1. VOLUME-V I ISSUE 6 I JUNE 2015
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HAT are the challenges
employers face today
in terms of learning
and development of
employees? To explore
how companies and their HR leaderships
organised a Learning & Employee
Development Conclave 2015 in
association with ITM Executive Education
Centre in Mumbai on May 22.
HR leaders from petrochemical,
banking, IT, hospitality and education
spoke at the event and interacted with
audience members comprising of HR
managers from across industries.
Bhosale, senior vice president and
head- Human Resources, Essar Oil, said
the challenges in his sector included
managing talent in senior level as well
as junior level given the nature of the oil
business.
He also said the aim is to create an urge
within employees to learn.“Learning
is more inside-out. The challenge is to
create that urge to learn and convert
training into learning. Then the value
additions come,”he said.
Arvind N. Agrawal, management
board member and president-Corporate
Development & Human Resources,
RPG Enterprises, said the challenge was
coming from global markets.
“So making mindsets (of employees)
global is the single biggest challenge.
The second is preparing people for
managing scale and complexities and
the third is the rising cost of the people --
whether it’s labour or skill management.”
RV Balasubramaniam Iyer, VP-Learning
& Development, Reliance Jio Infocomm,
said companies are still not sure how to
deal with the learning audience. He said
there is a need for a universal learning
management system that works for
everybody across the country.
For Mayur Satyavrat, senior vice
president and head-learning and
organisation development, RBL Bank,
the unique roles within the company.
“”What is my strategy that will cater to
these roles multiplied by that many skill
build the competitive advantage.”
The other challenge, Satyavrat said, was
is becoming impatient. Every day is an
opportunity cost for them,”he said.
Prof RSS Mani, vice president -
Institutional Development, ITM Group
of Institutions, said companies need
to build emotional bonds with the
employees.“Many companies have this
feeling: I often train employees but
they leave. But what if you don’t train
them and they don’t leave. So you are
left with a set of people who are not
able to contribute productively to the
organisation.” He said that Gen Z was
Speaking about the hospitality industry,
Prashant Khullar, VP-HR, Mahindra
Holidays, said their domain was about
people serving people. “So our USP is to
make every moment magical.”
He said that to achieve this, the group
has set up academies that address skills
and competencies across the business.
“We are expanding into rural areas and
we send recruitment teams to smallest
on board and put them through the
programmes.”
Nitinchandra Shende, global head-
Talent Management, Persistent Systems,
said in their company, the focus is on
making individuals take up ownerships.
“The aim is to make them learn on
their own; how they are employing the
skills on the job. The individuals are
given a problem statement and they
contest among themselves. So we give
ownership of learning,”he said.
timely employee training and learning
and skill development was fast becoming
vital for the growth of organisations.
Employee skilling and learning vital for
business growth, say HR leaders
Learning & Employee Development Conclave 2015, Mumbai