45 Things
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
I often get asked how to become a freelance writer and editor, because a lot of people are intrigued at the thought of working from home in their pajamas and having time to just do what they want every day. I always quickly set them straight: The freelance business is tough, and working in your pajamas every day starts to make you feel like a mental-ward patient.
Insperity
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Despite current economic challenges, global organizations continue to invest and find value in human resource (HR) technology systems, according to a recent study by Towers Perrin. Although survey respondents expressed mixed views on the effectiveness of certain technologies, particularly around talent management, technology investment overall remains a clear focus for organizations in 2008.
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Workday
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
'If business leaders knew the characteristics of high performers, would they make better staffing decisions? If they knew the factors that lead to costly voluntary turnover, would they change their retention strategies? And if they knew the true cost of getting work done, would they make better decisions on what regions to hire from or whether to use contractors?
True Faith HR
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
'I am the son of teachers. My dad was a professor of psychology for 35+ years at Michigan State University. My mom was a Grammy-award winning choir director who taught at all levels of education. Growing up, I never was deprived of much. As public sector employees, they earned a reasonable salary and received reasonable benefits. They were home when I went to school, and they were home when I returned.
Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo
HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.
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Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Welcome to the Carnival of Human Resources. It's a good thing it isn't performance appraisal time because none of you sent me brownies. Or any food, for that matter. But, the truly high achievers managed to incorporate food into this carnival, which makes me happy and hungry. It seems like most of you were too busy writing about the stuff you actually do, and I realize why it's so difficult to answer the question "Just What Does HR Do?
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David Zinger
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
A Bad Buzz in Employee Engagement. You say that employee engagement is just a buzz word. I think you are wrong. Employee disengagement hurts. Employee disengagement: lowers results. cuts profits. reddens finances. sickens well-being. frays relationships. crumbles organizations. poisons community. starves performance. undervalues individuals. fragments teams. crashes careers. saps energy. corrodes connections. erodes employees. scares stakeholders. deadens days. weakens weeks. mangles months. irr
45 Things
FEBRUARY 11, 2011
Anyone who has read a leadership book in the last decade or even watched television after Michael Jackson died probably knows of Deepak Chopra. Even though I've been covering the workplace for long time, I finally had a chance to interview him. As he answered his phone, I heard a dinging noise. "Are you getting in your car?" I asked. Chopra told me that indeed he was -- he was headed to the airport.
Working Girl
FEBRUARY 12, 2011
'As an HR executive, my project social partner Dave Ryan ponders how to manage remote employees , which he wrote about over at HR Official. And as a remote employee, my challenge is to stay engaged. So as our next tandem blog topic we decided to tackle remote workers from these different perspectives. How do you keep a remote employee engaged? The simple answer is, you don’t.
Conversation Matters
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
The US Army Lessons Learned system has evolved over 40 years to become a model lesson learned system. What began as an AAR process in the 1970s has become a robust system of identifying, collecting, analyzing, transferring, and moving lessons learned at all levels of command. I have detailed the progression of this system using the model I constructed for The Three Eras of Knowledge Management.
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Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Lots of people claim to be resume experts, but have only seen a few resumes and rarely hire anyone. Wouldn’t it be great for someone who has seen hundreds, if not thousands, of resumes to look at yours and tell you how to make it better? I’m looking for resumes to publish on BNET. The resumes will be part of a post that contains a critique of your resume–the good, and the bad–and how to make it a great resume.
Strategic HCM
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
'As may know, I’ve been running a short survey over the last few months. This is now closed and I’ve been through the results. A lot of my questions for qualitative, making it difficult to communicate the results in a short summary but I’ll come back to individual questions from this over the next couple of months. Anyway, I started with key business challenges.
David Zinger
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
Leading Employee Engagement Resources. 6 books. Here is a short slide presentation on 6 terrific e-books the employee engagement network produced. Over 200 members from the Employee Engagement Network were involved in their creation. They are informative, collaborative, colorful, and helpful. Employee engagement free e books. View more presentations from David Zinger.
45 Things
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
Anyone who says they like criticism is lying. While we may say we appreciate feedback because it helps us grow, develops our skills (blah, blah, blah) the truth is that it stings when someone tells us they believe we're doing something wrong, or not doing a good job or that our new tie looks like something Yogi Bear would wear. While you may harbor secret thoughts of punching your co-worker in the nose when he criticizes your report or would like to see your boss covered with a very itchy fungus
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Working Girl
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
'I recently kicked off a Modern Workforce series, which focuses on workforce diversity topics such as remote workers, global teams, generations, working moms and adoption of Web 2.0 technologies. This week I want to highlight a few other authors that are contributing to this topic in their own blogs with some really great posts. First up, Dan McCarthy wrote a hilarious post about the multiple generational workforce: 10 Things Boomer Managers Shouldn''t Have to Give Up.
True Faith HR
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
'In my efforts as professor, I have always been interested in the effect altering class policies and changing incentives has on student behavior. I fiddle around with changing attendance policies, the grading scale, the number of exams, the point values of exams to see the impact on how students approach the class. For the past few semesters in the statistics class I teach, I''ve asked students to fill out a survey telling me things such as the name they liked to be called, their e-mail, etc.
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
It's true that hiring managers and recruiters have so many applications that they'll reject you for small problems. So here are some hints on making yourself the right candidate.
Strategic HCM
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
'I’ve had, and have made, a couple of comments on my recent post about Westminster Council relating to the value of technology and the need to focus on behaviours – and I also commented on a very similar point at last week’s social business jam. So I thought it might be a good time to discuss my perspectives on the role technology can play in supporting HR to create value.
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David Zinger
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
What do you need to subtract to increase full employee engagement? Subtraction is one of the four basic arithmetic operations; it is the inverse of addition, meaning that if we start with any number and add any number and then subtract the same number we added, we return to the number we started with. Subtraction is denoted by a minus sign in infix notation.
45 Things
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
If you use Facebook, you're going to think the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is your new best friend. The NLRB has reached a settlement with an ambulance company that fired an employee after she posted snippy comments about her boss on Facebook from her home computer. Under the agreement, the company now has to revamp its policies so that they don't infringe on a worker's rights.
Working Girl
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
'My project social partner Dave Ryan and I were chatting Monday about recruiting and how hard it is to find the right person. As a busy HR person, he must frequently rely on external recruiters even though recruiting is traditionally an HR activity and he’ll be posting on the outsourcing aspect of recruiting over at HR Official. Whereas I’m more interested in how recruiting has evolved over the years.
QAspire
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
When we work as an individual contributor in early years of our careers, we are in-charge of our own outcomes. At some point, we get promoted to a leadership position, and we have to get things done through people. This is one of the most significant transitions in our careers, and the one that is [.
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Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Dear Evil HR Lady, I used to love my job. To make a long story short my boss (who is fantastic) has a new boss (who is not-so-fantastic). The culture of my team and the things I loved about my job are vanishing and I feel the need to make a move. I am in sales in an industry which functions like a very small town. If I send out a resume with my name and/or my company I will be able to measure in nanoseconds how quickly the news that I am looking will get back to my boss.
Strategic HCM
FEBRUARY 6, 2011
'This week is Social Media Week in many cities around the world, including London. It’s great to see lots of participation from Connecting HR folk on this: Monday includes a Social Recruitment Panel Debate with TRU’s Bill Boorman, and taking my place on the panel (as I couldn’t make the date), Andy Headworth. On Wednesday, Abi Signorelli will be speaking at media140 Futures: A guide to how social technologies can maximise your work force.
David Zinger
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
Standing up to the Elephant of Employee Engagement: jai yen – mai pen rai – sanuk. Playing with elephants. I spent 3 weeks in Thailand recently. The picture above shows me trying to bathe an elephant but mostly engaging in a lot of playfulness and fun. Before leaving Thailand I came across 3 phrases that embrace much of the perspective in Thailand.
45 Things
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Most of the people I know who are remote workers say just like any work situation, there's both good and bad aspects. They love being able to dress more casually, of course, and appreciate that it often gives them a chance to see their kids more. But the downside for many is that they often feel left out of the loop and find it difficult to communicate effectively with the boss.
Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch
Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.
Working Girl
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
'A friend of mine recently recently told me she feels frustrated by the fact that although she works for a ‘performance management’ company the people on her team barely receive a living wage. I was discussing this with my Project Social partner Dave Ryan the other day and we decided to tackle the topic of good management for less. Be sure to check out Dave''s post over at HR Official.
QAspire
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
When we work on large scale projects, long term assignments or complex change initiatives – we decompose our work into smaller chunks that are more manageable. Geeks refer to this technique as “modularization”. We create a set of smaller tasks that we perform according to a schedule to achieve milestones, and hence the objective. It all [.
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
Dear Evil HR Lady, I have been working at my job since the building opened about 5 months ago. I was usually working 5-6 shifts a week (35-40 hours) & have recently been cut down to 2-3 shifts a week (15-20 hours). My work ethic/pace has not changed at all, but my manager keeps telling me that I work too slow. I know for a fact that that is not true and I have tried asking the other managers and even the General Manager for help, getting the same response from all of them: “That’s not my dep
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