SHRM South Asia Blog

The Role of Emotional Intelligence in HR Leadership

Emotional intelligence is all about harnessing HR professionals’ emotional awareness to understand employees’ demands and concerns, make decisions, and develop interpersonal relationships. It requires self-awareness, empathy, and the ability to navigate social complexities. HR professionals need emotional intelligence to handle diverse employees in an organization daily. It helps them understand different opinions and influence the workplace culture productively.

Optimizing HR Leadership with Emotional Intelligence

HR professionals interact with individuals during and after recruitment using emotional intelligence. Hiring a suitable candidate does not require using...

In the vibrant and ever-evolving Indian economy, businesses are relentlessly seeking avenues to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and foster innovation. Amidst this pursuit of excellence, payroll outsourcing has emerged as a strategic lever, unlocking manifold benefits. Delving into the robust, quantifiable advantages, here is an empowered perspective without relying on specific industry names.

A Strategic Cost Revolution

Payroll management, often relegated to a mere functional role, holds a transformational potential. Studies have revealed that Indian businesses can harness a cost reduction of up to 50% through payroll outsourcing ⁽¹⁾. Imagine an annual saving...

Imagine, waking up to this beautiful note sent by your manager and applauding your efforts in a public online forum visible to 50k+ employees of your organization. This post will not only create a smile on your face but also increase your productivity. In layman’s language, this is what employee well-being refers to.

What is “Total Well-being”? It includes duties, work expectations, the level of stress, and the environment, which affects the overall happiness and health of employees. Employee wellbeing does...

Sexual Harassment affects all women in some form or the other. Lewd remarks, indecent touch, wolf whistles, and inappropriate stares are so commonplace in every woman’s life that it is almost dismissed as normal. Working women are no exception to this.

Sexual harassment in the workplace is widespread. According to a study conducted by Statista, it is estimated that 25%–85% of women have experienced some sort of harassment at work.

To abate the issues of Sexual Harassment, the POSH (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act was established by the Supreme Court in 2013. While the Act...