systematicHR
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Closing the Floodgates: Retaining Senior Talent When the CEO Leaves
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We’ve all seen it. A CEO leaves the organization and takes half of the senior management with him/her to their next gig. Then the new CEO comes in and brings in his/her team, and lets go of the rest of…
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How Social Networking Will End
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Colin Kingsbury wrote an interesting piece about the end of social networking (I’ve borrowed the title to his post as I’m getting much too lazy these days). He writes: Just to recap, Harry joined Facebook, and attempted to invite his…
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The Truth Behind Asia’s Talent Markets
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You’ll never hear me contesting the idea that Asian talent markets are ripe to be the major force in the world economy. After all, when you have half the world’s population, it’s just logical to think you should eventually command…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 8
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Use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your people and processes. I heard a rumor that I’ll leave as a rumor that when Microsoft Windows was put into general release it had over 60K known and documented bugs. 60K…
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Labor Shortages: Myth and Reality
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There are two types of labor shortages currently under examination. The first is a shortage in the current labor supply, and then there’s the much feared future labor supply that is projected as the large population of Baby Boomers retire…
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Does Talent Management Create Culture?
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Ron Lawrence writes in CLOmedia.com that HR shape a company’s culture by finding and developing talent. I’m having a hard time buying into that. My answer to the question “does talent management create culture?” is simply: “no.” In reality, creating…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 7
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Use visual control so no problems are unhidden. One of the best modern tools we have is the data warehouse and the dashboard. We have totally current metrics available to any of us, if we would just implement the technology. …
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Video iPods in Training
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“Training is now going to employees rather than the other way around.” ((Gronstedt, Anders. June 2007. “Employees Get and Earful.” HBR June 2007, Pg 26)) A few months ago I posted some podcast ideas that you could use in HR. …
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Social Media Best Practice #1
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I don’t know whether the other Systematic (systematicviewpoints.com) intended for his first post on social media best practices to infer that this best practice (#1) is also the most important. However, I’m taking it that way and I haven’t even…
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The Long Awaited Taleo Performance
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Last week Taleo announced their long awaited performance management module. I’ve been waiting for their talent management release for about a year since systemaciHR first heard about it. I’ve always thought they would be late to the game, and even…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 6
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Standardized tasks are the foundation for continuous process improvement and employee empowerment. There’s a quote in here that I love, actually written by Henry Ford in 1926. “Today’s standardization… is the necessary foundation on which tomorrow’s improvement will be based….
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Lawson Update
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I haven’t felt the need to write about Lawson in quite some time. Not because they are not a major player, or that they don’t have a decent mix of technology. The truth of the matter is that Oracle and…
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How Web 2.0 Will Boost Productivity
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The introduction of consumer driven Web 2.0 technologies into businesses is set to usher in a phase of productivity growth that could surpass that of the late 1990’s boom, says John Chambers, chairman and chief executive of Cisco Systems. “We…
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What’s the Difference Between Employee Engagement and Commitment?
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Thanks to Terry for pointing me to an article Regina Miller wrote. In it, Regina speculates at the different definitions of commitment versus engagement. It seems that the world has been caught up by this employee engagement fanaticism, in the…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 5
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Build a culture of stopping to fix problems, to get quality right the first time. I think the key message here is not that we should operate like a shop floor and allow any employee to stop a process at…
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Understanding the Contributors to Employee Engagement
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The May 2007 issue of HBR gives us a broader view of employee engagement and defines some of the contributors for it. Not surprisingly, employee engagement is not made up of one huge event that makes the employee committed to…
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Choosing the Right Talent Strategy to Drive Profits
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So how much does it cost to drive up revenues by 1%? There are many possibilities including: Cost of acquiring new talent versis: Cost of developing new talent Cost of rewards versus: Cost of 1% increase in engagement So which…
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Management as a Productivity Barrier
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Peter Drucker: “So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to do work.” A while back I had a post around “1 Jerk = $160K.” We’ve all experienced managers who are either idiots or…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 4
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Level out the workload (Heijunka) I love what we do to some of our departments. We engineer processes so that they are optimal for us, but certain downstream participants in the process are not always considered. In many organizations, January…
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Second Again
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The first installation of the HR Blog Power Ratings are out (by the HR Capitalist) and systematicHR came in at second on the list. We never seem to win these things, but that’s ok. systematicHR has a great readership and…