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Updated on: Sep 2019
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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In Conversation With Krish Shankar, Group Head- HR, Infosys on C&B
Compensation & Benefits

In Conversation With Krish Shankar, Group Head- HR, Infosys on C&B

Krishnamurthy (Krish) Shankar is the Group Head – Human Resources, Infosys. In this role, he is responsible for envisioning employee experience and driving the talent and organization strategy. Krish has over 30 years of experience and has led HR functions in organizations like BhartiAirtel, Philips, Hindustan Unilever and Unilever. In his wide-ranging experience in these […]

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The future of Compensation and Benefits
Compensation & Benefits

The future of Compensation and Benefits

C&B is one of the most dynamic fields in HR, constantly evolving into something new. From a fairly simple start up-to the early ops- when it was viewed primarily as a tax-avoidance and maintenance function – it has now become a visible tool for talent management and performance management while of course continuing to play […]

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Total Rewards- The Challenges and A Winning Strategy
Compensation & Benefits

Total Rewards- The Challenges and A Winning Strategy

Total rewards in today’s context and in its modern avatar is a bouquet comprising of Compensation, Employee Benefits, Environment, Career Development, Performance & Recognition. There are multiple pieces of research that indicate a strong and visible impact of an effective ‘Total Rewards Strategy” on enhancing performance and employee engagement, thus leading to better business performance and […]

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New Rewards: Personalized and Agile
Compensation & Benefits

New Rewards: Personalized and Agile

Over the last three decades, business cycles have changed dramatically. Change is happening at a significantly faster rate than in the past. Markets have become unpredictable to the extent that traditional paradigms are unable to keep pace. “Organization agility and innovation is the way of survival in changing economic scenario. Only the organization can adapt […]

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