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07 Apr Getting your enterprise social network strategy right

Posted at 16:31h in Employee Engagement, Featured, HR Strategy, People Management, Productivity by hrmagazine.co.uk 0 Comments

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...

18 Feb Left Brain, Right Brain: Does HR Have A Split Personality?

Posted at 11:43h in HR Strategy, People Management, Productivity by HR Mgmt Editors 0 Comments

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...

09 Feb Companies and themes to follow in 2015 part 3: the HR dimension

Posted at 09:52h in Featured, HR Strategy, People Management, Productivity, Systems & Software by Diginomica.com 0 Comments

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....

29 Jan HR at times ‘too close to management’, experts warn

Posted at 14:39h in HR Strategy, People Management, Productivity by HR Mgmt Editors 0 Comments

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...

19 Jan Evidence-based HR: Under the microscope

Posted at 12:22h in HR Strategy, People Management, Productivity by HR Mgmt Editors 0 Comments

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....

09 Dec The data obsession driving Google’s HR strategy

Posted at 10:17h in HR Strategy, People Management, Productivity by HR Mgmt Editors 0 Comments

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...

17 Nov Employee-ownership and the personal touch

Posted at 11:45h in HR Strategy, People Management, Productivity by HR Mgmt Editors 0 Comments

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...

06 Nov Does your CEO help or hinder HR?

Posted at 09:52h in HR Strategy, People Management, Productivity by HR Mgmt Editors 0 Comments

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...

25 Oct Connected leadership: The CEO and the HRD

Posted at 10:57h in HR Strategy, Leadership Development, People Management, Productivity by HR Mgmt Editors 0 Comments

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....

15 Oct Managing high-performing but demanding Gen Y

Posted at 10:15h in HR Strategy, People Management, Performance Management, Productivity by HR Mgmt Editors 0 Comments

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...