systematicHR
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What’s Wrong with Talent Management – Replys
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Nobody ever said I was un-opinionated. To those who may think I’m just an instigator, I actually do believe in what I’ve written and think that (1) performance is broken in 99.9% of the organizations out there, (2) HR does…
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What’s wrong with Talent Management – Part 2
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Don’t we all love competencies? I’ll admit that understanding them is critical to managing a workforce as part of an HR strategic plan. However, the linkage of competencies to talent acquisition and learning is insufficient when thought of as a…
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What’s wrong with Talent Management – Part 1
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Let’s think about this. Evaluating performance is a good thing, right? So as an HR practitioner (and being realistic about it), how many organizations do you know that apply performance well? How many performance plans have you seen where the…
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Why I Love Compensation
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In all of the HR practice areas, in my opinion, compensation is the cornerstone of the HR function. Not only does it carry through the HR organization, but it also carries through the HR technology framework. When I talk about…
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Web Services Part 2
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We’ve talked a bit before about CORBA and data transfers between disparate systems, but we haven’t talked specifically about web services. In general, they perform about the same functions, about 90% of the technologies overlap. In fact, much of the…
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EE’s quit to seek relationships, balance and mission
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In the “talent war” discussion, there is now even more room for concern. While we have always realized that growing retiree populations were decreasing the availability of senior talent, the development of young talent seems to be at risk as…
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Recruitment Process Outsourcing for Healthcare
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I stumbled across this company, Pinstripe, that does RPO for healthcare. Now, I personally don’t really care one way or another about this specific company, but the concept of RPO for healthcare seems to be a troublesome idea for me…
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Attraction and Retention vs. Cost Containment
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Deloitte and ISCEBS (International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists) recently pushed out their annual list of top 5 total rewards priorities for 2006Deloitte, 2006. “Top Five Total Rewards Priorities for 2006.” Retrieved from http://www.iscebs.org on January 31, 2006.. The…
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Job Quality vs. Job Quantity
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Just a few days ago I wrote here about the impact of the poor U.S. educational system and the negative affect on talent in the near future (my wife tells me that my poor writing combined with my refusal to…
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Web Services Part 1 – LDAP
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The foollowing few weeks (just this Tuesday series) is my attempt at covering a few important portal technologies at a very high level. It’s tough to do them justice, but in my conversations, I’m finding that many HR practitioners and…
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Mid Market HRMS
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I got an e-mail a couple weeks back noting that I don’t post any content on mid market HRMS. While this is generally true (and I am not intimately familiar with this space), it appears from my survey that many…
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7 Habits of Effective Communications
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While I’m not a “communicator” in HRIT we are often involved in communications at levels we don’t think about. Basically, any time we’re implementing a system that will include a form of manager or employee self service, or designing a…
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Talent Vaccuum – the next generation
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Granted I’m playing up to all the sensationaliztic reports on talent and the U.S.’s inability to create an effective educational plan and environment to be competitive globally, I’m posting this commentary on workforce planning anyway. I was reading an article…
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Time to reconstruct HR practices, approach
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I was reading this commentary on HR practices basically not living up to expectations and thought I’d deliver my rebuttal. (Financial Express article here – pop-up warning if you follow the link) Mr. Reddy argues that: Veterans in the field…
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HR Systems and Data Model
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Well, for my first post of the year, I thought I’d do a data model for HR service delivery. Having been a theorist for too long, I definitely have my own ideas of what HR service delivery should look like…
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Who’s an Internet Applicant? New OFCCP Rules
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ERE’s article on the new OFCCP rules for federal contractors outlines the recquirements that must be comlied with beginning today. Who’s an Internet Applicant? The individual submits an expression of interest in employment through the Internet or related electronic data…
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Pooh on Innovation
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It’s Friday and some things are too good not to post. This is from Visual Congruence — Creativity Zone: Pulling wisdom out of pooh “HERE is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head,…
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An Interview with Workstream
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Workstream has always been one of my favorite vendors. They have great depth and breadth in their TMS suite, but their financials have plagued them. In the last year, their competitors have made strong market moves and gained momentum. I…
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The future of the ATS
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Dave Lefkow recently wrote about the future of TAS systems and I’d like to put my thoughts down as well. Here are his comments: Where the industry will go and the strategies successful vendors will employ are dependent on a…
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What is it about HR that interests you?
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Yup, I’m asking for feedback. Actually, I just want to know what you want to read and what portions of the industry you represent. It’s a 10 question survey, so please take 60 seconds and help me understand my audience….