The thinking goes that, because organizations and responsibilities are rapidly changing, there is a need for employees to constantly upgrade their skills. This being the case, the trend as seen today is that, the yearly performance review is giving way to frequent feedback and reviews throughout the year.
The core to an organizations life is its culture. We know that...
In an exclusive interaction with SightsIn, we have with us Madhavi Lall- Managing Director and Head Human Resources, India at Deutsche bank, She has been heading HR at Deutsche Bank India since May 2015 and joined from Accenture where she was Managing Director - HR. She has earlier held several senior leadership positions in Standard Chartered Bank where her last...
Retention has always been a key to success for every organisation. However it has remained as an area of innovation and introspection. Each organisation has tried and experimented to have improved retention, some have succeeded some are still grappling with this area.
To look at this issue more deeply it is important to get your basics right for examples whom...
My travels keep me on the run continuously and recently at an airport I was very happy to see a colleague’s close friend just across the coffee counter. A smile and a wave didn’t create the impact that I was expecting. I walked across to her hoping she would have a recollection of me, but alas she looked through...
Ongoing global economic challenges and uncertainties have meant that HR has had to focus on process and cost efficiencies as a business critical priority for some years now. This has meant that ongoing trade-offs between quality and cost have been necessary. Finance and budgeting challenges will always drive such an approach but this is where data based business cases...
Dave Ulrich is the Rensis Likert Professor of Business at the Ross School, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group (http://www.rbl.net) a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organizations build capabilities of leadership, talent, and culture through leveraging human resources. He has helped generate award winning data bases that...
PMS is at the core of organization success and huge amount of time and energy is spent on ensuring that organization objectives are communicated well and cascaded into individual goals for achievement. But the fact remains that most of the employees see it as an annual ritual that needs to be performed for receiving salary increment. Every HR manager...
The Digital Transformation in HR
I was recently asked “how would digitization change the HR landscape”. I replied by saying that the more important question was “how much HR leaders would have to change to become digital ready” since it was not easy to estimate the enormity of change it would have to undergo during digitization.
Digitization would not be a...
In an exclusive conversation at SightsIn, we have with us Rachna Mukherjee; she is currently the Chief Human Resources Officer of Schneider Electric, India, Rachna Mukherjee has worked extensively in the areas of Talent Management, Career/ Succession Planning, Organisation Capability, Change Management, Leadership Development, Employee Engagement, Compensation and Organisation Design. She also has a rich experience of managing HR operations which enhances her...
How to improve Employee Retention Rate especially in Business Slowdowns
“People work for money but go the extra mile for recognition, praise and reward” – Dale Carnegie
The challenging economic environment today, presents many demanding and intense perspectives where layoffs, bailouts and foreclosures are common anxieties. As stress and anxieties increase, the pressure cooker like situation does not appear to have...