Organisations are complex systems. Their degree of success or failure is probabilistic. It is the result of how different internal parts interact with each other. ‘How different parts interact with each other’ is essence of an organisation’s strategy. Adding corporate jargon does not change that fact. Adaptive, what? The upside for organisations is that they are complex […]
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In today’s digital age, Human resources department is an outlier. Not in good sense, though. Just look at other departments & observe how data driven they are. Right from sales to products, finance to marketing. Each function has its own set of metrics, surfaced by the data from relevant sources. But HR metrics, in majority of the cases,
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Have you noticed that even with best of intentions, it can be easy to stray off track. You ambitiously set out on a journey and yet when it comes to reaching the destination, manage to get lost. It could be that you weren’t clear where you were headed. Maybe you were working on too many
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Startups are amazing for a number of reasons. Just to name a few – thrill of working on something exciting anticipation of sky-rocketing growth rewarding work culture bean bags, unlimited leaves 🙂 The last bullet point, isn’t one of those ‘real reasons’. But there lies the perception. People think bean bags & unlimited leave policy is the work culture. Clearly,
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The trend of open workspaces began in the early 21st Century with an aim to increase collaboration among employees and reduce hierarchical barriers in the organization. The idea was to replace closed cabins and cubicles where employees felt the management was unapproachable and inaccessible, with open areas. A large number of Silicon Valley companies specially
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Consider your team is growing at an exponential rate, and you have not been able to maintain employees’ records properly and most of them are saved in different files and systems. Suddenly an audit falls or even an employee query falls on your table. And you are left scrambling through all the workplace records from
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Greater productivity, lesser attrition rate and higher employee satisfaction levels are just some of the benefits of increasing employee engagement in the workplace. Yet according to a Gallup survey conducted in 2017, globally only 15% employees were said to be actively engaged in their work. These dismal numbers show that companies need to look at other initiatives to
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What is an Organizational Chart? An organizational chart, informally known as an org chart is a crucial tool that visually depicts the structure of an organization. It’s a graphic illustration of the roles, responsibilities and relationships among the members of an organization. It applies equally to business corporations, government agencies, non-profit organizations or any other
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Employee leave management may not sound like much to the layman. Although it plays an important role in the smooth functioning of any organisation. Consider the following scenario: “Dear John, I’m planning to take a vacation of 10 days from the 25th of March to 4th of April. Kindly take note that I will be
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Employees are the backbone of any organisation. It is their efforts that drive success. There is just one condition; employees need to be engaged in their work. According to a recent Gallup study, about 85% employees are not engaged or actively disengaged in their job! That’s a scary number if we talk about a global
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