What is Competency Based Assessment – Meaning and Important Concepts
With the ever evolving and diversifying business challenges, the approach to the management of human resources has also undergone a paradigm shift. The competitive advantage achieved through technology, new products and information is short lived and vastly evaporating. The only distinguishing feature...
Ethical Considerations in Competency based Assessments
Assessments of any kind have a bearing on the careers of the individuals hence when assessments are carried out certain ethical considerations should be taken care of: Assessments are conducted for several purposes in the organization, whatever the purpose is, it needs...
The Challenges of Recruiting and Onboarding Remote Employees in Virtual Workplaces
The Recruitment and Onboarding of New Employees in Virtual Workplaces With much of the corporate world operating virtually and where WFH or Work from Home is the New Normal, HR (Human Resources) personnel find it challenging to conduct regular HR work in...
Compensation and the IT Sector
The IT (Information Technology) sector comprising of software and hardware sectors is a sunrise sector in many countries. Despite the fact that the sector has been around since the late 1980’s, the sector is considered relatively young and a place for innovation,...
Characteristics of Engaged Workforce
The level of employee engagement can be measured by the willingness and ability of employees to contribute to the success of their organisation. It is their discretionary effort which is an essential element for the good health and well being of a...
The Challenges of Managing Attrition in Contemporary Organizations
The Reasons for Attrition In recent months, there has been a spate of news items about how attrition is taking its toll on many organizations in Asia and especially in the IT sector in India. Whereas in the west, because of the...
The Process of Competency Based Assessment
The increasing competition and changing business needs demand that the HR professionals responsible for the management of human resources of an organization upgrade and modify their roles and become strategic business partner and an important stakeholder in the growth of the organization....
Choosing the Right Business School and Major in the Course
An important decision that confronts all aspiring management graduates is about the kind of business school that they would want to join after clearing the entrance procedures. This decision must be taken after due diligence is done on the various business schools...
Common Resource Pool Model of Human Capital Management
Human Capital Management is defined as a process that ensures the right candidate is hired for the right job, trained form time to time, managed well and also retained in the organization. Human Capital management makes the best possible use of skills...
Techniques for Collecting Data for Training Needs Assessment
The process of needs assessment happens at three stages or levels, the organisational, the job and the person or the individual. This is the basis for any needs assessment survey and remains the same more or less in all organisations around the...