An employee who wanted to quit after less than three months on the job was told to pay the company a month's worth of salary as compensation. While this was a clause found in the employee’s contract, it was an “unreasonable” one.

Small businesses often have a harder time attracting and hiring the best employees for specific jobs when they write traditional task-focused job descriptions in their job ads. Competency-based job descriptions is different from a standard job description.

An effective compensation strategy is a clear articulated document that serves as a guide to the organisation on how to manage employee compensation. It motivates current employees and is used as a tool to attract new talents.

Generally, most family business owners and entrepreneurs are busy growing their business and find themselves so bogged down in the day-to-day operations, that they don’t strategically plan for succession planning and how the transition may impact the business.

Ever wondered why organisations invest in job rotation where the roles require the employees to move between at least two job roles at consistent interims with the goal that they must get exposed to different job roles and verticals within the organisation?

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With the extensive publicity on the importance of upskilling the workforce, many organisations have tried to jump on the bandwagon. However, many are not able reap the effectiveness of these learning and development sessions when the employees are tasks to implement what they have learnt within the organisation.

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In every organization, human capital is one of the most important resources. Managing, nurturing and developing it effectively is the key to any successful organisation across industries today. As basic as it sounds, this process can be quite complexed. Many organisations have HR solutions, which are standalone and not integrated. This results in loss of direction across all levels within the organization.

Are you a HR professional or People Manager of a manpower driven industry which caters almost half of your time to talent search to beat the manpower crunch? Then maybe it’s time you redesign your recruitment process. Typically, a recruitment process would start with drafting job descriptions followed by...