Management - general
Govt appoints heads of 7 PSU banks, shifts MDs of PNB and BoI
06 May 2017
PNB managing director Usha Ananthasubramanian has been shifted to relatively small Kolkata-based Allahabad Bank while head of Bank of India Melwyn Rego will move to Syndicate Bank with immediate effect
Pearson shareholders protest CEO’s pay hike
06 May 2017
Retirement associated with lower stress, but only those with a top job
06 May 2017
A research paper suggests that the period around retirement may widen socio-economic inequalities in stress and health amongpPoorer people, or those in low status occupations, who often have poorer health and higher biological stress response levels, especally post retirement
New UK Act makes failure to prevent tax evasion a criminal offence
04 May 2017
The Criminal Finances Act will make businesses liable for criminal acts committed by employees or other related parties, including customers and suppliers, and will apply to both UK and non-UK tax
Google pays CEO Sundar Pichai $200 mn for 2016
29 Apr 2017
Google's 44-year-old India-born chief executive Sundar Pichai received nearly $200 million in compensation, double the amount he got in 2015
T Krishnakumar named president, Kini quits in Coke India rejig
28 Apr 2017
While both Coca-Cola and Pepsi are facing headwinds in India, a Mint report quoted two people in the know as indicating that falling sales is the key reason for the rejig
Struggling with different work identities? Your work may suffer
13 Apr 2017
A new study from Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business suggests that how employees juggle different work identities may affect their job performance
Mondelez plans to replace long-time CEO Irene Rosenfeld
10 Apr 2017
Irene Rosenfeld runs the largest US food manufacturer, and has a compensation package that is on par with male peers at other food companies such as Kellogg Co and General Mills
L&T’s AM Naik to step aside, Subrahmanyan named new CEO
08 Apr 2017
AM Naik, the man who steered Larsen & Toubro from Rs4,400-crore engineering company in 1999 to a Rs1,58,000-crore infrastructure giant in 2017, passes the baton to his deputy, S N Subramanyan
BP to cut CEO’s annual pay by about 5 million pounds: report
04 Apr 2017
The revised pay structure will also apply to other top BP directors for the three years from 2017 to 2019
Narayana Murthy questions big pay hike for Infosys COO Rao
03 Apr 2017
The dispute between founders and board of Infosys over governance issues spilled into the public again as co-founder Narayana Murthy criticised a salary hike given to chief operating officer Pravin Rao
Employee perks outside CTC to attract GST
29 Mar 2017
Cognizant axes 6,000 jobs in India, cuts variable pay
21 Mar 2017
Nasdaq-listed Cognizant, which had approximately 2.6 lakh employees as of end-December 2016, says the layoffs are part of the routine annual reviews to weed out non-performers
Kumar Mangalam Birla to head merged idea-Vodafone entity
20 Mar 2017
The merger of India's number two and number three telecom firms will create the country's largest telecom operator with 400 million subscribers and the widest network in the country
Lack of ‘Oxford comma’ wins truckers in US $10 mn
17 Mar 2017
The case hinged on the absence of the Oxford comma, or the comma before ‘and’ in lists that is often used but as frequently dropped – which can cause ambiguity, as in ‘I’d like to thank my parents, Mother Teresa and the Pope’
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