HR From Scratch : The Complete Guide to Building People Operations in Startups and Scale-Ups
Overview
Nobody hands the first HR hire a blueprint. HR From Scratch is it. You have just been brought in to build the people function at a company with no policies, no processes, and no roadmap - or you are the founder who is also, suddenly, the accidental HR department. Either way, you need to know what to build first, what can wait, and what breaks a fast-growing company if you get it wrong. Drawing on 25+ years of senior HR leadership across the GCC and India, Mayur N Koikar walks founders, first HR hires, and scale-up people leaders through the complete build: the HR audit and priority map, policies and the employment framework, compensation and benefits on a startup budget, hiring at speed, culture by design rather than accident, onboarding that actually works, and performance management that fits a company still finding its shape. The book carries you through the hardest growth thresholds - 20 to 100 people, 100 to 500 people - and equips you to build and lead the HR team that takes the function beyond you. Anchored by the HR From Scratch Readiness Checklist(TM), a Startup HR Policy Toolkit, a Hiring Scorecard and Interview Framework, and a 30-60-90 Day Plan for first HR hires, this is the instruction manual for building people operations from zero - under real time pressure, with real constraints. For founders, first HR hires, and people leaders building HR from the ground up.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798187705986
- ISBN-10: 9798187705986
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: July 2026
- Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.39 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.72 pounds
- Page Count: 182
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