IR and Industrial Laws

 Industrial Disputes Act

 Factories Act
 Minimum Wages Act with other Comp. & Benefits Acts
 Trade Unions Act
 Contract Act
 Standard Orders
 Disciplinary Framework – Chargesheets/Suspension/Domestic
Enquiry/Punishments/Courts
 Principles of Natural Justice
 Collective Bargaining
 Some key issues around which labour disputes happen

Talent Management
 Right on-boarding: Managing performance duing first 6 months of joining.
 Managing High Potential Employees: HiPos
 Managing low performance
 Developing Talent & Leadership Pipeline
 PMS- Process of writing a Goalsheet/BBSC/KRAs & KPIs
 Assessing Performance – key issues and challenges
 Witing an IDP
 Writing and managing a PIP
 Succession Planning-
 360 Degree Feedback

Competency Frameworks
 Definitions
 Applications
 New trends
 Key practical aspects

L&D
 Training functions and its role
 New trends
 Key practical aspects
 Key L&D initiatives
 Quality of a trainer- Do’s and Don’t

Recruitment & Selection

 Process
 Tools of recruitment and selection
 Key new trends – industry wise
 Practical aspects
 Costs
 Metrics
Knowledge of Rewards & Recognition

Human Resource Planning(HRP)

 Writing Job-descriptions
 Hay’s Methodology
 Job-specifications

OD
 Broad overview- What, Why, Tools
 T&D and OD – key differences
 Key OD interventions
 Key developments in OD

Compensation & Benefits

 Wage Laws – HR Managers must know
 C&B in management workers’ domain
 Key trends
 Income Tax and C&B

Knowledge of Sectoral HR: Key HR Imperatives

 IT
 ITES
 Bank/Insurance
 Manufacturing
 Consulting
 Retail
 FMCG

Psychometric tests
 Overview
 MBTI
 FIRO-B
 DISC
 Thomas
 Benefits of Psychometric tests

Assessments Centres/Development Centres

Ethics
 Sexual Harassment: Law and guidelines
 Managing Diversity- cultural, gender, age, etc.

Knowing Key Financial Statements and Formulaes

 P&L Statement
 EBIT/EBITDA
 P/E Ratio
 Other financial terms
 Concept of capitalising HR in the balance sheet by Infosys