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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 degrees, the risk of not performing well on the interview is probably minimal, but it’s a…
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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. So go ahead and check the link: http://www.cedarcrestone.com/survey/systematicHR.html Continuing and New Research Areas For 2009.…
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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 quickly, and some of the ideas that I have can be rather abstract. I often…
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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 for years over organization structures. They are hard to implement within existing HCM configuration limitations,…
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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 of “managing by walking around.” Really this just meant that HR was available and visible. …
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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 organization, there are people who don’t network well at all, but the organization counts on…
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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 figure. Business 2.0 Magazine had a write-up about measuring employee productivity. Here are some of…
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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 requirements. Perhaps their intent was not to prioritize, but I think they got these in…
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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 given broader opportunities than prior generations while growing up. This simply means that they generally…
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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 they are an outsourcing company and no longer a pure consulting company, their outsourcing experience…
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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 be most important in driving engagement. (I should note that I didn’t purchase the full…
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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 the year. As an anonymous blogger, I’m having a hard time with this one, but…
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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 the day. I really won’t miss the political mudslinging, but election season is always an…
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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 the past 6 years. Clearly, the war on terror has made a robust domestic agenda…
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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 4 benefit radars, but also 4 HR radars. Among these are: Talent Management Outsourcing Technology…
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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: training and the conveyance of knowledge Level 2: training and the aquisition of skills Level…
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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 of the word “outsourcing” when people are really referring to “offshoring”. Today, I read this…
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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 trying to figure out, is if you can link market share or stock price growth…
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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 12 months. (I didn’t convert old comments from the HR Tech Discussion Board) Well, along…
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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.