Human Resources

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 21 nov 2013

Sometimes back companies like Yahoo and HP, decided to discourage and reduce flexible working for their employees. But according to a recent report by workplace provider Regus, 75% of Indian respondents feel that flexible working is a critical measure of achieving higher productivity. 77% believe that it encourages greater sense of responsibility and time management and similar percentage said that it fosters greater creativity. Read on...

The Economic Times: Flexible working arrangements boost productivity: Survey
Author: NA

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 20 nov 2013

Most responsible companies around the world are taking diversity initiatives to build an inclusive business ecosystem - management, employees, suppliers, partners, etc - with representation from minority communities, women, people with disabilities etc. Similar initiative is underway in India where 6 big multinational corporations - Accenture, Intel, Marriott, HP, Wal-Mart and IBM - have come together to interact with 100 women owned and operated businesses. This was organized by a non-profit WEConnect International and supported by Times Foundation. The program is directed towards encouraging these corporations to procure a share of their products and services from women-run businesses. According to CEO of WEConnect International, Elizabeth Vazquez, "Women make 70% of the purchasing decisions at home. Yet, women entrepreneurs get only 1% of the global procurement business. They are missing in the supply chain." Read on...

The Times of India: Big companies look to buy from women entrepreneurs
Author: Anshul Dhamija, Shilpa Phadnis

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 03 oct 2013

It is challenging for faculty to impart quality education to their students if their salaries are comparatively low. The case particularly in question is that of Madurai district in India where self financing arts and science colleges face a deteriorating education standards due to the meagre salaries they provide to their faculty, even the qualified ones. Faculty needs resources to upgrade their skills and competencies and continue to inspire and motivate their students in the best possible way. According to an expert, government has to intervene both financially and in faculty selection process to ensure better quality of education. Read on...

The Times of India: Poor salaries for faculty depriving quality education
Author: V. Devanathan

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 24 sep 2013

Every organization faces the challenge of managing their 'Star' employees who are excellent achievers and best performers in their work but may have other issues like arrogance, non-cooperation, lack of interpersonal and teamwork skills etc. Human resources experts suggest steps to understand, control and manage these employees in the best interest of the organization - Draw a time-bound performance plan to make improvements in specific areas; Include career counselling and personal coaching to fill any gap in behavioral competencies; Increase teamwork to inculcate empathy towards others and improve interpersonal skills; Ask hard questions to find out inherent problems and issues; Watch your attitude while handling such employees and be sensitive and understanding. Read on...

The Economic Times: 5 ways to curtail 'Star' tantrums at office
Author: Devina Sengupta

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 21 sep 2013

South-East Asian countries like Philippines and Indonesia are evolving themselves into knowledge-based economies by focusing on skills development of their workforce. This is creating a more competitive scenario for India in the Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) space. According to Gopi Natarajan, CEO of Omega Healthcare, India seems to be losing its competitive advantage due to lack of availability of skilled human resources and the government's tax and regulatory policies that result in a difficult business environment and fail to provide basic infrastructure support. US Affordable Care Act under the Obamacare legislation and ICD-10 medical coding system, both to be enforced in 2014, will bring additional opportunities for BPO and KPO companies. India has to leverage its human resources advantage by imparting valuable skills to the graduates to remain competitive and at leadership position in the global BPO and KPO space. Read on...

PHARMABIZ: India losing edge in KPO to South East Asia's knowledge-based economies - Omega chief
Author: Nandita Vijay

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 21 sep 2013

Indian BPO's are upgrading their healthcare focused services by hiring US registered nurses, actuaries, medical writers, biostatisticians etc to avail the opportunity of high level healthcare outsourcing contracts. Earlier healthcare BPO work was mostly related to low-end processes like billing, patient record maintenance etc. The demand for US registered nurses is exacerbated due to the outsourcing of pre-service nursing and care management services by health insurance companies. Moreover demand for regulatory compliance has created more opportunities in actuarial services outsourcing. BPO companies are thus insisting on certification from reputed actuarial institutes and some companies are even encouraging and incentivizing their employees to become actuarial specialists. Read on...

The Times of India: Nurses, actuaries in big demand at BPOs
Author: Shilpa Phadnis

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 13 aug 2013

The challenge to increase employability of Indian engineering graduates and to make them readily-employable is pushing institutions, companies and entrepreneurs seek innovative learning and training models and solutions. In the tough business and economic environment, IT industry employers with their clients wanting more for less and shrinking training budgets, are searching for low cost and job ready engineering talent. According to Swami Manohar, an entrepreneur and former academic, although India produces more engineers than both US and China combined but estimated 80% of these one million annually graduating engineers working in the IT industry were employed in non-core engineering jobs mainly as programmers, software architects, technical and customer support etc. Some experts like E. Balagurusamy, former vice-chancellor of Anna University, even consider the IT slowdown as an opportunity for engineers to explore real engineering related jobs and build things that would add value and contrubute to the national development. Read on...

Live Mint: Striving for quality in India's engineers
Author: Pankaj Mishra

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 15 jul 2013

India with extraordinary cultural and socio-economic diversity requires business leaders with unique skills and styles to succeed in highly competitive and dynamic global business environment. Experts differ in their opinion of leadership style that could be a perfect fit in the Indian context. Suggestions include adaptive situational style, participative style, global leadership style and even autocratic style. According to a survey conducted by a job portal, 69% of employees find democratic or participative style to be a better option in the Indian environment. Read on...

The Economic Times: India Inc wants participative, adaptable, global leaders - Experts
Author: Neha Singh Verma

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 14 jul 2013

According to a recent PwC study on Indian HR, 81% of CEO's consider unavailability of critical skills in workforce as the biggest threat for success and 41% of businesses intend to focus on increasing diversity and inclusion at workplace. Experts say that although companies have implemented talent and leadership development strategies but they haven't been as effective as expected. More innovative HR models with better reward mechanisms are required to nurture and retain talent. Read on...

Moneycontrol: 81% of Indian CEOs see talent shortage as biggest threat
Author: NA

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 04 jul 2013

In the 68th survey of NSSO (National Sample Survey Organization) released recently it was mentioned that proportion of people employed in agriculture decreased by 50%. This signifies maturing of the Indian economy (estimated GDP of US$ 1.8 trillion) and a shift of employment to other sectors like manufacturing and services. It is observed that earlier employment in agriculture was disproportionate to its contribution to GDP. Although manufacturing sector's proportion of employment and its contribution to GDP are almost identical but in case of services there is a large gap. The challenge that Indian economy faces in terms of these structural shifts in the employment patterns is that of skill shortages which are already visible. Most companies have to retrain graduates before they are absorbed in the workforce. Managing the influx of agricultural workforce into other sectors and provide proper training and skill them would be a daunting task. Read on...

Live Mint: A new focus to India's jobs debate
Author: Anil Padmanabhan

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