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Employee onboarding is an important step post recruitment, which is often overlooked or not given en...
A few days ago I spent a weekend reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fk by Mark Manson. The b...
In todays constantly evolving business world, all organizations look for opportunities to maximize ...
Few years back, when I was working for a Retail Organization, I was the functional lead for an HR analytics project using Business Intelligence Data Warehousing. Retail store analytics was of high interest to business leaders in a burgeoning and extremely competitive organized retail market. We developed people analytics capable of reporting across several dimensions […]
Brilliance isn’t born out of conformity. Ample studies show that ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ is good for business. For a diverse nation like India, the workforce must be reflective of the society. Sexual orientation is a personal matter and not a Workplace issue. HR policies are foundations of any workplace and set the tone for building […]
Organization development (OD) as a field of study has been around for many decades now, however in recent years it is starting to gain prominence in business domain in general, and HR in particular. Many organizations today have OD as a separate function within their HR team and are increasingly looking to extend the role […]
A difference of opinion, it happens and is essential to have at workplace to do things differently. However when the difference of opinion becomes the show stopper, it turns into a workplace conflict. After effects of such conflicts leads into non-cooperation of individuals or teams, raising of barriers to induce delays, lowering the motivation, ultimately […]
Today most of the companies want performance management to be a more continuous process, There is a new way of doing things, and it’s called Continuous Performance Management. It incorporates real-time feedback, the allocation of short-term objectives and frequent developmental conversations for all employees. And these processes include near-term objective setting, regular one-to-ones or ‘check-ins‘ and real-time feedback. […]
Human beings are one of the most complex creations on this planet and understanding them is a difficult subject to study & practice. No wonder then that Mr. Sigmund Freud contested in his ‘Iceberg model of Consciousness’ that, like an Iceberg, which has only 10% of its total mass above the water, visible human behaviour […]
Design thinking is an almost new method being used by HR to meet the employees’ expectations. And it encourages professionals to create new processes based on the needs of the employees. We are privileged to have with us Chaitali Mukherjee, Partner – People and Organisation Leader at PwC India for detailed discussion on Design Thinking […]
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”– John F. Kennedy Hyper-Masculinity in Business A lot of leadership and management strategies that we currently use in business stem from what we have learnt from wars. And while a lot of these strategies have merit if adapted well, at the core of this is the stance […]
Digitization has evolved as a game changer in the way we do business and it has appropriately also influenced the HR processes. While people/ human being, remains at the heart of business operations and nothing can be achieved without its well-being, digitization has brought a revolution in the way HR operates. Industrial Relations primarily deals […]
The other day, I was reading a blog on 2018 Employee Engagement/ Retention Statistics#1 and the following statements caught my attention: Of the 5 billion people on the planet, only 1.4 billion have a good job and just 16% of those are engaged. (Gallup) Among millennials who worked at 5-7 organizations, 34% didn’t trust their […]
A few months ago, a colleague of mine, who is also a Professor of Design Thinking, shared a very interesting aspiration: To get the HR function to use design thinking to design better employee experiences. His logic was as follows: Design thinking is all about starting with the user in mind. As a younger generation […]
Time is running out and we need to act fast! Reviewing the old school leadership style has become the need of the hour in the workplace. Millennials are no longer the youngest generation in the workplace. Over the past decade they have been undergoing a transformation in their behaviour, attitude, approach and preferences at work. Consequently […]
