Human Resource Strategy Human resource departments are pivotal in streamlining business processes within professional organizations. Employee productivity, satisfaction, and interdepartmental interactions can be improved through progressive human resource strategies. As described in the materials "HCL Technologies: Employee First, Customer Second," a large Information Technology company, HCL makes innovative internal changes in order to keep up with growing demand, workforce expansion and ever-changing customer need. The changes implemented by Vineet, president of

There is a profound and emotional stigma linked with outsourcing. For firms it gives hope and assurance for survival but for those relocated the topic is met with strong anger. Throughout the years of prosperity outsourcing was used to increase operating return-on-investment (ROI) and fill supply gaps that could not be provided domestically. Now that circumstances are different outsourcing is looked at as a means for continued existence. However outsourcing

Infosys The recent initiatives of HR definitely contributed to the discontent among the employees. The first was variable pay. This concept was viewed poorly by the majority of employees as a ploy to lower compensation costs. While variable pay worked for the senior executives of the company, the reality is that senior executives a) are often competitive in nature and are thus motivated by the challenge to excel and b) make

The case study is well-researched, logical, and is almost a text-book example of the way new modeling theories of management can be incorporated into traditional cultures. We must remember, by most standards, India has only been a democracy for about 1/2 a century, and needed time to evolve and develop a culture in which sharing of responsibility, encouragement of constructive dissent, and models of shared excellence were acceptable to most

Managerial Challenges The global recession that hit the business world and to some extent the private sector saw unprecedented migration of employees across companies predominantly due to the uncertainty in the job security that from factual sacking or laying off by the organizations. Many people looked at the rate of unemployment and loss of jobs and even without proper prompting opted to jump ship. This trend of attrition became so common

sexual harassment and its negative impact on workplace. Many companies in past have faced the incidence of harassment due to which the company image was also negatively affected. Certain preventative measures and policies can help the companies maintain a safe and harassment free workplace for all workers. VICTIMS RIGHTS MOVEMENT Issue Description Sexual harassment is one of the most disturbing issues faced in the workplace. This creates many negative impacts on employees,