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Fungible Roles and Skills: Future Trends

Fungible Roles and Skills: Future Trends

Markets, products and services are constantly changing. As a result, skill sets of the employees also undergo frequent changes.  Getting employees that have experience in a particular industry may not always be possible. Moreover, looking for specific industry experience at the time of hiring shrinks the talent pool. Organizations today, therefore, have started to look […]
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Effective Learning Programs to Build High Performing Employees

The workforce of today is deeply focused on the learning opportunities and skills they are set to gain at the workplace. Organizations of today use attractive learning tools and modules such as massive open online courses (MOOCs) and courses from recognized quarters as a draw for new recruits and as a way to retain valuable […]
Mantra to Have an Engaged Workforce

Mantra to Have an Engaged Workforce

In the constantly changing business environment, modern organizations understand the need to focus on their most valuable resource- their employees. Keeping employees engaged and motivated is key to achieving their organizational goals. Employee engagement as a buzzword has gained traction recently but the concept behind it is age-old. It is achieved when organizations take pains […]
Diversity Programs - ‘From Intention to Impact’

Diversity Programs – ‘From Intention to Impact’

Both genders differ in their ideas, viewpoints and market insights, which leads to better problem solving, making gender diversity vital to any workplace. Not just because it’s praiseworthy but more so because it makes bottom-line business sense. A recent Gallup study found that hiring a demographically diverse workforce can improve a company’s financial performance. It […]
Toyota-Suzuki Working On Introducing A Compact Battery Electric Vehicle In India

Post M&A Cultural Integration

Businesses get merged or acquired for a variety of reasons.  Very often, although companies have gone for such a merger or acquisition after a due diligence, it fails spectacularly. One of the main reasons for failure is most often than not the fact that the companies did not address the issue of cultural integration of […]
Neurodiversity in Workplace

Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Neurodiversity refers to neurological differences regarding social interaction, learning, attention, mood and other mental functions. These differences in individuals need to be acknowledged and given respect just like so many other differences. According to Judy Singer’s (an Australian sociologist) view,  many of these neurological differences which are considered neuro developmental disorders are due to societal […]
Is the Bell Curve Relevant in Today's Organizations?

Is the Bell Curve Relevant in Today’s Organizations?

The bell curve has been used to represent the performance of human capital in organizations. As the human capital is the most crucial of all intellectual capital that keeps a business going, the snapshot at the performance levels it provides can be instructive. Where the bell curve currently stands Managers believe that the performance of […]
Importance of Strategic Human Capital Plan

Importance of Strategic Human Capital Plan

Human capital management Employees are the mainstay of an organization. Organizations run smoothly due to individuals who help them succeed and increase their productivity. They possess certain personal traits like creativity, talents, abilities, intelligence, judgment and wisdom. They also acquire knowledge, training, skills and experience. All these resources cumulatively are used by employees in their […]
A Fad for Unconventional Job Titles

A Fad for Unconventional Job Titles

A designation has always been important in a business scenario. It not only gives a description of what the individual does in the company but also is an indicator of his/her seniority. Someone who has grown through the ranks would place some value on their experience and growth reflecting in the title they bear. The […]
Soft Skills - An Imperative Skill in a Marketing Pro

Soft Skills – An Imperative Skill in a Marketing Pro

Soft skills are strong predictors of performance in the field of marketing. Apart from hard skills to sell, a successful marketer must possess soft skills which are core to his job. Although there are multiple soft skills, a marketing professional must acquire the following trademarks to be a marketing pro 1)    Emotional Intelligence Number one on […]

Employee Retention – A Major Cause of Worry

Employee retention is a major cause of worry for organizations the world over. The cost of recruitment, induction and training is high, and the process is time-consuming. It takes months for new hires to be productive and almost a year for companies to recover their hiring and training cost. Research indicates that one-sixth of employees leave […]
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