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...
By Jonathan Nicholls, Simon Hayward - hrmagazine.co.uk Ram Charan has caused controversy recently with his suggestion that HR departments should be split. The leading business guru and author claimed that CEOs across the globe are disappointed in their HR people. There has been a backlash, of course....
By Prithvi Shergill - hrmagazine.co.uk Gen Y is increasingly becoming a bigger part of our workforce and dynamics have fundamentally changed, with a demand for faster, more innovative and flexible experience and service delivery mechanisms. Fortune magazine deemed Generation Y as the most high-maintenance, yet potentially most...
Workforce 2020 By Mike Ettling - diginomica.com Today’s workplace is the most diverse work environment the world has ever seen. It’s the most multi-generational, with up to five different generations working together – each with different skills, experiences, work habits and motivations. More of our workers are...
By Claudio Fernández-Aráoz - hrmagazine.co.uk Past experience is no longer the only indicator of future potential. Flexibility is the key to executive recruitment and talent management Several years ago, I worked with Harvard Business School and my Egon Zehnder colleagues to gauge how three factors – globalisation,...
By Cathy Benko and Erica Volini - blogs.hbr.org In the July/August issue of HBR, Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration, led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy, led by...