The percentage of suicides in the working population is increasing at a disturbing rate. Data reveals that there is an incidence of self-killing every 40 seconds.
India Inc. needs to address the systemic, culturally ingrained issues affecting women’s workplace experiences and career trajectories in order to be fully inclusive.
This follows a similar movement at Flipkart when its HR Head, Mekin Maheshwari stepped down and moved to an advisory role.
It has become pertinent for job seekers to keep an eye on social media, where a lot of activity is constantly happening.
Unlike the ‘top down’ approach of a traditional survey, Nexus ignites engagement at the bottom of the organisation.
The app is part of Talent Sprint’s BankersChoice product line offering virtual and self-service learning options.
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Rajendra will take over from Samik Basu, who quit a few months back.
Maheshwari had joined Flipkart in September 2009 as head of Engineering, post which he was appointed as the head of two verticals – PayZippy and eBooks.
This makes the role of HR questionable, as maintaining parity and ensuring justice are among its core jobs.
The education system has to be redesigned to equip future IR practitioners with the skills to handle the behavioural variables of the highly ambitious and impatient organised workforce
Ronald Dalesio and Robert Rogers elevated to the posts of executive vice-president and president emeritus, respectively.
The KRA programme aims to analyse the performance of employees and also make them capable of multitasking, like their private-sector counterparts
While teachers from higher education institutes opined that 64 per cent of their students were incompetent for employment , school teachers felt only 48 per cent were unemployable.
Should we focus on 20 per cent of the workforce and inspire them to perform even better? Or should we try and derive maximum output from the remaining 80 per cent?
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), is all set to organise its two-day annual conference on September 24 and 25, 2015.
Of late, India Inc. seems to have become more considerate towards new parents than ever before, with many companies announcing extended maternity benefits.
An internal study reflected a gap in terms of deliveries, as the retail environment required leaders capable of working effectively across organisational lines and also contributing to customers and colleagues.
Jha will lead the human resources function globally, and also head corporate communications and administration for the company.
There are ways to reduce the growing menace at work – cyberloafing – other than relying solely on the employees’ self-control.
The Second Machine Age says that the future belongs to those who can keep learning and reinventing themselves. But learning what? To find the answer to this question, you need to read Humans are Underrated.
Enjoy the gourmet spread by the organisation till it lasts. Very soon the company will introduce BYOF (Bring Your Own Food)!!!
In addition to funding, IIIT-B will also provide focused mentoring services, logistics support and business network support for the incubatees.
The forum will work towards up-skilling of talent acquisition professionals and increase adoption of emerging skill certification standards.
Around 39 per cent and 26 per cent of respondents participating in a survey, from consumer and services sectors, respectively, opined that their respective companies was best defined as ‘performance oriented’.
Shankar is currently serving his notice period at Philips where he has spent a little over year and a half as head-HR, Indian subcontinent.