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Updated on: Dec 2019
Companies are using Incentive and Vacation Days to encourage Employees NOT TO SMOKE
Culture & Behaviour

Companies are using Incentive and Vacation Days to encourage Employees NOT TO SMOKE

Non-smokers have long lamented the fact that they get fewer work breaks than their colleagues who step out several times a day for a cigarette. Resentment starts to build, and that can be bad for company morale—and business. Piala Inc offers six extra paid vacation days: According to The Telegraph, the Tokyo-based marketing firm Piala […]

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Golden Handcuffs Cannot Hold-Back Sharp Edged Talent
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Golden Handcuffs Cannot Hold-Back Sharp Edged Talent

Free Markets reject Primitive Retention Programs. Golden hand-cuffs cannot hold-back sharp Edged talent. Talent Markets are free markets. Considering its differentiated ability to contribute, Talent is always in a state of high demand in multiple organisations at the same time. Its value thus goes up multi-fold created by its own demand in the market. ‘Arbitrage’ […]

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Leadership competency model wouldn’t help in developing leaders
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Leadership competency model wouldn’t help in developing leaders

There was a time when the fascination to build competency frameworks hit India Inc like a tsunami. Every other organization wanted to build it. From my involvement in over a dozen such initiatives, I gathered that knowing what skills, capabilities organizations had and grooming leaders were the most common reasons reported. There were those who went competency way […]

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Enabling Group Thinking For Performance & Impact
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Enabling Group Thinking For Performance & Impact

Everything is created twice. First in the mind, and then, in the physical world.– Anonymous wisdom Morale is an expression of a work group’s emotional health.– Harry Levinson, Organizational Psychologist, in The Levinson Letters Purpose and Vision are extremely critical for a person, team, society or nation to achieve great results. Similarly, Results &Impactare important […]

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Factors Influencing Companies’ Growth Culture
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Factors Influencing Companies’ Growth Culture

Culture is so important these days that without a good culture, an organization may fail to innovate, develop trust and respect and be not able to clearly communicate its vision to its stakeholders. In today’s context developing a culture of growth becomes all the more necessary to stay competitive and to keep employees happy. Before […]

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What are the signs of a TOXIC CULTURE and how to deal with it?
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What are the signs of a TOXIC CULTURE and how to deal with it?

If micro-management thrives and there is no trust in your organization, you are looking down the barrel of toxic work culture. If you don’t believe me, use one of the many employee engagement products to find out for yourself. Tell the people in your company that you are going to be surveying them every three months and they […]

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How’s Your Mood Today?
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How’s Your Mood Today?

After logging in, going through the various multi-factor authentication processes of my laptop, I stepped out and asked one of my team members, “How’s your mood today?” She was taken aback…… How often do we take note of our own mood and that of our collective team members’? Are we in touch with what’s happening […]

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Prabir Jha on Culture and People Performance
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Prabir Jha on Culture and People Performance

In an exclusive conversation with SightsIn Plus, we are privileged to have Prabir Jha, Founder & CEO of Prabir Jha People Advisory. Mr. Jha is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and XLRI Jamshedpur. Combining an impeccable academic and professional record, in his stint as a civil servant, he handled the entire gamut of […]

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Inspire me- Artificial Intelligence (AI) augmented employee experience!
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Inspire me- Artificial Intelligence (AI) augmented employee experience!

Back in 90’s I watched the movie “Terminator 2” with awe and exhilaration as a child, but two and half-decade later, watching “ExMachina” became more thought-provoking and relatable. This wasn’t because I was a grown-up now, but because the movie seemed much more plausible in today’s situation. Perhaps, the sheer magnitude and the rate of […]

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Should you REFIT your culture for innovation?
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Should you REFIT your culture for innovation?

Dr. Shalini Lal- Let’s face it. Most of our workplaces are anything but innovative. If you are like most—your objectives were set a few months ago. You know the metrics you will be evaluated on, and for the most part, you simply have to get on with these. And sure—there may be the occasional team […]

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When People Are The Priority, Everything Else Falls Into Place
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When People Are The Priority, Everything Else Falls Into Place

I believe the keys to a CHRO’s success are constant learning, working with your leadership team to elevate your employees to the top of your business strategy, and being intentional in making your people agenda a strategic business priority. With that in mind, I’d like to share Microsoft’s People Priorities with you. 1- The talent […]

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Leveraging Employee Experience Through Global Mobility
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Leveraging Employee Experience Through Global Mobility

You learn when you are on the move in other countries, environments, and cultures. Global mobility is defined as the ability of the company to shift/move its people to offices in different countries. When employees are requested to move overseas as part of their job it is called International Assignment. An international posting is viewed as […]

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