HR and best practices
By Ergo Correspondent
Chennai will play host to the NASSCOM HR Summit 2009 on July 28 and 29 at hotel Le Royal Meridien. The summit holds significance as 2008 has been a turbulent year, with the economic slowdown and issues around handling workforce making the role of HR more challenging. This year the theme is ‘Balancing the Board: Cost and Competencies’.
The two-day event will be attended by industry bigwigs like Som Mittal, president NASSCOM; Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO and MD, Infosys Technologies; Sanjay JOG, Group HR Head, Future Group; Ian Gore, HR Head, South Asia, CITI; and Suresh C. Senapaty, Executive Director and CFO, Wipro, to name a few.
Top industry heads will be sharing insights on how the economic crisis has reshaped the industry, the most difficult decisions that leaders had to take and how they were handled, expectation from HR heads and importance of employer branding, to name a few.
Speakers Anand Pillai, senior vice-president, HCL Technologies; Karthik N. Sarma, Chief People Officer, WNS Global Services; and Prabir Jha, Senior Vice-President and Global Chief, HR, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, will discuss how to assess employees’ needs and their perception of the company, what engagement strategies can be worked out for employees on the bench and the top five drivers that keep employees engaged.
‘Going Global: Key imperatives for creating a global workforce’; ‘Looking into the future: Top five HR practices to follow’; ‘Managing Variable Pay: Approach and implementation case studies’ are some of the other topics for discussion. The valedictory will be presented by Subroto Bagchi of MindTree on ‘Doing the right thing: Making ethics a way of life’.
Who can attend?
The summit can be attended by CEOs, senior HR professionals and training and industry-academia alliance heads. For further details log on to www.nasscom.in
Posted on July 26, 2009 | 06:42 pm · Filed Under Coverage, Namma Chennai
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