Why Emoticons are essential to your employee engagement survey
I was late. @#^*$* traffic! The SMS I sent my team went something like this. I was irritated and embarrassed and hoped to get some sympathy. The emoticons helped. The …
Employee Engagement: What, Why and How
What is employee engagement? Why do organizations need it today? Employee Engagement is the holy grail of HR departments. A quick search on google or social media indicates a rising …
Year-end surveys are going the way of the dinosaurs!
Research has shown that employee engagement is the number one priority for CEOs. This is probably not surprising given the impact that engaged employees can have on an organization’s bottom …
Organizational Culture and the Law of Evolution
As I mentioned in my previous article on Entropy and Employee Engagement, I have been reading the book “Management from the Masters” by Morgan Witzel where he has looked through …
Entropy, Time’s Arrow and Cultural shifts
I have been reading the book “Management from the Masters” by Morgan Witzel where he has looked through history at what he terms Universal “laws” (not necessarily in the scientific …
Recruitment Analytics is more than just resume matching
This post first appeared in DNA India on 27th October, 2016. One of the areas where analytics has made much headway within the HR world is in recruitment analytics. There …
A brave new digital world for HR.
This article first appeared in DNA India on 20th October, 2016. Anjali is a new joinee to a top IT organization. The day she joins, a suite of applications are …
Can algorithms reinforce our biases?
This article first appeared in DNA India on 13th October, 2016. A recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) interview on misuse of algorithms got me thinking about whether the algorithms we …
The shelf life of a ‘millennial’
This article first appeared in DNA India on 8th October, 2016. Every HR or Workforce conference that one goes to, one of the dominant themes is with regard to how …
Data Scientists are primarily Data Janitors
This article first appeared in DNA India on 1st October, 2016. You know how it is. Data science is considered to be one of the sexiest occupations in the world …
