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Nalco Appoints Radhashayam Mahapatrao as New HR Director
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Nalco Appoints Radhashayam Mahapatrao as New HR Director

The Government appoints Radhashayam Mahapatrao as new HR Director of NALCO (National Aluminium Company Ltd). He succeeds Basant Kumar Thakur. Currently, Mr. Mahapatrao is Director-Personnel at Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) and he will join Nalco on 01.01.2020. Mr. Mahapatrao has three decades of HR experience in Power, Oil and Coal Sectors in different capacities. He […]

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Companies are using Incentive and Vacation Days to encourage Employees NOT TO SMOKE
Culture & Behaviour

Companies are using Incentive and Vacation Days to encourage Employees NOT TO SMOKE

Non-smokers have long lamented the fact that they get fewer work breaks than their colleagues who step out several times a day for a cigarette. Resentment starts to build, and that can be bad for company morale—and business. Piala Inc offers six extra paid vacation days: According to The Telegraph, the Tokyo-based marketing firm Piala […]

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Golden Handcuffs Cannot Hold-Back Sharp Edged Talent
Culture & Behaviour

Golden Handcuffs Cannot Hold-Back Sharp Edged Talent

Free Markets reject Primitive Retention Programs. Golden hand-cuffs cannot hold-back sharp Edged talent. Talent Markets are free markets. Considering its differentiated ability to contribute, Talent is always in a state of high demand in multiple organisations at the same time. Its value thus goes up multi-fold created by its own demand in the market. ‘Arbitrage’ […]

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Samsung to hire over 1,200 engineering graduates from India’s premier institutions
Jobs

Samsung to hire over 1,200 engineering graduates from India’s premier institutions

The South Korean giant Samsung will hire 1,200 engineering graduates from premier institutes, including the IITs, NITs, and IISc, for its research and development centres. The company will hire students from multiple streams including Computer Science, Electronics and Communications, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, Instrumentation and Information Technology. The new employees will have to work on […]

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Professor M.S. Rao on Relevance of ‘Soft Leadership’ in 2020
Leadership

Professor M.S. Rao on Relevance of ‘Soft Leadership’ in 2020

Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. is the Father of ‘Soft Leadership’ and Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India. He is an International Leadership Guru and an internationally acclaimed leadership educator, executive coach, speaker, and consultant. He is a sought-after keynote speaker globally. He has 36 years of experience and has authored 36 books including the award-winning […]

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Zomato appoints Akriti Chopra as CFO
C-Suite Move

Zomato appoints Akriti Chopra as CFO

Zomato elevates Akriti Chopra as its new Chief Financial Officer. She has been working on building Zomato’s finance and legal teams for more than 8 years. In her previous role at Zomato, she was the Vice President of Finance and Operations. Sameer Maheshwary, the former CFO of Zomato, quit the company in December 2018, having spent […]

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Leadership competency model wouldn’t help in developing leaders
Culture & Behaviour

Leadership competency model wouldn’t help in developing leaders

There was a time when the fascination to build competency frameworks hit India Inc like a tsunami. Every other organization wanted to build it. From my involvement in over a dozen such initiatives, I gathered that knowing what skills, capabilities organizations had and grooming leaders were the most common reasons reported. There were those who went competency way […]

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TCS HR Manager Killed in Bus accident
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TCS HR Manager Killed in Bus accident

A 35-year-old HR Manager of Tata Consultancy killed after she was hit by a speeding Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) bus in Banjara Hills on Tuesday. The victim has been identified as Sohini Sexana, who is survived by three-year-old twin children and husband. After the accident, the driver of the bus was thrashed by the […]

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Tata Motors to offer VRS to 1,600 staff due to slowdown
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Tata Motors to offer VRS to 1,600 staff due to slowdown

Due to slowdown in Auto industry, Tata Motors is considering rolling out a voluntary retirement scheme. The scheme will be offered to employees of different departments, across its businesses of passenger and commercial vehicles. According to mint reports, “This year, Tata Motors’ employee cost-cutting plans are more aggressive than the previous times. Besides removing surplus […]

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Five Effective Strategies for Transforming Career Development
Talent Management

Five Effective Strategies for Transforming Career Development

It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day duties of your job, but it’s important to step back every once in a while and look at the bigger picture of our own career. Are you happy? Am I adding any value to myself? Is your career developing according to your plan? “Irrespective of any […]

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Acceptance for LGBTQ and specially-abled professionals a business stigma: Survey
Survey & Report

Acceptance for LGBTQ and specially-abled professionals a business stigma: Survey

57% Indian employees say that their company will never hire any LGBTQ+ or specially-abled professionals at senior leadership 65% professionals confessed that they haven’t witnessed any change at their workplace after the decriminalisation of IPC Section 377 40% respondents said that the prime objective of companies focusing on Diversity and Inclusion programs is only to […]

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People & Performance Accentuated By Talent Sciences
Technology

People & Performance Accentuated By Talent Sciences

Talent Sciences is the business capability of using advanced analytics techniques and predictive models to drive HCM decision making. It calls for a logical connection between decisions about people, HR program investments and strategic business outcomes. This can form a backbone of the human resource function of all organizations independent of the sector in which it operates. […]

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