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HR model explores ways to improve competency

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BANGALORE: Making human resources (HR) management a specific module in B-school curricula and going beyond equal job opportunities for women to a more inclusive affirmative action that draws more into employment sectors closed to them until now were proposals mentioned in the National HR Competency Model presented here on Monday by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), National Human Resources Development Network (NHRDN) and Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur.

"We may soon be faced with a workforce of 50 million across industry verticals, who will need 50,000 HR professionals to train them to improve their competency levels.

The current ratio of one HR person for 2,500 employees has to drastically improve," said president of the National Committee on HR and Industrial Relations of CII B. Santhanam.

"The HR competency model evolved over the past few years demands service orientation, personal credibility and execution excellence, besides the basic business ingredient of competency," he said.

Closer interaction

A system of HR trainers training others in their own organisations and of a closer interaction with academic institutions and using their inputs would be part of the competency model, which itself had to change with industry requirements, Mr. Santhanam said.

"At the beginning of liberalisation, it was a question of competing with China and other countries. Now it is the problem of creating enough employable talent in different fields, from information technology to the manufacturing industries," he said.

NHRDN president P. Dwaraakanath explained, "The inflow of financial capital is no longer a worry for India, considering its growth and market opportunities. But finding enough human capital is the major challenge."

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