CEOs need to focus on people management: Experts
Chief Executive Officers need to take charge of people management in their companies in order to develop organisation culture, experts said on Saturday.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Chief Executive Officers need to take charge of people management in their companies in order to develop organisation culture, experts said on Saturday.
The CEO should don the role of an organisation developer by taking charge of newer roles like creation of people skills, besides continuing with his core set of functions, panelists at a CII conference said here today.
"The CEO's role is that of a torch-bearer, a person who champions the cause of people by unblocking barriers, a person who is the visible enabler," Castrol India's Managing Director and CEO Naveen Kshatriya said.
The top executive should be able to build an open, conducive environment which would unleash creativity and allow a free-flow of ideas, he added.
"A CEO is a catalyst and putting that person in developmental mode is necessary to increase the pace of growth," engineering firm JCB India Ltd's HR Executive-Vice President Rajiv Kapoor said.
Some companies might be facing a slowdown despite the boom in India Inc, but, rather than getting disheartened by the slump a CEO should adopt a forward-looking appraoch, the panelists said.
Domestic software firm NIIT Ltd's Chief Operating Officer P Rangarajan said, "Results of today are based on performances of the past, the main agenda now should be to think and plan to take up future growth opportunities, planning for which is to be done today."
CEOs should hand-pick and train a core team which would be able to convey his message across the heirarchies, Rangarajan added.
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