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Cultural Fitment: The Silent Killer of Organizational Growth

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In the first decade of the 21st century, the idea of “Cultural Fitment [Fit]” started gaining momentum. CXOs in general started recommending the practice to their respective organizations and ensured that it being followed in principle. People’s theories around the practice and HR interventions were in full bloom for its application. Somehow, I also fell prey to the notion and started designing HR interventions around the concept to the extent that in one of my previous organizations I worked at, my CEO got so much influenced about it that he went into announcing that in the company, efforts should be made to only check the fitment of the candidates for culture and not skill. No question were asked to check technical skills [atleast at his level]. Fast forward, it were winters in North India; I was sitting & soaking in the bright sunlight, flipping through few chapters of my book on Genetics. Suddenly, I stopped at a chapter which was about the principles & importance of ‘...
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HR Fragmentation - A reason for Worry for HR & Companies, Equally !

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On the periphery of a business stands HR. Its birth is circumstantial. Richard Arkwright, who is widely considered as the father of the modern factory system, did not conceive a place for today’s HR. He and other entrepreneurs of the day were only interested in people who were directly helping them in meeting the demand of the time. Later came in picture, a person who generally was seen riding a horse, having a felt hate on his head and a ‘ Productivity tool ’ in his hands, called hunter. He had only one mandate - highest possible production by all means. We can draw a lineage of HR of today with this ‘Gentleman’? Then came a ‘ Period of Revolt .’ Agitations by workers were common all around the world. Governments of the day were pressurized to write labor laws on the one hand; and on the other hand, good Samaritan psychologists started giving various people centric theories.   One the best to quote here is Edwin Locke’s Goal Setting Theory of Motivation. Things started changi...
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Competency Framework: HR practice that needs salvation

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Since many decades, organizations have been advised to have business centric Competency Frameworks, suiting to their unique business natures and defining the core of their businesses. Frameworks are must for organizations because they help in identifying distinct ‘Organizational Capabilities’ and their continuous development to provide much required edge over their competition. Products, Processes and Marketing, may provide initial edge to organizations but they remain vulnerable due to their easy imitations by the competition. What makes organizations impregnable is their organizational capabilities. And what does make organizations impregnable? Their possessing  right Competency Frameworks. Frameworks which provide comprehensive directions to organisations, right from defining & driving core values, chosen paths to tread through their thoughtful  purposes and visions; take into account proven hierarchical and functional contours in terms of requisite competencies. ...
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Workforce Planning & Budgeting with 'Prajjo Workforce' Software

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The Industrial Revolution had been the precursor of the Workforce Planning & Budgeting process. By adopting the process, factories owner of the time used to plan their production. As time passed by, the importance of this process went up manifold. Prior to Information Technology age, the workforce mobilization cost was second to the raw materials cost. With the advent of IT, the workforce cost now ranges from the first to the second position of any organization depending upon the nature of the industry one is operating in. With Glocalization, organizations again came under tremendous stress to compete and remain viable. The factor of workforce cost has taken such an importance at the global macroeconomic level that this decides the movement of investment into suitable economies. Economies are considered favorable or unfavorable for investment depending upon the cost and the quality of workforce. Workforce related cost issues affect efficiency and even the survival of the o...
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