Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Dear Evil HR Lady, I am 48 years old with an MBA in business management from a non-traditional university. In my younger years, I would skip around from job to job as boredom would quickly overtake the excitement of a new career path. Today, I find myself unemployed after being part of a department-wide downsizing a year and a half ago. For the past year and a half, I have been self-employed and have worked to build name recognition, but now I want to go back to being an employee.

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Josh Bersin

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Our soon to be published TalentWatch® research for Q4 2010 shows a tremendous growth in hiring going on: in mid 2010 32% of organizations cited talent shortages as critical to growth; this month. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: Sourcing and Recruiting employer job seeker recovery unemployment.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

I'm sorry to say that I've been spending a lot of time lately with staff working in organizations that aren't that into professional development. Because of time and financial constraints, training is not a priority and there is little attention paid to ensuring that staff have the skills and knowledge to perform their jobs. The best these people can hope for from their employers is that they will be allowed to sit in on a webinar or attend a 1-day training session once a year.

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45 Things

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In the next several weeks, you're probably going to get sick. I know this not because I'm medically qualified to tell you so, or because I have a hot line to the Centers for Disease Control. I know this because yesterday when I was out doing errands, I heard kids coughing. They were sneezing. They were whining. And they had runny noses and parents with really short fuses.

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David Zinger

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Now versus Hope. I have no hope for employee engagement. Hope is an emotional trap that gets us focused on the future. We need less hope and more gumption and robust engagement with work. Let the future take care of itself by engaging in the task in front of you right now, connecting strongly with others at work, and strengthening your connections to results and your organization.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A Facebook friend shared an excellent link today to an article in The Economist on a new study about the most effective ways to serve the homeless: Broadway tried a brave and novel approach: giving each homeless person hundreds of pounds to be spent as they wished. According to a new report on the project by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a think-tank, it worked—a success that might offer broader lessons for public-service reform and efficiency.

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Working Girl

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

'My Project Social partner Dave Ryan and I were talking about what topic we wanted to tackle next and decided on the role of HR during good and bad times - Dave''s post can be found here over at HR Official. An old friend of mine came over for coffee on Sunday. She currently works as a recruiter but worked for years in HR at both big and small companies.

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David Zinger

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Employee Engagement: November 11, 2010 to December 31, 2020. The 20% difference has been launched. Yesterday we started to build community mobilization on the Employee Engagement Network to make a 20% difference in employee engagement around the globe by 2020! Click here to check out some initial forum comments. Community characteristics. I trust this work will be done through community that offers space for working together and for working separately.

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

'I’m not at the CIPD annual conference today as I’m presenting tonight at the HR 2.0 track at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco. But I sent the CIPD some inputs on the conference this Summer and thought it might be worth reviewing how things have progressed in the conference this year. So, I wrote: 1. You could do with social media being on the conference agenda.

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45 Things

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Anyone who has ever been pregnant on the job knows it's not easy. You try not to barf in meetings. Your feet get so swollen you can't get on any shoes besides your Nikes, and those make a less-than-professional impression. In the early part of your pregnancy, you can't think of eating without getting queasy. When that passes, you can't stop eating. Some co-workers, who think they're so darn funny, can't decide which is bigger: You or the Goodyear blimp.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons When a project is executed, a plan is established. Work is broken down into smaller pieces and a neat schedule is created. Team members ( often referred to as “resources”, unfortunately ) are assigned, milestones are created and the schedule is circulated to all concerned.

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David Zinger

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

A One Year Focus in Just 3 Words. For 3 years now, I have been setting a 3 word theme. These themes have been helpful in giving me focus and helping me determine if each project, task, and piece of work is in line with and advancing my theme. I usually begin to ponder a possible theme for the following year starting in September. I keep playing with the words until I latch onto the perfect fit.

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

'After this Summer’s E2.0 conference in Boston, where I suggested that people were trying to develop something that was basically designed to develop collaboration in a fairly non-collaborative sort of way – eg without much input from the HR profession – I proposed to speak on HR at the follow-up conference in Santa Clara. I didn’t expect much of a positive response , and certainly didn’t expect to see HR turning into a track of its own at the West coast conference, so full credit to TechWeb for

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Transparent Office

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Usually I use this space to advocate use of social software "in the flow" of work. I write a lot about business processes, workflows, incentives, and IT integration. Today I want to talk about something completely different. Yesterday, medical devices and specialty pharmaceuticals leader Hospira created a Veterans Day Blog on their internal Socialtext implementation.

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Reviewsnap

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

'Overcoming obstacles in the performance review process is not difficult when the appropriate tools are in place to ensure a highly effective and efficient experience for all involved. So many organizations struggle to drive performance management into their cultures that we thought we would share one of our client’s success stories with you. Our client case studies are brief, one page summaries that tell a story of success in creating a successful performance management culture.

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David Zinger

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Lines of business. We open lines of communication. We focus on the bottom line. We fall for ideas hook, line, and sinker. We sign on the dotted line. Toe this line: Never cross the line of respect or self-respect. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~. David Zinger, M.Ed., works with organizations and individuals to foster engagement. He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 3075 member Employee Engagement Network.

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

'One of my E2.0 sessions was a panel looking a how HR can move out of its compliance role through the use of collaborative / 2.0 technologies. I thought this was a good panel session, and was pleased that we seemed to come to the conclusion that HR is complex, not simple, and that getting beyond compliance means accepting, tolerating, and navigating through this complexity.

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

You really do need to know where you stand in a salary range to make wise career choices. So, why won't your HR department reveal this "secret" information? Why are Salary Ranges Secret?

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Workday

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

'The term “Enterprise 2.0” has evolved over the years from the original idea of using blogs and wikis in business, to incorporate that very powerful thing we call social networking. TechWeb is hosting the “Enterprise 2.0 2010” conference in Santa Clara, Calif., this week, where the focus is on technologies that “liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email.

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

'I particularly enjoyed this post from ‘TheHRD’ earlier this week. But I’ve already commented to say that I don’t totally agree with him. Given my connection to this topic (having just been blogging on it quite extensively, and being one of the people on one of the lists as well) I wanted to expand on my reasoning for suggesting it’s important. Measurement HR is now obsessed (I’d suggest too obsessed) with measurement.

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

'The other panel at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, also chaired by Oliver Marks (pictured with me) focused on measures. We noted that because of the complexity surrounding HR and collaboration, many of the things we wish to measure are intangible. I suggested that participating in conversation may often be a better way to measure Enterprise 2.0 initiatives than trying to calculate ROI and noted Jay Cross’ comments on Jack Phillips ROI methodology as an example of this difficulty.

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Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You really want change at work, but you're not a Senior VP with people to do your every whim. Is it really possible to make big changes?

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Usually a raise is a sign that you're valued. But when everyone gets the same raise--not so much.

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Evil HR Lady Why am I evil? Well, Im not, but thats the perception of all of us in HR. Need to fire someone? Come to HR. Need to explain to someone why, even after working their rear end off all year, that their annual increase is 2.7%? Come to HR. Need to come up with new mountains of paperwork? Come to HR. So, come join me on the Evil Side. Oh, and send me your HR questions.

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Evil HR Lady Why am I evil? Well, Im not, but thats the perception of all of us in HR. Need to fire someone? Come to HR. Need to explain to someone why, even after working their rear end off all year, that their annual increase is 2.7%? Come to HR. Need to come up with new mountains of paperwork? Come to HR. So, come join me on the Evil Side. Oh, and send me your HR questions.

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Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Evil HR Lady Why am I evil? Well, Im not, but thats the perception of all of us in HR. Need to fire someone? Come to HR. Need to explain to someone why, even after working their rear end off all year, that their annual increase is 2.7%? Come to HR. Need to come up with new mountains of paperwork? Come to HR. So, come join me on the Evil Side. Oh, and send me your HR questions.

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

John Hyman has an interesting post on Bereavement Leave and FMLA. Even though FMLA doesn't require time off for Bereavement, it turns out that if a manager says so, the company has to follow through. Hyman writes: That is, it is not required by the FMLA unless you promise otherwise. In Murphy v. FedEx National (8th Cir. 8/26/10), an employee sought and received FMLA leave to care for her hospitalized husband.

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Evil HR Lady Why am I evil? Well, Im not, but thats the perception of all of us in HR. Need to fire someone? Come to HR. Need to explain to someone why, even after working their rear end off all year, that their annual increase is 2.7%? Come to HR. Need to come up with new mountains of paperwork? Come to HR. So, come join me on the Evil Side. Oh, and send me your HR questions.

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