Managing Careers

Raghuram Reddam, Director (Human Resources), Motorola

Managing Careers Career management has been an important ingredient for all progressive companies and would continue to do so. In 2008, I see functions like Go-to-market, retail, and frontline to see more action and software to be more stable. By stable, I mean more like today in terms of performance, potential and roles getting defined. But other fields would face huge shortage of talent, and there will be a lot of employment churn. So, in terms of career management, we are looking at providing global careers, especially in sales. All functions would have to become more global and we have started sending our sales team to Singapore. In the coming year, we can see more aggressive careers, one would not have to complete an age limit to be eligible for a job or position. So, one would not have either all young and dynamic people, or all oldies, but it would become more performance-based career management in organisations.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist)