HR Strategy
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Employee Morale and Stress
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A lot has been written about the connection between low employee morale and stress. In fact, Melissa Bushman even claims it to be “The most common cause of low employee…
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HRIT: I Thought ERP Was Dead
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At least for HR, right? I mean, unless it was installed in the 90’s, how many new organizations are going up on core HR, portal, benefits, payroll, talent, recruiting,…
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HRIT: To Outsource or Not to Outsource… That is the Question
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For some people it’s not whether to outsource, but how much? There are degrees of technology outsourcing, services and full BPO. There are a few areas where outsourcing is…
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HRIT and Communications Strategy Overlap
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I think it’s apparent that I love talking about portal. Much of what I talk about is fairly theoretical and visionary considering not all the technologies are actually fully…
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Employee Morale and the Company Car
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Do a Google search on “employee morale” and you will get “about 1,020,000 hits”. Evidently, it’s a pretty hot topic! Actually, after I went through all the million plus…
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What’s Your HRIT Strategy?
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Do you have one? Did you know you needed one? Most larger organizations will have a well developed HRIT strategy, some mid sized organizations might have put relatively little…
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The Role of the Recruiter
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A couple weeks about I wrote about technology being a more powerful source of job loss as compared to outsourcing. This was picked up by the Recruiting Animal with…
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Universum Survey of New Graduate Preferences
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There’s a lot more to the Universum survey that I have time to go into or interpret including top employer brands cut into multiple categories and such. What I…
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Employee Morale and the Boss
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The other day, I came across an interesting graph a client of mine had copied from a BusinessWeek article. I’ve been trying to find it online, to no…
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Analytics: Linking Silos, Linking Strategy
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There was a question posed on the web a while back (I’m hard pressed to find it) asking what linkages were important to the performance of an HR organization….
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Prosperity Growth and the Satisfaction Gap
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Your grandfather probably worked to live. Your mother and father most likely fired to make a living. Your children will be working to define a life. – Jeff Hunter,…
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“Dreamworks” as a perfect brand
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A while back I wrote about UBS’s employer brand (employee value proposition). UBS is a great example of putting the external marketing brand to good use in the internal…
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Managing the “A” Player
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Reading Harvard Business Review’s “How to Keep A Players Productive” ((Berglas, Steven. Setpember 2006. “How to Keep A Players Productive.” Harvard Business Review, September 2006.)) I was intrigued by…
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Motivation versus Transformation
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I often hear managers asking how they can best motivate their employees to do better work, be more productive or have better attitudes. What most managers (and maybe people…
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Engagement Insights From a Dumb Little Man
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Hey… Dumb Little Man is the name of his website, ok? Coming from a non HR practitioner he has some great insights about retaining engaging employees. In fact, I’d…
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The ROI of Sales Incentives
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Online Conversion recently referenced a great study from Northwestern University that surveyed the economic impact of $1 trillion of sales incentives annually. What does not work as well as…
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The Best Places to Launch a Career
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Andrew from Resourcing Strategies wrote this a while back in September of 2006, but then again, I’m about that far behind on my reading. Why do I get excited…
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HRO: Profits, or Business Model?
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Jason asks if we can just get past the HRO profit (loss) thing. I think he’s right. What’s important in the equation is not if the HRO’s are making…
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Jeitosa’s Top 5 for 2007
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I was adamant this year about not putting out a list, so instead I’ll borrow from someone else. Jeitosa is an interesting organization built with industry experts with strong…
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Work
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Work, we know, is both a burden and a need, both a curse and a blessing… Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of…