Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Second Edition

CHANGING PROFILE OF HR PROFESSIONALS

In a knowledge-based economy such as the one India has inherited in recent times, the HR function is not only gaining considerable ground in industry, but also undergoing a metamorphosis. Its very profile is undergoing a transformation. Gone are the days when HR persons had to deal with the problem of plenty to choose from. Though there is still the paradox of excessive availability of educated jobless youth while an equal number of jobs go abegging, there is a lot of mismatch found everywhere. Most of those educated jobless youth lack the requisite skills. Most of them are unsuitable because of a lack of soft skills, which are essential for the sunrise industries such as information technology.

Though over ...