Cost optimisation without reducing headcount

Sit back and reflect on daily stories from organisations on cost-based downsizing. All have reasons; reducing bench strength or poor performers, rationalising businesses...

'ABB is a different company today from five years ago'

Asea Brown Boveri’s Gary Steel has spent a majority of his 30-plus-year career at Shell in various business and HR roles, but it is at the power and productivity company ABB where...

‘Our success lies in the emotional engagement of our employees’

It’s all about technology. And precisely that is what makes Symantec India an attractive employer for its 2,700 tech-savvy employees. Symantec, the $5-billion, California-based market leader in security solutions acquired Veritas, a key player in back-up software, in 2005 and thus began its foray into India with 1,300 employees.

HR function in a company needs teeth

Have you ever wondered why is that you are the most reluctant to seek help from your human resources function if you had a choice of getting the same thing done through your boss...

Keeping skill streams flowing

Skill development, as a recent Ibsa conference in New Delhi deduced, is successful only when industry is an integral part of the initiative. Brazil had a clear notion of this very early.

A leader ensures the success of a strategy

With the economic and business environment characterised by uncertainty, forward-thinking leaders in organisations are planning for a wide range of strategic scenarios. Whatever the future may entail, the thinking goes, we need to be as ready as we can be.

Keep election talk out of workplace

When he was in private industry, Lewis Benavides was careful not to discuss sex, religion or politics at work.

Lighthouses in the global tempest

When gloom encircles organisations, it falls upon human resources managers to bring light to the dispirited employees.

A need to define and tame talent

Talents that matters consciously seek your organisation, connect, talk, stay for the long haul, show stability, nurture other talent and get what they earn

Religious beliefs, workplace issues are sometimes hard to reconcile

When religious beliefs and work rules clash, as they did in September for Muslim workers at a northern Colorado meat-processing plant during their holy month of Ramadan, the consequences can be devastating.

Building bridges across cultures

Cultural integration is a key enabler of successful teaming across borders, with a significant impact on profitability; it is fast becoming a critical part of a multi-national companies’ core stra-tegy.

Lower entry barriers for a new leader

Too often, executives do not give high priority to culture or relationship issues when entering a new leadership position. They may tend to base their leadership on their functional and technical skills

US workers learn to say namaste

In 2006, Nielsen, the company that does the TV ratings and has its global operations centre here, was bought by a group of six private equity firms for just under $10 billion.

'Analyse the drivers of satisfaction at work'

Talent retention remains one the most critical issues in business today and is at the forefront of HR research and HR activity.

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