Sunday, March 7, 2010

"HR : The change manager"

A beautiful session which focused on the role of HR post recession some of the key learning’s from the key speakers are

Mr. B.Santhanam - Saint Gobain

1) To work in realism and not swing between blind optimism and excessive pessimism.
2)10 million people get added to Indian workforce every year and out of that only 10,000 are an HR professional which creates a great divide between divide demand and supply.
3) Hr is a body of practice and it’s about "common" common sense which people fail to use.
4) As HR it’s crucial we should sell values and credibility and to go back to the books use the knowledge as they hold a lot of value and use it for processes like restructuring.

Swami Sukhbodhananda

1) To respond to a situation and to react.
2) Reaction leads to stress and makes us lose opportunities.
3) Dissatisfaction of past leads to distaste of present and distrust of future. Make sure "Failure is the fertilizer for success in the future".
4) Be a part of the solution and don't be victim to a problem.
5) Winning in a rat race won’t make you great. It will make you a rat.
6) Don't work for happiness work from happiness. Have Body will, Emotional will, Spiritual will, Intellectual will.

Adil Malia - Essar Group
1) We should work at punctuated equilibriums.
2) Development happens in periods of turbulence.
3) Do not build an environment which can last build an environment which can last the change.

B.Ramamchandran – Motorola India

1) HR to business should be like coffee beans to hot water which can spread the aroma and colour while not losing its own colour and smell.
2) Hr is like an elephant's Mahout.
3) If you cannot face a beast steer around it.
4) Have eyes on profit and Cost.

Ravishankar – HCL Tech
1) Pampered for 6-7 months in boom screwed for 2 years by recession.
2) Change is painful for everyone.
3) Key on value addition and value integration.
4) Lack of quality professors in India is one of the main reasons of Unemployability.
5) Do not aim at quarter targets but a long term targets.

G.D. Sharma BGR Energy
1)4M's of Performance Management System.
Management of system
Motivating the employees
Mindset of the Organization
Measurement of the reports
2) PMS depends on quality of leadership, Quality of excellence, a set of ethics and guiding principles.

Manmohan Buttani - Fiserv
1) Most of attrition happens because of manager and Career path.
2) Reduction of subjectivity in PMS to 20-30 %.
3) Linking individual to organizational Objectives.
4) Proper and efficient feedback.

Aparna balakkur – Yahoo India
1) PMS is not a report card.
2) Try to have positions ready when people are also ready mismatch will lead to attrition.
3) People are not plug and play professionals so it will take time to settle into the system.

Surojit Moitra - CSC
1) Work is not with us but with clients.
2) Client should be a business partner and it’s good to compare PMS system of organization with clients for best solutions.
3) People have to take up what they are given and not what they want.

Narayanan - Raymond’s
1) HR is like Doctor.
2) Identifying talent ahead of time is a major issue.
3) Succession is becoming a major issue.

K.S.Bakshi - Indigo

1) Hr should be a mirror and sounding bow to the HR
2) Have to work on things as promised
3) Unions arise because managements are not sincere
4) Physical connect with employees is crucial

K.Raghavendra – Infosys BPO

1) Success begins with strategy and strategy leads to success
2) HR are happy in cocoons have to get functional expertise
3) To drive business and not align with it
4) We as HR have to decrease the Use of Jargons
5) We have to move from numbers to analysis



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