Priyanka Mohanty

Priyanka Mohanty, Vice President-Global Corporate HR and Global Lead for Diversity & Inclusion steers the ‘Global Talent Management, Engagement and D&I' domain for her company Startek. She has been conferred with Woman HR Leader award by BW Businessworld, HR 40under40 by Jombay to identify India’s top 40 young HR Leaders, SheThePeople 40 over 40 award, D&I awards by LNOD, Women’s Leadership Forum of Asia and Women's Web, Women Achievers Award by ASSOCHAM, 101 HR Super Achievers by World HRD Congress and many more.

How to Embracing Equity at Workplace
Diversity & Inclusion

How to Embracing Equity at Workplace

While there are many examples of equity that have surfaced, my favourite that I have come across are the ones elucidated from the studies of BCG and WHO which have put it very lucidly and which I am going to quote here. A BCG study cites that companies with more diverse management teams are likely to […]

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Employee Engagement Trends for 2023
Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement Trends for 2023

It is time now to shift gears from employee engagement to employee happiness 150 studies and articles, extensive interviews with over 150 executives, and analysis of over 250 global organizations are what the book “The Employee Experience Advantage: How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces they Want, the Tools they […]

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Winning Talent Management Strategies During Global Downturn
Economic Slowdown

Winning Talent Management Strategies During Global Downturn

The Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Model by Arnold Bakker and Evangelia Demerouti has always fascinated me. People will be engaged when Job Demands i.e., an emotionally, mentally, or physically demanding job, job complexity, and work pressure are compensated with a similar (or higher) level of Job Resources i.e., autonomy, performance feedback, social support, coaching, relevant knowledge. […]

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Challenges for Women Leaders at Work in 2022
Leadership

Challenges for Women Leaders at Work in 2022

A few weeks ago, I was leafing through a myriad of TEDx Talks on YouTube when I chanced upon a very compelling oration on a March 2018 article, “Picture a Leader. Is She a Woman?” entitled in New York Times. This left me reflecting – aren’t leadership and success, gender agnostic? Because, personally, I have […]

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Top 5 Workplace Challenges and Trends in 2022
New HR Trends

Top 5 Workplace Challenges and Trends in 2022

While we hope that the “turbulence” of the pandemic shall witness a downtrend, the unquestionable need of the hour is “transformation” in order to stay ahead of the curve. Whether it is progressing to a digital enterprise, or a shift to skills from experience, or the exponential focus on employee experience or development of new […]

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Allowances & Incentive to Call Employees Back to Workplace
Culture & Behaviour

Allowances & Incentive to Call Employees Back to Workplace

Return to Workplace This is the contention that we are dealing with at the moment amidst the Covid-19 pandemic which is definitely not an inaugural pandemic that the world is facing. But what makes it challenging is that Covid-19 is the first pandemic of its kind that is expected to have an indelible, deep-rooted, transformational, […]

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Keeping employees engaged during the recession
Culture & Behaviour

Keeping employees engaged during the recession

Macroeconomic indicators which means production as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment, investment spending, capacity utilization, household incomes, and business profits……….when all of this fall, that’s when the alarm rises! For once, if we look at these indicators, one might question what has it to do with HR? But unfortunately, it does because all […]

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Employee Value Proposition: The Best Practices
Employer Branding

Employee Value Proposition: The Best Practices

I was recently reading a book, “The War for Talent” by McKinsey & Company consultants Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod where they have put forth their thoughts after five years of in-depth research on how companies manage leadership talent which includes surveys of 13,000 executives at more than 120 companies and case studies […]

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An Odyssey from Operational Excellence to Strategic Business Partnership
Transformation

An Odyssey from Operational Excellence to Strategic Business Partnership

Each and every one who has been on an outstretched trip with children has heard them ask the question, ‘‘Are we ‘there’ yet?’’ In multifarious ways, the HR professionals have also been asking this question for the past many years, ‘‘Are we ‘there’ yet?’’ Are we able to quantify the value we create and are […]

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