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Can India Be An AI Powerhouse?

With AI alone generating over 2.3 million jobs worldwide by 2020, India's ambition to carve a niche for itself in an increasingly AI-driven world is becoming a reality. Let’s take a closer look at how AI revolution is impacting Indian jobs and the workforce.

Tackling The Continuous Learning Challenge

In this special story, read about how leading companies like Accenture, IBM, Ingersoll Rand, Deutsche India and TATA Communications are solving the need of continuous learning

The Skill Shifts: Are We Ready For The Future?

With some major shifts taking place and gaining momentum in the skilling space, what are governments, organizations and institutions doing to ensure we have a workforce that has the right skills for the future.

Rise Of The Social Enterprise And The Future Of Work

The 2019 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report analyzes the growing clout of socially responsible enterprises and their impact on the future of work

Leading To Transform; Transforming To Lead

In an exclusive interaction with People Matters, SUPHACHAI CHEARAVANONT, CEO, Charoen Pokphand Group Co., Ltd. (C.P. Group) and Chairman of the Executive Committee, True Corporation Plc., renders his perspectives and insights on the focus of the group on transforming the conglomerate to a digital organization, strengthening the talent mix to transform ideas and vision into reality, and the Group’s commitment to building a more sustainable living for a better tomorrow

Endure To Recharge - The Art Of Resilient Leadership

In an exclusive interaction with People Matters, Michael Jenkins, CEO of Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI) shares his perspectives on his own notions of leadership, the power of resilience, the leadership landscape of South East Asia, and how leadership development will unfold in the next five years

We Want People To Use Their Education For Innovation

In an interaction with People Matters, Kathleen Mullaney, Vice President of Careers at Udacity, talks about the changing skills landscape, building a culture of continuous learning and the role of knowledge management professionals

Low Effort, High Impact HR

Alight’s State of HR Transformation Study 2018-19 explores the quest for Low Effort, High Impact HR—an agile approach to transformation that is geared towards reducing the transactional burden on the HR function, and creating value through a focus on outcomes that matter to both businesses and talent

Leading Without Authority

With flattening hierarchies, an increasing number of leaders are occupying roles without a formal, positional power and are required to positively engage with, influence, and lead others without being directive or coercive. A look at this leadership trend!

Power And Millennials

What happens when a generation that does not have ‘power’ as a drive gets managed and led by those who are driven by power?

The Real Picture Of Technological Unemployment

With many studies projecting a pessimistic future where technology would automate most human jobs, a recent World Bank report paints a clearer picture of the complicated nature of technological unemployment.

Gearing Up For An Accelerated Pace Of Change

The Workforce Institute at Kronos predicts that 2019 is set to be the year where organizations will accelerate their journeys to be agile and begin using the knowledge, insights, and lessons that have been learned in the last few years. Here is a snapshot of what is predicted!

Explore Alternatives Now! - Performance Management In The Multi-dimensional Digital World

Earlier, business was not quite as dynamic, employment was intended for the long-term, and the idea of pay linked to performance was quite a defendable model. But as we examine the tradition of performance management in light of today’s digital business models, there are a number of new questions that emerge

Performance Management Simply Isn't Simple!

Have the attempts to “simplify” performance management failed to produce effective solutions and trivialized it?

Accept And Adapt

This is the age of gig-economy where career experiences take precedence over the brand value of the company and employees’ personal branding and marketability is more important than that of their employers. While it may be a tectonic change for the companies and their HR teams, this is the truth of today!

At The Leading Edge

Giving her perspectives on values that drive the Boeing company, Bethany Tate Cornell, in a candid discussion with People Matters, shares the underlying L&D framework that guides the employees at Boeing, Being Behaviors, and leveraging diversity

Measuring Impact

What performance management trends can we see organizations adopting for a workforce that comprises of a mix of regular employees and gig workers?

The Critical Few - Self-disruptive Leaders

Disruptive forces are driving the future of work. And to ensure that organizations succeed in a rapidly changing business environment, new kind of future-ready leaders are needed. But are corporate leadership structures evolving to maintain pace with disruption?

The Right Perspective

In an exclusive interview with People Matters, DR. ROBERT HOGAN, Founder & President, Hogan Assessments talks about the evolving nature of leadership, bridging the gap between psychological science of talent and common real-world talent practices, the criticalness of evaluating personality, identifying talent with empirically-validated psychometric devices, and high potentials

It Is Important To Integrate Technology In The Way We Perform Our Jobs

While we would definitely not like to go to a concert where a computer is playing music, yet AI and ML has given us the power to take music to the next level. Dorien Herremans, Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), lends her perspectives to People Matters in a candid conversation.

AI Will Open More Doors Than It Will Close

In a special interaction with People Matters, AADESH GOYAL, Chief Human Resources Officer at Tata Communications shares his perspectives on how AI will not replace but augment human intelligence, and how business success will increasingly depend on machines and humans collaborating rather than competing with each other.

The Journey Ahead The State Of Hr Tech Startups In 2019

What are the challenges being faced by startups in the HR tech space in India when it comes to adoption and expectations? What is the state of HR Tech going to be this year? Read on to find out.

Women For Women

From breaking the glass ceilings and successfully handling the glass cliffs, get to know from women leaders who have seen it all — their own success stories, what it really takes for women to be successful, and how they are enabling other women to take the lead!

Do You Seriously Want To Achieve Gender Diversity?

Ensuring gender diversity is far more than merely affirmative action and getting the numbers correct — it’s not a simple problem and therefore there isn’t a simple solution.

Talent Acquisition - Are You Doing What It Takes?

This cover story presents actionable advice from leaders on recruitment trends, technology, and practices to optimize your talent acquisition efforts, and also unveils the survey research “India Hiring Outlook 2018” — a People Matters and Indeed Study about the current state of hiring processes that recommends best practices for talent acquisition

From Research To Job Search - Google Makes It Easy

Google’s recent initiative “Google for Jobs” aims to make it all easy for job seekers to search for jobs — A look into what this tool is about

The Attrition Advantage Use - Don't Shoot - The Messenger

Voluntary attrition is not just valuable as an indicator that the organization’s health is stressed but it can yield substantive benefits too

Building Trust For A Positive Employee Experience

How do we create the right environment of trust at workplace and avoid surprises?

The Journey Of Becoming An Agile Workplace: SIAM Commercial Bank

In an exclusive interaction with People Matters, Worawat Suvagondha, Dean of SCB Academy, Siam Commercial Bank talks about the journey of the Bank into becoming an agile workplace, what it means to them and their workforce, the importance of being future ready and how the Academy is playing a pivotal role in leading the bank to its next level of transformation.

CEOs Want HR To Be The Change Agents: Peck Kem

In an exclusive interaction, Low Peck kem, the Government CHRO and Senior Director (Workforce Development) for the Public Service Division (PSD), Prime Minister’s Office of Singapore shares insights on her contribution in uplifting the capability of HR in the country, making the nation the center of excellence for human capital management and developing leadership in Asia