All Latest Posts

15070 posts found

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

Read Story
Culture of Learning in Today’s World
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 […]

Read Story
Moving Beyond Evaluation in Performance Management
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 […]

Read Story
Deloitte to create 75,000 jobs in 3 years in India
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 […]

Read Story
Focusing on Intangibles to Evolve Workplace Performance
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 […]

Read Story
Top 5 HR Trends in 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. […]

Read Story
Ways To Make Employee Performance Evaluation Effective
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. […]

Read Story
Google’s head of HR to step down
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 […]

Read Story
Cognizant to hire more than 20,000 students from campuses in India this year
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 […]

Read Story
Sexual harassment at workplace: Supreme Court Rejects Plea
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 […]

Read Story
Ensure Fairness, a rating is not the issue
Performance Appraisal

Ensure Fairness, a rating is not the issue

Fairness (fɛːnəs): “Treating people equally” or “impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism or discrimination” Over the last few years, we have seen many polarizing arguments where people have vociferously debated the relevance of Performance Appraisals, more so around the performance ratings that follow this exercise. While at the core it seems like a legitimate […]

Read Story
To Be or Not To Be, That’s Really Not The Question Anymore!
Performance Appraisal

To Be or Not To Be, That’s Really Not The Question Anymore!

As I walked down memory lane, quite literally when I visited my college for a guest lecture, my footsteps took me to the library which was one of my favorite hangouts back then! My glance fell on a book “Its not how good you are, its how good you want to be”, by Paul Arden. […]

Read Story