‘Innovative resource management techniques needed’

“Focused development and retention plans for critical talent,enhancing linkage between performance and compensation,lowering tolerance bar for non-performance and building diverse talent pool with respect to gender,age,nationality,skill sets are some of the new strategies adopted by the HR,” Kalive said.

According to Kalive,the HR is now looking at multiple-skilled employees.

“It is clear that there is no perfect candidate for any job profile. However,if a candidate is 80 per cent perfect,he/she can be given supplementary training that enhances the performance,” she said. Kalive stressed that HR personnel must not compromise on the long-term goal of retaining the talent pool of the company.

A panel discussion on ‘expectations from IT industry’ saw the participation of Loksatta editor Mukund Sangoram,business editor of Mail Today (Delhi) Ravi Srinivasan,deputy chief of Mumbai bureau of Financial Express M G Arun,managing director of Zensar Ganesh Natarajan,Ameet Nivsarkar and vice president of NASSCOM.