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Updated on: Dec 2019
How HR organizations are shaping the workforce of the future: KPMG HR 2020
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How HR organizations are shaping the workforce of the future: KPMG HR 2020

The HR function is dealing with a range of questions: How can it prove its relevance within its organization and bring strategic value? How can HR design an employee experience that responds to evolving demands? And how can it utilize technology to truly understand the needs and motivations of employees? A pleasure sharing some of […]

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By 2020, Millennials will make up 50% of the workforce. Are you prepared?
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By 2020, Millennials will make up 50% of the workforce. Are you prepared?

In India, even as I write there are many organizations that have already been performing with a talent mix constituting 50% or more of millennials. As early as 2009, I knew of an organization where 29% of the workforce was made up of millennials and 5 % of leadership positions were also occupied by millennials. […]

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Improving Agility of Human Resources through Digital Transformation
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Improving Agility of Human Resources through Digital Transformation

“Antevasin” in Sanskrit means, someone who lives at the border, with one foot firmly rooted in the past, and the other searching for where to go to next. The dichotomy of today’s situation is that the future is already here. Today, we are into the world of AI, IoT, robotics and Machine learning. The rules […]

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Top 06 HR Digital Transformation Trends In 2020
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Top 06 HR Digital Transformation Trends In 2020

Evolution is a way of nature. In the process of evolution, technology has proven to be a great tool that has been constantly invented, imbibed and improvised by individuals and organizations alike. HR Technology, over the years, has come a long way. From ‘registering of Attendance’ & Learning and Development, technology today of the most […]

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Human Connect & Technology – The Future of HR
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Human Connect & Technology – The Future of HR

The human mind has always posed a challenge and relationships continue to remain dynamic and unpredictable. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization, much work has already been done to map the human brain and psychology mostly in order to arrest and predict a behavioral pattern and finding a solution to managing similar work […]

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Challenges for India HR in The Near Future
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Challenges for India HR in The Near Future

Headlines like the Telecom sector loses 100,000 employees over 2years! Hiring to go up by 5% for the financial year 2020! Central government policy to add over 100,000 direct jobs by opening the aviation sector more for Maintenance & Overhaul Industry. Employability has reached new heights of 47%, HR in the dilemma of whether their […]

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Top 05 HR Tech trends that will influence in 2020
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Top 05 HR Tech trends that will influence in 2020

As HR is as prone to trends as any other industry, it’s good to have a clue about what’s going on in this area. A decade ago, HR was only about recruitment but now HR is a strategic partner, and that is reflected in new-age HR Tech trends as well. So, what’s the next big thing […]

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What Is Your Point-of-View About What’s Next for HR?
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What Is Your Point-of-View About What’s Next for HR?

When I teach, write, consult, or coach, I am increasingly aware that my primary role in these opportunities is to help others create their point-of-view. I ask, “How can what I know help them further shape what they know, do, and feel?” To help someone develop their point-of-view, I need to be clear (and relatively succinct) about […]

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Be Positive Because You are HR
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Be Positive Because You are HR

In one of the training workshops in my previous organization, an experienced HRBP (HR Business Partner) shared her concern with me. She found it extremely tough to work with one of her business stakeholders. The stakeholder; according to her, was extremely toxic in his language and was blunt about his grudge against HR. Since most […]

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In conversation with Dave Ulrich on the new roles of HR
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In conversation with Dave Ulrich on the new roles of HR

Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor at the Ross School of Business, the University of Michigan and a partner at The RBL Group. Dave has published over 200 articles and book chapters and over 30 books. He has edited Human Resource Management 1990-1999, served on editorial board of 4 Journals, on the Board of Directors for […]

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What should CHRO Do on joining a new place?
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What should CHRO Do on joining a new place?

Nowadays one keeps hearing and reading news of a lot of new appointments, transfers, and other changes in CHROs of large organizations. For example, in one organization a CHRO is shifted from one business to another. In another organization, a new CHRO has been recruited from another organization and as he was leaving, he ensured […]

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HUMAN RESOURCES (HR) BUDGET
Compensation & Benefits

HUMAN RESOURCES (HR) BUDGET

In this digital age, organizations are paying more attention than ever to the competitiveness in attracting and maintaining talent. Executives have learned that human capital is not just an expensive cost center—it is the area of the organization with the potential to offer huge returns of productivity, innovation, and customer engagement. How should you begin […]

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