HR Event ASIA

HR Summit, Mumbai, May 2012

By NIVEDITA NAGPAL The theme: Technology for HRM Effectiveness, Asia’s financial capital Mumbai, India saw this gathering of nearly 27 eminent speakers representing various buckets of Human Resources corporations from India and MNCs. Addressing difficult questions One of the first questions that have been troubling most HR personnel in the last few years is that several employees leaving organizations of all sizes. While technology has its own place in HR effectiveness, how does one deal with the current rate of attrition, which is a serious issue? Survo Raychaudhari from UB Group Bengalaru explains, “Technology plays a dominant role in its ability to plan manpower better, considering that attrition is a real business challenge and here to stay. Attrition is not something we can control through technology alone. There are organizational cultural quotients and engagement effectiveness challenges requires to be focused on.” And to the same query, Surabhi Gandhi of Team Lease Mumbai offered another justification; “A cyclic churn of talent inflow and outflow keeps the organization healthy & dynamic. Technology provides an optimal platform to capture exiting employee feedback and provide a 360-degree mechanism to address the gaps." Surabhi Gandhi develops few strategies for her organization: • A standard compensation structure compatible with the market. • A better job design • Job Customization, i.e. roles developed tailor-made that suit individual needs • Social Ties - creating social ties with former employees • International careers • Job location • Industry sponsored educations & training • A better work life balance

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Specific experiments conducted at the recent Creative Talks discussions illustrate how scientific principles can be applied to business relationships.

from different sectors (although close) are not informed on the activities done by other groups and often discover that other people in the companies are doing the exact same thing but fail to collaborate. In Creative Talk #4 we tried to address this issue from the standpoint of biological science. Biology teaches us that man is a strange social animal, an unusual mix of individualism and altruism. However, despite its faults, the homo sapien is still a social animal (just like bees and ants), always focusing on building relationships and organizations, such as where to live with his fellows (cities, companies, associations, etc.) . Yet while in some social insects, like ants or bees, the method of internal communication in their organization (the nest or hive) is almost perfect and can perfectly support their activities, in an organization founded by man, communication is imperfect and often hostile to the functionality of the organization. Starting from the observation of such places as the anthill and the beehive we learned how you can communicate effectively in complex organizations. Science (in particular, neural networks) is beginning to explore new forms of intelligence, where communication and

Simple demonstrations at the Creative Talks effectively show how different chemical reactions often mirror daily interactions between cultural changes, employees and employers.

Spearhead the deployment of HR audit mechanism to elevate your current strategic HR practices

The challenge for HR professionals is to figure out how to look deep into the organization to find talented, visionary people with a passion for the future. In short, they need to anticipate the skills they will need in the future.

“HR Audit” training course at the Novotel Mumbai Juhu Beach, India August 22-24, 2012

Registration: CatherineF@marcusevanskl.com or call on +603 2723 6757. Key topics to be covered are: • Innovative HR Audit performance • Adaptive response to current market condition and change management • Developing the parameters of competency gap analysis • Audit scope that captures intangibles and the tangible measures • Customizing HR audit process that generates value creation • Driving a transformational HR audit process rather than informational