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In the services sector, which accounts for over half of India's GDP, annual wage increases of 14%—and bumps of up to 40% for headhunted staff in new jobs—are common, according to Aon Hewitt, a human-resource consultancy.

India Aims to Miss the Mark, Again Harsh Joshi 2011

It handles finance, accounting, and other human-resource functions, as well as some procurement for the health-care provider.

U.K. Weighs Privatizing Administrative Services Alistair MacDonald 2011

He attacks virtually everyone—from overpaid presidents and provosts down through development officers, communications specialists and human-resource staffers—but he reserves his most bitter scorn for the midlevel "associate deans" and "assistant deans" who often have the most direct control over the faculty.

Meddle Management Carl Elliott 2011

As evidence, he quotes from PwC's annual global CEO survey, released in April, in which more than 90% of the business leaders surveyed said that they are focused on making significant changes to their human-resource policies in the next 12 to 18 months.

PwC Chairman Aims to Keep Millennials Happy Javier Espinoza 2011

The survey included responses from more than 1,000 human-resource professionals in nongovernment companies.

Engineers in Short Supply as Some Sectors Try to Hire Dana Mattioli 2011

"Sometimes companies will put in a kind of nonsense question to make sure people are paying attention," says John Hausknecht , associate professor of human-resource studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

Job Seekers Are Getting Tested Ruth Mantell 2011

As a human-resource executive at the employer, a professional association, she had to be "pretty tough" with some of the employees, enforcing disciplinary rules, says Ms. Hartman, owner of PGHR Consulting in Pittsburgh.

Workplace Deals, Sealed With a Kiss? Sue Shellenbarger 2011

Sao Paulo tops New York as the most expensive city in the Americas, according to a 2010 survey by Mercer, the human-resource consulting division of Marsh & McLennan.

Brazil's Surging Currency Figures in Election John Lyons 2010

A key innovation of the private-equity firm's turnaround of KEB was better human-resource management.

Lone Star and the Women of Korea Joseph Sternberg 2012

The survey, by human-resource consulting firm Mercer, examined statutory holiday entitlements for 62 countries.

News & Trends 2011