There is an increased misalignment between employees and management and that hinders the implementation of key tasks as well as retention of top talent.
Author: HRK News Bureau
While social-media apps may help engage employees and share knowledge with them, they may also distract them and cause decrease in productivity.
The platform connects learning services and curricula, allowing employees to learn continuously without the traditional training schedule.
The programme aims to create industry-ready human resources and better placement of the management graduates.
The most in-demand occupations in pharma and biotech are in the areas of data, research and regulatory affairs.
The idea behind launching this coding contest is that the tech firms find it difficult to visit every engineering college and tap potential coders.
The topic for the conclave was ‘Redefining Workplace’, under which two subtopics – Avenue of Engagement and Integrating Diversity at Workplace were discussed
HR Anexi was conceived to be a one-stop-solution for all HR requirements.
Fr. Edward Hugh McGrath, SJ, one of the founding fathers of XLRI, is no more. He passed away on August 4 after prolonged illness. He was 95 years old. He came to India in 1949 when he was 26. He was born in New York to Dr John F McGrath and Lillian McGrath on January 7, 1923. At 36, Fr McGrath became the second director of XLRI in 1959. XLRI was born to strengthen industrial India, and bring in ethical management practices strengthening both the trade unions and personnel managers. He held the position till 1962 and had his second stint as the director between 1981 and 1982. He conducted several courses for management and trade union groups at XLRI. During the 60s, XLRI, under his leadership, started offering courses for unions in collaboration with the steel unions at the Steel Worker College.
In 1987 Fr McGrath moved to the Human Life Centre in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, and took over as director there. He developed vocational training courses, such as written and spoken English, computer operating, tailoring, and carpentry among others.
The pioneer of coaching in the workplace and author of Coaching for Performance, was 79.
The Happiness Conclave (THC) scheduled for March 24 at the Taj President in Mumbai, is all about some serious discussion on happiness and how organisations can benefit from it.
An exclusive six month-training programme in car design will be offered to the select six design graduates, post which they will get a professional internship certificate.
In his new role, Sen will now head the entire HR people operations for Asia Pacific and Japan which includes 15 countries in the region. Sailesh Menezes will take up the role of the country manager, HR people operations for India.
Chugh moved in from Standard Chartered, while Vivek Pandey joined in from the Tata Group as the vice president of growth and analytics.
With the internal environment already boiling due to Susan Fowler’s allegations, the company had to take stern decisions to avoid further blow-ups
Together the two firms will increase value to the customers they serve with the strength, size and scale to deliver rapid innovations.
The Japanese telecommunications organisation has developed a new app, which innovatively helps cut unnecessary queuing time at office toilets.
In a recent official mail to the entire staff, founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal admitted to the need to tighten the belt and in the process, let go of some people.
Employers will now be able to post job openings on their Facebook page.
The learning platform blends together Microsoft’s cloud technologies and LinkedIn’s job-search capabilities.
EPFO is all set to embrace technology in a major way, enabling online withdrawal of PF funds and quicker settlement of claims.
Former employee, Susan Fowler, wrote a blog accusing HR at Uber of mishandling her situation.
Outside of Europe, there are no international-level agreements specifically focussed on teleworking or working from home.
The company is reportedly looking at laying off around 10 per cent of its pan-India workforce.
Drinking at work has various unwanted impacts on performance, productivity and the overall work culture.
The company plans to streamline the existing seven ranks, except for executives, into four, based on employees’ career levels.