1.
Unilever's Ranjay Radhakrishnan joins InterContinental Hotels
Group as CHRO
Radhakrishnan moved to the InterContinental Hotels Group
(IHG) from the Unilever group, where he served for 23 years.
Roping in a long-time
Unilever senior executive, the InterContinental Hotels Group has bagged a big
ticket talent as its new CHRO after Tracy Robbins stepped down from the company
in January this year. Ranjay Radhakrishnan, who had been with the Unilever
group for the last 23 years, joined the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) in
December. He has also become a member of IHG’s Executive Committee now.
Radhakrishnan had
risen through the ranks in his long tenure at Unilever. Having spent over two
decades in a range of senior leadership roles at global, regional and country
levels, he brings with him a multi-geographical and rich professional experience
spanning various functions.
At Unilever, he was a
member of the group’s human resources (HR) leadership team and his most recent
role was that of the executive vice president global HR (categories &
market clusters), where he was responsible for leading HR for all of Unilever’s
eight regions (market clusters) as well as the four global product categories,
under one unified global HR leadership role. Interestingly, Radhakrishnan
joined Unilever as a management trainee in 1993, after completing his masters
in human resources management, from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
From there on, he
stayed with the group and rose up the ladder to reach the top grids. He was
promoted as a manager-HR within one year of his joining and then took up the
role of GM-HR, Foods. In 2005, he was posted as the HR director - organisation
effectiveness & change, in London, UK where he spent about two years before
moving to Dubai as the vice president-HR North Africa and the Middle East. He
then spent about three years in Singapore before moving on to Netherlands as
the senior vice president-HR, Europe in 2013.
2.
Fox News gets new HR head
following sexual harassment controversy
Kevin Lord, an MS in HR, has worked with GE in various capacities
for more than 10 years.
Fox News has hired
Kevin Lord as the new head of human resources. This is a new role in the Fox
network. Denise Collins, the current Sr. V-P HR will now report to Lord.
Lord moves in from
TEGNA Inc., where he was CHRO. TEGNA owns 46 television stations and two
digital properties, Cars.com and Career Builder.
Lord, an MS in HR has
worked with GE in various capacities for more than 10 years. In 2007, he moved
to NBC News as EV-P, HR. He joined Gannett (now TEGNA) in October 2012.
In a joint statement,
Jack Abernethy and Bill Shine, co-presidents, Fox News, said, “Lord’s long and
impressive track record in this arena will be a valuable addition to our
management team.”
According to
Abernethy and Shine, in the official communiqué, Fox News now plans to
implement key programmes, which will reflect Lord’s core vision for employees.
The HR department at
Fox News had received a lot of flak for the way it handled the sexual harassment
scandal.
In July, a former
news anchor, Gretchen Carlson filed a law suit against the network chairman
Roger Ailes. She alleged that she was asked to leave because she refused to
give in to his sexual advances.
An internal
investigation found more than 20 claims of inappropriate behaviour against
Ailes. Although he denied the charges, he also moved out in July. It was learnt
that Ailes offered women staff an advancement in their careers in lieu of
sexual favours.
The role of HR came
under question because both current and former employees claimed that they
refrained from filing a complaint with HR on sexual harassment, due to fear of
retaliation.
3.
Google’s chief of HR Laszlo Bock decides to move on
Laszlo Bock, the man behind Google's culture now plans
to to launch a startup.
Google’s head of people function and the man
behind the company’s well-regarded culture, Laszlo Bock has decided to move on.
Celebrated author of the famous book, Work Rules: Insights from Inside Google
to Transform How You Live and Lead and the driving force behind the firm’s
data-driven hiring and famed free-food cafeterias, has apparently resigned as
senior vice president of ‘people operations’ to launch a startup.
A seasoned and much revered HR professional,
Bock’s startup will reportedly be on the lines of bringing meaning to jobs by
giving freedom to people, and using applied sciences for analysing what really
makes people happy and productive and so on.
Eileen Naughton, who had been the vice
president of sales and operations for Google in the UK and Ireland, will
reportedly replace Bock as the new head of HR. One of the highest-rated Google
managers among the employees, Naughton was a founding member of the internal
group, Women@Google.
Bock, whose LinkedIn profile shows he’s a
senior advisor to Google, will retain an advisory role at the company, which
may be in an informal capacity going further. Bock is known to have transformed
hiring at Google from a clunky, arduous process that relied on gimmicks, like
math puzzles on billboards, to a smooth engine.
He is also the one to have introduced
employee-friendly policies like free meals, shuttle buses and even
‘take-your-parents-to-work days’ initiative. Before arriving at Google in 2006,
Bock, who has an MBA from Yale was a vice president of HR at General Electric,
and before that, a management consultant at McKinsey & Co.
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