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More Indian companies require the precision of such assessment techniques in identifying, retaining and developing the right talent.

The marketplace is shifting from tools that automate traditional HR practices to platforms and apps that make life at work better.

Although structures are said to hamper innovation, it is still very important to design a structured learning intervention with an unconventional approach.

Organisations are increasingly hiring and retaining retired professionals beyond their normal term, as part-time/contractual advisors or consultants.

Leaders need to work on creating an inclusive culture, while rooting out exclusionary behaviours.

A strong focus on skilling human capital to keep pace with the changes that automation brings, will save people from being swept away by the high tide of automation

Lack of talent, lesser development opportunities and gender bias keep women from reaching the top.

These will be the key factors in sourcing, nurturing and retaining talent in the coming times.

White-collar employees are left to fight on their own in case of mass retrenchment, unlike their manufacturing counterparts. Should there be a union to ensure them a fair deal?

To meet an incremental requirement of skilling 110 million additional workers by 2022, India will have to rethink its skilling capacities for the existing and future workforce

Despite several engineers graduating each year, the IT product industry faces a dearth of creative talent. Here’s why.

The Salary and Employment Outlook by Michael Page states that 76 per cent of Indian companies are expecting to increase their headcount in the next 12 months

‘Guardians’ and ‘integrators’ are more stressed at work in comparison to ‘drivers’ and ‘pioneers’.

Will this remain just a pilot initiative or does it have the potential to scale up?

Performance is directly proportional to the distance between smartphone and the worker.

In this age of digital disruption, how significant is age in effective business leadership? 

The compensation rises to Rs 33,000 and Rs 46,000 per day as professionals move from the 10-20 to the 20 and above experience stage, after which the growth rate declines.

The Global Benefits Attitudes Survey found that over 50 per cent of Indian employees worry about their future financial state and feel that these concerns affect their work.

Bring Your Own Device offers some interesting benefits to employers and employees both, yet a lot of organisations are giving up on this idea

The issue of gender pay gap has been persistent and has a tendency to keep growing with career progression.

In June, the government raised the retirement age of doctors to 65 years. Doctors anyway continue to practice till the last leg of their life but from government’s perspective, it wanted to retain the talent pool in Central Health Service. It’s a growing concern for the government as more than 28 per cent of the central government employees are above 50 years of age. This implies that not only the government will lose experienced high- level personnel but it will even entail unquantifiable costs as new recruits will require training and on-the-job skills.

If professionals such as doctors, lawyers and CAs, can continue to work for post 60, then why can’t other professionals be it an engineer, bureaucrat or a clerk do so. The official retirement age was fixed at a certain 58 years or 60 years because then the life expectancy was low. Now with better medical facilities, people above 60 are quite active and healthy. HRKatha tries to find a rationale.

‘D-Change’— one of the largest digital and joint employee-volunteer programmes— will support education and learning, women’s empowerment and rural skills development in the country.

Organisations follow a structured way of learning, be it seminars or employee gatherings. While we are in no way discounting these traditional methods of learning, the impact of social learning is immense. 

Engineers have an eclectic mix of business sense, analytical skills and even people management but do these qualities make them able HR professionals.

While take-home salary has emerged as the common preferred salary component, there are distinct differences in other perks desired.

The globally popular game, based on augmented reality, has some important lessons for organisations too.