feb 2015 cover story
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Lack of leadership and vision at B-schools and increasing focus on international accreditations are some of the key highlights of the third edition of the NHRDN B-School ranking
Focus 5
In this story, we highlight five issues that were landmark cover stories of yesterday and we think that they are still equally relevant today.
Here is a snapshot of the 5 cover stories that we will re-examine in the subsequent pages:
India Skilling: India will have a huge demographic dividend by 2020. But are we skilling our people fast enough to meet the demands of a growing economy? This is a topic we have covered in several issues and with the new government takes a new dimension.
Shame - Labor Violence: Labor relations continue to be the bane of India Inc. While companies are gung-ho on the economy and the new government who’s bringing in the much-needed labour reforms, HR leaders need to revive their IR skills for building sustainable ecosystems in the workplace.
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Best Companies To Work For: Year-after-year, we had published an issue to deep dive on the best employers in India. An opportunity for our readers to learn from the best and benchmark their companies. These companies that have shown time and again how they put their people first.
Jobless Growth: The problem of jobless growth may take a serious turn in the coming years if no progress is made in creating more jobs in the country. New hopes come our way with the expected reforms but will that translate fast enough into the required numbers?
HR Technology: As business models get disrupted, HR technology opens up new opportunities to solve those problems. HR professionals should seize the opportunity to lead this transformation.
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Skilling 500 million people by 2020
If the government hopes to make any real progress with the Make in India campaign, then it should implement skilling programs on a war-footing.
India is poised to become the world’s youngest country by 2020, with an average age of 29 years and also account for 28 per cent of the world’s workforce.
However, at present only 10 per cent of the working population has some amount of professional training in India, of which just an abysmal 2.5 per cent has professional training.
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Labor’s Love Lost
The July 2012 violence at the Maruti Suzuki plant at Manesar showed that good industrial relations with the workers will need more than just good labor laws. The genesis of most strikes in manufacturing companies is the dispartity over wages between permanent workers and temporary staff.
In October 2014, the Labor Ministry proposed the Small Factories Bill to govern wages and conditions of work in SMEs.
A lot of labor reforms have been undertaken; there is still a long way to go. The question is: Will it be enough to solve the industrial relations
problems in India? Most of the reforms are pro-industry and hence workers are worried that their voice will not be heard.
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Do you like the company you work for?
The Best Places To Work For List is an indicative barometer of
the company’s ability to attract employees.
Working in a ‘great company to work for’ is simple: a great company is a place where you can do great things while having a great time, with others who want the same. But things are not as simple as they seem. If every morning when you wake up, you feel good about going to work, then life is sorted. Otherwise, it might be a good time to start looking around.
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How to deal with growing pains
Jobless growth will continue to remain a major challenge for the global economies this year. Over 200 million people are jobless globally. The scale and impact of this problem is acute in India.
India’s high rate of informality in the job sector is a drag on its economic development and a source of considerable inequity.
It is not just the government’s imperative that people in the country are given employment opportunities. It should be the duty of the corporates, be it private or public, to ensure that employment is not just a state subject. Unless the various corporates and the government work together on this, we will have a massive problem on our hands with no apparent solution.
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Tech Talk: Predicting the future
The challenge for HR teams will be the need to embed new technologies at the speed both their business and employees are demanding.
This year HR will need more investments. CEOs are aware that investment in people is the key to future success. We will see more and more of those words translating into action. As the HR function
becomes more aware, more business-focused and empowered to take technology decisions, it will be able to deliver the business outcome that it promises.
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Focus 5 2015February 2015
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