Author: Dr. Prajjal Saha | HRKatha

To double its business in the country, the Company will upscale its HR division by hiring over 200 engineers, annually, over the next three to four years.

From a Class-I gazetted officer with the government of India to the CHRO of India’s largest business house, the journey has not been a cakewalk for Prabir Jha, president & group CHRO, Reliance Industries.

Jha started his career as an assistant works manager at the Dehu Road Ordnance Factory, Pune, in 1990. However, after completing nine years in a secured government job, he decided to test new waters. He took two years’ leave to pursue a full-time course in HR from XLRI, Jamshedpur, which marked the beginning of his corporate life. Jha has diverse experience across industries—from engineering and information technology to pharmaceutical and automotive— and now even a business conglomeration. His personal goal is to support people to become better professionals and more importantly, complete individuals.

He speaks to HR Katha on a subject that plagues the HR industry today — the use of data in human resources. Excerpts…

This optimism implies that organisations will have to give in to the bargain or alter their policies, to retain and attract talent.

Unlike common perception, many leaders at the highest level of management actually lack the basic guts to speak up for what is right against their bosses. Just that their designation happens to be CFO, COO, CHRO, VP, Senior V-P or President not withstanding. It’s a social trap that they have inextricably locked themselves into and lost the integrity to speak up when there is a need to do so.

An Ernst & Young (EY) survey reveals thaat most companies have a callous approach towards the Act (sexual harassment of women at workplace)  without realising the penalty that comes along for defying the law. 

We have seen brands and companies perish or become history on failing to predict the future. Does this also hold true for talent hunt?

With restructuring plans on the horizon, HP is all set to bolster its research and development division.

Nestle’s Maggi is undergoing a major crisis and the entire leadership is busy firefighting. However, an effective internal communication plan can be helpful in dousing the fire faster.

Use town-halls and newsletters for internal communication to tell our employees that whatever they see and hear about our company outside is a figment of one’s imagination.

The company has laid out a new policy on maternity and parenting.

The erstwhile HR head for Lenovo India, Subhankar Roy Chowdhury has taken over as global head HR strategy, M&A and analytics.

The stores, which are not restricted to women customers alone, receive an average footfall and ratio of men and women at par with any other Vodafone retail outlet.

Personal commitments and search for greener pastures seem to be the main reasons for people ending their job contracts across the world.

“More than the qualifications on your resume, I am interested to know if you have qualities like ‘be the eyes & ears of the Boss in office’, ‘be the acolyte’ and display high levels of cronyism.”

A research to determine employees’ readiness to retire found that a surprisingly large number of the respondents look forward to their lives after retirement. Countries, such as India, Brazil and China have shown relatively higher rates of retirement readiness than others.

The office will serve as the business continuity site and also strengthen the company’s design and innovation division.  

Keep calm, be patient and learn from mistakes to provide innovative solutions.

The latest report by IRENA predicts that India, the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases but 127th in terms of per capita emissions, might generate a million jobs in the coming years.

What is more effective — rewards or recognition? Each has its own advantages. HR Katha finds the right strategy to keep the workforce motivated.

This is an internal war for talent. Both teams want him, because he is a low-cost, but highly productive resource.

A significant number of Indian companies are prepared to manage culture and engagement-related issues.

Hero Mindmine, India’s premier Learning and Development Company, and a part of the Hero Group, is in an expansion mode and recently added a new facility in DLF Cybercity, Gurgaon, India. It is a state of the art office, designed by a renowned architect, with the thought that the right environment fosters creativity. Hero Mindmine has recently also re-branded its website and is making its presence felt in social media. Ever since Sandeep Soni took over as the Director and Chief Executive of Hero Mindmine, the organization has expanded its geographical reach and range of service offerings, in its effort…

Talview Candidate App enables candidates to spruce up their abilities for interviews through video interviews and solving aptitude tests for practice.

The real pleasure for a corporate mother-in-law leader is to stress out others by the virtue of their authority. Negotiating employee happiness with unrealistic and impatient demands is at the core of their leadership. They convert an organisation into a dungeon.

Veuon, a Chennai-based company, has launched the first-of-its-kind mobile application to connect job providers and jobseekers through global positioning system.

Organisations today are trying new methods to attract as well as retain talent. For instance, recently one of the large traditional Indian business conglomerates decided to go for a five-days-a-week because employees voted for it.