An unexpected career, built deliberately For Shaili Tyagi, chief human resources officer at Somany Impresa Group, a career in HR…
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HR has no shortage of frameworks, policies or practices to borrow from other organisations. A performance-management system that succeeds in…
Lunch break, phone in hand, a scroll through vacancies. Another application goes out before bed. Sometimes a recruiter replies and…
There are questions at work that HR can answer cleanly. And then there are the others. Why didn’t I get…
Ineet Bagga believes organisations need to become better at letting go of practices that no longer serve them. But she…
From sales to HR For Nandini Matiyani, group chief human resources officer at Strides, a career in HR was not…
An organisation can report high employee engagement and still struggle to retain its best people. Employees may express satisfaction with…
I must have been in school when I first heard the slogan. I was passing a trade union meeting, and…
Your first job comes with an offer letter, an induction session and, if you are lucky, a colleague who tells…
The gearbox If HR were a machine part, what would it be? For Shefali Bairaria Suri, group chief human resources officer…
A manufacturing plant can expand its capacity faster than an organisation can develop the people needed to run it. New…
What do ‘microaffirmations’ mean? A manager credits an employee whose idea was overlooked in a meeting. A colleague listens without…
A general manager at a large Indian steel conglomerate recently described an exchange with his boss, the president, that has…
There is a particular kind of confidence that comes with landing a first job. You have survived exams, submitted assignments,…
HRKatha’s Case-in-Point presents real-world HR dilemmas and invites leaders to weigh competing business and ethical choices. Company: Forge & Allied…
Organisations have become increasingly fluent in the language of culture, inclusion and psychological safety. Whether that language has changed how…
As organisations embrace continuous feedback, HR leaders explain why annual reviews still matter and where traditional appraisal cycles fall short.…
Ask employees what gets them through a long working day and the answers rarely involve appraisals or the next long…
Company: Halcroft Partners (fictitious), a global management consulting firm with 4,200 employees, advising clients across financial services, infrastructure and the…
India’s contract staffing industry has grown fivefold since 2013. But the pace of that expansion is slowing, even as the…
Gokaldas Exports operates in a business where performance depends on the coordination of people across production, quality, logistics and corporate…
Collecting employee feedback has become relatively easy. The more difficult question is what happens after somebody speaks up. At IndiaFirst…
The video of what appears to be a meeting between employees and Genpact’s employee relations team contains an allegation that…
Sugata Roy’s journey into HR began in an unlikely place: a genetics laboratory. Before pursuing an MBA in HR, he…
Company: NovaTrac Infrastructure (fictitious), a mid-sized infrastructure services company with 2,800 employees, delivering project management, operations and maintenance services across…
For employees working across branches and field roles, the organisation can often feel less like an institution and more like…