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Deception and Selling Your Data
Read more: Deception and Selling Your DataUS President Obama is a Muslim, right? Raised in Kenya, he’s a Mau Mau sympathizer, and actually not even a US citizen (masterfully covered up I must add). Apparently in a new poll, fully 50% of the US population registered with the Republican party believe this ((Joe Klein, “Huckabucking.” Time Magazine, March 11, 2011. Page…
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TCO: Measuring Risk
In a prior post I wrote about the Total Cost of Ownership (“TCO”) in the context of risk. Today I would like to write about techniques to measure the cost of risk, particularly in the case of administering benefit plans. The shortfall of TCO modeling for administrative functions is that typically, quantifying the costs of…
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HBR – P2P and Web 2.0 Leadership Development
In 1995, two young U.S. Army officers who had been friends at West Point found themselves living down the street from each other at a base near Honolulu. Nate Allen and Tony Burgess were both in their first stints as company commanders, each responsible for three platoons, or about 120 soldiers. At the end of…
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Networking From An Island
This was a fun way to “network” although I don’t know if you could actually call it networking if you don’t know who you’re talking to and you have no anticipation that they will ever respond to your queries. OK, as a communication and networking tool it sucks and I’ve been trying to think of…
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Leaves Administration Software
I’ll quietly admit that I don’t know enough about absence management and leaves administration. About all I know is that FMLA, state permutations around FMLA and absence policies are somewhat complex. Reading this article, I’m not sure I’m totally convinced that best of bred solutions are always the best way to go, but as with…
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Doesn’t Matter How Cool HR Technology Is
You can automate everything, have wickedly cool workflow ((I think I just let everyone know what generation I’m from)), and perfection in the user interface. It’s all meaningless if your data is crap. 1) If data in your core HRMS is crap, then everything else is too. Let’s think about this and what the effects…
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HBR – Why Work Should Not Be Engaging
I’m an avid reader of Harvard Business review. Most of the time, I skip articles that are not meaningful to me. The ones I decide to read are almost always quite insightful. Then again, sometimes I stumble on something that is so ridiculous it’s quite funny. The following is one of the latter. Why does…
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About Stretchwork and Career Management
Julia Hanna recently wrote about the use of stretchwork applied to career advancement in the August 9 issue of HBS Working Knowledge. Stretchwork has been a tool utilized by performance management professionals for ages. In truth, we in HR have known about stretchwork long before the academics decided to study it. The concept of stretchwork…
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Total Comp Integration
One of the beautiful things about integrated total compensation is that it’s easy to get – you can buy if from any one of hundreds of vendors. (there are probably only a few dozen who actually do it well though). I said it’s easy to get, not necessarily easy to do. Total compensation is really…
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How Integration Should Look at the UI
How drilldowns really work: When we think about how we want integration to look when brought forward to the user interface, we want true usability as opposed to the simple presentation of data. As we make life easier for our managers and employees, what we’re really doing is making the process simpler and allowing managers…
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Building your own HRMS
About 5 years ago, Qualcomm in San Diego was presenting at various meetings nad user groups to show off the employee self service module they had built in-house. At the time, it made sense – self service UI’s were still maturing, functionality was not well deployed, and interactivity and workflow were immature. 5 years later,…