The initiative aims to equip three million disabled people with job skills by 2020.

Knowing the solution to a problem before others are even aware that something is ‘wrong’ is deemed by some as concrete proof of their elevated expertise. Fair enough. Unfortunately, from everyone else’s perspective, those solutions — seemingly disconnected from the issue at hand — lack credibility and are considered unconvincing.

Organisations are now looking to bring in experiential methods in order to ensure learning applicability while making the trainings more real-time.

The objective was to bring together people to bond better and let their dear ones experience the place where they spend a large part of their day.

Experts from executive search firms confirmed that the year has been momentous for PE hiring as there was a healthy demand for talent across levels.

Few organisations have extended their policies beyond just maternity or paternity leave to include adoption and childcare leave, with equal importance to both men and women.

The idea is to stop discrimination on the basis of past salary drawn by the prospect, and the interviewee getting influenced by the same.

These job vacancies will be created through the Rs 36,000-crore project given to the Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL).

Around 40 per cent of organisations still rely on ‘MS Excel’ as a primary tool to measure and manage pre-hires.

Sameer Wadhawan, vice-president, human resources, will now head franchise capability and business transformation. Manu Narang Wadhwa, from American Express, will replace him as head-HR.

Present-day HR is marked by rapid transformations due to technological advancements, analytics, AI and a shifting focus from the traditional HR functions to strategic business decisions. The future holds more complexities in the simplicity brought about by technology. 

The results of this Attention Network Test could challenge the education system and human resources management in certain areas.

An XLRI alumnus, Srinivasan has been an old hand at the Tatas. He plans to take a short break before on-boarding his next flight.

The relationship between HR and finance is integral to a company’s success.

Radhakrishnan moved to the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) from the Unilever group, where he served for 23 years.

Thomsons is a SaaS provider of global employee benefits and employee engagement software. Its platform, Darwin™ for automated employee benefits administration has over 1 million worldwide users.

Scientists are apparently developing a new smartphone app that can help reduce the risk of injuries in employees whose work requires repetitive motions.

Discussions are on with a select set of private equity professionals, and the hiring is expected to close soon.

The new hires are for its centre of excellence in Bengaluru, which already has around 8,000 engineers.

These former IT employees filed a lawsuit in Florida claiming that the company had discriminated against them by firing them and replacing them with Indians.

Kevin Lord, an MS in HR, has worked with GE in various capacities for more than 10 years.

Employees confide that delays in resolutions and poor employee relations are key reasons for their dissatisfaction with their organisation’s HR departments.

The AI-based HR analytics platform agreed to give away 5 per cent equity to the team formed by Ameera Shah, managing director and CEO, Metropolis Healthcare, and Vivek Bhargava, CEO, iProspect.

Laszlo Bock, the man behind Google’s culture now plans to to launch a startup.

Learn how the right HCM system can improve succession planning.

Regardless of the 5.2 per cent inflation, the effective average salary increase in India will be 4.8 per cent – the 7th best in the world.