The Case of Singhania & Partners

The Case of Singhania & Partners

Introduction

Singhania & Partners is one of the leading law firms of India. It provides all kinds of law services to the Indian, as well as, foreign companies. Singhania & Partners is famous for its law practices relating to successful international commercial and corporate, arbitration, intellectual property and litigation. Singhania & Partners is one of the most successful law forms of the country. It has offices in Noida, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Mumbai. It also has a number of alliances with the provincial councils. These alliances have made the presence of the law firm in sixty five other locations. Singhania & Partners has a team of around seventy law professionals which are providing excellent services to the customers and clients of the firm. Manju Mohorta and Ravi Singhania founded Singhania & Partners in 1999. Mohorta is serving the company as the Chief Executive, and Singhania is the Managing Director.

Discussion

Organizational Strategy of Singhania & Partners

The founders of Singhania & Partners, Singhania and Mohotra, based their company on hiring and retaining the best human resource available to them. They wanted their company to take advantage of the conditions of the market which were going in their favor. As Singhania & Partners is a service firm, the most perfect employees of the firm were their only asset. Law firms are meant to be the organizations which are people intensive (Pennings, 1985). Their core competency lies with their competent employees who have the necessary knowledge, skills and capacity to work for the betterment of the organization. It was the strategy of Singhania & Partners to make sure that the human resource of the company is kept satisfied and happy. This included providing them with the best training, packages and opportunities for development (Cushman & King, 2001). Sustaining the talented employees was another strategy that the founders of Singhania & Partners had. They made sure that the skilled employees were retained so that the value and worth of the company was not affected. The founders of Singhania & Partners made sure that all aspects of human resource management, as well as, development and sustaining were addressed in the best possible way to keep the organization growing.

Evaluation of the Human Resource Management Practices

Recruitment and Selection

The firm started with two of the best people of their times in the industry. Singhania and Mohotra, both were associate lawyers. They started out the task of hiring competent individual in the firm. Recruitment and selection was the first step. In early 2000, they hired Arvind who was a litigation lawyer (Mondy, Noe & Gowan, 2005). To attract more of the competent and eligible candidates from the industry, Singhania and Mohotra set up new offices of the organization in Hyderabad, Mumbai and Bangalore. This attracted a number of lawyers and law professionals to apply for a place in the firm. This resulted in the increase of the number of employees to fifty lawyers in the year ...