Archive for July, 2009
Decentralized HR
Gautam Ghosh posted an interesting blog post the other day where he argued that ‘Business managers should actually move into the role of the HR business partners.’ He shared some reasons supporting his argument and the principal being the lack of business acumen from HR’s part.
Great perspective no doubt, but the question remains are business [...]
High employee turnover?
Employees in most places may be hard-pressed to barely keep their jobs intact, but still there are some organizations out there that are suffering from high turnover. I came into contact with one such company couple of weeks ago and they were looking for answers to keep turnover rate down in their place.
So what could [...]
Organization’s personality and social media
Although there are a lot of hoo-haas surrounding ’social media’ these days, the concept is nothing new. What is new is the form it’s taking and the tools being used. And whether you like it or not, you (as an individual or an organization) are already present in the social media world and someone somewhere [...]
Are you sure you want to layoff?
Business confidence might be rising and planned layoffs may be falling, but ‘bad time’ is far from over and we can expect many more instances of layoffs in coming days, albeit in a smaller scale. But sometimes it makes you wonder, is this the only answer to recession? While there is no denial that at [...]
