HR Strategy
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TCO in the Context of Risk
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Many regular readers of SystematicHR know that I conducted a Total Cost of Ownership study to determine the cost of benefits administration. The results were released last December. Double…
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Stopping the Talent Drain
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This site has many recurring themes, but here are 2 of the most popular: There’s a talent drain and it’s only getting worse. Compensation is no way to retain…
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The True Costs of Unionization
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In an attempt to be apolitical (which is truly difficult for me), I was reading a New York Times article about United mechanics entering into a training program after…
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Relationship Management – Measuring Satisfaction
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How do you know when an outsourcing initiative has been successful? At what point can you sit back, look at all that has been done and actually congratulate yourselves…
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Retaining Your Senior Talent
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I (and many others) keep talking about the major reductions in senior level talent coming our way. Retirees will make up an increasing percentage of our population in the…
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TCO and the Line Manager
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In the jobs I had before I started my own business, I always felt an important part of my responsibility was to develop the people who reported to me….
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6 Traits of the Next Generation HR Leader
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(A response to Jason Corsello) Usually I would say rebuttal instead of response, but Jason has this one right on. If you don’t read his site, start now by…
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TCO: A Case Study
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Some time ago, a fortune 500 company acquired another fortune 500 company. At the time, the acquiring company was a PeopleSoft shop for payroll and HRIS. The acquired company…
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Peter Drucker on the Manager’s Major Problem
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What’s the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite…
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Peter Drucker on the Manager’s Job
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What is the manager’s Job? It is to direct the resources and efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite – and it is….
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Creating Strategy
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I’ve always thought of strategy as a single, focused concept. The strategy might be philosophical or there might be a concrete goal at the end of it. For example,…
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The Keys to Employee Motivation
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At systematicHR, we sit around talking about (reading about) ideas like employee engagement and employer brand a lot. These are quite simple concepts to understand, but actually quite difficult…
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 1
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Who are you? With the recent glut of HRO and other outsourcing deals, it’s obvious that some employees are going to be invited to stick around, and others will…
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An Introduction to TCO
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Earlier this week, Elaine commented on my article from last week How Much Can Outsourcing Really Save. Elaine writes: “Frankly, there are so many articles published stating different outcome…
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On Engagement and Learning
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The following is heavily plagiarized from Fortune Magazine (reference below) Francis Upton was a Princeton-trained mathematician. Working for Thomas Edison, he wrote to his father, “The strangest thing to…
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How Much Can Outsourcing Really Save?
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I set this article aside some time ago with the intention of commenting on it at some point. Now is as good a time as any. The story, “Survey:…
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To Engage Employees, Let Them Go
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The Edelmann blog highlights a New York Times article analyzing the affect of vacation time (or lack of) on employee engagement and turnover within the younger generation of workers…
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Great Brands in Action
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Creating a great brand is difficult. Often, the external brand and the internal brand are either not synchronized, or they are simply distinct strategies. Beyond the difficulty of creating…
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A Checklist for Leadership Development
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We all hate this talk about “HR having a seat at the table.” It’s a tagline that getting old and perhaps a bit insulting. The truth is that HR…
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Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It
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Talent management is clearly one of the morst popular strategies in HR today. Getting the most attention are components of talent management that can be systematized through software vendors…