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The Times of India Monday December 31, 2007
Bumper year for city in IT hiring |
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The Hindu Business Line Monday December 24, 2007
De-risking the staffing business |
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The Economic Times Thursday December 12, 2007
Career detours:Pursue dreams amid sabbatical breaks |
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The Economic Times Thursday November 29, 2007
Rupee blow : IT cos to go slow on hiring support staff |
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The Hindu Business Line Monday November 26, 2007
Building high performance teams |
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The Economic Times Tuesday November 13, 2007
IT giants fine-tune bench management |
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The Hindu Friday November 2, 2007
IT companies tighten purse strings to cut costs |
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Times of India, Sept 17, 2007
Indian tech campuses turn melting pots of diversities |
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Times of India, August 23, 2007
IT companies create shadow talent pool |
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Economic Times, August 22, 2007
IT companies show the door to deadwoods |
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Times of India, June 26, 2007
Bubble CEOs’ fill vacuum on top |
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DNA, June 15, 2007
Men are top job ditchers, women loyal, says study |
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Economic Times, May 28, 2007
Recruitment Sector gets into M&A mode |
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Times of India, May 03, 2007
Women slam move to ban night shift |
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Business Line, March 06, 2007
Venture Capital firms' move to recruit, retain talent |
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Business Line, March 01, 2007
Union Budget 2007-08 for Women |
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Times of India, Feb 22, 2007
Talent also has a shelf-life |
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Talent also has a shelf-life |
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BANGALORE: Twenty-five-year-old Ashish Malhotra joined a tier I tech firm in Bangalore as a project assistant three years ago. He was a good performer in the first 30 months. But then he started losing interest. His productivity dipped without any "apparent" reason. HR consultant Nirupama V G says they helped Ashish find another job.
With talent increasingly getting commoditised, enterprises are facing a new HR challenge that experts call "shelf-life erosion".
Like products on a retail shelf, people too are seen now to have a shelf-life. And again, like in products wherever rapid fashion changes are translating into shorter shelflives, the talent shelf-life too is seen to be getting shorter and shorter.
The shelf-life of an employee can relate to the organisation as a whole or to a department/division/function of the organisation. Over the years, employees’ learning opportunities vanish as they stop innovating/learning and employers cease to provide for further career development.
"This leads to low productivity of employees, and eventually shelf-life erosion and attrition." says T Sreedhar, Chairman, Executive Recruiter’s Association.
Mamtha Jain, human resource consultant, says over a period of time, employers and employees start taking each other for granted. This scenario is now making HR managers to take note as it contributes to over 50% attrition, she says.
HR experts are now trying to make companies aware of the issue. Says Chaitanya Nadkarny, Director (HR), Thought Works "An employee can be kept engaged in a role as long as there is continuous learning. Without this, there is the danger of a sense of fatigue, expiry of shelf-life and eventual loss of productivity."
Nirupama V G, Managing Director, Ad Astra Consultants, attributes part of the problem to companies tending to make employees accountable without sharing responsibilities.
Shelf-life erosion is seen to be rampant at junior and mid-management levels, where the nature of the job could be transactional or operational. Zubin Shroff, MD, Singapore-based Talent Management Group, says "IT and BPO are quite prone to this, while retail and banking are getting there."
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