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The New Social for the ‘Workplace'

Facebook, the social networking giant recently announced the launch of ‘Workplace’ — a dedicated secure space for companies to connect, collaborate and communicate.

Quality of Hire Is Incredibly Subjective

Sue Campbell, Managing Director, Asia at Korn Ferry Futurestep on quality of hire, innovation in the Talent Acquisition space, Brexit and its impact on APAC, and the competitive business landscape of India

CHROs Hold The Opportunity To Impact

In a special conversation with People Matters, Eva Sage-Gavin, Senior Managing Director, Global Talent and Organization Practice, Accenture, shares her perspectives on the evolving equation between the businesses and CHROs, harnessing the power of digital technologies to innovate, unlock new sources of value, and reinventing the role of the CHRO for the future.

There Is An Elephant In The Room - And The Blind Men Of Indostan Can't See It

By closing our eyes to the most underprivileged quartile of our population, the Dalits and Tribals, are we depriving ourselves of a major opportunity to expand our potential pool of talent and laying ourselves open to the threat of crude legislative action that will hamstring India’s private sector for decades?

The Road From Strategy To Implementation

In an exclusive interaction with People Matters, RICARDO VIANA VARGAS, Executive Director of the Brightline Initiative™, talks about bridging the gap between strategy development and implementation, and about transforming the future.

Jobs Of The Future: Where Are They Headed?

Governments and organizations have started waking up to the reality that jobs are going to change in the future. So what exactly is the future of our jobs? And more importantly, are we prepared for it?

Picking Up The Pace

After a challenging 2017, the Indian IT Industry has scripted an impressive turnaround this year. Every objective parameter indicates that the sector is growing and is expected to continue on this trajectory in the near future.

Tech Or Touch Pick One...Or Both!

No matter how much technology you have in your arsenal, you can’t replace the power of human touch! And as technology’s ceaseless onslaught creates unfathomed opportunities for both the employers and the workers, the importance of the human element has never been clearer. Robots will take jobs away, but in the foreseeable future, humans will most definitely make the crucial decisions about talent. So what does it take to strike the perfect balance between HR tech and a human-based experience?

The Real Labor Cost & Burden Of Benefits

The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act 2017 brought in some sweeping changes to what companies are now liable to provide to their female employees. But are companies prepared to face and bear such changes?

The Cost Chaos!

Mercer’s 2018 Cost of Living Survey rankings demonstrate how increasing cost of living in various parts of the world is affecting organizations in terms of deploying talent and is also impacting the cost of doing business in various cities around the world.

A Quintessential Capability-Led Transformation

In an exclusive interaction with People Matters, Lee Yan Hong, CHRO of DBS Bank shares the fundamentals of DBS’s journey of digital transformation, differentiating in a dynamic industry, putting customers at the center of everything, and keeping employees at the heart of banking

A Subtle Interplay - The Digital Mind & Analog Thinking

Digital technology has moved from being an optional chapter in physics to a compulsory section in life called ‘earning a livelihood’. But do we still need to have an analog mind to find new things?

Email, As Cold As The Cold War

Allowing for greater touch in computer-mediated communication can extend to people management instruments to attract better talent into business and to dissolve the current high-tech vs. high-touch paradox.

4 Critical Workplace Trends That Are Changing The Way We Work

LinkedIn’s ‘Global Talent Trends 2019’ report analyzes the changing employee-employer dynamics and identifies four critical workplace trends that are changing the way we work. Let’s take a closer look.

Auto Companies Need To Accept That Like Technology, Millennials Are Here To Stay

In the second leg of the round table of auto industry leaders hosted by Lee Hecht Harrison under the “LEAGUE OF LEADERS” initiative, industry leaders dwell on possible solutions to the many talent challenges besetting the automobile industry in India.

Leading With Authenticity, Influencing With Inspiration

In an interaction with People Matters, Prabir Jha, the Founder and CEO of Prabir Jha People Advisory, talks about leadership, digital transformation, and future of work and jobs.

Fostering Innovation Through Research

In an interaction with People Matters, Professor Edward (Ted) Sargent, the Vice-President at the University of Toronto, talks about the tech innovations and the future of work, and how the university is preparing the next generation of leaders.

Revisiting The Human Capital System

A holistic view of human capital inside any organization consists of talent management, organizational structure and culture, and strategic leadership.

Whose Job Is It Anyway?

We discuss the lack of meaningful discussion around what an individual employee can do to prepare for the future of work and why the workforce needs to be an equal participant in the discourse regarding automation and upskilling.

Nailing Employee Experience - The Strategic Priority

Employee experience is a critical business imperative that can drive innovation, productivity, customer satisfaction, and revenue.

Leading With Design Thinking

Diane Gherson, Senior Vice President - Human Resources, IBM, in an exclusive interaction with People Matters, shares insights on how design thinking has been a game changer for the company, navigating the continuous skills renewal, and future of jobs.

It's Time To Turn Back Time

The most unproductive thing one can do is reporting to office mid-day — and yet it is most prevalent in offices across the startup world

Team Building In Tough Times

What are the challenges of building a performing team under VUCA conditions? What can leaders do to bind their teams together and navigate them through the choppy waters to achieve the team goals successfully?

High Trust = High Engagement

What is the big question: Is it to ask how to secure engagement in business for profit where there is not much glory to be found or how strong can engagement be?

Hipos In The Digital Age - Looking Ahead

Digital has already delivered a blow to businesses. And as digitization drives more automation and computing, 75 percent of leaders believe that technology will change the nature of current rules significantly and will also demand new skills from talent. While talent leaders grapple with talent&skill evolution in the digital age, a critical challenge to manage is the impact of digital disruption on HiPos. People Matters, in partnership with Right Management organized the sixth edition of HiPo week that facilitated discussions on the impact of digital disruption on HiPos, the changing business expectations from HiPos, and the competencies HiPos need to develop to stay ahead of the curve and enhance their business relevance for the newer rules. This Special Story highlights the key takeaways from the HiPo week!

Partners In performance

Staffing firms can stay relevant to their clients and candidates by offering a differentiated value proposition.” Rituparna Chakraborty, President of Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), in this interaction with People Matters, gives a peek into the key trends shaping the staffing domain, the indispensability of candidate experience and technology, and the position of staffing firms in the gig economy

It Never Ends When It Ends!

Hardly anyone speaks of the failure of the Republican Party’s organizational ‘talent management’ in the aftermath of Donald Trump becoming the President. Republicans don’t really know what to do with him because he delivered results for them. Damned if they say anything, Damned if they don’t! Sounds familiar?

The Odds Of Getting Even

With Indra Nooyi being replaced by Ramon Laguarta, the problem of low women representation in top jobs has returned to the limelight. We take a deeper look at the problem and what are some of its root causes.

Prevention Of Sexual Harassment At Workplace: Lessons From Case Laws

Sexual harassment at workplace remains a highly sensitive issue despite the POSH Act of 2013 establishing clear guidelines. A look at the judicial interpretation being adopted by courts in cases related to sexual harassment at the workplace

Redesigning Roles Creatively - Finding The Whats, The Whys, And The Hows Of Roles

Product designers use Design Thinking to build products and services. Can we use it to reimagine roles from the employees point of view?