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Updated on: Sep 2019
A New Paradigm for Talent Acquisition in the Digital Age
Talent Acquisition

A New Paradigm for Talent Acquisition in the Digital Age

Finding the right talent for the Digital Age has become increasingly critical for competitive organizations as the relevant dynamic demands keep revising the roles/skillsets that are needed to succeed in the future. The steady influx of AI-enabled entities in the workplace has been a key factor in the respective context as the notion of the ‘right […]

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Talent Mobility – Taking the ‘bull’ by its horns!
Talent Acquisition

Talent Mobility – Taking the ‘bull’ by its horns!

Imagine this situation! A perfect start of the week and your CEO springs a new challenge at you. Diversification is the next dream and you are expected to magically close all new open positions for this! And before you can even realize, you have accepted the challenge! Well, now prove yourself. Do you really have […]

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Talent Mobility: Next-Generation Talent Management?
Talent Management

Talent Mobility: Next-Generation Talent Management?

Fifteen years, seven fantastic jobs, participation in countless project working groups and relocation to five countries with the same organisation – random luck? Well partly for sure! On reflection, however, I have also been the very grateful recipient of a whole series of Talent Mobility interventions. These have served to keep me engaged, supported the achievement of […]

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Top Challenges of Compensation Management- In Industry 4.0
Compensation & Benefits

Top Challenges of Compensation Management- In Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 represents the fourth revolution that has occurred in manufacturing. Industry 4.0 focuses heavily on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. Also referred to as IoT or smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 connects physical production and operations with smart digital technology, machine learning, and big data to create a more holistic and better-connected ecosystem […]

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Total Rewards Trends in Digital Era
Compensation & Benefits

Total Rewards Trends in Digital Era

Managing Total Rewards is both an art and a science. Managing Total Rewards is a science in that there are specific approaches and tools that can be used to study, design, and improve the system. There are some ‘right answers’ that can be discovered through the use of correct methods and correct data. Mistakes can […]

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The Future Compensation & Employee Benefits Trends
Compensation & Benefits

The Future Compensation & Employee Benefits Trends

In past for a quite long time, designing compensation and benefits program is a relatively simple and straightforward exercise, largely confined to finding the right mix of compensation and traditional benefits, such as health insurance and vacation time, etc. Look like those days are over. For a long time, we are seeing rapid change in […]

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Reviewing Salary Structure: When, Why and How?
Compensation & Benefits

Reviewing Salary Structure: When, Why and How?

India is perhaps the only large country in the world with a salary structure that has a multitude of allowances, other than Basic Salary. It was not always this way though. The evolution of the concept of allowances has been a process-driven from both regulatory and tax structures, and also based specific nuances of some […]

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What is Agility and How Agile is Your HR Function?
Culture & Behaviour

What is Agility and How Agile is Your HR Function?

HR function traditionally has been geared to create and implement HR policies aimed at the smooth functioning of the business with a long term perspective. As a result, all its activities around HR administration, training, recruitment, and other employee life cycle are mostly designed for steady-state business. With the onset of the digital era and […]

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Compensation– Fairness & Transparency
Compensation & Benefits

Compensation– Fairness & Transparency

Manager: Here’s your revised salary. Keep it confidential. Employee: Don’t worry Sir. I am equally ashamed of it!! This joke I read on the internet recently sums up the topic that I am attempting to discuss in this article. To say that communication around compensation is a sensitive matter would be a gross understatement. And […]

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Total Rewards – Statutory Benefits 2019
Compensation & Benefits

Total Rewards – Statutory Benefits 2019

Total Reward is a concept that describes all the tools available to an employer that may be used to attract, motivate and retain employees. To an employee, the notion of total rewards includes perceived value as a result of the employment relationship. “In the last five years, we have seen so many New Corporate have […]

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People do not quit companies, they quit toxic work cultures!
Culture & Behaviour

People do not quit companies, they quit toxic work cultures!

I resigned from a job because of the toxic work culture. Yes, the salary was great but the job was consuming all my time. You do owe your employer your best work every day, but you don’t owe your employer your personal life or health. A toxic work environment results from a failure of leadership starting at the […]

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The Impact and Potential of AI in Compensation & Benefits
Compensation & Benefits

The Impact and Potential of AI in Compensation & Benefits

Artificial intelligence (AI) is covering up every aspect of our personal and professional life. At any organization, all functions are trying to make the best utilization of AI for optimum effectiveness and efficiency. Human Resources function is also not left behind in this race. “AI is already helping the organizations in finding, attracting, hiring, and […]

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