I have recently changed my industry and have joined an Architectural design company as Manager (generalist ,Human Resources).Having come from ITES- HR background, I am dissappointed to experience slow, sluggish work culture prevalent here. Due to business reasons, we are lean on hiring and owing to the nature of skill employed (architects and interior designers) , we are at daggers about rolling out an appraisal system (the company is very old, very strongly and strategically well placed in the industry and brings with it a strong heritage but has never had a formal appraisal system or Human Resources team in place).
Can anyone from a construction/real estate HR background suggest what sort of employee policies, appraisal system, R&R, employee engagement initiatives I could take to corporatise the culture?
Awaiting some great inputs
Best regards,
Mini
From India, New Delhi
Can anyone from a construction/real estate HR background suggest what sort of employee policies, appraisal system, R&R, employee engagement initiatives I could take to corporatise the culture?
Awaiting some great inputs
Best regards,
Mini
From India, New Delhi
Hello Mini
My case is similar. I am from the IT inductry and even I have joined the Construction & Real Estate industry.
Try to have a buy-in from your top boss. Once the senior management sees the top commitment, they tend to respond better. We are introducing a PMS system in our company and facing similar situations.
We have developed KRAs and started handing them over. KRAs with the top management support get accepted easily.
Good luck!
Mansi Lal Sawant
Sr. Exec. - Performance Management
Silvex Realty
Ph. : 98333-84601
From India, Mumbai
My case is similar. I am from the IT inductry and even I have joined the Construction & Real Estate industry.
Try to have a buy-in from your top boss. Once the senior management sees the top commitment, they tend to respond better. We are introducing a PMS system in our company and facing similar situations.
We have developed KRAs and started handing them over. KRAs with the top management support get accepted easily.
Good luck!
Mansi Lal Sawant
Sr. Exec. - Performance Management
Silvex Realty
Ph. : 98333-84601
From India, Mumbai
Hi Mini,
You are right. There is a world of difference in cultures in IT/BPO(ITES) and the slow, monolithic brick and mortar sectors. The culture emanates essentially from the entrepreneurial leadership (old, conservative, paternalistic vs the young, dynamic, professional). This impacts all including HR.
HR policies would be essentially the same. The statutory laws may be marginally different given the different industry, that will impact policies to some extent. So keep policies more or less the same as IT/BPO that you may be having, sober it down (i.e. not too much of 'employee welfare' the BPO/IT type : mind you the culture, age, education and type of staff are different) and things will work. Basically, day to day transactional policies must be introduced early so that systems are in place (such as induction, leave, confirmations, appraisals, discipline, et al)
The cultural mileau will be different given the difference in leadership type and type of hires, their age factor and their skills.
I know, it is difficult to adjust initially into this culture since I have been in both the brick-n-mortar Companies and then IT/BPO for long and can visualize the exact situation you are in. The saving grace is that the construction industry is in its 'boom time' and so try and stick on. Multi-sectoral exposure is invaluable.
Rahul
9968270580 (Delhi)
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I have recently changed my industry and have joined an Architectural design company as Manager (generalist ,Human Resources).Having come from ITES- HR background, I am dissappointed to experience slow, sluggish work culture prevalent here. Due to business reasons, we are lean on hiring and owing to the nature of skill employed (architects and interior designers) , we are at daggers about rolling out an appraisal system (the company is very old, very strongly and strategically well placed in the industry and brings with it a strong heritage but has never had a formal appraisal system or Human Resources team in place).
Can anyone from a construction/real estate HR background suggest what sort of employee policies, appraisal system, R&R, employee engagement initiatives I could take to corporatise the culture?
Awaiting some great inputs
Best regards,
Mini
From India, New Delhi
11You are right. There is a world of difference in cultures in IT/BPO(ITES) and the slow, monolithic brick and mortar sectors. The culture emanates essentially from the entrepreneurial leadership (old, conservative, paternalistic vs the young, dynamic, professional). This impacts all including HR.
HR policies would be essentially the same. The statutory laws may be marginally different given the different industry, that will impact policies to some extent. So keep policies more or less the same as IT/BPO that you may be having, sober it down (i.e. not too much of 'employee welfare' the BPO/IT type : mind you the culture, age, education and type of staff are different) and things will work. Basically, day to day transactional policies must be introduced early so that systems are in place (such as induction, leave, confirmations, appraisals, discipline, et al)
The cultural mileau will be different given the difference in leadership type and type of hires, their age factor and their skills.
I know, it is difficult to adjust initially into this culture since I have been in both the brick-n-mortar Companies and then IT/BPO for long and can visualize the exact situation you are in. The saving grace is that the construction industry is in its 'boom time' and so try and stick on. Multi-sectoral exposure is invaluable.
Rahul
9968270580 (Delhi)
__________________________________________________ ___________
I have recently changed my industry and have joined an Architectural design company as Manager (generalist ,Human Resources).Having come from ITES- HR background, I am dissappointed to experience slow, sluggish work culture prevalent here. Due to business reasons, we are lean on hiring and owing to the nature of skill employed (architects and interior designers) , we are at daggers about rolling out an appraisal system (the company is very old, very strongly and strategically well placed in the industry and brings with it a strong heritage but has never had a formal appraisal system or Human Resources team in place).
Can anyone from a construction/real estate HR background suggest what sort of employee policies, appraisal system, R&R, employee engagement initiatives I could take to corporatise the culture?
Awaiting some great inputs
Best regards,
Mini
From India, New Delhi
Dear Mini
I am also from almost same industry but in my company the culture is very good.Mixture of new & Old generation are workig here.
You can take HR -intiate like team skills ,some games.
It will help,
Regards
Mamta
From India, Pune
I am also from almost same industry but in my company the culture is very good.Mixture of new & Old generation are workig here.
You can take HR -intiate like team skills ,some games.
It will help,
Regards
Mamta
From India, Pune
Dear Colleagues,
I am glad I could find this question on the forum.
Similar case for me I have recently joined a compant in the Construction/Design industry: with the object in mind for creating new initiatves.
May I please request to share you thoughts, few of the inittaives I have been asked to work on are:
The help I need is:
Sincerely,
Anubhav Nangia
From India, Delhi
I am glad I could find this question on the forum.
Similar case for me I have recently joined a compant in the Construction/Design industry: with the object in mind for creating new initiatves.
May I please request to share you thoughts, few of the inittaives I have been asked to work on are:
- pPolicies
- pManpower Planning
- pRetention Measures
- pInternal Surveys (Employee Satisfaction, Performance etc.)
- pTraining & Development,
- pStaff Welfare etc.
The help I need is:
- Would you be able to refer any industry specific webistes on the design and constuction industry
- if you would be willing to share policies, processes, research on training: types of training programs, contacts trainers, schools etc. or expereinces my email is [IMG]https://www.citehr.com/misc.php?do=email_dev&email=YW51Ymhhdi5uYW5naWFAZ2 1haWwuY29t[/IMG] cell 9999220039
Sincerely,
Anubhav Nangia
From India, Delhi
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