SHRM South Asia Blog

Various organizations, from time to time publish reports that focus on the “best” and “worst” workplaces, organizations and industries relative to employee turnover. Their reports are eye-opening but not necessarily prescriptive.

My article is intended neither to bad mouth nor to glorify, the members of these “best and worst” lists, hence, I am not using names. However, there are about 19 well-respected and esteemed organizations with median employee tenure of 2 years or less. In other words, their staff churns, on average, in 18 months or less. The first thought on seeing this data is – "How do they manage...

Since its inception, employee engagement is seen as a local (read team level) phenomenon and is believed to be largely driven by the ‘work group level’ dynamics. In such a reality the team manager, is indeed, the central anchor of employee engagement. At one time Gallup estimated that managers account for at least 70%(1) of the variance in employee engagement scores across business units.

Techno-Social evolution, specifically over the last 3-5 years, has dramatically changed the world of work. A large proportion of the workforce today chooses flexi work over regular office visits. More and more business is being conducted...

Introduction
Industrial Relations is a very interesting subject. Actually any relationship is so intricate and involves human emotions that films get made on it. Industrial Relations is the only subject on which many feature films are made. You will remember 'Aaghat' which was a Govind Nihalani film made in 1985.
The subject of discussion is 'Strategic industrial relations to ensure competitive business advantage.' In my talk today, I will briefly discuss the two catchwords: Strategy and Competitive advantage. I will then explain the difference between Strategic HRM and Strategic IR. This is only to put all of us on a...

In 2009, there was a famous research report published in the Harvard Business Review (January Edition) where they presented a myriad of contradictions and controversies about the profession of coaching. Fortunately, the domain has evolved very quickly and the situation is not as paradoxical today as it was back then. For the trained and certified coaching professional, there is more clarity on what are some of the ways to successful interventions and more focus on the outcomes, process and method of coaching. Self-styled coaches need to put their methodology and process under the scanner and look at benchmarking against professional...