The country’s central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) need to align their human resource policies with new challenges and follow a transparent, fair and objective system of promotions, a top official said on Monday. Terming the status of human resources in state-owned enterprises as ‘disturbing’, the Secretary in the Department of Public Enterprises Seema Bahuguna said: “The CPSEs are following a culture of status quo, they are not proactive, they are reactive.”
“They are also more interested in teasing unions instead of really doing fundamental restructuring of their relationships. I find that some CPSEs are still remaining in silos regarding their turfs,” she said. She pointed out that even in some of the Navratna and Maharatna PSEs, the HR policies have remained more or less stagnant, adding that the world is changing but somehow our CPSEs have not really come up to the mark. “Our CPSEs have to align themselves with new challenges. They need to focus on developing younger talent, they should have a transparent mechanism of communication with employees, they should be able to manage diversity and innovation, there should be fairness in the policy of promotion.” “This is something that as Secretary to Govt , I would be very keen to emphasise. They should have a transparent, fair and objective system of promotions. They should promote administrative excellence,” she said.