The Human Factor

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January 2012

every manager is an HR manager

Jack Welch famously said, “My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people.” Jack Welch has a way with words, but the plain truth remain.... Read More

The Market’s Call
Paramjeet Singh, Managing Director, Springwel Mattresses Pvt. Ltd.
At Springwel, every manager is an HR manager and it is a philosophy that we follow. The growth of every successful company is driven primarily by its people. The hard work and dedication of an outstan.... Read More

Let there be positive energy
Rajeev Karwal, Founder, Milagrow TabTops
HRM is the art of appealing to the mind by approaching the heart, while marketing is entering the hearts by approaching the mind. HR must balance the heart and mind both. In any organisation or even i.... Read More

Mentor, trainer & motivator
Rajesh Jumani (Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, TATA Interactive Systems) Shares with Sushmita Yadav that many knowledge workers today know more about what they are doing than their bosses
Rajesh Jumani has been associated with Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) for over 13 years in diverse capacities including business development in California and setting up and managing the Middle East m.... Read More

A Clean Slate of Information
Rohit Kapoor (HR Director, Dassault Systèmes india) talks about the elements that make a manager and highlights the areas where the roles of the HR manager and that of the manager are increasingly intermingling with each other, in an interview with Shipra Sharma
Rohit Kapoor heads the HR department at Dassault Systèmes India. A Chemistry Hons. graduate, he has proved that it is the zeal of a man that leads to the makings of a great career irrespective of acad.... Read More

Finding the missing link
Arvind Desai, HR - Head, Parag Milk Foods Pvt. Ltd.
There is a modern mantra that every line manager is an HR manager first and then a line manager. Today’s managers do more than just managing the team. From merely assigning tasks, the new-age manager .... Read More

Best managers help their teammates
Rumjhum Chatterjee, Managing Director and Head of Human Capital, Feedback Infrastructure
All managers are HR managers, and may I say, all managers ought to be HR managers.

To tell you the truth, I believe that is what differentiates leaders from non-leaders. The job of a leader i.... Read More

The Balanced Manager
Deepak Behl, Director HR, Hilton Hotels (Double Tree), lists down the various roles of a manager that are linked to the HR Manager
Is every manager an HR manager is the question in view. Let us see first what all are the duties of the manager which are related to HR and what he has to perform in today’s dynamic corporate world. A.... Read More

Relationship of trust
Anu Singh (Head HR, Sarla Technologies) pens down her journey of building an organisation from the scratch and taking it to greater heights in due course of time
Imagine if you had to reshape the HR framework for your organisation from scratch with little or no constraints; I got an opportunity to do that in my organisation. Further, the passion and purpose of.... Read More

The art of managing people
Vikas Khanvelkar (Managing Director, DesignTech Systems Ltd.) explains that the work is automatically managed, if the people in the team are well managed by the manager
Amanager from any department, be it sales, marketing, accounts etc. has to manage two critical factors in their work profile: first getting the assigned work done through the team, and secondly, yet e.... Read More