Indian companies get on to cloud to manage workforce

How are leading Indian companies such as Bharti Airtel, HCL & Tata Motors using the cloud to make smarter appointments and increase productivity

The biggest asset of any organisation is the internal consumer force or the work force and keeping this sect well trained and pepped up is now more important than ever. According to a recent announcement by IBM, 70 per cent of CEOs cite human capital as the single biggest contributor to sustained economic value.

Marrying data with employees’ qualities

To enhance the value of their human capital and to transform their work force, leading India organisations such as Bharti Airtel Ltd, HCL and Tata Motors have taken resort to cloud based social software. The aim of using IBM’s cloud based social software is to combine industry leading social business and analytics capabilities with the human capital management offerings and get cloud-based capabilities that allows organisations to capture and analyse data shared by employees.

Bharti Airtel Limited,a leading global telecommunications company, was looking to implement evolved and proven methods to build organizational culture and employee engagement. By using Kenexa's employee engagement survey, which gives accurate measure of employee opinions, Airtel is now able to understand manageable factors that cause employees to be more productive, stay with the company for a longer period of time and care more deeply about the work they do. As a result, leadership is able to use this feedback to change management strategy, align it with key cultural factors and ultimately improve business performance.

Right data to detect the right candidate !

Tata Motors on the other hand was looking for a service that would help them screen the right candidates for a particular position.

 

Tata Motors, a Fortune 500 and leading automobile player, has an internal job posting practice called Opportunities++.

The company teamed up with IBM to study job fit within the organisation by using an online system that also had the ability to screen candidates for the right position. The goal was to select candidates on various parameters such as those, who provide great customer service. Once Tata’s pinpointed these characteristics, the company refocused its efforts on assessing and selecting the right people for open jobs.

“IBM is uniquely positioned to help organizations capture information, create insights and generate interactions that translate into real business value,” said Anmol Nautiyal, Director, Smarter Workforce, IBM India and South Asia. “By marrying powerful social and talent management offerings in the cloud, organisations can attract, develop and inspire their employees, which in the end help to ensure their growth and long-term business success.”

All major organizations in India, usually hire once in a year, picking up the best talent. However, with the growing youth in the country, the task gets difficult day by day. To solve this issue, HCL, a leading global Technology and IT Enterprise, was looking to deploy a cloud-based recruitment system that would allow it to improve recruiter productivity, cycle time, and quality of hire and fulfilment rate while at the same time reducing costs of recruitment.

HCL was also looking to improve customer satisfaction in terms of improved candidate and recruiter experience. Working with IBM, HCL replaced its home grown Smart Recruit candidate/requisition tracking system with a new Talent Acquisition solution that automates its entire recruitment process.

Recruitment and then retaining the trained recruited staff has been a major challenge for organizations. With technology and data entering the space organizations are empowered to take wiser decision.

IBM’s Smarter Workforce initiatives help businesses capture and understand data and use these insights to empower their talent, manage expertise and optimize people-centric processes. It includes IBM’s 2012 $1.3B acquisition of Kenexa’s talent management, recruitment, compensation, engagement, leadership and assessment offerings.

By : Saloni
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