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Updated on: Feb 2020

Performance Appraisal

Current Challenges The Future Of Performance Reviews

Feb 7, 2020

Key Elements of Effective Performance Dialogue

Taken from various angles, from the economic to technological, our business environment is more dyna...

Performance Appraisal

Feb 4, 2020

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New Rules of Measuring and Evolving Employee Performance

Performance Management in the very heart of Human Resource function, which funnels all the HR proces...

Performance Appraisal

Feb 3, 2020

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How Infosys keeps its employees healthy and happy

For Infosys to succeed as a company, the health, and well-being of our greatest assets, i.e. our peo...

Wellness & Health

Jan 28, 2020

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Future of Work

Work From Home: The Best Practices

How much time do you spend on an average commuting from work to home asked a friend of mine? Around 3 hours I replied, and you? I asked …4 hours sometime longer he said. He lives in Bangalore and me in Mumbai. Depending on the place you stay in the urban metro cities your time to commute […]

Jan 17, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion

Key Diversity & Inclusion Trends in 2020 and the Best Practices at JLL

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) has been evolving and changing over the years in response to the changes in demographics and the evolving socioeconomic structures. It, therefore, becomes important for Organisations to stay current on D&I trends which have a pivotal impact on the workplace. “At JLL, D&I is a strategic imperative for the way we […]

Jan 15, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion

LGBT as part of the workforce? The focus is shifting in 2020

According to a 2015 report by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and Biz Divas, a diversity and inclusion consulting firm, as many as 98% of companies surveyed said that they have not taken any concrete steps to make their workplace lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)-friendly—or hire people from the community. The report called “Inclusion in India Inc.” surveyed 21 companies—15 multinationals […]

Dec 27, 2019

Performance Appraisal

How to give ‘Performance Feedback’ to employees

There is a classic dichotomy for you to reflect upon: In a VUCA business environment, organizations need more from their employees than ever. But the same forces shaking businesses are also overwhelming employees, driving up their fear, and compromising their capacity. It’s no wonder that so many organizations are focused on how to build a […]

Dec 24, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

Designing a holistic model of Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is a way to make work surroundings more caring, interesting and challenging enough to keep employees motivated & to remain associated with the organization with his/ her optimum strength. “This journey should start form YES and should end at WOW” Employee Engagement now becomes one of the most focused aspects of HR operations, […]

Dec 20, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

Creating A Humane Workplace

Today, organizations are facing a huge challenge of staying relevant, innovating faster, defining the purpose of their existence and being sustainable in this disruptive world. They are shifting focus from running the business, to changing the business; which has significantly increased from 10% to 70% in the last 10 years. “The Future of Work is […]

Dec 17, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

Getting A Manager Who Can Understand Me -A Case Study

Arindam was very happy to receive an offer letter for a Business Analyst position in an IT Product company at Noida at a 40% hike in his gross salary. It was a dream come true situation; as he would be moving back to his home in NCR from Bangalore where he was working for a […]

Dec 12, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

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’ […]

Dec 2, 2019

Employer Branding

Employee Value Proposition: The Best Practices

I was recently reading a book, “The War for Talent” by McKinsey & Company consultants Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod where they have put forth their thoughts after five years of in-depth research on how companies manage leadership talent which includes surveys of 13,000 executives at more than 120 companies and case studies […]

Nov 21, 2019

Diversity & Inclusion

A UK based finance company introduces 9 months’ equal Parental Leave on full pay

Standard Life Aberdeen Plc has introduced nine months of full paid parental leave for all new mothers and fathers. In total, parents will be able to take 52 weeks in up to three separate blocks over two years in a way that suits the employee. The new policy, which comes into force on 1 January 2020, will […]

Nov 2, 2019

Employee Engagement

Stimulating Employee Engagement In New Wave of Work

It’s an accepted fact, that a fast-evolving business climate in terms of performance, productivity and profits is going to dictate the norms of new-age employee relations. And in the backdrop of this fact, the challenge is to create an engaged workplace environment for better employee relations. “Engagement is the emotional connect that employees have with […]

Oct 20, 2019

Employer Branding

How Digital Agility is Transforming the Employee Onboarding Experience

Across organisations, recruitment professionals spend many anxious and tiring days (and nights) scouting for talent to be hired, often within stringent timelines and constrained budgets set by the all-important finance function. In spite of the same, many organisations in India continue to face unreasonably high attrition figures – no doubt, disappointed and dissatisfied employees leaving […]

Oct 13, 2019