Written by: Grace Lewis - cipd.co.uk Unleash your inner HR business partner and embrace long-term planning It wasn’t long ago, in a recent edition of People Management magazine, that we were debating whether the HR business partner model was a dying breed. But at a recent CIPD...
Written by: Janine Milne- diginomica.com SUMMARY: Monitise is a familiar story – a fast growing business, expanding rapidly overseas whose internal systems cannot match the same pace of change as the business. A cloud-based HR strategy is helping address those challenges. Bruce King, SVP group HR at mobile technology firm...
Written by: Nick Martindale - hrmagazine.co.uk Enterprise social networks (ESNs) are becoming increasingly popular among larger organisations, but how can HR encourage employees to engage with them? In an era where people of all ages are increasingly comfortable with the concept of social networking – using sites...
By Meghan M. Biro - forbes.com Imagine a big desk. It’s loaded with two huge stacks of work, one on the left side, one on the right. Left side: the administrative pile, dense with data — numbers, stats, metrics, talent analytics. Right side: the strategic...
Will HR vendors embrace contingent, temporary and independent workers? HR systems have grudgingly supported this biggest growing part of the workforce but it has mostly been a bolt-on, incremental approach to the issue....
By Arvind Hickman - hrmagazine.co.uk HR should not lose sight of its role to represent employees in spite of efforts to become more strategic and business-oriented, a panel of experts has warned. In a joint Work Foundation and Prospect event on the contemporary role of HR, the...
By Katie Jacobs - hrmagazine.co.uk The evidence-based management movement has HR in its sight. But is the profession willing or able to become more evidence-based? Eric Barends was working on a change programme in a large organisation when he first got the feeling something wasn’t quite right....
By Janine Milne - diginomica.com "All of the people decisions are supported by data – we want to bring the same rigor to people analysis as engineering." That was the message from Aimee O’Malley, learning and development business partner at Google UK to an audience of HR...
By Katie Jacobs - hrmagazine.co.uk One of the world's biggest employee-owned companies, Golder Associates, excels at putting people before profit. 'No one ever washes a rental car.' It’s a popular trope that perfectly encapsulates the responsibility and care that comes with ownership. But it has perhaps never...
By Sarah Megginson - hcamag.com Senior HR practitioners agree that CEO acceptance of the HR role is crucial for the function’s success at a strategic level – yet many are not getting the support they need. In HRD’s Global HR survey of 4,400 industry...