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HR Monitor 2025 by McKinsey Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1139 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1139 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Artem Podrez Credit: cottonbro studio Credit: Edmond Dantès Preamble Excerpt from McKinsey report preface. [Quote] To help HR leaders compare their functions with others’ and benchmark their progress accordingly, we’ve repeated and expanded our HR Monitor report. Last year’s report covered Germany’s HR landscape. This year, to create a robust set of meaningful indicators across the HR topics most relevant to European organizations, we gathered data from 1,925 companies and insights from more than 4,000 employees across Europe and, for comparison purposes, the United States. This year’s report highlights developments in both what HR delivers—suc...

The Power of Organizational Culture – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1082 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1082 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Kindel Media Credit: Mikhail Nilov Credit: Theo Decker Preamble Organizational culture is one of the most significant yet often overlooked aspects of business success. It shapes how employees interact, influences decision-making, and determines how companies respond to challenges and opportunities. In an era where businesses must constantly adapt to rapid changes, culture is no longer a soft aspect of the organization—it is a strategic imperative. In this article, I would explore the definition of organizational culture, its impact on hiring, its role in strategy making, and why it should serve as a guiding force rather than a restrictive barr...

Thoughts on Leadership Teams in Pharmaceutical Companies II – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1023 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1023 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Antoni Shkraba Credit: Vlada Karpovich Credit: Werner Pfenning Collective Accountability I finished the last post on the point that collective accountability should also be considered along with individual accountability.  Building collective accountability in the system will require that both individual and team goals be assigned to team members. Team goals are those which can only be achieved as a group and not as an individual. For example, if the organization plans to introduce certain values in its culture, it is a goal for the entire leadership team, and they must work together to achieve it. On the material side, if...