Return of the Surya: The Ever Rising and Transforming Human Resources

by K.K. Sinha

This book attempts to look at future of technology and need of HR to reorient its philosophy and practices required to build a greater and a better tomorrow, through the views and experiences of a large number of technocrats and leaders, HR practitioners, academicians, business experts, bureaucrats and trade unionists.We have always been overwhelmed by the grandeur of the Sun. The all-powerful, merciful, the creator of our solar system and all lives on our planet. The Surya is the soul of all creations. He is always there with us, around us and is so merciful! We take Him for granted and remain generally unmindful of Him. The world however, has been mostly depending for its increasing needs of energy on fossil fuel, realising now thankfully that this is becoming a major threat to environment and all lives. This realisation has been now driving the globe to be putting greater reliance on renewable sources of energy including the wind, hydro and primarily the Sun. The entire energy value chain is likely to see significant disruption in the coming years and decades.India, which is at an evolving stage in its growth story, promises many opportunities for energy players. The ambitious megaprojects, launched by the Country are likely to drive higher energy consumption. The new thrust on nonconventional and renewable sources of energy has been radically altering the dynamics of the power sector. HR will therefore, have a very important role in understanding energy solutions for the future and it will have to reinvent itself continually to meet the challenges of a technology-driven future, while ensuring not to lose sight of the 'human' aspect of organisation and culture. HR also has to be harnessing its natural capability to be future ready.While technologists and scientists from all over the world are looking for the most green and renewable sources of energy, solar may well emerge as the best substitute for fossil fuels over short time. It could probably allow humans to happily coexist with the flora and fauna, while making the most efficient use of technology.Let us value and celebrate the return of the Surya to make a better world!

439 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 2, 2020

About the author

Mr. K K Sinha is a Graduate with Honours in Economics and Post Graduate in Personnel Management / LSW (Gold Medalist, University of Patna). He has worked in HR for 42 years and held leadership positions in organizations like Steel Authority of India (SAIL), NTPC, Reliance Energy, Reliance Infocomm and Reliance Industries Limited (NMSEZ/HSEZ)and as the Group Director, Human Resource, Jindal Steel & Power. During his tenure in NTPC, where he was Director (HR) for 7 years, he transformed the HR processes and the work culture, enabling NTPC to be ranked as the “Best Employer” and one of the “Great Places to Work” consecutively for 3 years. He was also actively involved in guiding and providing very innovative and sensitive Leadership to R&R and CSR in the organisation, in very close association with World Bank and also represented in Global Compact forum of the UN very actively.

He has received extensive training in Human Resources from Harvard Business School, Templeton (Oxford), Michigan Business School, Tata Management Centre, IIM, Ahmedabad, IIM, Kolkata and ASCI, Hyderabad. He has also been invited to deliver talks in many academic institutions in India and abroad including Auckland University, Martin Hautus – The Pacific Peoples Learning Institute and Cornell Institute of Business and Technology, New Zeland. He is closely associated with National HRD Network and is also a Fellow of All India Management Association.

He has been an innovator in development of HR and is a known HR thought leader and avid Human Source developer…A keen learner and HR thinker and innovator, he also tailored and executed change in Corporates , working with international level Consultants like Mckinsey,Hewitts,Mercer,E&Y,AT Kearny to name a few.

On his retirement from active Corporate world after 42 years of sojourn, in his new avatar, currently, he is working as a Professor and Head of HR in the leading Business School, BIMTECH, in Greater NOIDA, sharing Corporate perspective and experiences with the budding leaders of Corporate India…He is a visiting Corporate Trainer, Consultant and is also currently engaged in writing a Book on his experiences and experiments in Human Resources.