One of my friend consulted me on switching his job. I was aware that his employment was quite good. I wondered why he wanted to switch his job. He said he was not happy with his compensation. I asked his compensation and found that he was compensated above par the industry standard. An in-depth discussion [...]
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Salaries will never be Sufficient; Train Employees for better finacial planning
Posted by gireesh on January 18th, 2011
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Year 2011 : Lets Make it Smoking Free and Debt Free Year
Posted by gireesh on January 1st, 2011
Welcome Year 2011 and I have two reasons to pat on my own back. Beginning year 2010 I made two promises to myself – to get rid of two things – Smoking and Debts and by the end of 2011 I have been to keep both of them to large extent. I quit smoking in [...]
The culture for innovation = the culture of forgiveness
Posted by gireesh on December 21st, 2010
How many times I do read in the “Careers” section of the corporate websites claiming that “We have a culture that fosters innovation”, although in real world we see only a handful of companies doing innovation in their domains. Rests are merely followers or at the most “Improvisers”. Why is Innovation difficult? Innovation and creativity [...]
Uncle Joe’s Employee Engagement Funda – Kick Once Kiss Thrice
Posted by gireesh on August 1st, 2010
The second most important reason why employees quit organizations is their deteriorating relationship with their managers. HR analysts often cite employee engagement more important for employee retention than salary or compensation. Why So! – The answer is simple, as one of the call center executives in India told me “You can always go to work [...]
Top Three Challenges of Implementing an HR Automation Software
Posted by gireesh on July 20th, 2010
Note: These three identified challenges are not result of any research or survey, this is based on my own experience. It is very exciting for HR folks to know when management shows interest in automating the HR department. For an HR department working on papers and using Excel and other MS Office applications, it seems [...]
HR is the Mother of all businesses….I love you mom!
Posted by gireesh on July 3rd, 2010
My self being an HR professional and a strong advocate of the importance of HR in all walks of business; I am pissed off hearing that “Human Resources Executives are neither strategic nor leaders”. This accusation is not from some sales or marketing honcho, but this blow to HR comes from Hewitt Associates! Nishchae Suri, [...]
