HR Here and Now: The Making of the Quintessential People Champion. This item is unavailable.HR Here and Now: The Making of the Quintessential People Champion

The vision of this book is to engage readers in a debate on how we see HR as a function and profession here and now, how we see the practice and the practitioner. The intent is to reflect on what we are seeing, hearing and experiencing about the function in an inclusive fashion. 

This book offers a practitioner’s take to human resources management as a profession and function keeping in mind the most current and contemporary practices, problems and perspectives in India. The book is meant for young professionals, students and practitioners in the field of HRM. The book truly reflects HRM as it is practiced today with stories of places (organizational case studies) where it is at its best.

Shorn of all theory, this book raises and answers questions such as given the rapid advancement in the profession, should the term HR be redefined?  Why does the quality of the function depend so much on the way it is positioned within the organisation? What shapes a CEO’s attitude towards HR? What are the big demands on HR today and in times to come? How does one advance in HR? Written by practitioners with first-hand HR experience, HR Here and Now is a thought-provoking book set firmly in the Indian context.

Harish Devarajan is a Leadership Coach and Consultant. He is known for his vivacious, inspiring style of engaging with people and lives by his personal credo―‘committed to making a positive difference’.

An alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur, Harish was the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) in Hindustan Unilever. In this role, he led the HR transformation journey for Unilever across 40 countries in Asia, Africa and Australia. He then founded ‘People Unlimited’, a consulting practice that focuses on Organisational and Leadership Effectiveness.

Harish has been accredited by the International Coach Federation, USA as a Master Certified Coach (MCC). He has also been honoured with numerous recognitions for his leadership and professional accomplishments. As President of the National HRD Network, Bangalore Chapter and the convenor of the XV National HRD Conference, he has made meaningful contributions to the HR fraternity.

Currently, he is an Independent Director on the board of Bank of India and also serves on the advisory board of other companies.

V. J. Rao, an alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, has been an operational HR professional for 40 years with experience in a wide range of industries such as engineering, projects, FMCG, IT and ITeS.

He was Head of HR of GE’s joint venture in India, Godrej GE Appliances Ltd and later Head of HR of India’s largest IT Company, TCS. He helped TCS obtain a PCMM level-4 rating in 2001, which was a first in the world. He was the Director of the Tata Management Training Centre, headed Tata Administrative Services (TAS) and senior-level recruitment in the Tata Group and was responsible for several initiatives in leadership development in the group.

V. J. Rao was a Member of the Board of Tata Auto Plastics and also Country Head, HR and Head, Global Talent Management at Suzlon Energy. He is currently a Leadership Coach and an Executive Director of the totus HR School. 

The authors have collaborated on several in-company HR capabilitybuilding programmes and HR research projects over the past several years. These efforts have served as the inspiration for the book.