Workforce Planning
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Hot HR Issues – Part 2
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The Conference Board of Canada did an interview with Dave Ulrich where he stated “the 21st century will belong to human resources and to organizational capabilities.” ((Thanks to Romain of unknow origin for pointing me to the Conference Board of CA’s website an a comment here)) ((The Conference Board of Canada, August 2004. “Hot HR…
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Hot HR Issues – Part 1
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The Conference Board of Canada did an interview with Dave Ulrich where he stated “the 21st century will belong to human resources and to organizational capabilities.” ((Thanks to Romain of unknow origin for pointing me to the Conference Board of CA’s website an a comment here)) ((The Conference Board of Canada, August 2004. “Hot HR…
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Gautam Ghosh – The new HR professional?
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Gautam wrote this quite a long time ago, and I’ve been intending to reply for a while. As long as I’m writing about leadership these days, seemed like the right time. The upcoming generation of leaders strongly believes that HR can influence a company’s bottom line, especially in the knowledge economy, where talent is a…
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Another Doomsday Prediction for Talent
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It’s possible that I’ve been drilling this topic too much for too long, but it seems the market is really starting to take notice. Perhaps that means it’s time for me to start talking about something else. Here’s a last shot and some summary data of what the talent brain drain means. This is from…
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Offshoring Not a Cause of Job Loss
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2.4% of U.S. jobs have been lost to outsourcing and offshoring since 2003. That’s the bad news. The good news is that if you trend all job gains and losses due to outsourcing and offshorig (trade) over time, 2.4% is totally insignificant. ((Groshen, Erica L. , Hobijn, Bart , and McConnell, Margaret M., August 2005.…
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Watson Wyatt – 2005 HCI study
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Watson Wyatt – Insider again pushes out a nice article tying together the correlation between effective HR program design and financial performance. First off, here’s a nice diagram of what we’ve beem blogging about for a while: Retrieved from http://www.watsonwyatt.com on February 20, 2006.
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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 proof read is exemplary of this crisis). My basic premise was that the gradual decline…
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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 in the LA times that pointed to a school where the dropout rate of students…
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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 have also noticed the scientific basis of HR practice giving way to ill-fitting fashion, fad…
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Shrinking Workforce is Good for Technology Revisited
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Last week I posted Shrinking Workforce is Good for Technology and got a couple interesting comments. I thought this interesting enough to bring back to the foreground. First off, the post was really not about the HR effects of the decline in the workforce as baby boomers retire, but around the Economist’s social commentary that…
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Shrinking Workforce is Good for Technology
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We’ve been talking about the workforce “crisis” and the drian of senior talent as baby boomers retire in droves. I thought I’d present another viewpoint – this one from the Economist. The crucial question is therefore what the effect of demographic decline is on the growth of GDP per person. The bad news is that…
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Talent Part 2 – The Rules of Talent
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Talent Part 1 – HCI on Talent and Engagement As we pursue this discussion on Talent, it is important not to just focus on what it is (see part 1) but the entire framework and environment that surrounds our strategies for talent. For this I present an ERE article. Kevin Wheeler wrote about his 4…
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KM and Learning organizations
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Gautam turned me onto this blog. So… What IS up with HR and Knowledge Management? I don’t hesitate to wonder about HR’s motivation when it comes to KM. Truly, when we talk about “strategic HR” and the fact that as we head into 20xx we face huge workforce knowledge issues as a generation retires. We…
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Cisco Systems uses games to help teach employees
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We’ve talked a lot about the use of games and the next generation of employees. Cisco is employing this strategy, but their gaming/learning technology is still in its infancy (as shown by the fact that they are modeling on a monopoly-like concept… a game that is 30 years old (or more). Monopoly may lengthen the…
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Work Life balance and the next generation
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Business Week had this article about work life balance. While it’s not in my general realm of technology, I think it has some loose lessons in terms of learning and the capabilities of the next generation. The collaborative nature and the ability to multi task are things that emerging generations will improve upon greatly. Obviously…
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Generation gap and learning
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I was sitting at my brother and sister-in-law’s house last night and the conversation turned to their teenage son. He was sitting in front of the computer playing some shoot and kill video game with some friends on-line. Remembering the many posts about video games and learning from other blogs, I commented that the future…
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Talent Management Scorecard updated
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Here’s my original post. I have updated Authoria and included Softscape. So an integrated point solution in the talent space should/may include (1) talent acquisition, (2) new hire onboarding, (3) performance management, (4) compensation management, (5) learning management, (6) succession planning, (7) analytics, (8) ESS, and (9) MSS. This is probably not a complete list.…
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Workforce Planning again – The Definition
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I read Regina’s post and immediately became judgemental regarding the person she linked to. I really should have read Brossard’s entire interview prior to jumping to conclusions, but as Regina wrote specifically about Brossard’s step 3, I decided to keep my tunnel vision glasses on. Apparently however, (not that I’ve taken the time to read…
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Employee Development and Workforce Planning
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Actually, I just like validation, especially when it comes within a week of my posts. This Brittish article hilights some of the salient points I’ve been making over the last couple of weeks regarding workforce planning and knowledge management. More than a quarter of the current working U.S. population will reach retirement age by 2010.…
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Workforce planning and best practices
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All this talk about talent management. Basically, to dig through the confusion, break it up into 2 components: Talent Acquisition, and Talent Retention. Obviously you can break these 2 areas up to many other sub-functions. Today, I’m talking about workforce planning, something I’ve been building up to for some time. Workforce planning can also be…