People Matters

The “DAWN” of Gender Inclusion

By Ritu Anand

Oct 2nd 2011

With changing workforce trends and an increasingly competitive market environment, developing and sustaining a healthy talent mix is an important business imperative. In this context, the areas of diversity and inclusion have gained immense attention globally, as well as in India.TCS is an equal opportunity employer and has been involved in supporting diversity in the workplace for many years now. While driving a performance orientated culture is the foundation on which TCS continues to grow, ... Read more »

Engage, Nurture and Sustain

By Anju Talwar

Oct 2nd 2011

Genpact realized early on that gender diversity, especially in the senior ranks, would be critical to the organization's performance. With client companies becoming more gender-diverse, having women in senior leadership roles make more business sense. More importantly, the women style of leadership, focusing on teamwork and mentoring, helps to build the stickiness in the talent pool, which is always in short supply. Furthermore, being known as an "employer of choice"; helps maintain ... Read more »

Men Championing WIN (Women Initiatives)

By Amita Kasbekar

Oct 2nd 2011

 In 1993, Deloitte launched an initiative aimed at retaining and advancing women and building an environment where everyone can thrive, advance, succeed, benefit from one another, and successfully integrate their personal and professional commitments. Since then, Women's Initiative (WIN) has made significant progress and is today ingrained into the very fabric of our culture. WIN was launched in the India offices in 2006 with a vision to drive marketplace growth and create an inclusive cu... Read more »

Creating a ‘Gender Intelligent’ Organization

By Jyoti A Rai

Oct 2nd 2011

As our CEO Ken Chennault emphasizes, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) at American Express is fundamental to our vision of becoming the most admired service brand in the world, by creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed and respected. The fact that over 60 percent of overall AXP workforce and 40 percent of our workforce in India are women is a strong indicator of the organization being one of the industry leaders in attracting and retaining women. So, gender inclusion to us is ab... Read more »

Women in Manufacturing

By Prabir Jha

Oct 2nd 2011

Given its many years of manufacturing legacy, Tata Motors has been low on gender diversity with only 3.5% of the current workforce being women. As technology evolves, more women are willing to explore opportunities in manufacturing apart from the corporate functions and Tata Motors is focused on moving forward on this journey.Tata Motors is increasingly employing young women on shop floors and assembly lines along with men to increase diversity and bridge the gender gap at the workplace. The e... Read more »

HR Transformation: Industry View: Pramod Bhasin, Non-Executive Vice Chairman and former President & CEO of Genpact

Oct 3rd 2011

When we think of running business today, we have started thinking a lot about effectiveness vs. efficiency. We measure how effective a function is, rather than how efficiently you do something. So, the pertinent questions is ‘what should HR do for us and is it well defined for us?’  Read more »

HR Transformation: Industry View: N.S. Rajan, Partner, Global Leader - People & Organization, Ernst & Young

Oct 3rd 2011

It’s interesting to note what HR should do and what it should not. There seems to be a deep desire within us to hold on to as much as we can within the system. Most of the HR transformation exercises that I have seen, outside India, are focused more on being able to take things out, to enable and upgrade HR within.  Read more »

HR Transformation: Industry View: Nishchae Suri, CEO & MD, Mercer Consulting

Oct 3rd 2011

We must be bolder as a community. The role of HR is also to serve the economy and the nation as a whole therefore creating employability is an important agenda for the HR function. One needs to get rid of the laurels of the past and focus on what needs to be done today and for the future.   Read more »

HR Transformation: Industry View: Pankaj Bansal Co-founder and CEO, PeopleStrong

Oct 3rd 2011

HR, a strategic business partner Things HR should do more of:1. Focus on productivity: Their focus should drift towards productivity, in order to gain respect from the business leader.2. Talent enhancement: They should identify the right kind of talent sources and be able to do talent profiling based on the exact requirements.3. Build knowledge warehouse: There should be a knowledge warehouse, which should be created, consisting of the best learning practices. This will minimize the effect ... Read more »

HR Transformation: Industry View: Rohit Bhayana, Managing Partner, Lumis Partners

Oct 3rd 2011

In a growing economy where business is thriving, companies tend to attack the symptoms of the problem instead of addressing the root-cause of the problem. Like any other functions, HR, for example, is attacking efficiency or attrition which are symptoms and not problems.  Read more »