By Janie Smith - hcamag.com Does employee gender influence the kind of feedback you provide in performance reviews? You might not think so, but a recent survey has shown that managers in technology companies tend to talk differently to female employees than they do to males workers. In...
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 Arvind Hickman - hrmagazine.co.uk New flexible working legislation could radically change the world of business. But what are the challenges and opportunities for HR? Flexible working, whether it’s in the form of part-time hours or working remotely, is not only gaining in popularity, but has now...
By Karen Higginbottom - forbes.com It’s tough to find an effective leader in the workplace. Only 40% of leaders rated their organization’s leadership as high, according to a global survey of 13,124 leaders and 1,528 human resource professionals by talent management consultancy DDI and the Conference...
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 Jessica Kleiman - forbes.com An important part of being a leader is being credible – credibility is derived from your character and your competence. — U.S. Marines Captain Angie Morgan I recently attended a one-day leadership conference hosted by The Quorum Initiative, a selective group of high-level corporate...
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...
By Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman - hbr.org A few weeks ago, we were asked to analyze a competency model for leadership development that a client had created. Its was based on the idea that at different points in their development, potential leaders need to focus...
By Janie Smith - hcamag.com The long-running discussion about HR’s need to have a seat at the table is one Aaron Green has always found interesting. The vice president of human capital management at Oracle said that HR had always had that seat. “At the heart of it,...
By Ashridge - thehrdirector.com The use of digital tools for learning continues to be an area of both great promise and great frustration for many organisations. With the consumerisation of IT, Google have taught us to search, LinkedIn to connect, Wikipedia to access knowledge and Massive...