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HR Leadership: A Fresh Perspective on Shaping Organisational Success

EmployeeConnect

Their rationale often revolves around the perceived high cost, resistance to change, and the lack of concrete data to substantiate HR’s utility. The focus on managing a diverse workforce and implementing tailored onboarding and development programs is integral to HR’s daily routine.

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Why Knowledge Management Didn’t Save General Motors: Addressing Complex Issues By Convening Conversation

Conversation Matters

GM was brought down by a flawed strategy, but an organization’s strategy is clearly a product of the knowledge that exists within its walls. The knowledge existed within GM to develop a more competitive strategy. The knowledge management task is to bring together the collective knowledge of the organization to bear on complex issues.

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Leveraging Collective Knowledge: NASA’s Constellation Program

Conversation Matters

They experienced the sad recognition that much of the knowledge about how to build the Saturn V rocket that took the astronauts to the moon, had retired along with the engineers who had been encouraged to take early retirement. David Delong wrote about NASA' loss in Lost Knowledge , Oxford Press 2004. Very powerful. Joint Sensemaking.

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Organizational Network Analysis—Cracking The Code for HR

HR Daily Advisor

Organizational network analysis (ONA) is a diagnostic method for collecting and analyzing data about the patterns of relationships among people in groups. Which managers in line for succession have the greatest diversity of connections across the organization’s divisions—and which work best with staff across hierarchical boundaries?

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Organizational Studies that Don't Just Sit on the Shelf: Participatory Action Research

Conversation Matters

Identifying Interviewees : In consultation with the agency sponsor, four departments were selected to be involved in the study, making sure a diversity of types of work were included. In this first meeting I demonstrated the interview protocol and the interviewer group made revisions to the questions. So stay tuned.

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