Indian companies ignoring HR issues: A higher level of open-mindedness is needed
Human Resource Management International Digest
ISSN: 0967-0734
Article publication date: 13 June 2016
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent of corporate disclosure on human resources (HR) in the annual reports of top-performing Indian companies.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper explores the extent to which top 82 companies from India present information about HR in their annual reports. This paper examines the annual reports of each of the top Indian firms listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, using the “content analysis” method. Statistical tests have been performed to analyze the difference between the HR disclosure score across public and private sectors and disclosure variations among various industrial sectors.
Findings
In-house training programmers has been noticed to be the favorite item of disclosure followed by safety awards/certifications and statements regarding cordial relations with the employees/unions. A majority of the Indian firms have ignored significant HR issues such as employee welfare fund, maternity/paternity leaves, holiday benefits, employee loans, adopting old age homes, etc. Overall, the paper reflects low HR-related disclosures.
Originality/value
This is the first paper on the disclosure of HR by the Indian corporate sector in the CSR domain with a disclosure analysis for a period of nine years. This paper provides new directions for the literature in this area and may promote comparative studies on HR-based studies from different perspectives.
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Acknowledgements
Retraction notice
The Publisher wishes to retract the precis article “Indian companies ignoring HR issues: A higher level of open-mindedness is needed”, published in Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 24 No. 4, 2016. It has come to the attention of Emerald Publishing that this precis article contains large sections of unattributed text taken from the original research article “Reporting human resources in annual reports”, by Monika Kansal, Mahesh Joshi, published in Asian Review of Accounting, Vol. 23 No. 3, 2015.
Precis articles are intended to summarise original academic research articles for a different audience, and should not include verbatim passages from the original articles. This error occurred due to a miscommunication in the commissioning process.
To avoid any repeated incidents of this nature, Emerald has fully revised its guidelines and briefed its Commissioning Editors. Human Resource Management International Digest sincerely apologises to the original authors and its readers for this error. The original article can be viewed here: 10.1108/ARA-04-2014-0051.
Citation
Beal, B. (2016), "Indian companies ignoring HR issues: A higher level of open-mindedness is needed", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 24 No. 4, pp. 29-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/HRMID-03-2016-0032
Publisher
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