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Past Issue: MAY 2012
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How CEOs see their jobs
By Ester Martinez, Managing Editor
May 7th 2012
Almost one third of surveyed CEOs state that they spend more than 50 percent of their time on talent related activities. This year’s People Matters & Monster.com CEO as the Chief Talent Officer Study shows that CEOs are embracing volatility and shortage of available skills, reassessing the importance of talent management, and accordingly, allocating their time and effort. There is clearly a big shift in how CEOs see their jobs.When CEOs think about managing people, the first thing th... Read more »
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CEO As The Chief Talent Officer: A People Matters - Monster.Com Study 2012
By Rajlakshmi Saikia & Gyanendra Kumar Kashyap
May 7th 2012
One out of every three CEOs surveyed in this year’s Study spend more than half of their time on talent related activities. Last year, 73 percent of CEOs said they spent more than one-fourth of their time on talent related activities; in 2012, this number is up to 84 percent. This is indicative of the CEOs’ intent to take on the issue of talent management head on.The present business context, defined by increased complexity, uncertainty and risk, has emerged as the ‘new normal... Read more »
Hiring client-oriented people
By Anand Shankar, CEO, Aon Hewitt India
May 7th 2012
Being a consulting firm, our business demands us to be aligned to our clients, and therefore, the leadership model at Aon Hewitt is built around the focus on client value and impact, and every consultant strives to achieve that. When new joinees enter the organization, they spend the first day on client meetings after which, I meet them at the end of the day to explain to them that they had just met the person who cuts their pay check. And that defines the directness of our people strategy to ... Read more »
Focus on productivity improvement
By Arup Roy Choudhury, Chairman & Managing Director of NTPC
May 7th 2012
Employees are the most important asset of our organization. HR today is moving from the role of a facilitator to a strategic business partner. Our HR policies and practices have a sharp focus on productivity improvement. At the beginning of our journey, we operated with a PLF of about 80 percent and now we have graduated to above 90 percent at allocations. This has been possible through various innovative skill development practices in operations and maintenance. Recently we have also introduc... Read more »
Redefining talent solutions
By B. Santhanam, Managing Director, Saint Gobain Glass India & President (Flat Glass), South Asia & Egypt, Saint-Gobain Glass India
May 7th 2012
We commenced our operations in 2000. From the beginning, there has been a constant focus to align our people and HR approach to our business strategy. At Saint-Gobain, we have a classical planning exercise done every year, which focuses on the next 5 years’ business outlook. We look at our existing and future markets in terms of growth and profitability, competition (both existing and emerging), capital investments needed, financial projections and also develop our medium and long-term g... Read more »
People make the difference
By T. Krishnakumar, CEO, Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages
May 7th 2012
Strategy, structures and systems can be defined by consultants, but what really matters, is how do you execute all of them and that is where the importance of people becomes critical. My personal mission is focusing on institution building and on investment in talent capability. I track this mission based on the number of people I have been able to influence to deliver value to the organization. For me, it is very clear - people make the difference to create an environment and eventually peopl... Read more »
Excelling through ‘Connectedness’
By Ganesh Natarajan, Vice Chairman and CEO, Zensar Technologies
May 7th 2012
Given the business that we are in, talent is a business critical element. In all the projects we do, strategy and human resources functions are the line functions. The first principle we follow is AER - Attract, Enable and Retain, through which we are able to hire around 1200 people annually and have also recorded the best retention record in the industry. The overall retention of almost 90 percent has been possible because of the numerous growth opportunities Zensar creates for its employees.... Read more »
Attracting talent is critical
By Harsh Chitale, CEO, HCL Infosystems
May 7th 2012
The overall HCL vision of “employees first, customer second” stands on the belief that if you have the right talent and ensure that your talent is engaged, it will reflect in their service delivery which will automatically result in a satisfied customer. Our focus has always been to ensure that we connect with our people provide them an engaging environment where they are most satisfied in what they do every day. Especially in a business like ours, the employees’ engagement w... Read more »
Cascade the big picture
By Manish Choudhary, Vice President and Managing Director Pitney Bowes Software India
May 7th 2012
In order to articulate business performance and people performance, we need to first define the very reason for doing business. I believe in the concept of the Golden Circles by Simon Sinek -The organization as a whole needs to understand ‘why’ we are doing business; everybody knows ‘what’ they do 100%. Some know how they do it. But very few people or organizations know ‘why’ they do it. The goal is not just to hire people who need a job, but who believe wha... Read more »
Create a hi-touch HR organization
By Aruna Jayanthi, CEO, Capgemini India
May 7th 2012
Being in a business driven by people, we look at models wherein people can lead the business. It is our innate ability to understand the customer requirements; knowing this fact, customers give us businesses for they know that it will be taken care of by the best professionals. Thus, it becomes all the more important for our employees to live up to the customer’s expectations.Leadership and talent development figure as the top talent priority for Capgemini. As we focus to build a more cu... Read more »
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