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Updated on: Nov 2018

Culture & Behaviour

Pride in Diversity Creating an LGBT-inclusive workplace in India

Nov 6, 2018

Importance of Organization Development in the Age of Technology

Organization development OD as a field of study has been around for many decades now, however in r...

Culture & Behaviour

Nov 1, 2018

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Strategies to Resolve Workplace Conflict

A difference of opinion, it happens and is essential to have at workplace to do things differently. ...

Psychology & NPL

Oct 31, 2018

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How to execute continuous performance management

Today most of the companies want performance management to be anbspmore continuous process,nbspT...

Performance Appraisal

Oct 30, 2018

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Psychology & NPL

How Assessment Centre works in Talent Acquisition

Human beings are one of the most complex creations on this planet and understanding them is a difficult subject to study & practice. No wonder then that Mr. Sigmund Freud contested in his ‘Iceberg model of Consciousness’ that, like an Iceberg, which has only 10% of its total mass above the water, visible human behaviour […]

Oct 30, 2018

Design Thinking

In Conversation with Chaitali Mukherjee on Design Thinking

Design thinking is an almost new method being used by HR to meet the employees’ expectations. And it encourages professionals to create new processes based on the needs of the employees. We are privileged to have with us Chaitali Mukherjee, Partner – People and Organisation Leader at PwC India for detailed discussion on Design Thinking […]

Oct 26, 2018

Leadership

Approach to Effective Leadership Development

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”– John F. Kennedy Hyper-Masculinity in Business A lot of leadership and management strategies that we currently use in business stem from what we have learnt from wars. And while a lot of these strategies have merit if adapted well, at the core of this is the stance […]

Oct 25, 2018

Industrial Relations

Evolving Industrial Relations in Digital Age

Digitization has evolved as a game changer in the way we do business and it has appropriately also influenced the HR processes. While people/ human being, remains at the heart of business operations and nothing can be achieved without its well-being, digitization has brought a revolution in the way HR operates. Industrial Relations primarily deals […]

Oct 24, 2018

Culture & Behaviour

A Design Thinking Perspective for Employee Engagement and Retention

The other day, I was reading a blog on 2018 Employee Engagement/ Retention Statistics#1 and the following statements caught my attention: Of the 5 billion people on the planet, only 1.4 billion have a good job and just 16% of those are engaged. (Gallup) Among millennials who worked at 5-7 organizations, 34% didn’t trust their […]

Oct 23, 2018

Design Thinking

How to Build a Better Workplace for Millennials, Considering Design Thinking

A few months ago, a colleague of mine, who is also a Professor of Design Thinking, shared a very interesting aspiration: To get the HR function to use design thinking to design better employee experiences. His logic was as follows: Design thinking is all about starting with the user in mind. As a younger generation […]

Oct 17, 2018

Leadership

How Millennials are Changing Conventional Leadership

Time is running out and we need to act fast! Reviewing the old school leadership style has become the need of the hour in the workplace. Millennials are no longer the youngest generation in the workplace. Over the past decade they have been undergoing a transformation in their behaviour, attitude, approach and preferences at work. Consequently […]

Oct 16, 2018

Culture & Behaviour

How to Leverage Design Thinking for Candidate Experience

Design Thinking is a method for the practical, creative resolution of problems using the strategies designers use during the process of designing.Design thinking has also been developed as an approach to resolve issues outside of professional design practice, such as in business and social contexts. Design thinking is best known as a creative approach to problem solving […]

Oct 11, 2018

Talent Management

Role of HR in Succession Planning for a Structured Organization

Succession Planning is a long term, continuous and structured process where organizations identify top talent and invest in their development so that they take on key leadership positions in future. For any organization to thrive in perpetuity, people are the most important assets. So the focus needs to be on developing future leaders. Carefully crafted […]

Oct 11, 2018

Culture & Behaviour

Managing employees with Know-It-All Syndrome

“Those who always know what’s best are a universal pest” …. Piet Hein, a Danish Scientist Do you have a coworker who thinks he knows everything? Chances are, you’ve never, ever heard him utter the words “I don’t know.“ Unfortunately, most employees encounter at least one know-it-all coworker or boss at some point in their career—and they’re not […]

Oct 10, 2018

Culture & Behaviour

Design Thinking in HR and Organizational Culture

Can Design Thinking principles be applied in Human Resource Management? This is a question that comes around quite often, albeit masked with apprehensions. A quick deep dive into the history of design thinking would help in demystifying this myth that Design Thinking is for products alone. Computer scientist and Nobel Prize laureate Herbert A. Simon […]

Oct 9, 2018

Design Thinking

Design Thinking in Learning & Development

Design lies at the core of all that we do as learning professionals. We design solutions, interventions and experiences. More effective the design, more successful will be the outcome. Design is a key competency required for learning professionals. We have been using instructional design frameworks like ADDIE for long. Design Thinking will not just be […]

Oct 5, 2018