HR Indya

Laszlo Bock, the former SVP of Google’s People Operations and author of the book “Work Rules!,” stated in a panel interview that most companies don’t know how to hold onto their best people. “People don’t stay for the money,” Bock said, noting that more than a third of Google’s first 100 employees are still working [...]

Think of how the relationship between management of an organisation and the union of employees undergoes changes. All industrial relations managers would have experienced the ‘Form, Storm, Norm, Perform’ stages of building relations.
The latest organisation to experience this is Bajaj Auto. In a recent seminar Dilip Pawar (in pic), the articulate leader of Bajaj Auto [...]

An article by Mr. Ram Charan in the Harvard Business Review and its counter article by Dave Ulrich gave that ‘split’ a thought.
Ram Charan is a business advisor to CEOs and corporate boards, and coauthor of the new book, Boards That Lead, with Dennis Carey and Michael Useem. His views –
I talk with CEOs across [...]

According to survey by Marsh Insurance brokers, while 60 per cent of the Corporates were providing employer-sponsored cover for parents of employees in 2009, this number was down to 36 per cent in 2012. On an average, every year around 10% Corporates with mediclaim stop sponsoring parental cover.
Faced with a rising outgo on account of [...]

Yahoo CEO Marisssa Mayer has again hit on HR controversy with a new policy. Yahoo employees were up in arms about a new policy that forces managers to rank employees on a bell curve, then fire those at the low end.
As the company shrinks, the rigid distribution of the bell-curve forces managers to label a high [...]

A survey was conducted by Towers Watson which provides interesting insights with implications in the Indian context too.
Watson Towers  - Who or what is?: Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management.

Each year, Towers Watson explores the changing landscape of HR service [...]

Don’t get passed over for the next raise or promotion at work. Use the following seven strategies to do work that gets you noticed. You’ll find effective and efficient ways to get the job done, and discover how to prepare for a successful climb up the career ladder.
1. Set and exceed expectations. First and foremost, complete [...]

And if you thought that those Government Babu’s (Officers) were never assessed for their performance, here’s news. They have something called the Annual Performance Assessment Report (APAR) and this is supposed to be their Performance Appraisal system. Before the Right to Information Act (RTI) came to existence, this format was called the ACR (Annual Confidential [...]

Scott Raymond Adams is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation. His blog on Management/Success/Leadership makes an interesting reading.
Management/Success/Leadership: Mostly Bullshit
Sometimes I think the field of management/success/leadership is nothing more than a confusion of correlation for causation. For example, I blogged [...]

Came across an interesting  article on HR Leaders and Managers by T. V. Rao (Chairman, TVRLS and a Adjunct Professor at IIMA)
The reason why most people in HR don’t make it to the top is because they have been playing lower level roles and have not groomed themselves as “HR Driven Business Managers”. I classify the [...]