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Dulling the Noise
Read more: Dulling the NoiseSo I admit that I use multiple methods to dull the noise when I’m on a plane. The first are the industrial grade ear plugs from Home Depot. I love these things, but by themselves, it’s not enough. Second in the line of defense are the Bose noise reduction headsets. Combined with the ear plugs,…
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What’s wrong with Talent Management – Part 2
Don’t we all love competencies? I’ll admit that understanding them is critical to managing a workforce as part of an HR strategic plan. However, the linkage of competencies to talent acquisition and learning is insufficient when thought of as a business strategy. Until competencies are tied to broader collaboration, project planning and knowledge management strategies…
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What’s wrong with Talent Management – Part 1
Let’s think about this. Evaluating performance is a good thing, right? So as an HR practitioner (and being realistic about it), how many organizations do you know that apply performance well? How many performance plans have you seen where the performance process actually impacts increases in engagement and productivity? Let’s face it, performance management is…
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Why I Love Compensation
In all of the HR practice areas, in my opinion, compensation is the cornerstone of the HR function. Not only does it carry through the HR organization, but it also carries through the HR technology framework. When I talk about compensation, most of what I’m thinking about is job design (job analysis, job evaluation, whatever…).…
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Web Services Part 2
We’ve talked a bit before about CORBA and data transfers between disparate systems, but we haven’t talked specifically about web services. In general, they perform about the same functions, about 90% of the technologies overlap. In fact, much of the technologies utilized between ORB’s (Object Request Brokers) and Web Services are the same. The difference…
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EE’s quit to seek relationships, balance and mission
In the “talent war” discussion, there is now even more room for concern. While we have always realized that growing retiree populations were decreasing the availability of senior talent, the development of young talent seems to be at risk as well. If younger employees are culturally resisting engagement (paritally defined as a willingness to allocate…
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Recruitment Process Outsourcing for Healthcare
I stumbled across this company, Pinstripe, that does RPO for healthcare. Now, I personally don’t really care one way or another about this specific company, but the concept of RPO for healthcare seems to be a troublesome idea for me to swallow. One of the major tenets behind RPO is that there should be the…
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Attraction and Retention vs. Cost Containment
Deloitte and ISCEBS (International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists) recently pushed out their annual list of top 5 total rewards priorities for 2006Deloitte, 2006. “Top Five Total Rewards Priorities for 2006.” Retrieved from http://www.iscebs.org on January 31, 2006.. The group of individuals surveyed was ISCEBS members and Deloitte clients. Remember that the results are…
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Job Quality vs. Job Quantity
Just a few days ago I wrote here about the impact of the poor U.S. educational system and the negative affect on talent in the near future (my wife tells me that my poor writing combined with my refusal to proof read is exemplary of this crisis). My basic premise was that the gradual decline…
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Web Services Part 1 – LDAP
The foollowing few weeks (just this Tuesday series) is my attempt at covering a few important portal technologies at a very high level. It’s tough to do them justice, but in my conversations, I’m finding that many HR practitioners and ven some HRIS people don’t understand this stuff. It’s very difficult to cover these in…
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Mid Market HRMS
I got an e-mail a couple weeks back noting that I don’t post any content on mid market HRMS. While this is generally true (and I am not intimately familiar with this space), it appears from my survey that many of you are mid-market buyers. (no offense intended in the term – I just mean…