Tweet Learning and development professionals have never been at the top of the corporate salary scale. Whether placed in the human resources function or elsewhere, training professionals are rarely seen as the most essential, powerful or highly regarded employees, not even when viewed from within their own organizational function. Given this rather dismal context, it [...]
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The REAL Purpose of HR
Posted on 02 January 2011.
Tweet Ignore Human Resources at your peril! This department is the foundation of a happy and healthy business and is often thoroughly misunderstood. Read how you can change your own HR department into a thriving, helpful group supporting your company’s prosperity. At a recent offsite with a group of highly skilled Human Resources executives, I [...]
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Few Business Executives Understand Return on Human Capital
Posted on 19 December 2010.
Tweet Measuring Human Capital: Business Executives Perspective on Influence, Standardization and Governance is a dissertation study sponsored by Mercer. It was conducted by Ephraim Spehrer Patrick, a Principal in Mercer’s Human Capital business in Frankfurt, in January and February 2010 with 132 participants from Germany as well as the US, Australia and other European and [...]
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How Leaders Impact Employee Morale – and the Bottom Line
Posted on 16 December 2010.
Tweet At the end of every calendar year, The Conference Board research group conducts a yearly job survey to measure job satisfaction. Results from 2009 were more than disappointing. Only 45 percent of Americans reported being satisfied with their work – the lowest level recorded by The Conference Board in more than 20 years. According [...]
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Basic Principles of Organizational Design
Posted on 06 November 2010.
Tweet In my last half-dozen posts I have been focusing on system theories of organization. I have done this because practitioners of organization development depend upon theories about what makes organizations tick. Nothing so practical as a good theory said Kurt Lewin, the mind behind action research. Well thought out theories helps us sort patterns [...]
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Contacting Current Employers
Posted on 30 September 2010.
Tweet by Keisha-Ann G. Gray | Human Resource Executive Online It is generally considered bad manners to seek references from a job candidate’s current employer, but it usually doesn’t lead to liability. The result may differ, however, if the candidate is seeking a federal job and he or she specifically rejected a request for such [...]
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why it’s so difficult to find an exellent employee?
Posted on 21 September 2010.
Tweet How many EXELLENT teachers, doctors, salesman, secretaries, IT manager, cleaners, cooks, designers do you know? I bet very, very few. It’s damn hard to find a good worker, of any kind. Since I am in the recruitment/Human Resources field, this question puzzles me a lot: why only few people are becoming true dedicated professionals [...]
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Finding Talent Increasingly Difficult
Posted on 15 May 2010.
Tweet March 5 2008 – Two-thirds of HR professionals in North America (USA – 66%, Canada – 65%) believe that tougher national immigration policies force their organizations to devote more resources to recruiting and retaining local talent. This finding comes from 2008 Global Talent Sourcing in the U.S. and Canada, a report released by the [...]
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