This post follows the theme of my previous one. My boss pays a lot of attention to the citations that are read out while presenting an award. Very often, the team receives citation that goes into excruciating details of the task performed by an individual. The appreciation gets lost in the details. And then one … Continue reading The ‘big words’ of appreciation
Most organizations have their fair share of awards ranging from the most prestigious to the ones not as big. As HR’s, sometimes our focus shifts to the larger awards and we tend to begin giving less importance to the awards that in our opinion are ‘not as big’.Similarly in our organization, we have an award … Continue reading Making it special!
I reached office on Monday morning to find three employees from my business unit install a mini fish tank at my desk. They responded with wide grins to my surprised stare.‘This is to keep you entertained when you get bored with your work! They also bring good luck.’I haven’t been more touched in my life. … Continue reading Fish Tank!
Most people hold a certain level of inhibition when it comes to conversing freely with their managers especially if what they have to say is not positive. This level of inhibition only increases with the skip level manager; and gets worse when it’s the department head. Changes always have a consequence. It isn’t necessarily good … Continue reading What would you tell your department head?
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
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)
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
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!!
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
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
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