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It has been quite disturbing to read recent reports regarding the responses from Orient Express Hotels and Ford to overtures from the Tata group. Both these groups responded in a peculiar manner, choosing to highlight India and Indians in a “downmarket” kind of manner, rather than focussing on the merits of the Tata group. Both [...]

The Kayani Bakery at Pune, renowned for it’s cakes and Shrewsbury biscuits, has been in the news lately due to the unrest caused by their workers. Things reached a head, when one of the partners, Rustom Kayani was assaulted and the union leader was called for questioning by the cops. As things stand, the workers [...]

Racism reared it’s ugly head yet again, as Kiran Pande, an India born engineer working with Chevron, took her former employers to court for wrongful termination of service. Kiran was sacked in 2003 after serving 15 years with the company. She claimed that in a three year period from 2000 to 2003, she had to suffer [...]

We are in an age where attrition is a byword with employees ready to move on to the “next big thing”, be it for reasons of compensation, job profile, or simply the desire to do something different.

Asian workers are set to receive the highest salary increases in the world in 2007, according to a survey by ECA International.

“We can’t hire him” – he’s too corporate. I remember this being said in my company, as we interviewed a Harvard MBA whose experience to date had been exclusively in large, established corporations. What this shorthand meant was that he wouldn’t fit into our entrepreneurial company, where change was constant and structure was something we [...]

Google announced a new compensation program for it’s employees, called Transferable Stock Options (TSO). The key difference in this program is that employees will also be able to sell vested options to the highest-bidding financial institution, which may be willing to pay a premium above the difference between the exercise price and the market price [...]