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CHRO Move

Former Head- HR of Carl ZEISS India Sudipto Mandal joins Star Cement as CHRO

Feb 21, 2020

Alstom agreed to buy Bombardiers train division

French company Alstom has announced on Monday, th Feb, that it has signed a Memorandum of Understa...

Merger & Acquisition

Feb 20, 2020

Alstom agreed to buy Bombardiers train division

Enabling Managers to Conduct Performance Appraisals

In years of having led performance management systems, training the managers to conduct effective ap...

Performance Appraisal

Feb 20, 2020

ESIC increases confinement expenses to Rs , for pregnant women

The ESI Corporation has decided to increase Confinement Expenses paid to pregnant women, who are not...

ESIC

Feb 18, 2020

Featured

Capgemini to hire up to 15,000 freshers, Rs 6.5 lakh salary for Top Graduates

The French company, Capgemini is all set to hire 12,000 to 15,000 students from Indian campuses in 2020. The company had recruited similar numbers of students last year. Capgemini offers an average salary of Rs 3.8 lakh/annum to the freshers. However, the annual package for IITs and NITs students go up to Rs 6.5 lakh. […]

Feb 18, 2020

Performance Appraisal

Providing Meaningful Performance Feedback

When Raj resigned from the position of Area Sales Manager in a large consumer durable company his HR head met him to understand the reasons for his departure and amongst the other reasons, the most important thing that came up during the discussions was that he never got feedback about his performance from his seniors. […]

Feb 18, 2020

Jobs

India Inc. back in hiring mode, talent demand up by 12%

RecruiteX – TimesJobs’ recruitment index – registered 12% M-o-M and 4% Y-o-Y growth in talent demand in January 2020. This trend marks the starting of the New Year on an optimistic note and brings the much-awaited cheer in the Indian job market. The RecruiteX January 2020 edition saw FMCG and Healthcare sectors posting the maximum […]

Feb 17, 2020

Learning & Development

Culture of Learning in Today’s World

According to Edgar Schein, culture shapes the behaviors of people in an organization. Learning is both a skill and behaviour and for that to happen in a consistent and effective manner, it is essential that organizations build a culture of learning. Learning in Today’s World With multiple online learning platforms offering learning for no or […]

Feb 17, 2020

Performance Appraisal

Moving Beyond Evaluation in Performance Management

Performance Appraisal has evolved over time but has retained, so far, its distinctive feature in terms of being evaluative and judgmental. In the final analysis, this has proved to be detrimental to the stated superordinate goal of performance management, which is to improve overall performance. It is worth recapitulating why this happens: It’s past focussed […]

Feb 13, 2020

Jobs

Deloitte to create 75,000 jobs in 3 years in India

Deloitte Global CEO Punit Renjen on 10th Feb, Monday said the company is committed to creating 75,000 jobs in the country in three years. He is happy with the current progress of the company in India and is anticipating a bright future. Tweeting a photograph of his meeting last week with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Renjen […]

Feb 12, 2020

Performance Management System

Focusing on Intangibles to Evolve Workplace Performance

Could you imagine how many reports does it take for your organization to function the way it does today? Recently, we came across one that generates 900 reports. Shocked as we were with that number, upon further investigation we realized that a few years ago, each department and BU was given the mandate to increase […]

Feb 12, 2020

New HR Trends

Top 5 HR Trends in 2020

In conversation with SightsIn Plus, Saurabh Govil, President and Chief Human Resource Officer, Wipro shares the following Top 5 HR trends for 2020. Employee experience Employee experience will be the overriding factor in people process decisions. In 2020 I see more and more organizations realizing its importance and making it mainstay of their HR strategy. […]

Feb 11, 2020

Performance Appraisal

Ways To Make Employee Performance Evaluation Effective

In today’s dynamic business world performance measures and performance evaluation becomes key to the positive growth and profitability of the business and also the growth of the employee. However most organisations face a challenge – as there is a gap in performance evaluation communication and Trust and this leads to employee dissatisfaction and triggers attrition. […]

Feb 11, 2020

CHRO Move

Google’s head of HR to step down

Google’s head of Human Resources, Eileen Naughton is stepping down later this year amid rising tensions between the company’s top executives and rank and file employees. Eileen Naughton has been at the company for 14 years, four of which have been as Vice President of People Operations, has had to deal with intensifying employee anger over the company’s […]

Feb 11, 2020

Jobs

Cognizant to hire more than 20,000 students from campuses in India this year

Cognizant Technology aims to hire more than 20,000 technical graduate students, equipped with digital skills from campuses in India this year, said, Brian Humphries, chief executive officer (CEO), Cognizant. “With more and more university students becoming digitally ready, we have decided on a 30% increase in our hiring of engineering and science graduates for 2020,” Humphries […]

Feb 11, 2020

News

Sexual harassment at workplace: Supreme Court Rejects Plea

The Supreme Court has refused to entertain an appeal seeking protection for complainants and witnesses in sexual harassment-at- workplace cases from victimisation or retaliation by accused persons or organisations involved. A Bench of Justices R. Banumathi and A.S. Bopanna disposed of the special leave petition filed by Sunita Thawani highlighting the issue that the Sexual […]

Feb 10, 2020