Building Talent for the Future

For many years, business schools, and more so those producing MBAs, had remained as one of the greatest sources of top managerial and professional talent. Is it still the case, is therefore an interesting question.

The Strategies For Effective Management

Talent management strategies are 'not etched in stone' and vary with every company and role. The organization and its HR function must mould their modus operandi according to both, also exploring new ways and shedding archaic "we have always done it this way" processes.

Crowd Sourcing Decisions: An Uphill Task

Tagore International Business School has maintained its reputation as one of the best B-schools in India for the past several years. In spite of the fact that it is located in Coimbatore, an erstwhile small city, the institute has achieved great laurels for itself. Dr. Navneet Dubey, the Director of the institution had recently visited the University of California in the US. He observed that the management graduates from the B-schools of California University were better trained as compared to their Indian counterparts.

A Misplaced Attitude Towards CSR

The commitment to contribute to social well being and ensure no adverse effects of the company on the community around you must come from deep within and must be holistically developed by first becoming a responsible employer, honest tax payer and a compliant entity.

The Right Approach

The management, irrespective of size and scale are confronted with unprecedented and unwarranted situations and are therefore left with no choice but to abide by public opinion. This brings forth resentment amongst the employees, who, therefore challenge the management head-on, resulting in an all-out war. With the management and the employees at loggerheads, the very structure of the organization becomes susceptible to extreme damage.

Leading By Example

Work needs to be constructive, meaningful and result-oriented. This applies to our personal lives as well, where the emotional demands always take precedence over everything else. You cannot trade-off one for the other!

Process Outsourcing Versus Automated Hiring

Automation can take over the task of recruitment, but it is highly prone to errors. An effective solution is therefore to partner with an RPO, which can not only automate the talent acquisition process, but also infuse the human element in the process.

The Cost Of Being Evaluated

Self-esteem is considered to be the fundamental human need that one needs to pursue in order to achieve psychological well being. Individuals choose certain domains with extreme care on the basis of their confidence to achieve success, with the purpose of experiencing higher self-esteem.

Unions In The IT/ ITES Sector

In the specific context of unions in the IT/ITES sector, collective bargaining for remuneration and benefits or political activism do not seem to be the primary function of the union. In fact, protection against unfair terminations under the guise of resignations, rampant unethical HR practices form the key purpose of the union.

Surging Ahead The Startup Wave

Challenging conventional wisdom, carrying a strong belief in an idea, love for their very purpose, acceptability to thoughtful criticism, planning for the perfect timing and executing milestones with a razor focused long-term vision will help entrepreneurs surge ahead on the startup wave.

Talent management - The Vital Elements Of Strength

Talent management is the assured business strategy that will ensure the attraction of top talent in competition with other employers.

Informing Across Cultures

Cross-cultural differences are a result of one's thoughts and interactions being influenced by the places of upbringing and education. It has been proven by research that a cross-cultural workplace ensures greater productivity, since varied thought processes make way for greater creativity and innovation within the organisation. Managing such a workforce, however, presents issues of its own, since diverse cultures come in the way of resolving conflicts and inducing harmony.

Defining Standards For OD Professionals

While focusing on advances in technology in the Organisational Development space, the importance of setting and maintaining high standards and communicating the same to the stakeholders within the organisation must always be borne in mind.

Tips To Maintain A Healthy Work-Life Balance

In the journey to excel as a working professional, one is affronted with excruciating expectations. And building a healthy balance between work and personal life gains significance with respect to leading a stress-free life.

The Psychology Of People Analytics

People analytics has a futuristic role at both the strategic and the operational levels in organisations. HR must therefore take the lead to establish people analytics as a core component for the future evidence-based profession by investing in capability, in terms of technology as well as skills.

Coaching Festival, Believe In Yourself Way!

The BIY Coaching Festival was held on 14th June, 2018 at MCA Club - BKC, Mumbai. 

The Leap Onto Tomorrow

Human Capital spoke to Niel Nickolaisen, Chief Technology Officer at O.C. Tanner, the leading global employee rewards and recognition company to understand the growing impact of technology in HR and its underlying implications.

The Necessity To Register A Trade Union

If the intention of the workmen forming an association is to act as a trade union, it is necessary for them to register the trade union under the Trade Unions Act, 1926.

Caregaving With Empathy

Skilling and training is the way forward for creating the right kind of talent pool for the home healthcare industry, thereby enabling to bridge the critical skill gap faced by the industry today.

Psychometrics: The Science of Measuring the Human Mind

Human Capital spoke to Vijai Pandey from "The Psychometric World (TPW)" and Dr. Mariya Jilinskaya (Masha) from IIBP Indian Institute of Business Psychology) about the changing trends in psychometric usage across organizations. TPW has been working with several business organizations, government departments and not for profit entities to hire, develop and retain best talents and drive company objectives, through precise and effective human Analytics.

Liquid Workforce: Will Shrinking Headcounts Be The New Future Of 2017?

Human Capital interacted with some well-known HR experts who exchanged and emphasized their views on how automation disruption, and HR analytics, will make Liquid Workforce the next biggest reality of 2017.

10 Tips To Talent Development

The start is the pillar and the motivational bedrock of skill acquisition. The initial motivational surge has to be strong enough to see you through the journey and channelling energy the right way.

Building Digital Business Models

With the new organizational form of porous boundaries, shared responsibilities, fewer mandatory rules and practices, it poses new challenges for the people managers and resource planners. The task of workforce planning which traditionally focused on analyzing the supply-demand gap and filling the holes has suddenly become more complex.

Big Data: Not A Mere Buzzword

Tech disruption is not about the shaking the very foundations of the business landscape, but, redefining crucial HR functions of recruitment, retention, training, performance and talent management.

From Creative To Competitive

If employees are exposed to a variety of perspectives and ideas, it fosters a readiness to accept and adapt to a new culture, a new behaviour, a new thought process, a new country, a new style of working, and, a different approach.

Achieving The Ultimate Balance Through Prioritization

One of the simplest solutions for achieving the ultimate work-life balance is through the creation of a transparent set of 'priorities'. A regular introspection will clearly indicate areas where you may have failed to achieve what was required of you, and, perhaps other areas where you may have over-achieved.

Commandments For The Ideal Balance

The desire to maintain a proper work-life balance has become a global expectation. Innovation starts at the top of the pyramid, but leaders need to have the right vision and share it with their employees. Employers need to trust their employees and create an ideal framework that includes innovation and change.

The New World Order

In a world where both the parents are pursuing their respective careers, Millennials learn to stand on their feet without any aid or 'au pair'. For them, every dawn ushers in an opportunity to learn something new, something valuable, and something by which they can contribute to the society.

Time For A Cap On CEO Pay?

The Economist recently reported that the UK Government has proposed four measures that have made publicly-held companies see red. First, remuneration committees set up by companies will be required to explicitly keep worker's salaries in mind while finalising salaries of top executives. Second, companies will have to create a position for a Director representing workers' interests or set up an advisory council staffed with workers. Third, companies will be required to regularly publish the ratio of the compensation of top executives to that of the average workers. Finally, if more than twenty percent of the shareholders oppose any resolution aimed at fixing the salary of the top executive, say during an Annual General Meeting, the concerned company's name will be entered in a public register so that it can be 'named and shamed.'

Building A Culture Of Talent Management

As we meander into the twenty first century, it is becoming increasingly evident that achieving success is based on the ability to co-exist with ambiguity and re-inventing oneself quickly, in short, adapting to unparalleled change.