Ask employees what gets them through a long working day and the answers rarely involve appraisals or the next long weekend. More likely, it is the morning chai with a colleague before opening the laptop, the lunch break that turns…
Not waiting for an invitation For Charu Sheel Kunwar, managing director and…
India’s contract staffing industry has grown fivefold since 2013. But the pace…
Gokaldas Exports operates in a business where performance depends on the coordination…
What does the ‘GRPI model’ mean? When a team stops performing, the…
Harish Kumar has joined Sodexo as regional head of human resources for…
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…
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…
The average global time-to-hire sits at 44 days. For most organisations, that…
Kroger, the US supermarket chain with 409,000 employees and more than 2,700 stores, has announced plans to lay off 3,000 corporate staff over the…
The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) Employees’ Joint Action Committee (JAC) has demanded the cancellation of tenders inviting private operators to run…
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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