East Asia Knowledge
Franchise, Marketing, Human Resource and Small Business Opportunity

Human Resource encompasses the role of managing talents. This is a joint responsibility of Human Resources and user department when managing talents.
I handle the talent management for companies that have operation in this region, namely, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, China and India. My clients generally do not feel the need to source for talent and [...]

Human Resource has a key role for internal communication. This internal communication for staff is Employees Communication. Employees Communication comes in many forms. You can have intranet whereby your employees would read current or past news.
Human Resource would create e-newsletter for employees. This can be done only when all employees has an email accounts and [...]

Human Resource shall design and develop strategy for motivation and retention, do you agree?
We would want the line managers and Human Resource to be jointly responsible for motivation and retention. However, you would argue that Human Resource should do some research on HR practices. In this instant, Human Resource would offer some insight for the [...]

Human Resources really need to develop its capability just as the facility needs capacity upgrading. Capability development starts with Human Resource audit. Why need the audit in Human Resource? Business arena keeps changing. So is the taste of consumers for goods and the expectation of services.
Human resources audit focus on the business needs, starting [...]

Human Resources need to be assessed just like any resource needs to be evaluated. As our human resources, besides getting them to perform, we also need to develop them. How do we know what is required?
Human Resource department generally request us to do an annual performance appraisal either in July or December. You would notice [...]

Human Resources specialist would be designing the compensation and benefits package to attract, retain and motivate employees to give their best. This is not enough especially in East Asia. We always emphasize that we need to give recognition and rewards to our Human Resource – the employees.
Human Resource manager would issue appraisal for awarding performance [...]

Human Resource plays a critical role in formulating the systems for career planning. You would ask why. Why do we need career planning? Similarly, if we do recall when we graduated from school or varsity, we looked forward to join those companies that take care of our career.
We noted that Human Resource developed the Performance [...]

Strategic Human Resource Planning….what is it all about, we would wonder. During the conversation with the operations manager, I realize that the company would need to know what the profiles of our employees, what can the organisation do to serve the customers. Wow, that’s important. We all knew that we need to stay relevant and [...]

Human Resource is face with constant change in the marketplace. Besides engaging the Human Resource having a talent management in place, we would also have a management renewal before becoming dinosaur.
To stay relevant, Human Resource would work closely with us to identify new or fresh roles. This is essential as part of Succession Planning process [...]