Management - general

Workaholic Japan names and shames firms overworking their staff

15 May 2017

Telenor appoints Michael Foley as CEO of Bangladesh’s Grameenphone

08 May 2017

Govt appoints heads of 7 PSU banks, shifts MDs of PNB and BoI

06 May 2017

PNB managing director Usha Ananthasubramanian has been shifted to relatively small Kolkata-based Allahabad Bank while head of Bank of India Melwyn Rego will move to Syndicate Bank with immediate effect

Pearson shareholders protest CEO’s pay hike

06 May 2017

Retirement associated with lower stress, but only those with a top job

06 May 2017

A research paper suggests that the period around retirement may widen socio-economic inequalities in stress and health amongpPoorer people, or those in low status occupations, who often have poorer health and higher biological stress response levels, especally post retirement

New UK Act makes failure to prevent tax evasion a criminal offence

04 May 2017

The Criminal Finances Act will make businesses liable for criminal acts committed by employees or other related parties, including customers and suppliers, and will apply to both UK and non-UK tax

Google pays CEO Sundar Pichai $200 mn for 2016

29 Apr 2017

Google's 44-year-old India-born chief executive Sundar Pichai received nearly $200 million in compensation, double the amount he got in 2015

T Krishnakumar named president, Kini quits in Coke India rejig

28 Apr 2017

While both Coca-Cola and Pepsi are facing headwinds in India, a Mint report quoted two people in the know as indicating that falling sales is the key reason for the rejig

Struggling with different work identities? Your work may suffer

13 Apr 2017

A new study from Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business suggests that how employees juggle different work identities may affect their job performance

Mondelez plans to replace long-time CEO Irene Rosenfeld

10 Apr 2017

Irene Rosenfeld runs the largest US food manufacturer, and has a compensation package that is on par with male peers at other food companies such as Kellogg Co and General Mills

L&T’s AM Naik to step aside, Subrahmanyan named new CEO

08 Apr 2017

AM Naik, the man who steered Larsen & Toubro from Rs4,400-crore engineering company in 1999 to a Rs1,58,000-crore infrastructure giant in 2017, passes the baton to his deputy, S N Subramanyan

BP to cut CEO’s annual pay by about 5 million pounds: report

04 Apr 2017

The revised pay structure will also apply to other top BP directors for the three years from 2017 to 2019

Financial Express honours India’s top CFOs at a unique function

03 Apr 2017

Narayana Murthy questions big pay hike for Infosys COO Rao

03 Apr 2017

The dispute between founders and board of Infosys over governance issues spilled into the public again as co-founder Narayana Murthy criticised a salary hike given to chief operating officer Pravin Rao

Employee perks outside CTC to attract GST

29 Mar 2017

Starbucks’ Shultz stands by pledge to hire refugees

23 Mar 2017

Cognizant axes 6,000 jobs in India, cuts variable pay

21 Mar 2017

Nasdaq-listed Cognizant, which had approximately 2.6 lakh employees as of end-December 2016, says the layoffs are part of the routine annual reviews to weed out non-performers

Kumar Mangalam Birla to head merged idea-Vodafone entity

20 Mar 2017

The merger of India's number two and number three telecom firms will create the country's largest telecom operator with 400 million subscribers and the widest network in the country

Uber president Jeff Jones quits over management issues

20 Mar 2017

Lack of ‘Oxford comma’ wins truckers in US $10 mn

17 Mar 2017

The case hinged on the absence of the Oxford comma, or the comma before ‘and’ in lists that is often used but as frequently dropped – which can cause ambiguity, as in ‘I’d like to thank my parents, Mother Teresa and the Pope’