Editor’s Note

Welcome to the second issue of our bi-monthly human capital management (HCM) eMagazine - HCM Excellence (APAC & Middle East). In this issue, we have hand-picked a bunch of relevant articles, along with a couple of interviews with HR experts, that will throw light on the latest HR developments, regulations, and practices in the Asia Pacific and the Middle East regions.

Inequality is a kind of social disease that can manifest in many forms. The reasons for such manifestations are sometimes not clear and could be found overlapping. However, Unconscious is not that convoluted as it is a part of life. Anyone can have them, everyone harbors them and carries it with them wherever they go, including the workplace. These biases can, therefore, influence office diversity, promotion, recruiting & retention and even shape the office culture. Read Manoj Agarwal's article, Bye Bye Bias, Hello! Diversity, to find out the extent to which unconscious bias has infected our organizational culture and business results. 
 

Moving on, there is Indrani Saha's The Evolution Of HR's Role In The Millennium, where she talks about why HR is a significant entity to any organization and how it creates an agile organizational structure and business efficiency. Also learn how HR can change the future of work for both employees and employers.
 

Also read, Harshal Goyal's Global Staffing Industry is Changing: Adapt or Disappear and Ranjit Nair's Is Your Total Rewards Strategy Still Effective? in this issue. We also bring you two interviews that talk about the skills that would be important in future, how HR needs to re-invent itself, the future HR trends, the current HR challenges and about the changing L&D landscape.

Hope you enjoy reading all the articles and take home some learnings with you. 

Happy Reading!