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The Counsellor: Is not knowing a policy an excuse for not following a policy?
May 15th 2011
Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplace.Question: In our recruitment processes, it is clearly mentioned that a manager cannot be part of an interview process if he or she has a family connection with a candidate opting for a job. A newly joined manager was requested to supporting a large recruitment drive we had for our Southern region within the first month of his joining. In... Read more »
The Counsellor: Incentive Policy Dilemma
May 15th 2011
Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplace.Question: I am a HR Head of an organization with 100+ employees in the travel industry where most of our employees are in customer-facing roles. Last year, we decided to include a sales incentive plan for all our employees involve in a given sale as we thought it was important to drive a more aggressive behavior towards sales. This polic... Read more »
The Counsellor: Cost over quality
May 15th 2011
Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplace.Question: I am the CEO of a start-up and facing many talent challenges. The biggest issue is of performance. Because our affordability to attract experienced professionals is low, we are forced to hire fresh graduate and undergraduate candidates. The problem is that these employees need a lot of guidance and training, and from my experie... Read more »
The Counsellor: Delayed Salary Deduction
Apr 15th 2011
Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplace.Question: Our company provides child care to its employees at Rs. 5000 per month. However, at the recent HR audit we were shocked to realize that the Rs.5000 per month charge that we had to deduct from the employees’ salary had not been done for some 200 employees over the past 2.5 years. Our CEO is obviously furious and wants HR t... Read more »
The Counsellor: Ethical Dilemna
Apr 15th 2011
Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplace.Question: I work for a growing advertizing firm. A lady colleague in my office recently confided in me about certain advances being made to her by a senior colleague and she is distraught. While she is hassled and uncomfortable with the situation, she is not willing to make a formal complaint fearing it might affect her career prospects ... Read more »
The Counsellor: Unethical Practices
Apr 15th 2011
Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplace.Question: I am a recruitment manager of a growing IT company. I smell foul play in the recent activities of one of our recruitment head and suspect that he is taking money for certain middle and senior management appointments in the company. While I do not have any evidence against this, my instincts are very strong and I am uncomfortabl... Read more »
The Counsellor: Career Saturation
Mar 15th 2011
Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplace.Question: I am an engineer with a MBA (HR) with an experience of 17 years. I was fortunate to have got exposure in financial services, cement, software, and retail industries. At this point of my career (and 42 years of age) I feel a bit saturated. I find it difficult to plan my own career ahead as I am confused on what I should update m... Read more »
The Counsellor: Job Role Disparity
Mar 15th 2011
Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplace.Question: I am working as a Product Manager for a HR products development company. I joined in October 2010, after completing my masters in HRD & Consulting from one of the top 10 b-schools in the UK. I have worked for 1.5 years as Business HR partner in a software firm followed by 6 months in my current role. I am not happy here as... Read more »
The Counsellor: HR specialist role to a HR Generalist role
Mar 15th 2011
Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplace.Question: I worked in the recruitment side for 10 years and currently head the recruitment function in a global bank. People are recognized as key business drivers here which reflect in the several awards I have received for my contribution. But personally, I feel a void at times as my ultimate goal is to move into a generalist HR role. ... Read more »
The Counsellor: Dreading the Bell Curve
Mar 15th 2011
Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplace.Question: I am a HR manager in a mid-size manufacturing company. Last year the HR team revamped the performance appraisal system to focus on a balanced scorecard system along with a normal curve. We got a lot of pushback from line managers to this change. They told their teams that, “HR has asked me to rank you on a normal curve, a... Read more »
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