Speaking at National HR Conference on Social #HR organized by @Sapphire_XLRI at @XLRIOnline

It's always a pleasure to go back to one's alma mater - and this weekend I would be looking forward to speaking at the 7th National HR Conference organized by SAPPHIRE - the HR Club of XLRI, Jamshedpur.

I would be speaking on the topic “Relevance of Technology in Driving Cultural Change” on 11th of January, 2015 at 09:30 am. As the agenda says: "The models for Change Management in organizations are continuously evolving and improving. The HR function is considered the custodian and bringer of change. With the evolution of technology, the way change is executed and communicated in an organization has undergone a paradigm shift, as the knowledge of any change now percolates through the organization much quicker through both formal and informal networks. Here we talk about how technology can aid us bring about more effective change management and how it should be used to best control it."

You can find the list of speakers here and the agenda here

The conference is extra special, because in January 1998, I was a member of SAPPHIRE and was part of the organizing committee of the 1st National HR Conference :) 

Will be posting insights from the conference on Twitter. You can follow me here 

 

HNY 2015! And Some interesting blog posts

At the outset here's wishing you all a very happy new year 2015!! Hope it's a great year - and may you achieve a lot of happiness and joy with your loved ones! Because that's all that matters in the end - careers, money and material success are merely the means - and may you achieve those too :)

So here are a few blog posts and articles that have made me think to start you thinking in the new year:

Why HR Heads make great CEOs - really!

The art and science of giving and receiving criticism at work

As robots grow smarter, American workers struggle to keep up


Over half of Indian employees look to switch jobs in 2015- HR folks, are you ready?


Demand for managers with packages higher than a crore grows by 25-30%, say headhunters - that's around US $1.6 million p.a. in India!

XLRI announces 7th National HR Conference on "Social HR and Technological Applications in HR"

A decade from now, will our offices commute to us?

Why leadership-development programs fail

The 'On-Demand Economy' Is Reshaping Companies And Careers

P.S. Also check out my employer's LinkedIn page and Blog ->

Flipkart on LinkedIn and the Flipkart Blog

 

New assignment - focused on employer branding leveraging social media

Here's an update - I have joined Flipkart as Director - Talent Branding. In this role, I would be driving the Talent Branding initiatives of Flipkart across various talent segments. I would also be responsible for creating, enhancing, maintaining virtual presence of Flipkart's Talent Acquisition team through channels like career site, job portals, and social platforms

Here's the coverage on Social Samosa
And yes, I have relocated to Bangalore and looking forward to my third stint in the city :)

HR Director salaries in India

So I was poking about the Payscale site yesterday and discovered this chart about HR Director salaries in India reported by 260 individuals apparently with that designation.

Human Resources (HR) Director Salary (India)

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My first thought, some thing is wrong.

Yes, it is a crowdsourced report and there can be people overstating their designations (and as someone pointed out) maybe smaller firms gave fancier designations and low salary.

But the low end and the median look too low - or maybe the data is skewed. What do you think?

"Like" my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HR.Blogger - 2000 and counting

In case you don't know, I operate a Facebook page called, er, quite unimaginatively "Gautam Ghosh" where I share interesting news and updates linked to HR, the future of work and careers.

So if you want to be updated about what I am reading and finding interesting these days - just head over to that page and "like" it :)


At the most I post twice a day - and with Facebook's algorithms working the way they are, it's likely you might not even see an update :) 

Top 50 HR Blogs to read in 2015

The folks at HR Software Insight compiled a list of top 50 HR Blogs to read in 2015 and this blog was listed there :)

Yeah, that makes me happy :)

Go ahead check out the list - there are many high quality blogs that you might love subscribing to ! 

The collaboration code. #ihrchat in the news

If you're in HR and active on Twitter then you know that there's an active Twitter chat called #ihrchat moderated by Tanvi Gautam. Last week the topic was on collaboration and the guest was Essar Group's HR Head Aadil Malia.

Tanvi then also wrote an article recaping the chat for Mint. And yours truly is quoted :)

Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh), a social media HR leader, noted how the archetype of the lone creator was a myth, yet organizations often didn’t reward collaboration.
Ghosh shared the way to an information and image management model that lays out the life cycle of collaboration: 

• Awareness: We become part of a working entity with a shared purpose

• Motivation: We drive to gain consensus in problem-solving or development

• Self-synchronization: We decide as individuals when things need to happen

• Participation: We participate in collaboration and we expect others to participate

• Mediation: We negotiate and we collaborate to find a middle point

• Reciprocity: We share and we expect sharing in return through reciprocity

• Reflection: We think and we consider alternatives

• Engagement: We proactively engage rather than wait and see.