systematicHR
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A Return to Sabbaticals
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A few months ago I wrote about sabbaticals and wanted to swing back around and clarify my position – especially since I may have been proven wrong about a couple things. In my original article, I stated that sabbaticals were…
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The Applicant Decision Process
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So how does someone actually decide to work for you? What is that process and how can knowing about it be leveraged to your advantage? Knowing the step can help you tailor your recruiting process and capitalize on your strengths….
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Recruiting The Different Types of Job Seekers
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There are many types of job seekers, and knowing which you’re recruiting for can make your job attracting the right applicants and getting them through to the offer process much easier. Here’s a profile of 3 major types. The High…
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Why Good HR Does Not Mean Higher Profits
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In a constant barrage of surveys that tell us: Higher Engagement, Higher Profits Better HR, Better Profits Better Talent Acquisition, Better Profits Better HR Service Delivery, Better Profits I could go on and on. The problem is that while all…
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HRO – Success and Partnership
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The success rate of HRO contracts is bad to dismal. That isn’t to say that companies are not saving money, or that vendors are providing bad service levels. But often, companies are dissatisfied with their overall relationships. The key indicator…
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HRO Market Leaders
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It’s interesting that only several vendors hold a large majority of the market share in the HRO world – almost an 80/20 rule. If you look at the top 3 (Hewitt, Accenture and ADP) you are probably getting close to…
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HRO – Innovation or Best Practices?
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There is a lot of debate when companies enter into HRO contracts about how much best practice a HRO vendor can bring to the table. There is also much conversation around how much innovation and thought leadership the same HRO…
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HRO – Defined
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I’ve debated HRO definitions here before. Is HRO any type of human resources outsourcing even if it’s just payroll to ADP? Or does HRO mean full BPO for HR functions (HR BPO)? It’s quite arguable that you should define HRO…
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What’s to be done about performance reviews?
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Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has a current discussion about performance reviews and what can be done to make them more effective. Quite a few interesting comments have been posted so far (discussion closes on November 24). I’ve written quite…
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Cedar Crestone HCM Survey 2006
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Cedar recently released their 2006 HCM survey with some interesting results and interpretations. I’m not going to regurgitate their findings, but here are a few items I though worth thinking about. Five applications cause operating income growth among publicly traded…
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Changing the Game: Managing the HR Technology Suite
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I’ve always been an advocate of getting the best in point solutions and integrating everything together on the back end. This has always meant SAP or PeopleSoft for the HRMS, add a recruiting vendor and a talent suite, wrap around…
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How To Annoy Your Peers
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I’ve been in all sorts of situations. From the smelly guy, to the office in front of the kitchen, to sitting behind the cell phone guy. The woman who had extra butter popcorn every day at 3:30 pm was about…
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Predictions of M&A and Employee Acquisition
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There are many reasons companies buy or merge with other companies. Sometimes, you just want more market share and it’s easier to buy it that to grow organically. Other times you want to acquire products or expand into new market…
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Branding and Employment
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How can you create strong employer brands in the face of changing economic and business environments? Sometimes creating and maintaining a positive employer brand are uphill battles because of business decisions operational managers make. Other times, employer brands are easily…
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Employees Define Employee Satisfaction
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The Boggs Learning Chronicle blog highlighted a survey of top ten employee satisfaction indicators as defined by 2.2 million employees. Granted, I didn’t think much of the survey and my comments are below. Obviously what employees think is important is…
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Protecting Trade Secrets and Engagement
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Jay Shepard is one of my favorite new bloggers – a bit because he’s actually interesting, but also because (like Thomas at Vendorprisey) Jay makes up great phrases like “gruntled employees.” In Jay’s recent post on protecting trade secrets (Jay…
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Restoring Trust
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As a leader, can you restore trust that has been lost? Knowledge@Wharton has a wonderful article including s research stuffy regarding the restoration of trust. Basically as I stated yesterday (and through the SHRM article) “To a large extent, people…
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Trust and Engagement
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Do your employees trust you? More importantly, do your employees trust your boss? Even better, do your employees trust your executive team? What goes into trust and why is it important? Trust is critical at a couple of levels. First,…
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Some Things Should Never Be Outsourced?
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I’m not talking about the highly transactional stuff like payroll, benefits, or technology. In general, there’s a huge return on some of the administrative and transactional processes. What we’re really talking about are the strategic activities, but even that gets…
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SOA: SAP versus Oracle
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SAP and Oracle have been taking different approaches to service oriented architecture (SOA) and this article by Mark Brunelli pinpoints some of those differences: Experts point out that Oracle is focusing its SOA efforts on building an open infrastructure with…