Employee Relations Archives - Vivek Patwardhan https://vivekvsp.com/category/employee-relations/ The Events in Human Resources and Employee Relations space, and in My World through my eyes. Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:40:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 113682794 Insecurity Is The Price of Living https://vivekvsp.com/2025/12/insecurity-is-the-price-of-living/ https://vivekvsp.com/2025/12/insecurity-is-the-price-of-living/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:40:25 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9762 Flexibility Without Security Is Counterproductive (This post builds on the Founding Fuel essay published yesterday, which I co-authored with Vineet Kaul and Satish Pradhan, by...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2024/06/amazon-workers/feed/ 11 8562 The Missing Conversations in Employee Relations https://vivekvsp.com/2023/08/missing-conversations/ https://vivekvsp.com/2023/08/missing-conversations/#comments Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:52:17 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=8091 My Initiation in Employee Relations I will be speaking on ‘The Missing Conversations in Employment Relations.’ (This is the full text of my talk arranged...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2023/08/missing-conversations/feed/ 9 8091 Opportunity Deprived Indians Meet Their KalpVriksha  https://vivekvsp.com/2022/10/opportunity-deprived/ https://vivekvsp.com/2022/10/opportunity-deprived/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:23:19 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=7528 Differently abled persons, or Opportunity Deprived Indians, are employed by industry, not by all, but by some who are conscientious employers, like Lemon Tree Hotels....

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2022/10/opportunity-deprived/feed/ 7 7528 Fostering and Building Strong Employee Relations https://vivekvsp.com/2021/02/building-employee-relations/ https://vivekvsp.com/2021/02/building-employee-relations/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2021 17:08:36 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=6636 The theme is ‘Fostering and Building Strong Employee Relations.’ I would rather use the words ‘positive or productive employee relations.’ There are many experiments which...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2021/02/building-employee-relations/feed/ 6 6636 upGrad and The Reflection of The Universe https://vivekvsp.com/2021/02/upgrad/ https://vivekvsp.com/2021/02/upgrad/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2021 05:10:52 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=6624 “Chaos! Over a hundred employees of upGrad resign en masse! Oh!! What a news! See this,” I pointed out the Business Insider news to Lulu,...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2021/02/upgrad/feed/ 6 6624 New Way of Relating to Build Employee Relations https://vivekvsp.com/2019/11/new-way-relating/ https://vivekvsp.com/2019/11/new-way-relating/#comments Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:05:37 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=5923 “There are times when you wonder what more needs to be done,” I pointed to email on my laptop to Lulu, my parrot. “Oh, you...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2019/11/new-way-relating/feed/ 2 5923 Karl Marx Again https://vivekvsp.com/2019/09/karl-marx/ https://vivekvsp.com/2019/09/karl-marx/#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:59:14 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=5850 After graduating in science, I enrolled for post-graduation in Industrial Relations. I was as comfortable studying industrial relations as a cyclist would be driving a...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2019/09/karl-marx/feed/ 8 5850 WELDING HOPE & TRUST TO TRANSFORM WORK CULTURE https://vivekvsp.com/2019/07/work-culture/ https://vivekvsp.com/2019/07/work-culture/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2019 01:23:24 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=5743 This is a story about how Thermax has welded hope and trust to the lives of workers at their Savli Plant in Gujarat to transform...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2019/07/work-culture/feed/ 18 5743 Mitsuba vs Pricol https://vivekvsp.com/2018/06/mitsubishi-vs-pricol/ https://vivekvsp.com/2018/06/mitsubishi-vs-pricol/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:25:07 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=5185 [Note: Some newspapers reported that the incident was about Mitsubishi but in fact it was about Mitsuba, not Mitsubishi. I have corrected the title of...

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