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Rules of the Other Road
Read more: Rules of the Other RoadThe other road? What other road? The skinny 2-wheeled road of course. Here is the idea: for a cyclist to be safe when you are cruising down the road at 30 miles per hour, a guy 2 inches to your left, right, back and front, there are a couple basic things to keep in mind.…
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Usability and Accessibility as Brand
When we think of the employer brand, how often are we thinking about our HR technology suite as contributors to that brand? In general, I’m not talking about your HRMS type applications. Instead, the applications that touch employees and managers such as self service and portal are critical user interfaces that can offer a major…
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ADP on SOA Leading Edge?
ADP’s product and vertical mix of multiple products to multiple market segments has always been problematic. Combine this with their philosophy that they can seel everything HR from payroll and benefits administration to portal and background checks to any single client and you have a user interface nightmare looming on the horizon. SOA makes it…
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Equifax to buy top payroll-service firm
That was the headline that greeted me when I opened up my Atlanta Journal Constitution Business section last Thursday. Right there below the fold. Plain as day. My heart began to race a bit. Who could it be? Equifax is big, certainly. With a $5 billion market capitalization they could probably make a run at…
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PeopleSoft Updates
Much of this is old news, but a few interesting tidbits crossed my path and I thought I’d do a fuller update. Of main interest and something I didn’t really know until recently is that Oracle has actually integrated the Siebel product into PeopleSoft’s EPM product in the 9.0 release. This is a pretty major…
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Myths of Employee Engagement: Part 3
Over the last couple days I posted some basic reactions to WorkUSA’s research on employee engagement. Today, I’d like to continue with some reactions to the rest of their “key findings.” Engagement is a leading indicator of financial performance. Companies that increase their engagement levels can expect to significantly improve their subsequent financial performance. ((Watson…
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Myths of Employee Engagement: Part 2
Yesterday I posted some basic reactions to WorkUSA’s research on employee engagement and manager communications. Today, I’d like to continue with some reactions to the second half of their “key findings.” Some of you may thing “Does Dubs always have to disagree?” Well, I don’t always. But I do like to put my particular spin…
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Myths of Employee Engagement: Part 1
I found on the Watson Wyatt site a WorkUSA research paper that WW looks to have sponsored. In the “WorkUSA® 2006/2007: Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement, Executive Summary,” WorkUSA attempts to identify some myths and ascertain what actions might be most important in driving engagement. (I should note that I didn’t purchase the full…
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Employee Morale and Stress
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 morale.” On the face of it, this sounds reasonable. If I’m stressed at work, I’m probably not happy at work. Take a deeper dive on this…
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Learning and Gaming Technology: The Advantage of Simulations
Efficiency and effectiveness are derived from three specific advantages that simulations have over the experience based learning. First, simulations eliminate risk and the painful consequences of poor decisions. Simulation has the ability to not just mitigate, but completely eliminate the costs of mistakes. By simplifying the world and focusing learners on understanding what makes for…
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HRIT: I Thought ERP Was Dead
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, compensation and the others? Specialist applications have really penetrated the markets beginning with major recruiting solutions like Taleo, Vurv and Kenexa (RecruitSoft, RecruitMax and Brassring) up…