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Future of Work

ORGANIZATION OF THE FUTURE NEW WORKPLACE PARADIGMS

Oct 28, 2018

In Conversation with Chaitali Mukherjee on Design Thinking

Design thinking is an almost new method being used by HR to meet the employees expectations. And it...

Design Thinking

Oct 26, 2018

Approach to Effective Leadership Development

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy Hyper-...

Leadership

Oct 25, 2018

Evolving Industrial Relations in Digital Age

Digitization has evolved as a game changer in the way we do business and it has appropriately also i...

Industrial Relations

Oct 24, 2018

Industry

Amazon creates opportunities for more than 50,000 sales associates across India

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 […]

Oct 23, 2018

Culture & Behaviour

A Design Thinking Perspective for Employee Engagement and Retention

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 […]

Oct 23, 2018

New HR Trends

Human Resources – Fading Away

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 […]

Oct 22, 2018

Design Thinking

How to Build a Better Workplace for Millennials, Considering Design Thinking

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 […]

Oct 17, 2018

Leadership

How Millennials are Changing Conventional Leadership

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 […]

Oct 16, 2018

Featured

Interaction with Dr. Max Blumberg on People Analytics

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 […]

Oct 15, 2018

Technology

How Technology Helps Us Make Better HR Decisions

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 […]

Oct 13, 2018

Culture & Behaviour

How to Leverage Design Thinking for Candidate Experience

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 […]

Oct 11, 2018

Talent Management

Role of HR in Succession Planning for a Structured Organization

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 […]

Oct 11, 2018

Culture & Behaviour

Managing employees with Know-It-All Syndrome

“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 […]

Oct 10, 2018

Industry

Mercer acquires Mettl, an online assessment platform

Global consulting firm Mercer has acquired online assessment platform Mettl, a Gurugram-based online talent assessment firm for an undisclosed amount- Company Statement Mercer delivers advice and technology-driven solutions that help organizations meet the health, wealth and career needs of their employees. It operates in over 130 countries and employs more than 23,000 people. “Online talent assessment is […]

Oct 9, 2018

Culture & Behaviour

Design Thinking in HR and Organizational Culture

Can Design Thinking principles be applied in Human Resource Management? This is a question that comes around quite often, albeit masked with apprehensions. A quick deep dive into the history of design thinking would help in demystifying this myth that Design Thinking is for products alone. Computer scientist and Nobel Prize laureate Herbert A. Simon […]

Oct 9, 2018