org design

In HRchat episode 148, we hear from Rohit Manucha, Head of Human Resources at Aujan Coca-Cola Beverages Company about ways to fine-tune your org design. 

Presenting at Hacking HR’s HR Innovation and Future of Work Global Online Conference and Workshop on March 3 – 6, Rohit will be addressing the topic of ‘Future of Work in the Middle East‘.

org design

Listen to this HRchat interview with Rohit Manucha and learn:

  • What does OD essentially entail for the modern organization?
  • What skills does an effective OD practitioner require?
  • When done in the right ways, what can an OD intervention, delivered by a seasoned OD practitioner, give to an organization?
  • What are some of the biggest challenges for HR pros when working with leadership towards aligning their organization with their strategic agenda, managing change and driving sustainable performance?
  • You recently wrote an article on humanresourcesonline.net in which you discussed the design thinking framework. Please can you explain what it is and why design thinking is becoming so important for HR today when it wasn’t as popular in the past?

More About Rohit Manucha

Rohit has extensive experience in working with CEOs and C-suite leaders; in driving end-to-end organizational transformation across 19 countries. He has worked towards aligning organizations with their strategic agenda, managing change and driving sustainable performance. He has worked across a diverse range of sectors, covering companies with varying ownership models and at different stages of business life-cycle.

His core expertise is in ‘Organizational Transformation & Effectiveness’. He has developed case studies and white papers that are featured in various publications and he is quoted in a number of leading HR magazines on a host of HR-related topics. He has chaired and been a keynote speaker at a number of global events across UAE, London, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore.

Rohit advises Aujan Group Holding and its other entities on all HR related matters and functions as an SME in this field. He is also a Board member at the Change & Transformative Collaborative, UK; a visiting faculty at IMT, Dubai and Newstead Lab, UK.

He won the ‘Compensation & Benefits Leadership Award’, India, 2019; ‘HR’s Rising Star’, UAE, 2016; ‘100 Most Influential Global HR Professionals’, India, 2016; ‘HR Leadership Award’, UAE, 2015. In the course of his career, Rohit has worked in KPMG, Hay Group (Korn Ferry), Pepsi – ORC, Dunia Group. He is an alumni of XLRI.  

Rohit will be presenting at the HR Innovation and Future of Work” Global Online Conference. His session is called the Future of Work in the Middle East.

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