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HR Agility: Managing the Change!

Progressive organisations that are seeking a profound competitive edge in the digital world have been increasingly focusing on the need for HR agility. However, there is lurking concern that HR agility is endangered to become a trending buzzword in corporate conversations. HR agility is basically the ability of the HR function to react instantly and adequately to the evolving employee expectation, business conditions and workplace disturbances. Therefore, HRs are expected to elevate their functions to a level where they can keep pace with the evolving demand. Today’s business processes have a more stable environment. The objective is to drive efficiency, consistency and risk reduction through tight procedures and controls. It is with the emergence of global competition, changing customer demand, political turmoil, supplier upheavals and economic troughs that the stability is getting replaced with permanent volatility. Gone are the days when the pre-structured polici

How to get grip on workplace bullying?

Akeela having completed her executive MBA in marketing from a top b-school has recently joined a tech startup in Bangalore. During the interviews, she was trying to gauge the culture of the company however with limited time available in the office space and lack of inputs available on the internet about the startup company, she couldn't find much information and reviews. Shortly after joining, she realised that her boss, an ex-star rated employee of a big 4 firm, has been extremely loud and foul mouth. While Akeela was on the learning curve in the very first week of joining, she found her boss to have humiliated her in public twice for not knowing a few data analytics processes. This was an extremely unsettling feeling for Akeela. Soon she found from her colleagues that there has been a high drop out in the past because of the bad behaviour with the employees. And in the very first month of her joining, she started regretting her decision of joining a startup. In the pres

Role of Artificial Intelligence in Logistics and Supply Chain Industry

As we are moving in the digital era, the term 'Man-made consciousness (AI)' is a part of our day by day discussions. We hear all kind of things about machine learning having a worldwide effect by streamlining and simplifying the procedure we perform to complete a task in a more productive and less tedious way. What is Artificial Intelligence?  We heard a lot of AI or technological advancements, but what exactly these terms are? In straightforward terms, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the capacity of a machine (or a mix of various machines) to settle on wise choices (like what people can take) in view of the accessible dataset. The process of self-learning by machines is otherwise called machine learning. How Artificial Intelligence is affecting the logistics industry? • The estimation of the Indian  logistics industry  is relied upon to increment from US$160 Bn to US$215 Bn in the following two years. • Indian organizations are quickly coordinating AI with th