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HR, Twitter and Osama bin Laden
Read more: HR, Twitter and Osama bin LadenYeah – I’m going to write about this. I just finished watching Zero Dark Thirty on the plane, and I’m thinking back to that day. I remember landing in the Chicago airport, booting up my phone and checking Twitter. Scrolling…
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Employee Selection and Workforce Diversity: Are Current Tools Up To The Task?
Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. Hispanics, African Americans, Asians and Native Americans now constitute more than one-third of the U.S. population. By 2042, they are projected to make up nearly one-half of all Americans. Given these rapidly changing demographics—and…
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UFO’s: Unfinished Objects
I’m not sure who first coined the term “shelfware.” Most of our IT departments have all sorts of stuff we have purchased that we intend to implement but just haven’t done so yet. Or we have implementations that we have…
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Implementation and the “Personal Win”
We always end up talking about employee adoption whenever we are implementing anything whether it’s technology, process or anything else. When we talk about adoption, we’re really talking change management, and in that we are talking about changing both behaviors…
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Market Salary Rates
The HR Capitalist had a post the other day about pricing candidate salaries. But as usual, I have my own opinions. Say it with me – the market rate for any candidate is the $$ amount they will accept. They’ve…
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HRO is not Dead
HRO has seemed dead for at least a couple of years now. A couple years ago it was almost all I was writing about, and there were mega deals to be had every other month. All consultants were talking about…
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The Marketing of Snowflakes
If you ever look at a snowflake dangling from the window at your local Macy’s or Bloomingdales, realize that this snowflake is only a piece of marketing, there to draw your eye, but not an accurate representation of reality. You…
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Tater Tots and Truffle Oil
I was chatting to Lexy Martin about a month ago, discussion the blog and how I write about cycling and HR all the time, trying to reach lame analogies. It was apparent in our conversation that I really have two…
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Year End Post and Site Redesign
Since I figure the great majority of you are reading me on email, Google Reader or some other mechanism that allows you to never visit the site (I do it myself, certainly it’s not a criticism – lucky if I…
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SuccessFactors: Success = Strategy + Execution
I was looking at a SuccessFactor’s employee laptop the other day and she had a huge sticker on it with the words “Success = Strategy + Execution.” I could not help wondering to myself if this was really the equation,…
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Employee Engagement Surveys – Cost-cutting strategy when using a vendor
Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. Those of you in smaller organizations who have worked in HR/OD for even just a few years are sure to be familiar with organizational surveys. You then also know – depending on the size…