Shaping young HR leaders
The Bhagvad Gita is an ancient Indian philosophical scripture. Though ancient, it is eternal since it transcends religion, race or time frame. Even in the 21 st century, it is relevant, as its teachings enables us humans to get a true understanding of life and offers practical ways to overcome challenges and hurdles.
Get back to basics and deliver value. Focus on what you can control. How can you perform better, faster, or smarter to deliver on the promise of excellent service? What matters to the organization’s mission or vision? How can your team contribute to that?
One of the biggest challenges that a Human Resources department may face is to operate within an organization that has weak or poor leadership. An organization that lacks leadership will also lack vision. Without vision, employees will lack strong purpose. Without purpose, employees are only motivated by their pay.
I often hear people talking about work life balance and I being a human resource professional get to hear this many more times than others. For many years, I have been focusing on this as an area to study.
Human resources services platform FirstMeridian has completed the acquihire of a business unit of HR consulting firm Cornucopia for an undisclosed amount.
As organizations adapt to the needs of evolving customers, consumers and marketplaces, they will need to adopt new products, service offerings, routes to market and communications. This will lead to a need for restructuring and reorganizing.
The climate created by this pandemic is one of stress, anxiety and uncertainty, having profound impact on the well-being of the workforce, irrespective of the industry, designation and nature of work. While COVID-19 may have forced a majority of the world to Work from Home, it is still an unfamiliar territory for a large part of the community.
In most organizations, compensation information isn’t made public. Most of us don’t know how much money our co-workers make. But what happens when you do stumble on this sort of information — and discover that a peer makes more money than you do?
Workers who are the most innovative or productive or those who possess visionary leadership are inevitably propelled to the top. That’s the image many of us have of the workplace. In reality, the practice of favoring and promoting relatives or paramours, more commonly known as nepotism, is widely practiced in companies large and small across the country.
There’s a lot of talk about Diversity & Inclusion in corporate India these days – rightly so. Apart from promoting equity, greater gender and generational diversity in the workplace has repeatedly shown bottom-line benefits to businesses. But all this talk, what one could call the “diversity discourse,” isn’t necessarily translating into action or sustained gains for all employees, leaders, or organizations.
The concept of Work From Home (WFH) has been increasingly gaining popularity amongst organisations over the last few years. However, the CoViD-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of this process, causing the lines between work and home to blur.
Talent acquisition and retention will continue to be biggest challenge of every HR Manager. How HR Manager attracts, retains and energies a diverse and skilled manpower will shape up the future Organization.
