, who are not just responsible for delivery but are also given the freedom to make their own decisions. As a consequence of this empowerment, these line managers are able to perform better. However, there is one more factor that these successful managers depend on — their teams. Managers cannot achieve their goals without the support of their team members. Clearly, they need skilled people around them to attain success. Let’s take the example of a commander. How successful can a commander be on the battlefield, if he doesn’t…

Two batchmates of a premium business school work in the same function for a large IT company. This may seem like a usual story, but there is something unusual. The two batchmates are at different salary levels. Reason, the first one bagged the job through campus placement, while the second one joined the company through a reference, a few months after he got his professional degree. This gap between completing a professional course and landing a job is considered a blotch in one’s career. The after-effect isn’t just a passing phase, but is mostly long-lasting. So much so that even…