How organizations use rewards to attract and retain employees, and drive performance: Decades ago, the answer to the question, “What motivates an employee to go to work every day?” was fairly simple a need to put food on the table. Jobs that offered a high fixed pay were in demand because they allowed people to

I go for long walk in the housing complex where I stay. I noticed recently that day a certain tree was in full bloom. And the next day somebody had fixed on the tree what looked like a notice but it wasn’t. The ‘notice’ gave details of the botanical name of the plant, and further

When I was asked to write for this magazine this year, one of the topics suggested to me by the editorial team was to write about my view of “Performance Appraisals – The Way Forward”. My first response was one of recoil. At its very best, the idea of performance appraisals is an outdated approach

By Joshua Mark David MBA (Human Resource Management), Batch of 2015-17, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar “IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR” SAID DEAN, TURNING TO HIS SPOUSE. “EXPECTATION IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER”, REPLIED SUE. “THIS TIME I AM SURELY GOING TO HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD”. Fastforward. Dean sits at his workstation