A manufacturing plant can expand its capacity faster than an organisation can develop the people needed to run it. New production lines can be commissioned, technology can be installed and operations can be scaled up. Building the technical expertise and…
A company can have respectable gender diversity numbers and still have a…
There is always that one employee who volunteers for the extra assignment,…
A general manager at a large Indian steel conglomerate recently described an…
There is a particular kind of confidence that comes with landing a…
Bajaj Finserv has elevated Amit Sharma to senior head–HR, learning and development…
Organisations rarely allow their business performance to go unexamined. Revenue, costs, growth targets and operational efficiency are reviewed at regular intervals. Yet one factor that can determine whether those ambitions are realised often receives far less…
‘Enterprise-ready’ is among the most frequently used terms in the software industry.…
Recruitment has always been a people business. Increasingly, it is also a…
A product manager from a business-critical team resigns, creating an urgent vacancy.…
Many HR professionals aspire to become chief human resources officers, but few…
Skydance is introducing a five-day office attendance policy across its workforce and offering eligible employees voluntary buyouts as the company moves ahead with post-merger…
Apple has reportedly laid off some hardware programme managers as it moves to reduce management layers and reorganise parts of its engineering operations, according…
Change management was built around a reassuring assumption: change would eventually end. There was a beginning, a period of disruption and, finally, a new normal. Rajita Singh, chief people officer – India & global delivery HR leader, Kyndryl believes that assumption no longer holds. “Change…
Newgen Software has plenty of talented people. For its global CHRO Kashish Kapoor, that does not necessarily settle the talent question. When Kapoor joined the company, she found what she describes as a huge pool of talent. The harder question was whether the capabilities Newgen…
When performance falls short, training is often the first prescription. Someone is not delivering. A team is struggling. A new capability is required. The instinctive organisational response is to identify a programme, put people through it and hope performance improves. But what if the problem…
When Shailesh Singh, Chief People Officer at Axis Max Life Insurance, talks about capability building, he does not begin with training programmes. He begins with culture. “If it is not consciously anchored,” he says, invoking a Rajiv Gandhi quote on corruption to make his point,…
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