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How to Change Your Corporate Culture

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  Every organization has a distinctive style of working which is called its culture. The policies, principles, how employees interact, and how the management deals with employees- all contribute to the culture. It is said that an organization’s culture is like the wind. You can’t see it, but you can feel it. And it’s present around you. CEOs and leaders across the globe are trying to create a corporate culture with better customer care and create an  organization  that’s nimble and agile. However, culture change is challenging for organizations to transform and become adaptive and innovative. It’s because you can’t accomplish it through the top-down command. For a culture change to happen, the collective efforts of the people and their shared awareness of how things are accomplished are important. Have a clear strategy  An organization’s cultural aspects are reflected in collaboration, trust, and willingness to work toward a common goal. A clear corporate strategy ca...

Ways to Solve Handling Mass Layoffs

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  With news of massive layoffs going rounds, we deep dive into understanding how organizations can handle layoffs better and compassionately.  Christina did not know how to react or what to do. She was laid off from work within two days of joining a social media giant in Canada! She felt devastated, and tears rolled up in her eyes. After working in a tech firm in Hyderabad for four years, she moved to Canada to live her dream. She faced the long and grueling visa process with a smile as she dreamed of working and living in Canada. But within two days, her world crumbled. The irony is that she did not even get a chance to work for the company. Christina’s is not a unique case. Many such employees were laid off for no reason of theirs. Why do layoffs need to be handled correctly? There are multiple reasons why organizations lay off their workforce. Even in the peak of the Great Resignation, too, some companies laid off large numbers of employees. But  the announcements of l...

Infectious Candidates with Criminal Records are more vulnerable than the Corona Virus.

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  For those businesses with high standards in the marketplace, companies are sometimes pressured by limitations such as resources and time at hand when they have to hire personnel. They have to act quickly in such times. It is also true that each applicant is a security risk as well. In these times of the Covid-19 Coronavirus, we are all re-learning the importance of prevention. We are all better off if we invest soon enough in prevention. Similarly, performing background checks on new applicants is perhaps the best way to stop potential security issues that would affect your business from arising at all. As far as  background verification companies in Chennai  are concerned, we at Verifitech India are proud to claim that we are the best in the category.  Why Background Checks Background Checks serve as a pre-employment screening of the candidate’s claims as far as education, previous employment, licenses held, criminal record history, etc., are concerned. Some obvio...

HR Leadership Lessons From Ponniyin Selvan

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With ace filmmaker  Mani Ratnam’s  directorial HR Leadership Lessons From Ponniyin Selvan raking the moolah in theatres, there’s a lot of discussion on the story which is based on Kalki’s book of the same name, the Chola dynasty, and the film’s characters. Imperial Cholas were the longest-ruling dynasty in Indian history, and it was also one of the most outstanding empires that the country has ever seen. Cholas were known for their leadership qualities; whoever has seen the film or read the book would have a glimpse of the same. Here, we look at some of the HR Leadership Lessons from the historical fiction  Ponniyin Selvan . Out-Of-The-Box Thinking We get to know the might of Cholas in naval force through the movie. They built ships and recruited warriors and seamen to make a dominant force. They used their navy not only to conquer other countries but also to safeguard the traders who came to do business with them. Historians say that Chola ships regularly sailed to the e...