Archive for the “HR” category
Do you ‘hear’ your employees?
by Sakib Khan on January 2, 2010
One of the important factors towards creating a motivated, committed and most importantly, an involved workforce is having proper employee voice system in place. To keep things simple, by voice I mean all forms of opportunities (including participation) where employees (…)
Strategic HRM
by Sakib Khan on October 11, 2009
A lot has been said over the years about the need for HR to become strategic, or more popularly, have a seat in the table. But what does Strategic HRM (SHRM) actually mean? What’s the significance? To start with, SHRM (…)
Google Wave, collaboration and HR
by Sakib Khan on August 14, 2009
Google Wave, Google’s latest offering is indeed creating quite a wave in the technology world. Armed with groundbreaking and innovative features, the Wave is set to alter the conventional communication practices. If you haven’t heard about Wave yet, here is (…)
Decentralized HR
by Sakib Khan on July 31, 2009
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 (…)
High employee turnover?
by Sakib Khan on July 24, 2009
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 (…)