It seems to me that there has been a renewed focus on core HR.\u00a0 Now I need to tell the truth, I really thought core HR was dead.\u00a0 I mean, it will always be around, but with the whole industry moving on to cooler things like analytics and talent management, who cares about core HR anyway?\u00a0 Seriously, core HR is core HR, how many ways can you present an employee transfer or termination process?\u00a0 How many different vendors can effectively pitch OSHA functionality and expect to win?\u00a0 Within reason, all the core HR vendors are pretty much on an equal playing field, for one reason or another that I won\u2019t bother going into.<\/p>\n
So the industry if focused on talent and analytics.\u00a0 The problem is that nothing seems to work if you messed up core HR.\u00a0 People deployed a nice, automated performance process 3 years ago, and they got themselves away from paper.\u00a0 But at the same time, the industry told them that they didn\u2019t get where they needed to go, and a number of reasons went into this.\u00a0 First, deploying a talent process just wasn\u2019t enough, and the vendors are madly working on the next level of functionality that will actually help us manage talent as opposed to automating a process.\u00a0 Secondly however, talent management did not work the first time because we implemented it assuming our core HR systems were already healthy, and they were not.<\/p>\n
First, Job.\u00a0 There seems to be a renewed effort around job these days.\u00a0 I think we\u2019ve realized that even with all the focus on competencies as a foundational building block of talent, job is still the foundational building block of HR.\u00a0 Without job, nothing else seems to work.\u00a0 The problem was that we\u2019ve been neglecting job for eons.\u00a0 Ok, so that\u2019s a stretch, but it\u2019s certainly not uncommon for many of our organizations to have 5 times as many jobs as we need.\u00a0 They are not standardized, they are redundant, and they have mismatched naming conventions.\u00a0 They appear differently from country to country and business unit to business unit.\u00a0 At the end of the day, a corporate organization can\u2019t make any sense our of our jobs.\u00a0 So we\u2019ve gone back over the last few years and tried to start tightening up our job tables, which will in turn enable tighter competencies, performance, recruiting, succession, etc\u2026\u00a0 Not to mention that your analytics are worthless if you can\u2019t use Job as one of your core dimensions in your datamarts.<\/p>\n
Second, Organization.\u00a0 We don\u2019t often think about how we think about org.\u00a0 Is it a financial hierarchy? Operational? HR? People manager?\u00a0 When we first implemented organization in core HR years ago, we may have tied it tightly to the payroll engine, and cost centers were the priority at the sacrifice of supervisor chains.\u00a0 Or we decided that an operaitonal structure made better sense and we sacrificed how HR generalists needed to interact with employees in the structure.\u00a0 Whatever the tradeoff we made, we didn\u2019t realize that a couple years later, this thing called talent management was going to assume that core HR could provide a clean structure to talent.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to organizations where the performance, compensation, succession, and hiring managers were all different.\u00a0 Who the hell was going to think of that 5 years ago?\u00a0 huh?\u00a0 The point is, that we\u2019ve needed to go back to core HR and make some sense of our initial implementations.\u00a0 And oh yeah, if you\u2019re org is not clean enough to be a dimension in your datamarts \u2013 worthless again.<\/p>\n
So the moral of the story is this:\u00a0 if you\u2019re late the the game and just getting to talent now, learn from those before you \u2013 fix core HR.\u00a0 If you are not late to the game, but have not fixed core HR, go do it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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