Instead of choosing the best person for an organisation, choose the right person, said J.K. Group of Companies’ Managing Director Harshpati Singhania here on Thursday.
Speaking at the inaugural of the three-day 34th national-level inter-company Human Resources Management (HRM) conference here, he said that in today’s open market, imports were coming down due to globalisation and this brought down tariff barriers. Everyone had the same technology. Channels of distribution were available to all. Everyone had access to finance. And above all, everyone had information at the click of their smartphones.
Hence, the Human Resources Managers had to understand that it was the people (employees) who alone could make a difference in a fairly standardised market as all others remained almost similar, Mr. Singhania noted, and added that picking up the right person had become all the more challenging.
Expressing concern over the deteriorating quality in standards of education, the industrialist said that it was one prime reason for industrial undertakings training people at regular intervals. “There has to be constant learning and relearning which will improve efficiency and thereby productivity.”
In his keynote address, Managing Director of J.K. Fenner (India) Ltd Vikrampati Singhania said that the HR team members should move from back-office approach to the battle-field approach. Managers in the industries had to learn to adapt to changes around them. Dealing with young applicants, who comprised a majority of the Indian population, and the growing use of technology, the HR managers should create excitement at work spot and among the team members. Yet another big challenge was to build good relationship between employer and employee, which was, of late, witnessing, a paradigm change.
Mr. Singhania also stressed the need for quality in implementation and not just execution. Periodic evaluation and encouragement with increments would bring down attrition at all levels in an organisation.
Earlier, in his welcome address, JK Group HR president Dilep Misra said that persons hired for an organisation should have passion to work in a team and fire in the belly, which would play a pivotal role.
JK Fenner (India) president Nagaraju Srirama, S. Bhaskaran of Strategy Consultant, Bangalore, among others, spoke.
“HR team members should move from back-office approach to the battle-field approach”
