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4 Steps to Douse the Fiery Flames of Office Politics

We all tend to disagree on various matters, have different priorities and may even want to change other’s opinions to achieve our vested interests – but what lengths should one go to achieve it? A research team from at the University of Amsterdam found that 90 per cent of total office conversation qualifies as gossip. … Read more

How to Ensure Gender Equality at the Workplace?

Gender Equality at the workplace, is it a myth? While there is lots being said and done about gender equality, and even with global progress in women’s pay-scale parity to men – there is much left wanting. The workplace is still a man’s world, with a significant share of Americans (45%) who feel that the … Read more

What Competencies are most used across Performance Appraisals?

Our customers often ask “What key competencies should we use during the design of a Performance Appraisal System?” Using data for over 110,000 appraisals, we could quickly identify over 800 competencies that were being used. Since this was a large set, we used the SHRM Leadership Competencies to group these into 3 categories and 20 … Read more

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Warning – 45 Per Cent Employees Quit their Job in Less Than a Year!

This is a shocking statistic; especially with the thousands of dollars that your company loses out on, in hiring and training every new hire. In my previous blog post, I had discussed the reasons why employees exit their organization. With top motives being: Personal problems Miscellaneous reasons (commuting issues, interpersonal conflicts, quality of work, work-life-balance … Read more

Overtime Benefits CAN KILL your Business

Ordinarily, you would read the headline and elicit a fairly obvious and righteous response. ‘How can that be? Overtime pay is only a fair proposition, for every employee – who invests extra time towards your organisation. It is almost a basic right!’ you would exclaim.

Unveil the Workplace Superheroes – Top Performing Employee Checklist

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No its your friendly neighborhood workplace hero! We live in highly competitive times. Thus your company may face increase in employee attrition, due to more job options, spread of the big entrepreneurial dream & a very flighty millennial talent pool. Yet, you want only the finest talent to work with … Read more

Why do employees exit? Analysis of Employee Exit Reasons using 50K+ records

It is painful when an employee exits your organization. You have spent years working together, building camaraderie, sharing goals and challenges and their quitting can be devastating in many ways. Can something be done about this? Are you tracking Employee Exit Reasons and can HR do something using this data? Susan M Heathfield, a Human … Read more