After a year of getting "humans" back to offices, HR professionals are now striving to put the "human" back in human resources.

While hybrid work culture is here to stay, HR professionals are working to bring about engaging employee experiences while supporting skill development, diversity, well-being and security, said Dr. V Murali Krishna, Dy Chairman of CII Andhra Pradesh.

In his welcome address during HR Conclave-Back to ‘Human”- Role of HR in stabilizing and scaling business organized by the CII Andhra Pradesh here on Friday, Dr. Murali Krishna suggested that employee-centric leads to customer-centric and HR should have adaptive, flexible, and agile for which stakeholders to be happy.  

The past Chairman of the CII AP & MD of Efftronics Systems Pvt Ltd D Ramakrishna said as companies are experiencing rapid change, business leaders foresee new ways to grow their organizations giving rise to more strategic roles for the HR leaders.

D Ramakrishna, Past Chairman, CII Andhra Pradesh stated, “As companies are experiencing rapid change, business leaders foresee new ways to grow their organizations giving rise to more strategic roles for the HR leaders.

Sharing his keen insights during a theme address Mr K Srinivas Rao, Founder & Chief Strategist – The Strategist said, HR is the game changer for any business in the post-pandemic ecosystem where change and culture are core to success and the path to that begins with building in belief in purpose.
 
Gautam Gupta, MD & CEO of Paradise Food Court Pvt Ltd, said culture plays a very important role and one should have “BE GOOD” cultural codes which are percolated down the line by constant appreciation and recognition of instances when these values are displayed at any level.

 Dr. PS Tagore, Convenor, CII Visakhapatnam HR Panel and Vice President -HR & IR Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services India Pvt Ltd said empathy is a critical HR leadership skill. It helps build and sustain positive workplace relationships, fosters diversity and inclusion, encourages cooperation and collaboration, and facilitates conflict management.
 

Emphasizing the need for innovations in HR, Keval Savla, Lead HR-Talent Management, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt Ltd, said with the world moving digital, the notion of work, workplace, and workforce is changing.  So, it is important to leverage technology in business processes. Thus, making HR transformation an important element that needs to be prioritized, not only for growth and seamless functioning but also for appealing to the millennials who are the latest workforce driving the growth story of organizations all over the world.
 Stressing the need for engaging and retaining employees, Mr Srikanth Surampudi, HR Head-Hyderabad, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd said businesses must put people at the heart of how they design and use their HR technology. Organizations are increasingly realizing that employee experience is crucial to business success. However, the focus now is on retention and reskilling. We are putting the ‘Human’ of human resources at the centre, via technology. 

Participants in the HR conclave said the conclave brought together HR leaders who are the driving forces from diverse sectors, gave keen insights on how they are mapping talent to value; making the workforce more flexible; prioritizing strategic workforce planning, performance management, and reskilling; building an HR platform; and developing an HR tech ecosystem. 

Ms Shalini Nair, Head - People and Culture, India and APAC, Amadeus Software Labs India Pvt Ltd; Ajith Nandakumar, Head- HR & Administration, Saint Gobain Ceramics India; Ms Rajita Singh, Chief People Officer, Kyndyrl  India; Ms Chandralekha Chaudhuri, Head of HR, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Limited, Ms Janani Prakaash, Head HR, Quantela Inc., Ms Preethi Ramnarayan, HR Director, Providence and Megh Risaldar, Head of Human Resources, Rimini Street Labs also spoke in the conclave.