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The 2012 HR Technology Conference is Coming!!!
Read more: The 2012 HR Technology Conference is Coming!!!I was visiting a Hari Krishna temple yesterday, but it didn’t open at all times. Tourists and visitors had to go in during services hours, and in my case, there were a good 1000 people in queue for this particular…
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The Crucial Promotions
If a company is to obtain the needed contributions, it must reward those who make them… The crucial promotion is not a person’s first – though it may be the most important one to her and to her career… The…
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The Succession Decision
What are the positive ways to handle the succession decision? Look at the assignment. In this institution, what is going to be the biggest challenge over the next few years? Then look at the people and their performance. Match the…
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Attracting and Holding People
It is highly desirable to have specific objectives for manager supply, development and performance, but also specific objectives for major groups within the non-managerial workforce. There is need for objectives for employee attitudes as well as for employee skills. ((Drucker,…
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People Decisions
People decisions are the ultimate – perhaps the only – control of an organization. People determine the performance capacity of an organization. No organization can do better than the people it has. ((Drucker, Peter F. “The Daily Drucker.” HarperCollins, 2004….
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The Responsible Worker
The responsible worker has a personal commitment to getting results. ((Drucker, Peter F. “The Daily Drucker.” HarperCollins, 2004. Page 104)) Drucker calls this person the responsible worker. I (we) have always called this person the engaged worker. Certainly responsibility and…
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Hierarchy Versus Responsibility
Traditional organizations rest on command authority. Information-based organizations rest on responsibility… The information-based system can, therefore, function only if each individual and each unit accept responsibility: for their goals and their priorities, for their relationships, and their communications. ((Drucker, Peter…
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Organize for Constant Change
One thing is certain for developed countries – and probably for the entire world – we face long years of profound changes. It will no longer be possible to consider entrepreneurial innovation as lying outside of management or even as…
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Turbulence: Threat or Opportunity
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon. ((Drucker, Peter F. “The Daily Drucker.” HarperCollins, 2004. Page 76)) Traditionally HR is seen as running for the umbrella. No matter what…
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The Change Leader
One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it. In a period of upheavals, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm… But unless it is seen as the task of the organization to…
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Best Blog Awards
The best recruiting blog awards is happening for the second year and I thought I’d tell you all about it. Last year systematicHR was nominated (as it is this year) but I didn’t bother telling anyone about it. I consider…