The NDA Report-Card - Has The Needle Moved At All?

From promises to commitments, policy formulations to real solutions — in the three years that Modi has been in office, we assess how his government has fared in skilling people and creating jobs

Dealing With Talent Acquisition Paradoxes

We need to be more agile, get accustomed to regular reviews and be prepared and willing to say, "What we put in place a year ago no longer meets the needs of our workforce today"

A Story At A Time

Does collecting and sharing stories send the attractiveness of your company soaring and help in talent acquisition?

Solo Act To Symphony...Future Of Employer Branding

Employer branding is not a spectator sports but a contact sport! But is it already a mega trend? Have companies redesigned their organizations to factor this as a full time role?

Big Leaps Vs. Incremental Changes - Does A Piecemeal Approach To Gender Diversity Work?

The benefits of gender diversity and inclusion are not unknown and neither is the imperative of building a better working world for all genders. EY in partnership with the confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Indian Women Network (IWN) released a research paper ‘The future is HERe’ that gives a peek into the current maturity levels of organizations and understand how the benefits of D&I can be optimized for all stakeholders.

Corporate Lessons From Tampergate

No one wants to take a chance with winning. But why? Do you feel there is something inherently wrong with the business of winning?

A Creative Pursuit - Creativity In Leadership Workplace

Is ‘Creativity’ in leadership a mysterious, inaccessible attribute? Can you remain inspired when you constantly find yourself at odds with the larger part of your team(s)?

Learning Often Falls Behind Because It Gets Stale

In an interesting interaction with People Matters, Chad Gaydos, Chief Operating Officer of the SkillsoftGroup talks about digital transformation, enabling cultural shifts, innovation, and the role that L&D has to play in rising to the digital challenge

Re-Visioning The CEO & CHRO Engagement Algorithm – 2030

CHROs tend to suffer from a healthy dose of an inferiority complex and when they measure themselves with other CXOs, they are found wanting and end up in selfflagellation about “Do we deserve the seat at The Table?”

Factor Analysis - Managing Expectations A CEO-CHRO Saga

Although much has been written and spoken about CHROs and their capabilities to be strategic business partners, there is usually no communication between the CEO and the CHRO on many things. CEOs expect HR leaders to be partners, but they are frustrated by how far HR leaders are from becoming actual business partners; on the other side, these very expectations have proven to be the top challenges that the CHROs face today

To Shape An Innovation Culture, Start With A ‘Problem Bank'

Much against the widely held belief that innovations start with great ideas, they, in fact, start with ‘well identified problems’

CEO - Chess Master Or Gardener

Anil K. Khandelwal’s book CEO – Chess Master or Gardener is an outstanding piece of scholarly work that integrates theory and practice in the field of IR/HR, and offers a detailed account of their strategies and drive toward development of the business

Bridging The Gap Between Talent & Opportunities

In an interaction with People Matters, Zairus Master, CEO - Shine.com shares his views on the success strategy of Shine, staying agile and responsive to the fast evolving trends in the recruitment industry, and simplifying job searches for job seekers

The Changing Face Of Employee Engagement

If employee engagement is to be sustained, a careful study is needed of the extent to which employees respect the organization and respect the leadership of the organization

Commitment In Chaos

Employee engagement in times of change

Artificial Intelligence: Control It Or Go With The Flow

Will it be organizations that can reconcile their AI push with a consumer-controlled pull that will enjoy a sustainable future?

At A Fast Pace - India Inc's Bullish Hiring Outlook

As employment numbers have been growing on dodgy terms, new reports indicate a prospective rise in hiring. But as technological transformation becomes a mainstay, what does the future hold?

A Growth Leader

In an exclusive interview with People Matters, Peta Latimer, CEO of Mercer, Singapore, shares her insights and perspective on the evolving SEA talent landscape, growth markets, future of work, leadership and navigating structural shifts, regulatory policies, and volatility in the changing marketplace.

Sharing With Caring - Expanding HR Shared Service Centers Globally

HR Shared Service Centers have been seen as one-stop shop for all HR matters, quicker path to learning and development, but also, as a cost saving initiative. However, care needs to be taken to safeguard against the gaping potholes that could derail the whole exercise and jeopardize secure careers.

In A World Of Connected Devices And Disconnected People

Is accelerated automation and artificial intelligence stripping up away what’s intimately human?

Women Leaders In The Age Of Disruption

Data shows that bringing women to the organizational fore not only results in performance and profit, it also shows optimism related to inclusion of women in the workplace. This cover story seeks to understand how women are experiencing challenges and dimensions of leadership as they lead digital transformation agendas in their own career journeys

Cognitive Futility

There is so much literature available on what makes the contours of effective leadership and what makes a great leader, yet we hear and experience the lament of deteriorating quality of leadership all around.

RoI Of Skills Upgrade - A Different Kind Of Dilemma

There will always be issues of RoI in skills upgrading, but a closer collaboration between corporations and training-providers might just be the solution.

Building Capabilities That Matter! - HR Capability Building

A recent dipstick study by People Matters on HR capability building found that 76 percent of CHROs believe that there will be tremendous changes in HR by 2022, but a whopping 66 percent say that they are not satisfied with their current HR capabilities.

Capability Building For HR

HR’s value lies in its power to leverage technology, employee insights, creativity, data, diverse perspectives, and new ways of working to close the gaps between what employees expect and what we actually deliver

Exposing Biases - Google's Ideological Echo Chamber

Although many have come out supporting and at the same time denouncing the memo, the real question is whether Google should reconsider its diversity programs and that if its “ideological echo chambers” really instigate “moral biases” against women?

Getting On The AI Wagon

KPMG recently published ‘Robocalypse: Now? What the Fourth Industrial revolution means for retail’, aims to understand how robots and AI will change the world of retail.

Build Organizational Capacity To Make Orbit-Shifts

Organizations need to not just reskill or upskill their workforce; they have to fundamentally repurpose them.

Measure Performance, When And Where It Happens

The intent of the Performance Management program should scream “development”. But is that the case?

Treading The Talent Tightrope The Case Of The Indian Auto Industry

India is expected to emerge as the world’s third-largest passenger-vehicle market by 2021. However, to propel this growth, organizations in the automobile sector will have to reimagine their investments in talent. In a round table hosted by Lee Hecht Harrison under the “LEAGUE OF LEADERS” initiative, industry leaders from the sector shared their insights on the many talent challenges besetting the automobile industry in India and the ways to overcome them.