My Experiments with Unleashing People Power

by K.K. Sinha

Globalization of business has amplified the intensity of business competitiveness to an all time high. The new economy characterized by the predominance of service firms, Internet revolution, global competition, etc., has placed greater reliance on intangible assets for success. In this context, human capital has become the key component for survival and success. Unleashing people power in an organization thus becomes imperative to achieve business success in the present business environment. As a result, people management has assumed a new dimension bringing the function to the fore.

Part I - Human Resource Imperatives for Global Competitiveness
Part II - Human Resources Function
Part III - Unleashing People Power through Human Resources
art IV - People Function: The Road Ahead
Keynote - The book creates a rich and colorful tapestry of the human resources function, weaving together diverse concepts, ideas, strategic initiatives, practical techniques and tips and "how we did it" stories into a grand design of an HR model which was implemented successfully in a Maharatna public sector undertaking, the NTPC Ltd. The author clearly brings out the importance of human resources function in ensuring sustainable growth and success of a business organization. He gives a detailed account of various initiatives undertaken by him in NTPC under the conceptual framework of what he calls 'the four building blocks of HR' - Building Competence, Building Commitment, Building Culture and Building Systems, supported by the three essential peripherals of CSR, governance and employee relations. These initiatives resulted in the building of a simple learning organization, which is its cogent deliverable and at the same time increasing employee satisfaction, as measured in organization-wide climate surveys had NTPC declared as one of the best companies in India to work for year after year.

264 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Mr. K K Sinha is a Graduate with Honours in Economics and Post Graduate in Personnel Management / LSW (Gold Medalist, University of Patna). He has worked in HR for 42 years and held leadership positions in organizations like Steel Authority of India (SAIL), NTPC, Reliance Energy, Reliance Infocomm and Reliance Industries Limited (NMSEZ/HSEZ)and as the Group Director, Human Resource, Jindal Steel & Power. During his tenure in NTPC, where he was Director (HR) for 7 years, he transformed the HR processes and the work culture, enabling NTPC to be ranked as the “Best Employer” and one of the “Great Places to Work” consecutively for 3 years. He was also actively involved in guiding and providing very innovative and sensitive Leadership to R&R and CSR in the organisation, in very close association with World Bank and also represented in Global Compact forum of the UN very actively.

He has received extensive training in Human Resources from Harvard Business School, Templeton (Oxford), Michigan Business School, Tata Management Centre, IIM, Ahmedabad, IIM, Kolkata and ASCI, Hyderabad. He has also been invited to deliver talks in many academic institutions in India and abroad including Auckland University, Martin Hautus – The Pacific Peoples Learning Institute and Cornell Institute of Business and Technology, New Zeland. He is closely associated with National HRD Network and is also a Fellow of All India Management Association.

He has been an innovator in development of HR and is a known HR thought leader and avid Human Source developer…A keen learner and HR thinker and innovator, he also tailored and executed change in Corporates , working with international level Consultants like Mckinsey,Hewitts,Mercer,E&Y,AT Kearny to name a few.

On his retirement from active Corporate world after 42 years of sojourn, in his new avatar, currently, he is working as a Professor and Head of HR in the leading Business School, BIMTECH, in Greater NOIDA, sharing Corporate perspective and experiences with the budding leaders of Corporate India…He is a visiting Corporate Trainer, Consultant and is also currently engaged in writing a Book on his experiences and experiments in Human Resources.