FirstMeridian acquihires pharma HR services player, Cornucopia
Human resources services platform FirstMeridian has completed the acquihire of a business unit of HR consulting firm Cornucopia for an undisclosed amount.
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.
Here is some advice from a research companybased on analysis which it places into three specific categories: accelerating trends, new impacts that were not previously part of the future of work discussion, and pendulum swings – temporary shorter-term reactions.
In a press release shared by the company, Avtar Group’s Founder & President, Dr. Saundarya Rajesh expressed her delight at the joining of Ms. Bhavani Balasubramanian and Mr. Kannan Hariharan as part of the senior leadership team at Avtar.
What do Uber, Swiggy, AirBnB, amongst others have in common, besides providing services at lower costs? Their leverage on information technology (IT)! IT has overcome the barriers of distance, time and cost, thereby levelling the playing field for everybody, allowing (or forcing, depending on who you ask) not just companies, but also individuals to compete in terms of costs, turnaround time, product quality and geography. It is therefore no surprise that IT-based companies are at the forefront of the gig economy.
A crisis is always a headscratcher, be it early or late. The point is, how you effectively curb it with minimal or no loss of revenue. Recapped here, are some of the best practices followed by organizations to contain the crisis through a series of approaches – intellectual, technological, personal, et al