systematicHR
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Making HR Indispensable
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When we talk about employee engagement, we’re talking about the employee’s willingness to work an additional discretionary period of time to complete a unit of work. This basically means the employee is committed to the organization, the project, the job,…
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HR as Sales
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I often think that senior HR practitioners don’t think about sales as often as they should. Too much of the time, HR thinks that their performance in the delivery of services is enough. Even if those services are the delivery…
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Developing Change Agents
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When in any project, making sure that change management occurs with the proper focus on strategy, effective communications, and facilitation of behavioral change, is possibly the most critical task outside of creating a good governance process. Great behavioral change is…
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State of the Blog
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On systematicHR’s third anniversary, I suppose it’s fitting to do a state of the blog. The basics are rather easy. Over 700 posts on a variety of topics in HR strategy and technology, and over 1700 comments. This is of…
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The Hype Around Facebook and HR
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I mean really, what’s the big deal? This is yet another social networking tool that has invaded our work spaces. First it was personal access to e-mails during work hours. Then it was dating sites. (I once worked with an…
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Universal Best Practices
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It’s funny to me that these are even called best practices. First of all, there really are no “best practices”. Perhaps these should be called “leading practices” or even “common practices”, but something that does not state that this is…
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Is the Online HR Conference the Future?
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Bill Kutik, the organizer of the HR Technology Conference, recently wrote about VIEW, an HR virtual online conference and trade show that debuted on Dec. 12 and 13. Registration was easy, though too nosy about my buying intentions. Creating my…
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The Times They Are A-Changing
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Or are they? Bob Dylan aside, it would seem that the past year has brought Web 2.0 to the HR desktop quickly and effectively. The problem is that this Web 2.0 seems to exist primarily in the best of breed…
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The Right Metrics
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Knowledge@Wharton had a great article recently about performance drivers. Here’s a brief excerpt: As the Dean of a business school, you decide that the best reflection of winning is BusinessWeek’s rankings. These are prominent reputation scores created by a third…
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What is Talent Management?
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JPIE wonders. I answer. Sort of. Hype aside. What is talent management? Software, services, software as a service – what? What components make up talent management? Applicant tracking, succession planning, compensation, training, assessments, metrics – what? Where does it start…
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How Do You Identify High Potential Employees?
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The Institute for Corporate Productivity (is there an institute for everything?) recently conducted a study on high potential employees and the practices of organizations around them. If you want to be groomed for a leadership position, then it pays to…
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Game Theory and HR
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If you haven’t figured out by now, I have a degree in Economics. Game theory as published by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosohy is “the systematic study of interdependent rational choice. It may be used to explain, to predict, and…
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Queueing Theory and HR
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I’ve always been interested in business theory and its possible applications to HR. Unfortunately, many HR practitioners (or business practitioners for that matter) are not well educated in many business theories. Even MBA’s get a minimal schooling in these. One…
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Thoughts on HR Strategy
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We’d all like to believe that we think strategically. But the reality suggests that nobody else believes that about us. Take a couple of cases. First, if a large acquisition is happening in your organization, how much does HR collaborate…
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Is The Cornerstone of HR Job or Performance?
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HR is certainly changing. The trend over the last few years is that we are organizations focused on the strategic (over the administrative). This has manifested itself in numerous redesigns of the HR function for shared services, HRO/BPO, and the…
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An Update with Sum Total
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I’ll admit. It caught me completely off guard to find out that the major learning vendors (Saba and Sum Total) have been offering talent management systems for the better part of a year (or longer). I’ve been advocating this for…
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Another Interview with SuccessFactors
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It’s always good to talk to SuccessFactors. After all, like Kleenex and tissue paper, SuccessFactors has almost locked themselves and the brand most affiliated with talent management software. There is more hype than ever around talent management and implementations, but…
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WorkStream 7.0 Demo
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I always like it when I get to see product. While I often do as part of my normal job, I don’t overlap meaning I won’t write about things I see when consulting for a client. In the upcoming months…
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Give Me A “Sexy” UI Any Day
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Jason and I might have to disagree on this one. Can we please stop saying “…and the user interface is sexy”! User interfaces should not be “sexy” nor are they! User interfaces should be clean and simple, presenting only the…
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Evil HR on Social Networking
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Evil HR being the well know Evil HR Lady of course. She and I share something in common – we work for prominent organizations, write a blog, and are anonymous about it. When it comes to social networking and the…