Sunday, March 8, 2009

Opaque Pay


Women has always been suppressed by men. And this is being implemented in Corporate World also, and it is only because of that the concept of GLASS-CEILING and UNDERPAYMENT has came into existence. Women are paid lesser than men.

But Hello!!! It is 2009. All those who practice underpayment have to stop it. In real sense, the issue is not about pay, it is all about people's perception of their self-worth. You can't get compensation right, until your Performance Management System is right. Pay for Performance seems a really useless word in that case.

So, Stop Pay Discrimination, and start believing that Pay for Performance works.

Friday, March 6, 2009

2008 HRM Award Winners

Great Eastern Award for Employer of Choice
WINNER – Hewlett-Packard

Hudson Award for Champion of HR
WINNER - Kenneth Chan, Managing Director, McDonald's Restaurants

Robert Walters Award for Best HR Leader
Winner - Caroline Lim, Global Head of HR & Global Affairs, PSA

Michael Page Award for Best HR Manager
WINNER - Evelyn Ng, HR Manager, IKEA/IKANO

Award for Best HR Young Gun
WINNER - · Debbie Tham, Assistant HR Manager, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore

Aviva Award for Best HR Team
WINNER - · Shell Eastern Petroleum

Excellence Healthcare Award for Best Health & Safety
Winner - Singapore Police Force

Drake International Award for Best Use of Technology
WINNER - Hewlett-Packard

Academee Award for Best Change Management Practices
WINNER - Shell Eastern Petroleum

HRnet Performance Consulting Award for Best Performance Management
WINNER: Singapore Police Force

JobsFactory Award for Best Graduate Development Practices
WINNER · Shell Eastern Petroleum

Grass Roots Asia Pacific Award for Best Reward & Recognition Strategies
WINNER · Credit Suisse

OmniTouch Award for Best Mature Workforce Practices
WINNER : Changi General Hospital

Talent2 Award for Best Employer Branding
WINNER: Hewlett-Packard

Clayton Ford Recruitment Award for Best Business Continuity Practices
WINNER - SMRT Corporation

Kelly Services Award for Innovation in Recruitment
WINNER · McDonald's Restaurants

Fair Employment Practices
WINNER: IBM Singapore

Adecco Award for Best Talent Development Strategy
WINNER · Hewlett-Packard

Marketing Institute of Singapore Award for Best Training, Learning & Development
WINNER - Chartered Semiconductor

Award for Best Retention Strategies
WINNER: Hewlett-Packard

ACE Insurance Award for Best Work-Life Harmony
WINNER - Apex-Pal International

Personnel Decisions International Award for Best Leadership Development
WINNER: Singapore Police Force

Frasers Hospitality Award for Best Corporate & Employee Citizenship
WINNER – Standard Chartered Bank

Bintan Resorts Award for Outstanding Contributions to HR
WINNER - Low Peck Kem - Director or People Matters Department, Ministry of Manpower

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Know your True Self

One fish said to the other: “Do you believe in this ocean that they talk about?”

This ancient Chinese saying well illustrates how narrow our vision of the world and the universe can be. We all see the world form our limited perceptual framework. Whether it be an African, Asian, or an American, we all perceive through the senses we have. From our knowledge of science, we know so many things are just not what they appear — earth is not flat, the ground below us is not stationery and the sun doesn’t rise in the east.

The fact is that we see and hear what we can and not what the reality is. The world is like an unprocessed data, which is yet to be interpreted by us. In other words we can say that the unrevealed reality is just like an FLIP BOOK (which Ishaan made in Taaren Zameen Par), and what we are interpreting is just a single page of that flip book which is of no true meaning. We cannot interpret the whole reality until and unless we start perceiving things beyond that is visible to us.

And the factor which is surely acting as a barrier in our interpretation is our THOUGHT and EMOTION. We are very far from the reality because we are more conscious about the external environment, and we have lost connection with our true self. Well, an attempt to interpret the reality will not change the reality itself, but it will help us live with great joy and happiness.

KNOW YOUR TRUE SELF, OTHERWISE YOU WILL LOSE YOUR IDENTITY