All of us hear employees complaint about the companies who would treat employees badly, have poor HR policies, don’t pay dues to employees, have poor engagement levels, and have no focus on work life balance. Up to 2005 it worked well! All a disgruntled employee could do was to speak about them with his friends [...]
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Can employer be BAD and still attracting Talented Aspirants; in the age of free social media?
Posted by gireesh on June 21st, 2010
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Why pointing fingers at me…….F…ing..its not me, its You….
Posted by gireesh on June 11th, 2010
The Tale of a Shoe hurler… Long time back I wrote an article “Who is responsible for attrition?”. My research at CiteHR said that the biggest reason for attrition (read non-performance) are supervisors. But a commenter named MP3 rightly said “The poll results are simply inadequate.” It made me to re-think . But non-performers do [...]
My New Group on Linkedin – HR Carnival
Posted by gireesh on June 1st, 2010
After mid-night there is a sunshine. After every depth of despair, there is a height of Hope. And so did I have one. After a frustrated experience with Linkedin Groups, I thought to start my own Linkedin Group. So here is mine: HR Carnival on Linkedin HR Carnival is a group on linkedin for all [...]
NDTV Rquests: Help this cobbler's son to afford IIT
Posted by gireesh on May 31st, 2010
Request to all Visitors , my all Linkedin Connections and my all Twitter Followers Dear Friends, If you read the below report from NDTV, you will feel ashamed on our country’s state of affairs. Education, which was once free to all, has now become a commodity. The government funded institutions like IIT have now become [...]
Compensation: Are you Underpaid? Measure Now!
Posted by gireesh on May 28th, 2010
Today I met a disgruntled employee in shared transport. This gentleman is a sales manager with a business solutions company and getting average salary. He complained to me that his salary is no where near his peers. I really hate employees who continuously speak foul about their employers. Today all white collar employment are at [...]
CEO's Dilemma: My company – Love it or Scalpel it?
Posted by gireesh on May 4th, 2010
While working with a CEO of a mid sized company, and doing a SWOT analysis of its various departments , especially HR and Marketing, we realised that as we asked hard questions about the company and people – he suddenly took a protective stance. The more we tried to take the topic on the weaknesses, [...]