S.V. Krishnan will lead Human Resources; Pavan Kumar is Chief Technology Officer; Vijay Prasad is Chief Information Officer & Head of Soft Infra group and Hari T (former HR head) will lead Global Marketing and Communications.
Now that's a change. There's been a trend in the middle management levels of large IT and BPO firms for people from operations, sales and marketing moving into HR (specially Recruitment), but it is one of the rare occasions when a head of HR is taking over a function like Marketing.
So from the big four Indian IT services firms (TCS, Wipro, Infosys and Satyam) the only HR head who's still doing the same role he was during the Y2K madness would be Wipro's Pratik Kumar :-)
And that is probably the reason he is regarded as expert on the subject "scalability of HR systems & complexities involved in a fast-paced growth environment"
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, Pratik is addressing a gathering of National HRD Network, Chennai Chapter's members this month-end on the theme-
Does size matter? Does Complexity increase with size? How do we sustain the pace of growth while ensuring that attrition is stable? Are HR challenges different in large organizations compared to small/medium sized organizations?
Looking forward to the talk.
Cheers,
R.Karthik
Wow..
ReplyDeleteThink this should be communicated to corporate masses who are still as handicaped to differentiate the HR function from admin..
Dheeraj Goyal