Evil HR Lady
APRIL 1, 2008
From time to time, I have people ask me what a typical day as an HR professional is like. So, I thought I'd take the time today to answer that question. Arrive at the office. Walk in and find fresh bagels and cream cheese waiting for you and your team. "Oh," your admin explains (there is always plenty of administrative support, so you never have to do things like fill out forms, or schedule appointments) "these are from finance.
Josh Bersin
APRIL 1, 2008
This week I had a call with five financial services clients to understand the impact of the economic slowdown on their learning, talent, and systems investments. How are HR, talent strategies, and enterprise learning investments being affected by the credit crunch and slowdown in the US financial system? . (The clients included companies in banking and.
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Reviewsnap
APRIL 4, 2008
'There is an age old process conducted in most organizations, large and small, known as performance review or performance appraisal (the term performance review will be used primarily in this article). The importance of providing feedback to employees cannot be overstated. But doing so in the proper setting, context and manner is critical to carrying out successful performance reviews.
Transparent Office
APRIL 4, 2008
I was talking today with Michael Kieran, our newest Customer Success Manager at Socialtext, about structure in wikis. As I've blogged about before, it's very important for a wiki to have some structure. WIthout structure, people get confused, lost, and according to my friend Barry Schwartz the author of the Paradox of Choice , depressed. At the same time, there's nothing more annoying than an overstructured website, where you have to click through link after link after link to get to the content
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Quickbase
APRIL 17, 2008
Today we have announced a new developer program and toolkit for Adobe Flex in beta. This is huge news for us, and I want to take a moment and talk about what it is that we are doing. The QuickBase Development Program is our Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, that allows independent software developers […].
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Evil HR Lady
APRIL 30, 2008
Hello, Evil HR Lady. I've got a question that may be a bit personal, but hopefully it's still general enough to be useful to you. I'm a philosophy major. (Go on, laugh, get it out of your system.) Looking at postgraduate career paths, HR is a remarkably appealing option, but I'm worried about whether my BA would be taken seriously when I'm looking for jobs.
Knowledge Musings
APRIL 2, 2008
Spring (supposedly) is on its way. Now is a good time to reflect on what knowledge and information you hoard and what you can safely dispose of. What prompted me to write this piece was an article I wrote on knowledge auditing, that has been reprinted on KnowledgeBoard under the title Cleaning Out The KM Closet. Complete with a picture of a broom, it prefaces the article by pointing out that organizations often overlook what knowledge and information they already hold.
Reviewsnap
APRIL 9, 2008
'With productivity being such an important factor in profitability, it is critical that managers and supervisors deal with employees that simply don''t work hard enough. Too much time spent on personal phone calls, extended breaks and lunches, slowness in work and visiting too much among co-workers are all things that should be addressed swiftly. An employee must understand the expectation of hard work.
Transparent Office
APRIL 4, 2008
I was just checking out the results of the recent AIIM Survey on Enterprise 2.0. (My company, Socialtext, was one of the underwriters.) There's a lot of great material there about how managers perceive Enterprise 2.0. I was particularly struck by how prominently culture appears as a theme in the responses. There is a view out there that an organization needs to have a "culture of collaboration" culture in order to successfully employ wikis and other Enterprise 2.0 tools.
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Reviewsnap
APRIL 14, 2008
'Business books, magazines and newsletters are full of recommendations about becoming more efficient. They talk at length about the importance of the bottom line and incremental gains from reengineering and total quality efforts. And they talk about how technology can provide a real boost in efficiency. But with all this talk about efficiency, are we losing something in terms of being effective?
Reviewsnap
APRIL 22, 2008
'Some managers and owners make excuses when their businesses or operating units don''t perform as expected. While there are extenuating circumstances that can affect bottom line results, the reasons for underperforming generally lie in ineffective management. Too often we hear managers rationalizing poor decisions or inaction. In cases where the expectations were unreasonable or a crucual and unforeseen event occurred, a manager has a valid argument as to why performance fell short of expectatio
Reviewsnap
APRIL 28, 2008
'We define a high performing employee as someone who meets or exceeds reasonable, but demanding expectations on a consistent basis. We are continually amazed at the number of organizations that have an unacceptably low percentage of their total employee base represented by high performers. A significant problem in many organizations is that management overrates the performance of employees.
Reviewsnap
APRIL 29, 2008
'When an employee''s performance falls below expectations, the natural reaction is to blame the employee first. Employees are responsible for meeting (or exceeding) expectations and when they don''t they are surely doing something wrong, aren''t working hard enough or just can''t do the job. And with some employees, one or more of these might very well be the case.
Speaker: Ben Eubanks - Chief Research Officer, Lighthouse Research & Advisory
The world of HR has changed so much in recent years, and so have the technologies and tools that support HR and talent leaders. But frankly, keeping up with the ever-changing HR tech landscape can feel like another full-time job. That's why we're sharing with you this webinar session with Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer for Lighthouse Research & Advisory.
Reviewsnap
APRIL 7, 2008
'A large portion of companies are still using the traditional pen and paper for performance reviews. Companies need to assess the benefits of an online performance management system opposed to the traditional reviews. Below are the benefits that the ReviewSNAP Performance Management System offers. Real time updates to goals, feedback and reviews: If an employees’ goals are changed or feedback is given for an employee it is updated in real time and can be viewed right away.
Evil HR Lady
APRIL 1, 2008
Incentive Intelligence tagged me for a memoir meme. The goal is to write a memoir in six words. Here's mine: Opposite of last post is life. Can anybody tell that I'm still tired and in the midst of a huge project? So much so that I actually worked 17 (not a typo--that's seventeen) hours on Friday. Even the hour I took for dinner I spent on the phone with a co-worker.
Evil HR Lady
APRIL 2, 2008
Dear Evil HR Lady (Oh - I do love that title): I am the general counsel for a small engineering firm in NY, and as such, spend a great deal of my time working with the Human Resources department. Most of the time, it's a kick, but this problem's got even me confounded. On Friday, one of the HR staffers left early, and from her home, sent an email to her supervisor, the HR manager, stating that something happened at work and that she could not stay in the office any longer.
Evil HR Lady
APRIL 3, 2008
Is up now, and was up yesterday, but somebody around here is a little late. It's over at Fortify Your Oasis , with your host, Rowan Manahan.
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Evil HR Lady
APRIL 4, 2008
Greetings Evil HR Lady, I've recently experienced an HR issue--that maybe all HR folks experience at some point-- that I would really like your opinion on. Since I've only been with Company X only 4 months, I've spent much of that time creating forms, processes, working with managers, and trying to learn everything I can about existing processes and procedures.
Evil HR Lady
APRIL 7, 2008
If you get paid twice a month (usually the 15th/30th of each month), you get 24 pay checks a year. If you get paid every other week (usually Fridays), you get 26 pay checks a year. Therefore, a paycheck for scenario 1 is not going to equal a paycheck under scenario 2. Questions about this are not urgent. EVER. And questions about tax withholdings--well, those should go to payroll.
Evil HR Lady
APRIL 8, 2008
I'm executive director of a small nonprofit with a total of three employees. I have one employee who works hard and one who does not. However, they like to talk instead of working a bit much. How does one get the point across that although you don't expect them to keep their noses to the grindstone from the minute they walk in the door to the minute they leave, you do expect them to work most of the day without sounding like a total Grinch?
Evil HR Lady
APRIL 9, 2008
I began my new job at Large Multi-National Company in a small division. I was hired into the finance department to deal mainly with fraud detection/prevention and accounts receivables. At the time I was hired there was 1 other person working in finance, and that was the CFO of this particular division (a very nice guy). Apparently due to some restructuring small division is going to be splitting from Large Company and the 3 other people who worked in the finance department were transferred elsew
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Evil HR Lady
APRIL 11, 2008
My husband was fired March 25 without notice. They were "restructuring". My husband was due to start his vacation the day after - on March 26. Nothing like trying to figure out if you qualify for food stamps to get you in that vacation mode!! My question is - He had 200 hrs. of PTO and now they say "It is not our policy to pay PTO". Is there any recourse to get that PTO??!!
Evil HR Lady
APRIL 14, 2008
I am the HR and Finance Manager of a small company, 15 employees. I have been at this job for 6 months and my previous employment focused more on finance so my HR experience is very limited. The issue that I am having is that I know one of my co-workers has been job-hunting and has recently gone on a third interview with one particular company. How do I know?
Evil HR Lady
APRIL 15, 2008
The owner of the company I work for has tasked me with coming up with a way to make employee evaluations “empowering and fun”. While I understand how to use employee evaluations in an empowering way, I have absolutely no idea how to make them “fun”. Furthermore, I’m not sure making them fun should be the goal. Aren’t they supposed to be objective? And since “fun” is a subjective term, doesn’t that make it impossible to do?
Evil HR Lady
APRIL 21, 2008
Can you require the "ability to speak, read and write in English"? Or is this a surefire discrimination issue if the applicant meets all other job qualifications? Absolutely you can require this--if the job actually requires you to speak, read and write English. For instance, my job absolutely requires those skills. I have to do a lot of communicating in English, written and spoken.
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