IR managers need to align workers and their leaders to productive co-existence at all the levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
Mid- and senior-level employees at startups are lured by MNCs with better salaries, bigger brand tags and job security.
According to the 2015 KPMG HR Transformation Survey, 88 per cent of HR leaders plan to spend the same or more than last year on HR technology, while 30 per cent plan to replace their core HR systems in 2015 — an all-time high.
At Dimension Data India, Salve’s primary responsibility will be to design and deliver strategies to create a culture of trust, collaboration, and ownership facilitating employees to accelerate their ambition.
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!
Increasing workforce participation of older workers is considered to be good for the economy as well as individuals.
Richard Lobo is a qualified mechanical engineer who decided to pursue a career in human resources. Post his PGDM in Marketing and Finance, from Xavier Institute of Management, Lobo dabbled in sales and marketing at Godrej & Boyce.
He joined Infosys in 2000 where he was recently appointed as the senior vice-president & head-HR. In his new role, he oversees the functions of business HR, employee relations, geography-HR and HR delivery for Infosys.
In the last one year, the company has introduced several changes in terms of people practices. Lobo chats with HRKatha on the company’s people strategy and his overall view on the changing dynamics of the human resource function.Excerpts!
The transformation from a nation of skill dearth to skill surplus, requires some serious collaborative effort. Here is how:
This effort is aimed at retaining and incentivising key employees for their contribution to the growth and profitability of the company.
The internship drive saw the entire batch of 360 students getting placed, with the average stipend offer of Rs 65,000 per month.
The job portal specialises in providing employment in the informal sector.
Prior to this, Kar was V-P and head-HR, Reliance Digital.
The company has increased the maternity leave from 12 weeks to 52 weeks—the longest offered by any organization in India.
Pharma will be biggest gainer with expected average salary hike of 12.1 per cent.
Step-motherly treatment or subconscious discrimination is not just common in families but in the corporate world too. Let’s judge a fictitious corporate situation and decide who is at fault.
Nick Williams did not come to India with any pre-conceived notion. And that helped him explore and build an independent opinion about the Indian workplace.
Kandangire from Volkswagen, Pune, is among 45 young talents from 19 countries and five continents, to bag this award.
Do you really need to go to a fancy B-School and spend big bucks to get an MBA? What if you reframed the problem and decided to get the education needed (without the degree and the fat fee paid to a B-school)? Here’s a person who has done just that.
Laurie Pickard, of NoPayMBA fame, completed her MBA-level education using only MOOCs —Massive Open Online Courses. She is the facilitator of the No-Pay MBA Network, a learning community dedicated to help its members get the benefits of business school, at a fraction of the cost —less than $ 1,000! She now lives in Kigali, Rwanda and has documented her studies to serve as a resource to other learners.
Abhijit Bhaduri, chief learning officer, Wipro, chats with Pickard to know more about the NoPayMBA and MOOCs. Excerpts!
The luxury hotel claims fun is now an integral element of its culture and work environment
An attempt to highlight the importance of feedback and identify some derailers that lead to failure in the process.
Folkman wrote in his blog why he thinks younger managers are better performers.
This PLB will be equivalent to 78 days’ wages for the financial year 2014–2015, which has been estimated at Rs. 1030.02 crore
Presently, the country lacks skilled manpower in the fields of advanced technologies, such as semiconductors.
India’s employee health benefit programmes include dependents, which makes them stand apart from other countries’ benefits in the Asia Pacific region
The new team will include names such as SV Nathan, Nishchae Suri, Pankaj Bansal, Hema Ravichandar, Suresh Tripathi and Ritu Anand.
HRBS is a dominant player in the compensation and benefits space for inbound multinationals and has established market leadership in the luxury goods, retail and apparel-sourcing sectors across Asia.