Have you ever wondered how ‘cannibalisation’ is common between products in the market and professionals in an organisation?

In marketing terms, ‘cannibalisation is the decreased demand for an existing product on account of its vendor releasing a new and similar product.’ For example, when Canon releases a new printer, it realises that older printers will suffer some erosion of sales or market share. That erosion is referred to as cannibalisation.

Can this be relevant to an organisation? Here is a story that tells you how.

In this time of economic uncertainty, the pressure to control costs is at a peak. With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources.

Malcolm Gladwell is a phenomenon. This trailblazing Canadian journalist, bestselling author and speaker has written four books that have brought together disparate views and research from unrelated subjects like science, psychology, sociology and marketing to create a whole new way of looking at the world and what we do. His book Outliers had the rare distinction of being advertised on MSNBC, despite being a non-fiction title.

If we are serious about gender equality at senior levels of organisations, men, not women, should be the focus of increased family-friendly workplace benefits.

This was the subject of the forum meet held at Ahmedabad in February. Samir Parikh of Naman Integrated Management Services and his associate, Gargi Sawant, an organization development and human resources consultant shared their experiences of working with various organizations on compensation packages, thus providing insights into the complexities and challenges of designing ‘total rewards packages.’

Total Rewards Packages

If the senior employee you've spent thousands recruiting is a bad fit, you lose even more. Here's how to ensure a smooth transition.

The world of HR views the word ‘performance’ with completely different connotations, usually as something to do with how well an employee is working.  On the other hand, Indians generally don’t look to actors to improve their communication skills. David Lewis, the Co–founder and CEO of Pinnacle Performance Company, came, saw and conquered by overturning such perceptions, for him ‘performance’ means how well you act on a stage.

Highly skilled professionals are fast joining the temp ranks, so start planning your career as a consultant now, says HotGigs CEO Doug Berg.

by Marshall Goldsmith

At the SHRM forum meet in Kolkata in January 2012, Professor Saugata Ray, Dean-Academics, IIM-Calcutta shared his perspective on what is happening in the talent market globally and how Human Resource Management is going to evolve in the future.

He began by modestly saying that what he planned to share was primarily conjecture, based on his point of view of the future, his understanding and his experience. However, what followed was an immensely informative and inspiring talk on the current scenario and the future of the Human Resource function.

A group discussion was led by the SHRM India regional team and the members of the steering committee on the topic ‘Conflict Resolution-Employee versus Employee’ in the Noida forum on 16th July 2011. Dipti Rane, Regional Manager, North and East coordinated the group discussion.
Dipti built the base for discussion by asking the attendees to read out the given conflict input situations. They were then asked to work in groups to present their inputs for managing conflict situations as per the following framework: