High Expectations, Low Support

CEOs expect their CHROs to move out of HR function and align their thoughtprocesses to the business strategy. But is it only then that the contribution of the CHROs will become more meaningful?

It's Time To Turn Back Time

The most unproductive thing one can do is reporting to office mid-day — and yet it is most prevalent in offices across the startup world

Team Building In Tough Times

What are the challenges of building a performing team under VUCA conditions? What can leaders do to bind their teams together and navigate them through the choppy waters to achieve the team goals successfully?

High Trust = High Engagement

What is the big question: Is it to ask how to secure engagement in business for profit where there is not much glory to be found or how strong can engagement be?

Hipos In The Digital Age - Looking Ahead

Digital has already delivered a blow to businesses. And as digitization drives more automation and computing, 75 percent of leaders believe that technology will change the nature of current rules significantly and will also demand new skills from talent. While talent leaders grapple with talent&skill evolution in the digital age, a critical challenge to manage is the impact of digital disruption on HiPos. People Matters, in partnership with Right Management organized the sixth edition of HiPo week that facilitated discussions on the impact of digital disruption on HiPos, the changing business expectations from HiPos, and the competencies HiPos need to develop to stay ahead of the curve and enhance their business relevance for the newer rules. This Special Story highlights the key takeaways from the HiPo week!

Partners In performance

Staffing firms can stay relevant to their clients and candidates by offering a differentiated value proposition.” Rituparna Chakraborty, President of Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), in this interaction with People Matters, gives a peek into the key trends shaping the staffing domain, the indispensability of candidate experience and technology, and the position of staffing firms in the gig economy

It Never Ends When It Ends!

Hardly anyone speaks of the failure of the Republican Party’s organizational ‘talent management’ in the aftermath of Donald Trump becoming the President. Republicans don’t really know what to do with him because he delivered results for them. Damned if they say anything, Damned if they don’t! Sounds familiar?

Tackling The Continuous Learning Challenge

In this special story, read about how leading companies like Accenture, IBM, Ingersoll Rand, Deutsche India and TATA Communications are solving the need of continuous learning

The Skill Shifts: Are We Ready For The Future?

With some major shifts taking place and gaining momentum in the skilling space, what are governments, organizations and institutions doing to ensure we have a workforce that has the right skills for the future.

Rise Of The Social Enterprise And The Future Of Work

The 2019 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report analyzes the growing clout of socially responsible enterprises and their impact on the future of work

4 Critical Workplace Trends That Are Changing The Way We Work

LinkedIn’s ‘Global Talent Trends 2019’ report analyzes the changing employee-employer dynamics and identifies four critical workplace trends that are changing the way we work. Let’s take a closer look.

Auto Companies Need To Accept That Like Technology, Millennials Are Here To Stay

In the second leg of the round table of auto industry leaders hosted by Lee Hecht Harrison under the “LEAGUE OF LEADERS” initiative, industry leaders dwell on possible solutions to the many talent challenges besetting the automobile industry in India.

Leading With Authenticity, Influencing With Inspiration

In an interaction with People Matters, Prabir Jha, the Founder and CEO of Prabir Jha People Advisory, talks about leadership, digital transformation, and future of work and jobs.

Fostering Innovation Through Research

In an interaction with People Matters, Professor Edward (Ted) Sargent, the Vice-President at the University of Toronto, talks about the tech innovations and the future of work, and how the university is preparing the next generation of leaders.

Revisiting The Human Capital System

A holistic view of human capital inside any organization consists of talent management, organizational structure and culture, and strategic leadership.

Whose Job Is It Anyway?

We discuss the lack of meaningful discussion around what an individual employee can do to prepare for the future of work and why the workforce needs to be an equal participant in the discourse regarding automation and upskilling.

Nailing Employee Experience - The Strategic Priority

Employee experience is a critical business imperative that can drive innovation, productivity, customer satisfaction, and revenue.

Leading With Design Thinking

Diane Gherson, Senior Vice President - Human Resources, IBM, in an exclusive interaction with People Matters, shares insights on how design thinking has been a game changer for the company, navigating the continuous skills renewal, and future of jobs.

The state of talent acquisition in India

The talent acquisition function within HR has traditionally dealt with ensuring that the right candidates are acquired. But given the urgency within businesses to scale today, it is poised to play a much more vital role.

Big change, Best path – Managing transformational change

Warren Parry, Managing Director, Global ChangeTracking Lead, Accenture and the author of Big Change, Best Path talks about his patented change map, complexities of change processes, and applying change maps to manage change in organizations.

Businesses Should Take Risk With Their People

In an exclusive conversation with PRAMOD BHASIN, the Founder of Genpact, we ask him about building Genpact from scratch, the power of conviction, achieving competitive advantage and HR’s role in architecting a culture of risk-taking.

AON Best Employers India 2018

Organizations today not only need to balance strategy with purpose, they also need consistency and agility for engaging employees, demonstrating effective leadership, building a performance culture, and leveraging the strength of their employer brand. People Matters showcases the Aon Best Employers List 2018 and divulges the secrets of what makes the enlisted organizations well-positioned in the hearts of their employees

Assessing The Assessor - Evaluating Personality Assessment Tools

Today, many organizations use personality assessment tools to assess their employees. But before deciding to use a personality tool, should organizations create their own “thermometer test”?

The Flattened Reality Of 'Flat Offices'

The ‘flat office’ once meant that the organization was more horizontal in its outlook. But now, the flat office is a hoary mess!

People Managers Between Life And Death

Ineffective people management is a challenge that organizations face offand on. But this issue transends industries and sectors — a look at the people management issues in the healthcare industry that is strategically moving from volume to value

It's About The “Ease Of Doing Business” In India

The recent ascent of India on the Ease of Doing Business rankings by World Bank has received much attention and applauds. Let’s try to comprehend what this achievement really means

Blogosphere

Most of the conversations are focused on millennials as a challenge rather than them being the future. So how can employers adapt to this new generation?

Leadership Is Contextual - So Let's Develop Leaders In The Moments They Experience

From influencing the curriculum of learning and onboarding leadership development programs to providing material for coaching and assessment tools – Great Playbooks are geared towards spreading learnings so that skills can be applied directly to the job

An Impact That Matters - Leadership Development Initiatives That Give Returns

For long-term performance, the C-Suite needs to commit themselves to the success of corporate leadership development efforts. But do these programs align with the strategic objectives of the business? Do they prove valuable to the employee and for the bottom line?

Decoding Leadership Development

Leadership development is a priority for the organizations as they require a new class of leaders with strategic and forward-thinking minds in this digital age. In conversation with People Matters, Jennifer Martineau, SVP, Research, Evaluation, and Societal Advancement – Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) shares her perspectives on leadership development and diversity.