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HRKatha’s Case-in-Point presents real-world HR dilemmas and invites leaders to weigh competing business and ethical choices. Company: Forge & Allied…
The pull of HR For Bhavya Misra, chief human resources officer, Godrej Capital, a career in HR was not part…
The careers page was designed to present an employer on its own terms. But candidates increasingly arrive there with an…
Organisations have become increasingly fluent in the language of culture, inclusion and psychological safety. Whether that language has changed how…
As organisations embrace continuous feedback, HR leaders explain why annual reviews still matter and where traditional appraisal cycles fall short.…
Ask employees what gets them through a long working day and the answers rarely involve appraisals or the next long…
Company: Halcroft Partners (fictitious), a global management consulting firm with 4,200 employees, advising clients across financial services, infrastructure and the…
Not waiting for an invitation For Charu Sheel Kunwar, managing director and chief human resources officer at Lighthouse Canton, building…
India’s contract staffing industry has grown fivefold since 2013. But the pace of that expansion is slowing, even as the…
Gokaldas Exports operates in a business where performance depends on the coordination of people across production, quality, logistics and corporate…
What does the ‘GRPI model’ mean? When a team stops performing, the explanation often comes quickly. People are not communicating.…
Collecting employee feedback has become relatively easy. The more difficult question is what happens after somebody speaks up. At IndiaFirst…
Think about it. Employees work on projects that change every few months, yet their performance is often assessed once a…
There are workplace perks that arrive with a budget, a vendor and a launch email. Then there are the ones…
Company: NovaTrac Infrastructure (fictitious), a mid-sized infrastructure services company with 2,800 employees, delivering project management, operations and maintenance services across…
Trusting the journey For Sakshee Sud, people director and head of HR, Starbucks India, one of the biggest lessons from…
More than half of urban Indian workers who travel at least a kilometre to work get there primarily on a…
For employees working across branches and field roles, the organisation can often feel less like an institution and more like…
What does ‘affinity bias’ mean? Affinity bias is the tendency to feel more positively towards people who seem familiar to…
Hiring in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities is often discussed through the economics of talent: different salary markets, lower operating costs…
A people strategy can look healthy on paper: attrition is under control, engagement scores are up, learning hours are rising…
Company: Meridian Software (fictitious), a mid-sized product engineering company with 1,400 employees, building enterprise software solutions for clients across manufacturing,…
Of courage and self-awareness For Sonal Jain, global chief HR & transformation officer, EPL, one of the biggest barriers she…
Pramerica Life Insurance operates in a sector where the frontline workforce is large, geographically dispersed and under constant sales pressure.…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is supposed to make human skills more valuable. One number suggests the story may be more complicated.…