People Matters

HR Transformation What’s in, What’s out? : PeopleStrong Roundtable Series

By Rajlakshmi Saikia

Oct 2nd 2011

The second of the PeopleStrong Roundtable series on ‘HR Transformation’ saw HR and business leaders discuss the roadmap for human resources as a function in the increasingly complex work environment. The question is whether or not HR demonstrates a clear contribution to business productivity. The growing appreciation of the value of a company’s assets is steering HR to move towards metrics and measures to gauge its contribution to business. The first PeopleStrong Roundtable s... Read more »

HR & Business Strategy: Two Cogs of the Same Wheel

By Arun Leslie George

Oct 2nd 2011

Leadership is not a function of hierarchy; each and every employee is expected to display leadership competencies in their everyday roles. At Coromandel, the pillars of the leadership model are: integrity, passion, quality, respect, and responsibility. Classroom training, stretch assignments, and executive coaching are amongst a few of the initiatives undertaken by Coromandel for leadership development. At the junior management level, the focus is on building functional competencies and gradua... Read more »

Key Jobs, Key People at HUL

By Leena Nair

Oct 2nd 2011

HUL does a lot of things right, and that is what catapults them to being one of the winners of the CII HR Excellence Awards 2009-10. Starting with the basics – hiring right, one-third through campus hiring, lateral hiring and promotions; building internal capabilities by putting people into the right jobs - a concept called ‘key jobs, key people’, and focussing on their leadership qualities – the company has indeed built an indomitable employer brand. These are reasons... Read more »

Where Excellence is a Way of Life

Oct 2nd 2011

The CII Human Resources Excellence Assessment aims to promote awareness of HR excellence as a key element to organizational performance management.People Matters presents a snapshot of the methodology and speaks to HR Heads of the winners of CII HR Excellence Awards 2010 to understand what makes their companies the pioneers of HR best practices.The CII HR Excellence Award 2011 will be revealed on the 18th October at the CII HR Conclave 2011The CII-HR Excellence ModelThe model can be effectivel... Read more »

The Counsellor: Full and final settlement of the employees

Oct 2nd 2011

Vivek Paranjpe is a Senior HR professional with over 35 years of experience, ranging several leadership positions, in India and abroad. He leads his consulting practice since 2003 and presently works as a Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries, and is also an independent Director on the Board of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. Prior to this, he was based at Singapore for several years where he was Director HR - Operations at Hewlett Packard for the Asia Pacific Region I am a t... Read more »

The Counsellor: Working mother's dilemma

Oct 2nd 2011

Vivek Paranjpe, is a Senior HR professional with over 35 years of experience, ranging several leadership positions, in India and abroad. He leads his consulting practice since 2003 and presently works as a Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries, and is also an independent Director on the Board of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. Prior to this, he was based at Singapore for several years where he was Director HR - Operations at Hewlett Packard for the Asia Pacific Region.I am a w... Read more »

The Counsellor: Not sure which campuses to visit?

Oct 2nd 2011

Vivek Paranjpe, is a Senior HR professional with over 35 years of experience, ranging several leadership positions, in India and abroad. He leads his consulting practice since 2003 and presently works as a Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries, and is also an independent Director on the Board of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. Prior to this, he was based at Singapore for several years where he was Director HR - Operations at Hewlett Packard for the Asia Pacific Region.With the plac... Read more »

The Wisdom of Oz

By David Kippen

Oct 2nd 2011

It is often the journey and all its adventures that excite people to work. Organizations need to create the environment that allows its employees a chance to lead a purpose-driven life – The Ozvision StoryOzvision, a small Japanese technology company is in the midst of a brave experiment with a completely different kind of mission. If they succeed and if others follow, the impact on how they do what they do, why they do it and how they are rewarded for it, may never be the same.Ozvision... Read more »

Enabling Internal and External Collaboration

Oct 2nd 2011

Jay Pullur, Founder & CEO, Qontext Inc shares with People Matters the growing need of a two-way communication with employees, partners and customersHow do you see future organizations evolving in terms of how people will interact, collaborate and share?We believe that organizations that will be successful in the future would be ones that are constantly involved with their customers, actively listening to employees and innovating continuously. This is necessitated by the changing pace of ma... Read more »

What is your People Risk?

Oct 2nd 2011

People Matters, in conversation with Richard Payne, Practice Leader, Talent & Rewards, Asia Pacific, Aon Hewitt, explores how companies need to look at managing recruitment, employment and redeployment risks with a more scientific approach. What are the risks associated with people? Why is it relevant to assess those?Companies have developed mature frameworks to assess risks associated with catastrophic and natural occurrences. Post the recent financial crisis, companies have also looked ... Read more »