Tag: HR Practice

The bank strongly focusses on developing and engaging its young and highly vibrant staff.

This Landmark Group company has achieved 30 per cent reduction in attrition while the industry average remains 60–70 per cent. Here’s how…

The massive bonus is expected to bring down the profits of the software giant by 27 per cent.

A strong exit programme is as critical for an organisation as an induction programme.

Happiest Minds follows a 7Cs and 7Ws model to ensure the happiness of its workforce.

While companies worldwide have a happy hour on Friday to end the week on a good note, Jabong tries to reverse  this trend, making Monday the most happening day at work.

Employees must be able to fearlessly criticise any policy or view without being censured or admonished.

The company wants to create a digital mindset among its employees.

The company has implemented a new programme, ‘ISpeak’, as a part of its whistleblowing mechanism...

The company’s newly launched ‘Activ@te’ programme aims to train engineering students to be job ready from day one.

The company celebrates its women dominated technology team.

Vodafone becomes one of the few organisations in the world, after the United Nations, to have a uniform maternity policy, worldwide.

Seema Nambiar, senior director, people resources, McDonald’s India–West & South, has been associated with the Quick-Service-Restaurant (QSR) sector for some time now, and  been part of the McDonald’s family for more than 15 years. Prior to this, she managed employee training for Domino’s India.

In her current role, she is responsible for ensuring seamless integration of company and people strategies at McDonald’s, West and South divisions. She focusses on enhancing the company’s employer brand image, and works towards creating a heightened Employee Value Proposition. In her previous role at McDonald’s, Nambiar was head – learning, development and strategy planning.

While sharing the employee development programmes at McDonald’s with HR Katha, she talks about how McDonald’s helps its employees build a career and not just pursue a job which is quite unusual in the QSR sector.  Excerpts

Millennials, who comprise around 50 per cent of the workforce, are not just pushing the companies to change their interiors; the transformation is evident in ergonomics, structure, cultures and work norms as well.

Maveric Systems is evaluating candidates through a radio show on Chennai Live. The company hopes to find the best fit for the role and also create some buzz around the brand.