Integration of workforce has been a thorny issue and a cause of litigation and strikes.
Pondicherry University, Directorate of Distance Education, invites applications for admission to various undergraduate programmes for the academic year 2006-2007.
Dip in attrition rates and higher bench strength seem to be signalling a normal year for hiring in FY24.
Infosys Technologies appears to have set out on a journey of generational change which will unravel over the next few years.
Bhasker Sen, chairman and managing director of UBI, discusses the bank's plan in the areas of business growth and human resources with Parnika Sokhi and Manojit Saha.
This is reportedly the first time that the names recommended by a search committee have been shot down by the HRD ministry
Under him, IIM-A went from having 12 partner institutions for student exchange programmes to 50 by 2006-07. The icing on the cake was the one-year programme for management executives, and students in this batch got the highest salaries offered that year, right from the first batch itself.
The United Progressive Alliance government has initiated a move to revive a 20-year-old controversial bill which seeks to give representation to workers on company boards. As a first step, Union Labour Secretary Prabhat Chaturvedi met human resource directors and other senior officials of 12 'Navratna' PSUs in Delhi.
In FY23, the State Bank of India (SBI) reported a 57.4 per cent jump in its net profit to Rs 55,684.17 crore. But the chairman of the country's largest bank, Dinesh Khara's annual pay for this creditable performance was just Rs 37 lakh (his peers at state-run banks are no better off). Look at his private bank rivals - most pocketed in excess of Rs 7 crore annually - plus stock options.
Infosys Technologies Limited, the Bangalore-based consulting, IT services and business process management company, is leveraging its human resource (HR) development strategies to bring new business into its fold, said company's chief executive officer and managing director S Gopalakrishnan (Kris).
Amid a spike in Covid-19 cases, the Centre on Monday reviewed with states and Union territories the preparedness for pandemic management and the progress of vaccination.
Some directors think pooling their resources - financial and faculty - for their international foray makes eminent sense.
Information, communication and entertainment have given way to the new ICE, he says, adding that a steady revival of the job market in these sectors has prompted this change.
A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed on Thursday in Penang between Romli Bin Hj Hassan, director general of Malaysia's human resources ministry and G Raghavan, president, NIIT Global Individual Learning Business.
Rajya Sabha Chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar sought views of leaders of various political parties on ways to curb disruptions in the House at a meeting held on Sunday on the eve of the start of the second phase of the Budget session.
Software firm Cognizant Technology Solutions will be recruiting about 18,000 IT professionals before the year end in addition to the present 38,000 workforce, a top company official said on Saturday.
We believe the retail banking still remains a great opportunity. It is a long-term story. The level of penetration of the retail credit in India is estimated around 10 per cent of GDP as against other Asian countries, where it is 30-40 per cent.
The hiring scenario is for the batch that passes out in 2024. These are graduates who will be impacted, given 2022 graduates are not fully absorbed and 2023 onboarding still incomplete.
Job portals like Monster.com and Naukri.com affirmed the observation.
The board will now be headed by Vinod Kumar Yadav as chairman and CEO, and it will have four other members.
With traffic jams and other commuting related issues becoming the biggest excuse for employees reporting late to work, companies seem to have found a middle path for solving this problem by asking their workers to work from home.
The government appears to have hit upon a novel faculty-sharing solution to tackle the shortage of quality faculty at the premier Indian Institutes of Technology. The shortage will accentuate now that eight new IITs have been announced.
A three-member expert committee has recommended to the Union human resource development ministry, upgrading Banaras Hindu University's Information Technology Institute into a full-fledged Indian Institute of Technology.
Board member Tarun Das said the company has been approached for buyouts by both international and Indian IT firms. There have been unconfirmed reports that the company might soon appoint investment bankers to advise on a merger or sale. The board will meet for two days starting January 22 in Hyderabad and would discuss issues such as search CEO and CFO, legal matters and immediate cash requirements to run the company.
The national scheduled castes panel on Tuesday issued notices to Union human resource development secretary and IIT-Madras Director asking them to appear before it on June 8 amid a political row over de-recognition of a students' body comprising mostly dalits.
Even if I am born with all the natural attributes, certain characteristics are best when developed.
P N Dhoot wins 'Man of Electronics' award
Oracle India on Thursday launched its human resources management system with India specific HR features that include payroll system which incorporates the country's tax forms among others.
Billionaire Gautam Adani's group is building the world's largest renewable energy park in Gujarat, as it eyes a massive 45 GW capacity to generate electricity largely from solar energy. Speaking at the opening of 'Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery' at the Science Museum in London, Gautam Adani said his group's renewable energy arm, Adani Green Energy, is leading an energy transition that honours the commitment of taking care of the planet not just for this generation and the next but also for generations to come. "As the world's leading solar power developer and India's largest renewable energy company, we are taking very big steps," he said.
The human resource development ministry is slated to introduce a bill in the monsoon session of the Parliament to provide for an internationally acceptable certification for Indian engineers.
IDBI has hired human resource consultancy firm Hewitt & Associates for advice on introducing cost-to-company approach and an integrated compensation package for employees, chairman and managing director M Damodaran said on Friday.
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World Bank is expected to extend $2.5 billion loans to India this fiscal, which is lower than the targeted $3 billion annually during 2004-07.
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has convened the meeting of directors of all IIMs to discuss issues relating to, among other things, autonomy and measures to further strengthen the institutions.