People Matters

Being competitive in a new business order

By Gyanendra Kumar Kashyap

Apr 5th 2013

In the run up to the 42nd IFTDO World Conference on April 23-26, 2013, Dr Pritam Singh – DG, IMI and B.P. Rao – CMD, BHEL, talk to People Matters about the need for organisations to be cutting edge by building capability to remain competitive in the new business order. “Never in human history has the change been on such a scale,” says Dr Pritam Singh, Director General, International Management Institute (IMI). Perchance, he couldn’t be more apt. The pace at wh... Read more »

Why ‘the middle’ should be your top priority

By Vivek Chachra

Feb 4th 2013

Developing middle managers is a growing priority for most organisations. As the economic environment continues to challenge organisations, the big gap between strategy and execution, lies in capabilities and skills of middle managers. Almost all organisations are also realising that if they don’t develop these managers, their leadership pipeline will suffer.Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) believes that organisations need to focus on developing all middle managers and not just the high ... Read more »

Are your managers accountable for grooming leadership talent?

By Nishchae Suri, MD, Mercer Consulting, India

Feb 4th 2013

Given the global economic headwinds and a challenging macroeconomic environment, companies across the board are finding innovative ways to sustain profitability. According to the CEOs who responded to the 2012 edition of The Conference Board CEO Challenge survey, the race to innovate, the war for talent, ‘black swans’, bad debts, and the hunt for new markets — all driven by an increasing drumbeat of regulation and oversight — define today’s global business environ... Read more »

The List is Out: India’s HR leadership talent unveiled

Jan 24th 2013

Twenty-five young Indian HR leaders presented with the People Matters’ Are You In The List? Awards at a gala event Gurgaon, 24 January 2013: The 25 winners of People Matters’ Are You In The List? Awards 2012 were unveiled at a spectacular Awards ceremony at Gurgaon’s Crowne Plaza on Thursday, January 24, 2013.The gala event saw the who’s who of India’s HR fraternity come together to honour the brightest of emerging leadership talent. The evening’s welcome a... Read more »

New technological advances have impacted the HR services industry

By China Gorman, CEO, CMG Group

Jan 1st 2013

The seminal events over the last couple of years are the advances in technology and the entrance of big money into the human capital management space, from both an acquisition and an investment perspective, which we have not seen previously. Economic development and new technological advances have impacted the HR services industry and at the heart of it, how employers relate to their employees and how employers relate to candidates for an appointment. The three big technological advances are t... Read more »

Companies today look for partners that have scale, structure and aggressive outlook

By Ashok Reddy, MD & Co-founder, TeamLease

Jan 1st 2013

In the Indian context, recruitment per se, as a business has no entry barriers. The industry has evolved from, a homegrown mom-and-pop-shop kind structure where people looked at this business as an alternative income rather than creating a company or an industry. That’s been the history and that is why even today we have multiple players and a very fragmented industry structure. However, over the years the scope and volume requirement of the industry has grown tremendously. Corporates ar... Read more »

Re-suiting the top guns

By Prof. Gary Martin

Jan 1st 2013

There is no question that the international business has changed and is continuing to change. Change continues to happen rapidly and in a relatively larger way. This makes the international business environment more volatile. The future can no longer be predicted with any exactness and this makes the international business environment more uncertain than it has been ever before. Challenges are multifaceted and few single causes or solutions present themselves. This makes the international busi... Read more »

Where are the potential leaders?

Jan 1st 2013

SHL Talent Report 2012 sheds light on the availability and supply of potential leadership talent across geography and sector.Tectonic market shifts are transforming the business landscape across the globe. Unpredictable global economic forces, ubiquitous information, rapid technological changes, globalization of markets, changing demographic trends and increased competition are posing serious challenges to organizations whose performance over the last two decades or so have primarily been fuel... Read more »

Missing Links in HR

By Dr. Anil K. Khandelwal, Former Chairman and Managing Director, Bank of Baroda

Dec 5th 2012

I began my column in Jan 2012 on an optimistic note that HR professionals have an edge over others (even CFOs) to lead companies as CEOs, and why not? HR professionals, on account of their basic discipline and professional training, are expected to be equipped with better understanding of human processes and be more sensitive to employees, customers, stake holders and vendors. Expectedly, they need to be more authentic, committed and be above board in their dealings. In spite of high academic... Read more »

Leading through followership

Nov 1st 2012

Stephen Bennett shares the increasing importance of followership as organizations become flatter, and emphasizes the need to collaborate for greater business effectivenessWhat is the essence of leadership, followership and partnership working in tandem?Leadership and followership are really two sides of the same coin. A leader will also be a follower at different times of the day. For example, I was recently talking to someone who runs a very large UK group owned by an American parent company,... Read more »