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Commonizing Meaning
Read more: Commonizing MeaningI have some favorite phrases that I’ve been picking up for years. “Eh, voila!” universal for “eh, voila!” “Ah, asodeska” Japanese for “I understand” (sp?) “Bo ko dien” is Taiwanese for highly unlikely or that’s ridiculous. (sp?) “Oh shiitake” (shitzu is also appropriate), is an imperfectly polite way of saying “oh &#!+” Basically, these are…
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A Workflow Primer
No content post today – I just wanted to introduce the readership to a resource I found. Actually, it’s an Oracle workflow primer, but it’s only chapter 1, and therefore a great overview on the topic in general. I found this while browsing through Oracle websites and thought you’d be interested. For those of you…
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Retaining Your Senior Talent
I (and many others) keep talking about the major reductions in senior level talent coming our way. Retirees will make up an increasing percentage of our population in the coming decades, and there are too many large shoes to fill. One of the major challenges is to understand how we as HR organizations can enhance…
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Performance Management Integration
Jim Holincheck recently wrote about some findings from HR Executive’s survey of performance management practices. I’m not surprised that performance management is still on the rise – undoubtedly it will be on the rise for quite some time as new installations keep growing and eventually upgrades and replacements of systems will feed the vendors. It’s…
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TCO and the Line Manager
In the jobs I had before I started my own business, I always felt an important part of my responsibility was to develop the people who reported to me. In fact, I always went a step beyond and looked to develop one person to the point at which they could do my job. Of course,…
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6 Traits of the Next Generation HR Leader
(A response to Jason Corsello) Usually I would say rebuttal instead of response, but Jason has this one right on. If you don’t read his site, start now by going there to see his comments on all of the below. Anything in bold is a direct quote from his blog, but as always I’ve added…
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TCO: A Case Study
Some time ago, a fortune 500 company acquired another fortune 500 company. At the time, the acquiring company was a PeopleSoft shop for payroll and HRIS. The acquired company had been outsourcing payroll and accessed a hosted HRIS system for their HR needs. Both companies were roughly the same size and a decision needed to…
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Peter Drucker on the Manager’s Major Problem
What’s the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless ad doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. Yet our tools – especially our accounting concepts and data all focus…
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Peter Drucker on the Manager’s Job
What is the manager’s Job? It is to direct the resources and efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite – and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time,…
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Creating Strategy
I’ve always thought of strategy as a single, focused concept. The strategy might be philosophical or there might be a concrete goal at the end of it. For example, philosophical strategies are things like “Employer of Choice.” You probably have quantitative ways of measuring “employer of Choice” but it’s primarily what I’ll call philosophical. On…
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The Keys to Employee Motivation
At systematicHR, we sit around talking about (reading about) ideas like employee engagement and employer brand a lot. These are quite simple concepts to understand, but actually quite difficult to implement and achieve successfully. In terms of talent, the employer brand is a key environmental concept that directly impact talent acquisition and employee engagement is…