Amazon, the giant of online shopping has created more than 50,000 seasonal positions across its India network of fulfillment centers, sortation centers, delivery stations and customer service sites this festive season.
These positions have been created in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Pune and many other cities across the country.
“In our effort to provide a seamless shopping experience, we are excited to announce...
The other day, I was reading a blog on 2018 Employee Engagement/ Retention Statistics#1 and the following statements caught my attention:
Of the 5 billion people on the planet, only 1.4 billion have a good job and just 16% of those are engaged. (Gallup)
Among millennials who worked at 5-7 organizations, 34% didn’t trust their direct manager, 31% said...
Human Resources, a very important division of the company, has always been side-lined as a non-core activity. However, every company takes pride in what their HR does to manage their people, be it talent sourcing, talent development or employee engagement. Human Resources, though may be known by several titles, traditionally has three comprehensive key functional aspects – HR Strategy,...
A few months ago, a colleague of mine, who is also a Professor of Design Thinking, shared a very interesting aspiration: To get the HR function to use design thinking to design better employee experiences.
His logic was as follows:
Design thinking is all about starting with the user in mind. As a younger generation enters the workforce, and HR leaders...
Time is running out and we need to act fast! Reviewing the old school leadership style has become the need of the hour in the workplace. Millennials are no longer the youngest generation in the workplace. Over the past decade they have been undergoing a transformation in their behaviour, attitude, approach and preferences at work.
Consequently and whether we like it...
In an exclusive Interaction, we are benefited to have Dr. Max Blumberg- Founder-Blumberg Partnership, Visiting Professor, Leeds University Business School, Visiting Researcher, Goldsmiths and University of London.
Max Blumberg, Ph.D., bridges the worlds of business performance and analytics to improve strategy execution, design powerful people processes and increase sales force effectiveness.
Dr. Max has deep experience and success with virtually every...
In preparing for that talk in HR Technology Conference, I referenced two highly recommended books, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellberg; and Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb. While neither book is “about” HR—or even the workplace—both provided some excellent frameworks for thinking about information, data,...
Design Thinking is a method for the practical, creative resolution of problems using the strategies designers use during the process of designing.Design thinking has also been developed as an approach to resolve issues outside of professional design practice, such as in business and social contexts.
Design thinking is best known as a creative approach to problem solving that leads to innovative solutions...
Succession Planning is a long term, continuous and structured process where organizations identify top talent and invest in their development so that they take on key leadership positions in future.
For any organization to thrive in perpetuity, people are the most important assets. So the focus needs to be on developing future leaders. Carefully crafted policies and processes are of...
“Those who always know what’s best are a universal pest” …. Piet Hein, a Danish Scientist
Do you have a coworker who thinks he knows everything? Chances are, you've never, ever heard him utter the words "I don’t know." Unfortunately, most employees encounter at least one know-it-all coworker or boss at some point in their career—and they’re not always the easiest people to...