After quitting Infosys Technologies Limited as its senior vice-president and group head, human resources, Hema Ravichandar has now joined Mercer Human Resource Consulting as an independent consultant.
Accenture, one of the leaders in global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, on Wednesday launched a training academy, in collaboration with Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur.
Mind Space Human Capital Services is looking for Technical Helpdesk Support Executives and Customer Service Executives for the UK, US and domestic processes.
Genpact on Monday said it has been ranked second in the 'Best Performing BPO' and 'Leaders in Human Capital Development' categories in the Global Services 100 survey conducted by neoIT and Global Services magazine.
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Female labour force participation in India is lower than many other EM economies.
President A P J Abdul Kalam Friday set a vision for turning Bihar into a developed state by 2015 through tapping of natural resources and human capital.
Nasdaq-listed IT services major Cognizant has been chosen as the 'Best US company in India' for 2005 by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce.
According to the study, Indian companies are mainly focused on existing products which leads to complacency and lack of innovation.
The key to job creation is to increase labour participation - draw more people into the labour force and to provide them formal jobs in the organised sectors. Self-employment is not job creation, says, Mahesh Vyas.
International Business Machines has created a $25 million fund to train its employees and business partners as part of the company's effort to make US technology industry more competitive globally, a media report said on Tuesday.
The US companies have huge interest in investing in high-tech commerce in India, which has the advantage of large human capital, David C Mulford, US Ambassador to India, said on Tuesday.
On India achieving higher growth, Rajan said 9 per cent, which is the widely believed potential growth rate of the economy, is still some time away.
More capital flows will lead to greater trade flows between the two countries.
Finding an increasing pool of professionals being dismissed, start-ups and others are improvising to offer emotional support and career guidance.
Ashish Mehrotra, MD and CEO, Max Bupa Health Insurance, explains the changes we can expect in health insurance this year.
'The Indian State needs to focus on healthcare, education, infrastructure and law and order, and get out of all these regulatory cholesterols.' 'Then, India will fly.'
Prime Minister Khan, in his address, said Pakistan will never fight any other country's war in future and his government's foreign policy will be in the best interest of the nation.
Europe reigns supreme among the world's most innovative nations.
'They suck talent and dump elsewhere,' says ZohO founder Sridhar Vembu.
If the employee is at a customer's location in some other country, his location and the amount of tine he spends with the client would be reflected
If Mr Modi and his team expect to win the 2019 elections, groundwork for improved performance in their second term should be done now.
'We have often heard the mythical argument that patents block access to life-saving drugs, but only 5% of medicines from multinational companies are under patent protection in India.' 'Where these patented products are beyond the reach of Indian patients, the companies have programmes to facilitate access to their drugs, for free or for a fraction of the price,' points out Ranjana Smetacek, former director general, Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India.
Emphasising on rewarding performers to improve performance, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Wednesday said government employees do not lack talent and they are as good as those working in the private sector.
India is fast re-emerging as a good business destination among foreign investors.
Rajan encouraged the Indian-American business community to get involved in the 'nitty gritty of the implementation process,' saying such involvement was not difficult especially since the Indian government has the political will to reform.
India has a unique window of opportunity to effectuate long-lasting structural change in its banking sector, says Riju Agrawal.
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German Chancellor Angel Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Switzerland President Simonetta Sommaruga would be participating in the 45th edition of the meet.
The new government has to make conscious efforts to rebuild social equality and bring the people together.
Since 2000-01, the Indian economy has shown the tendency of being unable to absorb all domestic savings as investments.
Indian companies are likely to shell out an average salary increment of 10.3 per cent in the current fiscal with employees in pharma, health care and life sciences projected to get 12.4 per cent raise, says a survey.
Edward Hess, Professor of Business Administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence, Darden School of Business, discusses the growth of technology and the challenges it creates for organizations with Sangeeta Tanwar.
In his first Republic Day-eve address to the nation, the President also said that institutions should be "disciplined and morally upright", adding they are always "more important" than the individuals in office. The institutions should also respect their "fraternal relationship" with other institutions, he added.
Democracies avoid serious political turbulence only so long as they ensure that the relative level of inequality between the rich and the poor does not become excessively large, says Vice President M Hamid Ansari.
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