Glasshouse meeting (def. in my company): A meeting held between the HR manager and a group of employees (excluding their managers) to assess the situation on the floor, to provide a forum for the employees to voice their concerns and communicate with them.There are a number of forums designed in our company where the employees … Continue reading Meeting the employees
Shadowing the Board (Part 1)
Selecting the future leaders of a company has always been a pain point for organizations. While some organizations believe in bringing in flesh blood, picking someone from the inside has always won the maximum votes.One option has been the formation of a ‘Shadow Board’. It’s not a new idea; it’s one which has been tried, … Continue reading Shadowing the Board (Part 1)
Passing Thought
Finance and HR departments have been infamous for not getting along. I have seen traces of it in my organization and in few organizations my friends work for. Surprising, isn't it? I would have thought that fellow support functions would stand by each other.(Don't kill me for using the term - support functions). Or am … Continue reading Passing Thought
Friday Fun!!
One of my responsibilities as a Business HR includes organizing monthly ‘Friday Fun’ events for my business units. Events like these have given me a slight insight on what the management views as employee engagement. There are innumerable definitions of ‘employee engagement’ out there but when it comes to practice, most organizations associate engagement as … Continue reading Friday Fun!!
Retaining the young ones
With the appraisals coming to a close and the data pouring in, we've been busy with reading into what this data has to say. This year, we went ahead and did a separate analysis for our campus hires. What the data said to us raised some very serious concerns! To begin with, most campus hires … Continue reading Retaining the young ones
Communicating Change
One of my departments recently underwent a change in reporting structure. With high growth predicted in the Oil & Gas sector, the current department head has been asked to focus entirely on the oil and gas project, while other accounts were re-shuffled and directed to different heads. A new department head has been brought it. … Continue reading Communicating Change
Would you survive a PIP?
Being a young organization, we still have a long way to go before we have all our processes in place. One critical process which we've missed making an SOP for is the Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). Almost all organizations around the world have a variant of this in place. When I was first faced with … Continue reading Would you survive a PIP?
Here it all began
A year and a month into life as a HR Business Partner and I already have a bunch of tales to narrate. Life in this line is rarely predictable and never boring. Very often now, friends come up to me from all walks of life and ask me how things are at work. In the … Continue reading Here it all began
The HR Business Partner Story 