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Chief Human Resources Officer · India

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Examine what the policy quietly asks the person to supply

Seventeen employees could see an internal vacancy but could not put themselves forward.

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Examine what the policy quietly asks the person to supply

I lead the people function at Zemqevni Risk Broking, a fictional commercial insurance intermediary in Kozhikode. Our eight offices employ 337 people. Twenty-two colleagues work through four people-function heads within ₹4.6 crore annual expense. The business recorded ₹126 crore commission and fee revenue for FY ending March 2026, while group employee expense of ₹48 crore describes a different scope. We support clients as a broker; we do not make an insurer's coverage or settlement decisions.

My career began in personnel administration after psychology study in 1997. Over twenty-nine years I have become interested in the conditions a seemingly reasonable policy leaves unstated. An internal vacancy may depend on the current manager's permission to apply. A half-time assignment may leave two managers expecting a full workload. Approved travel may quietly require an employee to lend the company money until reimbursement. Those assumptions change who can use the opportunity.

In 2019 I had supported manager permission before an employee could apply for an internal move. Of forty-eight expressions of interest, seventeen were blocked at that point. We separated permission to compete from the release arrangements needed after selection. Eleven of the previously blocked seventeen applied; four were selected and seven were not. The other six chose not to apply. Four moves required ₹27 lakh of overlap expense, not a cost-free declaration of openness.

Two half-time assignments had become two full jobs

Eight of twelve secondments had home and host managers each planning a full workload. We rebalanced those eight schedules and retained four already aligned arrangements. ₹54 lakh of backfill and supervision remained visible; the case claims no measured productivity or health improvement.

The hiring exercise rewarded a performance style

A ninety-second video answer poorly represented a nuanced client-coordination task. We offered thirty candidates an invented written case and discussion route. Eighteen participated and twelve did not continue; no reasons or hiring outcomes were inferred. Assessment design and review cost ₹23 lakh.

Approved business travel required a funding assumption

Twenty-one requests for advances or direct booking within seventy-two approved assignments made the employee-funded model worth examining. Company booking and invoicing retained ₹1.1 crore travel spend and ₹32 lakh extra coordination expense as distinct amounts.

Current focus

Practical access to work, movement and contribution. I want operating promises to state their demands honestly, including time, permission, assessment conditions and who provides the funds before an assignment begins.

Conversations I welcome

A first outside board contribution after employer consent, preparation and company-specific review. I have no current directorship; my 0.5% interest sits within the employee ownership vehicle. Databank registration and assessment have not begun. Twenty provisional days are a planning limit to discuss, not an accepted mandate.

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People colleagues

Four heads within the delegated function

₹4.6 crore

Annual function expense

Separate from ₹48 crore group employee expense

29 years

People career

Personnel entry July 1997; CHRO since January 2022

A policy can offer an opportunity while making access depend on something the employee was never asked to agree to provide. I look for that unstated condition, then work with operating colleagues to make the commitment practical without pretending the work or its cost disappears.

Rose Tevqerni

Chief Human Resources Officer

Areas of stewardship

Where accountability has been mine.

  1. IPractical access to internal opportunities
  2. IIWorkload agreements across teams
  3. IIIRole-relevant hiring evidence
  4. IVEmployment conditions and employee resources

Selected work

Decisions, and what they changed.

I

My handover safeguard had become a veto before application

In 2019 Zemqevni received forty-eight expressions of interest in internal movement.

The full account

II

Eight secondments carried two managers' full workloads

Twelve cross-team secondments in 2021 were intended to divide work evenly between home and host teams.

The full account

III

A ninety-second answer was a poor model of the coordination job

A 2023 recruitment process used a ninety-second video answer for a role involving nuanced corporate-client coordination.

The full account

In the words of others

Trusted by those who appoint.

Rose changed a permission rule she had supported and kept the transfer cost visible. She did not make the managers' continuity responsibility disappear to make the correction look easy.
Elena TevqemniCEO, Zemqevni Risk Broking; fictional colleague
She brought both managers into the secondment discussion, so the employee was no longer expected to reconcile two full workloads through personal negotiation.
Irfan DezqerniOperations Head, Zemqevni Risk Broking; fictional colleague

The journal

Perspective, set down with care.

Internal movement and management responsibility · 2026-06-12 · 5 min read

The vacancy was open, but permission came first

An internal application rule made continuity concerns a veto before selection. Separating consideration from release planning changed the process without erasing the work of a transfer.

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Shared assignments and practical capacity · 2026-07-24 · 5 min read

Half-time on paper, fully occupied twice

A secondment percentage is only credible when both managers change the work behind it. Eight conflicting schedules exposed a shared responsibility that employees could not resolve alone.

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An invitation

Contact

A first outside board contribution after employer consent, preparation and company-specific review. I have no current directorship; my 0.5% interest sits within the employee ownership vehicle. Databank registration and assessment have not begun. Twenty provisional days are a planning limit to discuss, not an accepted mandate.

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