Padmanabhan quit the Vedanta Group in August, 2015.

While 61 % of the workforce in India wishes to retire in the next five years, 59 per cent cite work- related pressure as the primary reason for doing so.

Acquisition and retention of talent will be a key challenge for Suri in this primarily talent-led business, where attrition rates are very high.

The FMCG player has introduced several new initiatives to promote a gender inclusive culture.

Authored by T Muralidharan, An Expert’s Guide to Your First Right Job — published by Rupa & Co.— highlights the importance of knowing one’s personality, finding the right industry, choosing the right first employer and other such important decisions related to one’s career.

Around 2500 college students are expected to benefit from this upskilling exercise, which will be delivered through vocational training providers and governed by the NASSCOM Foundation.

The move is aimed to boost a healthy and productive work environment as well as emotionally uplift the company’s workforce.

Women thrive when there is an alignment between the individual and the organisation. Only then can one break through the inertia and advance women at the workplace.

Dinesh, former director, compensation & benefits, Asia Pacific at Coca Cola, has over 12 years of experience

When on equal footing with leaders from other functions, where do HR leaders stumble?

The company presently employs 4,000 medical language specialists (MLS) in India and around 12,000 globally. 

The programme involves three months of classroom instruction and six months of on-floor training at the company’s development centre, in Noida.

The prime vested interest of company executives is to rule at will – egocentrism. However, the vested interest of the union leaders is to satisfy their social and self-esteem needs. These are the raw motives, to overcome which and to develop behavioural compatibility between both the agencies, two measures need to be established—a defined transactional system, and constant interpersonal communication. 

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The telecom sector will require 41 lakh skilled workers by 2022.

This story may not seem unusual to those from the corporate jungle. However, this instance is likely to force many to ponder on some of the practices we tend to accept as normal.

In the new system, there is no forced fitment of an individual into a particular performance grade. The erstwhile quota system of performance grades, where every department is supposed to have its list of high and low performers, has been abolished.

An upfront charge of £1,000 per year of the visa applied for, implies that ISC for a three-year visa would cost £3,000.  As per estimates this would raise over £200 million a year.

Partnership conversations with IIMB commenced after Paul Smith, CFA, President and CEO at CFA Institute, was an invited speaker at IIMB’s Centre for Capital Markets and Risk Management.

The Genpact Centre for Women’s Leadership (GCWL) is an  industry-academia partnership— combining the power of research with industry best practices — to empower women, make them leaders and drive gender-inclusive growth. 

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

New skillsets will be required to thrive in the new landscape, attributed to new fields, such as artificial intelligence, machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, genetics and biotechnology.

The credit for this achievement goes to the company’s robust framework for employee growth, supported by its collaborative culture, competency framework, internal job posting, educational assistance, and focus on internal promotions.

A study indicates that many companies are not only causing unnecessary stress to their employees, but also wasting money on ineffective bonus schemes. 

The company will allow all onshore employees to work 20 per cent less at full contractual pay, for up to six months— after they return to work, post childbirth or adoption— apart from 18 weeks of maternity leave and one week of paternity leave.

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.