The jury members included Bhaskar Pramanik, Independent Director, State Bank of India; Sankhya Infotech Ltd & TCNS Clothing Ltd, B Thiagarajan, Joint Managing Director, Blue Star Limited, Mahendra Swarup, Founder, Venture Gurukool, Salil Kapoor, Chief Operating Officer, UPBG at Voltas Limited - a TATA Enterprise, Rajeev Sharma, Country Managing Director, G4S India, Sunandan Bhanja Chaudhury, Managing Partner, Executive Access (India) Pvt Ltd, Sangeeta Talwar, Creator of Iconic brands (Maggi, Tata Tea); Leadership Speaker; CXO level; Marketer; Consultant; Author, Dr. Annurag Batra, Chairman and Editor in Chief, BW Businessworld and Exchamge4media Group, Harsh Wardhan, Consultant-Smart Head Strategy Co and Principal Consultant-Profile XL.
Sunandan Bhanja Chaudhury said that the HR is the biggest alley of an organisation it helps and defines the culture of an organisation.
Sangeeta Talwar pointed out that with digitization and new age technologies HR's role is far more important than ever.
"The effort is more towards macro instead of micro, the important element today should be the external environment impact. That how an organisation should be working towards the betterment of the nation", said Mahendra Swarup.
Bhaskar Pramanik expressed that the industry is forgetting high scale jobs while their focus is on mass jobs.
Anurag Batra pointed out that the employment percentage has declined over the past two years.
Harsh Wardhan suggested that there should be connect between the HR and the employee, internal process should be strengthened in a manner to develop connect and to feel welcome.
"65% of the employee is under the age of 30 nowadays, the big challenge is to manage and engage the new generation", said B Thiagarajan.