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I Don’t Want No Stinkin’ Analytics!
Read more: I Don’t Want No Stinkin’ Analytics!I’m a nerd. I get on my bike or I go for a run, and I’ve got my Garmin GPS running the whole time telling me how far I went, how fast I went, what my heart rate was, (ok I’ll stop the list well before it gets to 20 items). I also happen to…
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State of the Blog
On systematicHR’s third anniversary, I suppose it’s fitting to do a state of the blog. The basics are rather easy. Over 700 posts on a variety of topics in HR strategy and technology, and over 1700 comments. This is of course excluding the 250,000 spam comments that I so luckily have software and services filtering…
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The Hype Around Facebook and HR
I mean really, what’s the big deal? This is yet another social networking tool that has invaded our work spaces. First it was personal access to e-mails during work hours. Then it was dating sites. (I once worked with an organization that noted some administrative staff were spending as much as 30% of their time…
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Universal Best Practices
It’s funny to me that these are even called best practices. First of all, there really are no “best practices”. Perhaps these should be called “leading practices” or even “common practices”, but something that does not state that this is the way to go all the time. It is simply not true that we have…
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Is the Online HR Conference the Future?
Bill Kutik, the organizer of the HR Technology Conference, recently wrote about VIEW, an HR virtual online conference and trade show that debuted on Dec. 12 and 13. Registration was easy, though too nosy about my buying intentions. Creating my avatar was fast. Navigation was pretty intuitive. Getting into sessions or to booths was straightforward…
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The Times They Are A-Changing
Or are they? Bob Dylan aside, it would seem that the past year has brought Web 2.0 to the HR desktop quickly and effectively. The problem is that this Web 2.0 seems to exist primarily in the best of breed space. Sure, there might be a few standouts like Workday, and while the major ERP…
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The Right Metrics
Knowledge@Wharton had a great article recently about performance drivers. Here’s a brief excerpt: As the Dean of a business school, you decide that the best reflection of winning is BusinessWeek’s rankings. These are prominent reputation scores created by a third party that directly pits business schools against each other every two years. Essentially all MBA…
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What is Talent Management?
JPIE wonders. I answer. Sort of. Hype aside. What is talent management? Software, services, software as a service – what? What components make up talent management? Applicant tracking, succession planning, compensation, training, assessments, metrics – what? Where does it start and where does it end, and why? Exactly what are the boundaries of talent management? …
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How Do You Identify High Potential Employees?
The Institute for Corporate Productivity (is there an institute for everything?) recently conducted a study on high potential employees and the practices of organizations around them. If you want to be groomed for a leadership position, then it pays to be viewed as a “high-potential” employee, or “HiPo,” for short, according to a recent study…
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Game Theory and HR
If you haven’t figured out by now, I have a degree in Economics. Game theory as published by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosohy is “the systematic study of interdependent rational choice. It may be used to explain, to predict, and to evaluate human behavior in contexts where the outcome of action depends on what several…
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Queueing Theory and HR
I’ve always been interested in business theory and its possible applications to HR. Unfortunately, many HR practitioners (or business practitioners for that matter) are not well educated in many business theories. Even MBA’s get a minimal schooling in these. One theory that has caught my attention lately is queueing theory. Best briefly described by From…