Expert's Desk

Industry leaders share their perspectives on a case that involves glitches in the employee referral process.

IR managers need to align workers and their leaders to productive co-existence at all the levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

Years of social conditioning has confined women to playing the roles of daughter, wife and mother, one at a time but they are capable of much more.

Approaches that will change the way we look at the interventions in terms of cultural relevance, functional expertise and competency building.

HR Analytics is the most challenging among different types of analytics as it involves both the hard and the soft data points.

Customer expectations for how they will interact with their insurers are also on a constant rise. This makes it critical to evaluate and tackle the associated human capital challenges.

Interns can use the internship period to study the organisation just as the organisation studies them.

Any right can only be demanded in return for duty, and that has to be understood by the employees as well as the management.

A strategy is different from a problem. Change your ways and tackle each separately.

There are ways to reduce the growing menace at work - cyberloafing - other than relying solely on the employees’ self-control.

Abhijit Bhaduri, chief learning officer, Wipro, in a conversation with George Anders, popular American business journalist and author of four books, on why a qualification in liberal arts is gaining importance in the corporate world, especially in IT companies.

Recruiters should embrace new skills to keep pace with the fast-changing workplace.

For those who are new to scrum, it is a framework, which helps the team to work iteratively and incrementally with shorter feedback loops. 

As the new year starts knocking on the door, there will be predictions galore. So, here is what Abhijit Bhaduri thinks could be the future of learning for each sun sign. Pun Intended, just read and enjoy!

Streamlining employee on-boarding with digital technologies not only makes the process more interesting and engaging, it also infuses more trust for the organisation within the new joinees.

Digitisation has emerged as a key disruptor and game-changer, with enterprises leveraging the integration of big data, cloud computing and mobile, and smart technology becoming a key business priority. 

It is important to build a charming professional culture in an organisation. Professionalism is nothing but swimming in tandem with the natural rhythm of ‘cause and effect’.

In the changing phase of industrial relations and the increasing potential for conflict in industry, the field of IR needs to reinvent itself and face the present situations.

Ironically, the more we know of employees and their longevity in an enterprise there is a greater probability of those employees being short changed in terms of rewards and remuneration – the Known Devil Syndrome!

Intolerance grows to the level of incapacity in dealing with the four dimensions of universal phenomenon—need, greed, support and ignorance.

It is developing an engaged, agile and flexible workforce by making use of data to obtain valuable insights on the employees.

A blog by a former Apple employee forces one to question the work culture in today’s organisations.

Many IR managers feel that these manipulations are necessary to manage people in varied situations, with varying needs, egos and greed. But it is absurd to believe that such manipulations and negativity can yield positive results.

At the heart of people engagement is a feeling of accomplishment that employees carry; an enhanced sense of self and of being a productive contributor to the organisation.