The objective of Dec.2017 issue cover story has been to assess the ground reality through an opinion poll conducted by BM on how far organisations have moved to make sexual harassment free workplace. We have also selected and thought expedient to share gist of six prominent court judgments which underlines the spirit of law and also clarify certain ambiguities. Eventually a pack of rich and knowledge loaded contents on the subject.

November 2017 issue, the cover story talks about the various facets of diversity and inclusion in business organisations through those who experience it, practice it, develop it and nurture it. Diverse workplace helps bringing different ideas, embracing different perspectives and offer opportunity for creativity and innovation. It helps attracting and retaining talent, ensures high level of employee engagement, productivity, performance and business growth. It differentiates employer brand and helps building an excellent place to work.

Oct. 2017 issue cover story is all about managing up and down- the aspect  which though talked about much but hardly taken seriously by managers. The practicing professionals bring their piece of experience and guide for all on how to excel on this front.

This month's cover story is all about hands on stories from startups entrepreneurs, who have made their own way, met the challenges and ultimately succeeded along with studies, which may be very inspiring and useful to all, providing a good read.

IT job market in India is apparently crashing. It is mayhem in IT sector. According to various reports and studies, about 2lakh job cuts are going to happen every year in next three years. This unfortunate happening is more severe than ever after globalisation. Few reasons of mass scale terminations of employees in IT companies are identified as rise of protectionist policies in US and Europe, rise of automation, decrease of hiring of Indian engineers abroad, rising rupee value to Dollar leading to lower realisations for software exports and efforts of IT majors to maintain their profits in bad weather too commonly known as cost optimisation.

It is also required for men to understand the workplace reality and read the writing on the wall. Women are fastly occupying the workplace and proving their talent, delivering the results and moving ahead. It is time for them to change their mindset and come out of gender bias syndrome. Workplace policies should not prefer someone on the basis of gender but competencies and capabilities. Maternity breaks should not be viewed as cost that prompt managements headed by men to discourage females employment but investment to support the call of nature and mankind. After all, business should not always be viewed only as pure economic activity separable from people issues. Men in the boards should give women their due with respect and dignity because woman’s desire is that she should  be recognised with her  talent and not  gender.

Another challenge in branding activity is the dramatic increase in temporary employment of employees through third party and not dealing fairly with them in terms of compensation and  legal rights. This segment is increasing and when such employees are not treated fairly; branding is going to get a dent surely. HR has to address this issue and intervene to help build a healthy work culture. It will be wrong to believe that only white collar employees can build brand. It is equally the blue collar lot which has higher say in making or breaking your image as brand employer.

But it is not that easy as said. May 2017 issue cover story is about managing Hi Potential employees and HR veterans and experts are sharing their wisdom as to how not to get such programs failed. Also to about develop and carry HI-POs to sail through in troubled waters.

April 2017 cover story is all about finding the issues involved in PMS for making it more purposeful, possible ingredients of any good PMS and what is going to be the future PMS. Industry HR captains sitting at helm of affairs and other experts have shared their thoughts. Their innovative ideas are going to fuel the power of genuineness that will help readers to take balanced approach.

March 2017 issue cover story has been centered on this burning topic about which people prefer to keep quite and silently face the heat. The experts have come out with possible suggestions to take on the problem. HR has to address it on priority before it becomes the biggest threat for the organisations.

Year 2016 has not been very different when it is viewed in terms of judicial pronouncements in employment disputes. In labour laws judicial verdicts play immense role for defining and refining the employer employee relationship. The trend of prioritizing discipline, compensation in place of reinstatement, striking fine balance between employer's right to manage the industry and employees' right to seek relief in case of violations of employment terms and regulations is continuing. Where on one side the indications are clear that indiscipline has no place in industry and employees have to change their mindset according to changing times, employers too are discouraged from exploiting the weaker section.

January 2017 Cover story on HR & ethics is also an extension and bye product of these two incidences where role of HR function in building an ethical organisation is discussed by Industry and HR professionals, because they are in a unique position to help build an ethical culture and inculcate the values in employees as their involvement in recruitment, training, and evaluation processes gets on from the very first day. They have the leverage of influencing the people at large by their actions and practices. It is high time for HR people to become guardian and champion of the ethical culture in the organization because ethics has everything to do with management. It needs to focus less on specific actions and more on developing attitudes and way of thinking that reflect their values.

Rewards and recognition are the two programs which help organizations to engage their employees to larger extent, increase productivity, bonding and retain them but these are two different practices and should not be mixed with each other. Without these two programs, it is difficult for the organizations to create a competitive advantage. Reward programs are related to competitive compensation packages, incentive schemes and profit sharing in a transparent manner while recognition programs relate to activities that satisfy psychological needs of appreciation.

Nov. 2016 cover story is on this comprehensive scheme aimed to make it understand in simple way with clarity on complex issues like component of wages, liability in respect of outsourced jobs, situations where accidental benefits are available and overall benefits. The attempt is made to present the entire law in concise form. It has been done to meet the persistent demand of fellow professionals.

One challenge in hiring is that along with volume hiring in case of new projects with set timeline, it has to be a right fit to fill precise roles to help it get to next level of growth. Organizations’ needs are that it must fill multiple needs and meet several requirements. To meet this challenge, executive search agencies  also need to become a strategic partner with organizations to help them identifying the persons that suit to their requirement and narrow hiring criteria.

Sept. 2016 cover story on training skills encounters many such issues being faced by the function. Domain experts from corporate and professional field have come up with diversified thoughts that will compel you to think from fresh perspective.

Cover story of August 2016 on shades of leadership helps to understand various shades of  leadership and our ability to become better leaders with ability to envision the future and to convince others that they have the ability and vision worth following. The world class management thinkers and practitioners discuss many different ideas about leadership including teamwork, authenticity, collaboration and character in this cover theme.

Women HR leaders of the country,how they achieved where they are today, commanding respect , dignity and followers in organizations, Business Manager, after much deliberations concluded with few women HR professionals who have wrote their destiny of their own against all odds. Appearing in the anniversary issue are Niharika Mohan, Tanvi Choksi, Saagarika Ghoshal, Namrata Gill Tyagi, Nirmala Behera Udgata, Divya Jain and Suma Poduval.

June 2016 cover story on managing failures is a pack of powerful thoughts and doses from those stalwarts who have shaped their lives after tasting and learning from failures. Come, let us learn from them how to manage failures and travel on the success route with happiness.

May 2016, our cover story is on the aspect of this law and practice, issues and challenges being faced by both industry and contractual  workforce. It will help HR professionals to understand the law in correct perspective and make corrections in their prevailing system so that both enjoy this live-in relationship happily.

April 2016, cover story on jobs & skills for make in India is presented by and with the assistance of the  persons working and witnessing  the ups and downs of this biggest ever problem of the country.They will take you to divergent shades/views and perspectives of the subject as a whole.

March 2016 cover story is all about the HR issues of this fast paced sector where things are still in the process of taking shape. The experts who are in the midst of this business mull over some of the most compelling concerns that hamper the e-commerce on HR front.

BM in this issue presents the compilation of about 600 one liner important labour judgments selected from thousands of cases published in various journals . It helps managers to refer and check quickly in times of obtaining clarity before taking any decision.

In this first issue of 2016 cover story, BM speaks to two great minds of the world on DNA of HR. Dave Ulrich from west and T V Rao from east have redefined the complexities of HR at global level as to how HR to move forward to remain relevant in business. It is really exciting to have these two legends together expressing freely on various dimensions.

December 2015 cover story of this issue talks about data driven approach in predictive analytics of human interactions and behavior in organizations that may open a new chapter in HR credibility assisting business leaders. Experts on HR analytics have talked about this potential and challenges.

There is a need for the Generation Y also to learn to pace them and gain the necessary experience and skills before expecting too much from organization. Sometimes unrealistic expectations may land them in a place leaving no point of return for them.
Cover story of this issue centred around decoding this workforce, understanding the reality  vs perception  and the possible way forward to take them along to make part of organization success.

On our readers consistent demand, this issue cover story is on  this law which is an attempt to unfold the legalities, technicalities and present the important aspects in a comprehensive manner and easy to understand style by experts and research team of BM. After going through the pages, I am confident, you will certainly feel that you know all about employee’s compensation law of the country.

Sept. 2015 cover feature  on creative HRM is a bundle of high value thoughts by Industry HR leaders and top thinkers of the country like Pradip Khandwalla, Rajeshwari Narendran, Aquil Busrai, S.Varadarajan, Yogesh K. Upadhyay, Puneet Adaniya, Praveen Purohit, Ashutosh Jani and Aman Attree  who have discussed as to how creative HRM can make a difference.

August 2015 cover story of the issue is on this subject, where experts are going to put forward different aspects of technological impact on HR and its challenges and what future has in store. It has come from those who have soiled their hands with technology in HR.

This anniversary issue so case about 29 Living & past legends of HRD who have not only simply contributed but studied in depth, researched, defined, developed  theories, concepts, applied and  further developed tools to make a better India in terms of human resources. Few of such persons worked quietly through out their life and many still are contributing but irony is that they have not been recognized well barring few.  
You can know more about these legends - Dr. T.V. Rao, Dr. Pradip N. Khandwalla, Dr. Mrityunjay Athreya, Dr. Abad Ahmad, Dr. Vinayshil Gautam, Dr. Anil K. Khandelwal, Fr. E. Abraham, S.J., Dr.  Indira J Parikh, Dr. S. Ramnarayan, Paul Siromoni, Dr. Ramadhar Singh, Dr. Madhukar Shukla, Prof. Prayag Mehta, S. K. Chakraborty, Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay, Dr. Rolf P Lynton, Ronken H. Lynton, Dr. J.M. Ojha, Dr. D. M. Pestonjee, Dr. Somnath Chattopadhaya, Dr. J.B.P. Sinha, Dr. Pritam Singh, Dr. Ishwar Dayal,  Dr. Udai Pareek,  Dr. Dharni P.Sinha,  Manohar S. Nadkarni,  Prof. Pulin Garg, Dr. Tarun Sheth and  Dr. Kamla Choudhry.

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HR Should Create Less Bureaucratic And More Agile People Processes

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