HR Strategy
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HRO – Innovation or Best Practices?
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There is a lot of debate when companies enter into HRO contracts about how much best practice a HRO vendor can bring to the table. There is also much…
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What’s to be done about performance reviews?
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Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has a current discussion about performance reviews and what can be done to make them more effective. Quite a few interesting comments have been…
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Predictions of M&A and Employee Acquisition
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There are many reasons companies buy or merge with other companies. Sometimes, you just want more market share and it’s easier to buy it that to grow organically. Other…
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Branding and Employment
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How can you create strong employer brands in the face of changing economic and business environments? Sometimes creating and maintaining a positive employer brand are uphill battles because of…
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Hewitt’s Financial Results – What Do They Mean?
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Hewitt’s very public financial difficulties continue today, days after announcing quarter-end September 30, 2006 financial results. It is not my intention to single out Hewitt by writing about them…
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Employees Define Employee Satisfaction
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The Boggs Learning Chronicle blog highlighted a survey of top ten employee satisfaction indicators as defined by 2.2 million employees. Granted, I didn’t think much of the survey and…
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Protecting Trade Secrets and Engagement
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Jay Shepard is one of my favorite new bloggers – a bit because he’s actually interesting, but also because (like Thomas at Vendorprisey) Jay makes up great phrases like…
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Restoring Trust
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As a leader, can you restore trust that has been lost? Knowledge@Wharton has a wonderful article including s research stuffy regarding the restoration of trust. Basically as I stated…
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Trust and Engagement
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Do your employees trust you? More importantly, do your employees trust your boss? Even better, do your employees trust your executive team? What goes into trust and why is…
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Letting Leaders Recharge
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Jim Hollincheck at the BlogERP site wrote an interesting piece about sabbaticals and the effect of knowledge workers burning out. As with most people, I first learned of sabbaticals…
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Does Anyone Get Employer Branding?
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As usual, Regina is right: My take though is that it is difficult if not impossible for employees to deliver a customer experience if they in fact are not…
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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…
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The Future of UI
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One of the reasons I write so much about the user interface (UI), portals and SOA is that I believe HR technology’s future is very much about how we…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 6
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4. Managing ongoing change HR.com thinks we need to get a seat at the proverbial table (see part 1 of the series). I think we already have it, but…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 5
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3. Workforce Strategy – U.S. Domestic Labor Pool and developing tomorrow’s leaders The theoretical “shrinking talent pool” doesn’t have to have a huge effect on your organization. We’re all…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 4
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2. Lowering the Cost of HR Operations As I said a couple of says ago, I don’t care about getting HR a “seat at the table.” We should already…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 3
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1. Engaging my workforce I’ve certainly done my part writing about engagement, and so have many other people. For today’s article, I thought I’d let someone else do the…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 2
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So obviously being dissatisfied with the HR.com list of leading concerns, I had to make up my own list. The following is the systematicHR version of what I think…
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Hewitt’s Lessons Learned
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From time to time companies exhibit moments of organizational maturity not often enough seen in the market. This week’s moment comes to us courtesy of Hewitt Associates’ Mike Wright,…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 1
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I got an e-mail from HR.com (actually I get several spams a day) advertising one of their conferences. In this particular one, they posed the question “What keeps you…