38: Ajith Nair - Part 2/5 : Employee Engagement & its Role in Managing Disruption

Welcome to the KIA series by TalkCXOLife. In continuation with the series of conversations we are having with HR leaders, people-centric managers and coaches we bring to you our conversation with Ajith Nair, Director of Kincentric, a talent and HR advisory firm specializing in employee engagement, leadership assessment and development & HR advisory. In this segment, Ajith Nair speaks to Sunayana Nair, Editor, CXO Life on -  The commonalities across corporate cultures globally while pointing to the differences within the employee ecosystem.  He emphasizes the significance of fundamentally anchored value systems – pillars of what an engaging culture thrives on and how these lead to unfathomable employee behaviours – what he calls as emergent behaviours – behaviours, much beyond the expectations any employee manual can seek. And how this is a by-product of a thriving engaging culture.   The critical role of engaged employees in aiding and managing disruption  The need for organisations to shift from the outdated Process lens which served well for consistency and predictability to intent-culture-purpose led lens to tap that delta or competitive edge.