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
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?
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 