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Behavioral Non-Interviews
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Remembering back to college admissions days (which many of you might have kids going through that right now), one of the best parts of the whole process is doing the college tour thing and doing interviews at the various prospective schools. For 4 year…
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The Annual CedarCrestone HR Technology Survey
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CedarCrestone is at it again. This time for their 12th annual survey. I don’t usually shamelessly plug anything, but I have plugged this survey for the last 3 years running (I think). The more participants, the more valuable the information….
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systematicHR’s 4th year
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Well, I finally hit 4 years. The deal was to go to 4 years or 1000 posts, whichever came first. Honestly, the last year was a it rough – I wasn’t writing as much, the ideas were not flowing as…
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The White Space Behind the Org Chart
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In the last year I have had a few posts on Workday’s redesign of the organization structure in their HCM application. They have done a great job at giving us something new and more usable. In fact, we’ve been struggling…
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Bill Kutik Radio Show – HP: Managing By Walking Around
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Bill Kutik’s excellent interview of HP had quite a few excellent insights. He initially opens the conversation by talking about some of the many innovations HP has developed over the years. One of the early HR innovations was the idea…
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Turnover in the Collaboration Network
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A collaboration network is made up of many different types of nodes. There are people in the organization that are subject matter experts, there are people who seem to know everyone else and everything that is going on in the…
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(Not) Measuring Employee Productivity
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More and more we’ve been seeing increased interest in some “real” employee metrics. Instead of looking at things like employee satisfaction, I’ve been talking about profit per employee and the chain of linkages between the engagement score and the profit…
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Planning for HRO Technology
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HRO Today had an interesting article about process and governance in the HRO buying lifecycle and applying them to your technology selection. In it, HRO Today looked at three components to the partnership: strategic goals, statement of work, and detailed…
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The Evolution of the Workforce
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It seems I make a point of talking about the millennial generation (those emerging into the workforce now), and how there seems to be a perception that they are less motivated than prior generations. It’s probably true that they were…
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Quantifying the Customer Experience
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Hewitt has a lovely article in their Hewitt Magazine Online entitled “The Science of Customer Experience.” ((Volume 9 Issue 2. Retrieved from www.hewitt.com on December 18, 2006.)) While I’m really going to stick by my guns in the proclamation that…
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Myths of Employee Engagement: Part 1
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I found on the Watson Wyatt site a WorkUSA research paper that WW looks to have sponsored. In the “WorkUSA® 2006/2007: Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement, Executive Summary,” WorkUSA attempts to identify some myths and ascertain what actions might…
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5 Things About Double Dubs
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Michael Specht tagged me. I don’t usually do this stuff, but perhaps it is useful to let you know just a little bit about myself. It’s going into the middle of “15 days of Drucker” as my last post of…
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Human Resources and the Mid-Term Election
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Today is Election Day!!! After today, we will no longer be bombarded with political ads slinging mud right out of our TV sets. After today, most of the nightly news will go back to the typical and sensationalist news of…
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Social Security Reform Revisited
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This past week, President Bush resurrected the issue of Social Security Reform. As part of this political season, it seems he wants to flex some presidential muscle by attempting to re-establish his core initiatives which have stalled in congress over…
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The Industry Radar
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Along with Michal Specht’s hrblogs.org site, there’s another new HR aggregator that is doing an incredible job bringing quality content to the masses called the Industry Radar. (I’m big on alternatives to SHRM and other mainstream sites). The site has…
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Managing Change in Your HR Staff – Part 3
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Of couse not all HR change management means displacing staff (see parts 1 & 2). What every change management professional knows (and not all HR practitioners share this knowledge) is that there are several distinct levels of change: Level 1:…
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It’s Offshoring, Not Outsourcing!!!!
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I am taking a break this week from my discussion of vendor management in order to use this particular platform to rant a bit about a pet peeve of mine. As the title suggests, it’s to rant about the misuse…
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HR Vendors and Sport Sponsorships
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systematicHR wants to know if there are any outsourcers or HR technology firms that sponsor sporting figures. Here are a couple of examples: ADP and Tom Lehman Paychex and Jeff Sluman This might be a bit whimsical, but what I’m…
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systematicHR is 1 year old!!!
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Yup, my first post on the HR Technology Discussion Board was 1 year ago today and I’ve posted 313 times since then. You have also written about 250 comments since December, and possibly many more than that in the last…
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Custom vs Config vs Vanilla
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I hear these terms all the time and I often hear them being misused. I’m going to provide a few simple guidelines today in an attempt to provide what I think are the industry standard definitions.