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Missing Steps
Read more: Missing StepsI started my day on Monday at 4am when my cab picked me up to head to the airport. As he missed the airport exit (how does that even happen?) I thought to myself that missing my plane would cause me to miss a series of 4 conference calls in the afternoon. Given that it…
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Does Anyone Get Employer Branding?
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 operating and living in a culture that offers them a really cool, compelling, beautiful, inspiring — whatever kind of experience you want to create with your…
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Social Security Reform Revisited
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 to re-establish his core initiatives which have stalled in congress over the past 6 years. Clearly, the war on terror has made a robust domestic agenda…
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The Future of UI
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 engage and increase end user adoption. In an increasingly dispersed global corporate environment, technology must be accessible, consolidated, and easy. These attributes will result in more…
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Melting pot or Salad bowl part 2
Are there times your technology suite should look like a salad bowl? Absolutely yes. First of all, depending on your particular sourcing strategy, you might actually want your suite to be made from disparate technology vendors. If you choose a best of breed approach, in many areas you’ll be forced away from the ERP’s and…
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Melting pot or Salad bowl part 1
When I went to college, the big thing in the interpretation of American ethic culture was a debate about a melting pot or a salad bowl. In honesty, they are nice images – in a melting pot, all ethnicities represented in American society were homogenized and made “American.” In the salad bowl, each individual component…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 6
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 we need to keep it. There’s one thing we have in common. In order to get or keep a seat at the table, we need to…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 5
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 anticipating it (we’ve heard enough about it and even I’ve written more than I care to admit), but I don’t think we’re actually scared of it…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 4
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 be there. What I care about is getting HR to stay at the table. Let’s face it. I don’t want HR Operations to cost very much.…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 3
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 talking. From management-issues.com, Andy Parsley writes about the service-profit chain: The Service-Profit Chain model they had created could hardly be more intuitive: Employee Satisfaction drives Employee…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 2
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 should be keeping you up at night. What keeps you up at night (systematicHR.com Version) 1. Engaging my workforce Why is engaging the workforce number 1…