Kaleidoscope in HR

The maximum overall executives votes—33% however go to giving clarity to the company’s vision. Employees want their companies to deliver what they promise and walk the talk. Clearly, employees want their companies to constantly communicate and update them on its vision and goals. “ There is a very serious disconnect. One in every three employees is not clear or cannot relate to his/her company’s vision,” says Ronesh Puri, managing director, Executive Access. Rewarding performance is the third most critical area of concern for employees. And guess what --- this is being felt most acutely in the media sector. Around 30% of respondents in the sector --- almost double the national average of 15% --- want their companies to focus a lot more on performance reward.

As expected, performance reward got the highest marks in Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, where the presence of a large number of IT companies and MNCs has raised awareness levels among executives about reward and compensation. 21% of executives survey in Bangalore want companies to focus on performance rewards to retain top talent.

What also came out loud and clear in the survey is a strong gender bias on the empowerment issue. While for male executives, empowerment is an area of concern with 17% voting for it, only 2% of women executives found it important enough in making their career decisions. Perhaps, the fact that top management in India Inc is still a male bastion has something to do with this, since empowerment as an issue becomes important in the top echelons.