People Matters

The next-gen technology leader

Jan 1st 2013

Aarif Aziz, Head - HR, GE Global Research, John F. Welch Technology Centre, GE India Technology Center shares the unique demands on HR in developing leadership in a high IQ environment.GE India Technology Center’s focus is on building leadership for the 'next generation' of technology. How does this translate into HR’s role to drive such an agenda?GE is a pioneer in creating next generation products like jet engines, or even concepts like MRI and CT scanners. So, innovation has bee... Read more »

Managing HiPos in the human age

Nov 1st 2012

Loren Walsh, Head, Center of Excellence for Leadership, Right Management, emphasizes the need for right mentorship and opportunities for innovation, to train and retain high potential talent.What forces are compelling the topic of high potential development to gain imminence?Two major forces are compelling ‘High Potentials (HiPos) management to gain prominence in emerging economies of Asia, especially India. They are demographic composition of the workforce and speed of economic evolutio... Read more »

Integrity is Integral

By Jonathan W. Lawrence, Group Vice President, Intertek Plc

Oct 2nd 2012

Looking at how the spending pattern of global trade is expected to develop, India is emerging as an attractive market, as there is an entire population in India, which is becoming more able to purchase sophisticated products, and therefore, keen to buy both locally and from export markets. This scenario has made India an attractive market, which is seeing more and more products entering the country and more people buying these products, and therefore, more issues around testing, specifications... Read more »

Engage employees or fail

By Ashok Gopal, Senior Practice Expert, Gallup

Oct 2nd 2012

Despite strong growth in the past decade, declining GDP growth rates seem to indicate that India’s economy is slowing down. Concerned business leaders in India point to a need for rapid and significant structural reforms to stimulate growth and increase demand. However, these leaders should look inside their own companies and acknowledge that high levels of worker disengagement and a lack of investment in their work environments also contribute to decreasing economic growth levels in Ind... Read more »

Hiring freshers made easy

By Sudhakar Adapa, CEO, HiMentor

Oct 2nd 2012

With the advent of campus recruitment season, albeit on a passive note, the spotlight is on fresher hiring. Although the numbers are visibly subdued, the challenges remain the same. India has tremendous diversity in terms of the quality of talent pool, with over 2.5 million students graduating every year.The most often quoted employability study by McKinsey says that only 25 percent of the graduates are employable, but the big question that talent acquisition executives grapple with is - who a... Read more »

Leading a Turnaround

By Shoeb Ahmed, Former Director (Commercial), SAIL

Sep 1st 2012

The Indian socialist model of development, envisioned and developed during the first few decades post independence, gives the Indian economy one of its very distinctive economic features - the Indian PSU behemoths. Run in characteristic bureaucratic style, which generally typifies not just government institutions, but also most large multinationals, many PSUs in India have successfully transitioned and established themselves in the new economic environment in the last two decades. While some o... Read more »

Does your data talk sense?

By Michael J. Salvino

Aug 2nd 2012

With the economic recovery, some enterprises are finding it a challenge to figure out how best to grow their organizations. They need to move out of the cost cutting mindset and yet, when going to the HR team for help with these workplace insights, they often find that HR was just as much a victim of the recent downsizing activities as anyone else.Additionally, while HR management systems contain a wealth of data, many organizations are faced with poor data quality. An under investment in the ... Read more »

Succeeding with HR Analytics

By Sreekanth Lapala, Director & Founder at TenXLabs

Aug 2nd 2012

Talent Analytics or Human Workforce Analytics is a way to analyze data and generate insights for meeting the complex needs of the HR and business, and thereby enable high performance organizations. In the traditional HR role, the expectation was to somehow manage the people processes through insight and interpersonal relationships. Thus, the complex understanding of organizational and human dynamics happen by a most subjective process of hearsay, observation and interpretation.Companies like A... Read more »

What if your superstars resign?

By David Wee

Jul 3rd 2012

In 2001, McKinsey researchers came up with the landmark book, The War for Talent. In a nutshell, they said companies that win the war for talent will gain a competitive advantage, but they had better start gearing up for the fight immediately, because talent is scarce and there simply isn’t enough of it to go around. Since then, many organizations have adopted a talent strategy that goes something like this:“Tie talent strategy to business imperatives and find the best people to ex... Read more »

Career has no boundaries

Jun 3rd 2012

N.V. ‘Tiger’ Tyagarajan, President & CEO, Genpact, shares the need for a strong succession plan to groom leaders from within and help them in their transitionYou were the CEO at GECIS, before the organization became Genpact and demerged from GE. How was the transition in becoming the CEO for the second time?I think the transition was very smooth. It was part of a structured succession planning process that had been planned and orchestrated down to the last detail over a period ... Read more »