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Kotak Mahindra and Axis Bank to recruit , employees

Countrys two largest private sector banks Kotak Mahindra and Axis said they will hire a total of ab...

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MM rejigs leadership in auto, farm divisions Rajan Wadhera to step down

Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd MampM announced a fresh reshuffle of its leadership team as the utilit...

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Leadership

Leaders and Reverse Shadow: What would it look like?

The last decade has transformed work and more importantly, lives at work. Macroeconomic shifts and localization trends have joined forces with technological disruption thus redrawing boundaries and notions of corporate work life. What seemed the norm yesterday has now got cast aside as dated. Given this ever-changing milieu of patterns, behaviors and fluid evolution, making […]

CHRO Move

Ziqitza Healthcare appoints Manish Kumar as New CHRO

Manish Kumar joins Ziqitza Healthcare Limited as Chief Human Resource Officer. Ziqitza Health Care Limited (ZHL) is one of the largest Ambulance service providers in Asia and has been a pioneer in the Emergency Medical Response Services and Patient Transport Services in India since 2005. ZHL was set up by a group of young professionals […]

Dec 25, 2019

The most in-demand skills in 2020

According to ET reports, Techies with digital skills will be the most sought-after professionals in 2020. There are currently 60,000-odd vacancies for new-age technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data analytics. “Recruiters say candidates can expect fat hikes of 35-60% upon switching jobs, with the number going up to 100% for those with data […]

Dec 25, 2019

PepsiCo to start new potato chips plant at Mathura and will create nearly 1,500 jobs

The UP Government has cleared the land possession disputes for PepsiCo’s new plant in the Mathura district, the company will invest more than Rs 500 crore in the proposed plant at Kosi, Mathura through FDI route and create nearly 1,500 direct and indirect jobs. Earlier, UPSIDC had allotted 36 acres of land to PepsiCo but local farmers […]

Performance Appraisal

How to give ‘Performance Feedback’ to employees

There is a classic dichotomy for you to reflect upon: In a VUCA business environment, organizations need more from their employees than ever. But the same forces shaking businesses are also overwhelming employees, driving up their fear, and compromising their capacity. It’s no wonder that so many organizations are focused on how to build a […]

Cognizant to layoff 350 employees, most of them from India

Cognizant plans to layoff nearly 350 senior employees whose annual salaries between Rs 80 lakh and Rs 1.2 crore. Most of these employees are based out of India and are aged 50-55 years. Earlier in October this year, Humphries had said in a post-earnings call that a decision to let go of around 10,000 to […]

CHRO Move

Quick Heal Appoints Reetu Raina as Chief Human Resource Officer

Quick Heal Technologies Limited has appointed Reetu Raina as its Chief Human Resource Officer. In her new role, she will be responsible for driving Quick Heal’s HR function and steer the company’s people operations, culture and recruitment initiatives. Her appointment is effective from December 23, 2019. Reetu holds extensive industry experience and has worked across […]

Google to hire 3,800 full-time workers including India

On 20th December, Google has announced to hire nearly 3,800 “in-house” employees in 2020 at various sites including in India who will provide customer care support. To date, customer and user support, such as answering calls, product troubleshooting and campaign set-up, has often been supplied by third-party companies on Google’s behalf. Troy Dickerson, Vice President, […]

Culture & Behaviour

Value of Soft Skills in the Workplace

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command” – Steven Pressfield The challenge for any Human Resource Management or Learning and Development Team is how to maintain a fine balance between the hard and soft skills of their employees […]

Labour Law

Govt is planning to implement all four labour codes in one go, likely in 2020

As per a report in Business Standard, The government is planning to implement all the four labour codes on a single date in 2020-21 because the government believes that a single date for the implementation of all the four labour codes will be fruitful because it will ensure uniformity and will lead to efficient execution. […]

C-Suite Move

Tata Global Beverages appoints Sunil D’Souza as MD & CEO

Tata Global Beverages has announced the appointment of Sunil A. D’Souza as Managing Director and CEO. D’Souza is currently Managing Director at consumer durables maker Whirlpool of India Ltd. He will assume this role with effect from 4th April 2020, subsequent to the retirement of Ajoy Misra, who is currently the MD & CEO of […]

CHRO Move

Cognizant appoints Walmart’s Becky Schmitt as Chief People Officer

Cognizant has appointed Becky Schmitt as its new Chief People Officer. Her assignment will commence on February 1, 2020, after the current CPO James Lennox retires. The announcement was made by Cognizant Chief Executive Officer Brian Humphries in an e-mail to employees. Becky is currently the senior vice president and Chief People Officer at Sam’s […]