By Pocket Gamer Libby Wolfensperger is a global HR veteran with over 15 years experience in the rapidly changing wireless industry. Prior to GREE, she worked for Vodafone in Japan, managing the Asia Pacific territory for 5 years. Libby has been with GREE for 6 months and has an...
Unemployed people are told they risk losing benefits if they fail to carry out meaningless questionnaire By Shiv Malik - guardian.co.uk Jobseekers are being made to complete bogus psychometric tests by the Department for Work and Pensions – and told that in some cases they risk losing...
By David Vaughn - mylinkage.com Unlike other forms of capital (i.e. human, financial, physical, etc.)social capital refers to productive connections between people. It’s not formed out of a self-serving agenda, but rather a genuine interest in joining together to accomplish a goal. The basic currency is trust...
By Lisa Parker - mylinkage.com/blog We spend a lot of time brainstorming in our innovation simulation, Design Thinker. It was created by ExperiencePoint and IDEO, and features IDEO founder Tim Brown’s views on innovation that can be boiled down to two words. Serious Play. As you can see in...
By Sophie Vanhegan - hrmagazine.co.uk Cloud technology is the future for the business-world. According to KPMG, it’s now used by most organisations. However, with this new technology come new risks for company information security, and it is important for HR teams to ensure that they update...
By: Ned Smith - businessnewsdaily.com The next time you attend a management meeting and try to pick out the chief information officer (CIO), don't waste your time looking for someone wearing a beanie cap with a propeller. Chances are good that he or she looks —...
By Dona-Mirelle Battat - hrmagazine.co.uk Diversity continues to remain something of a luxury for some organisations at a time when companies have been very focused on critical change, restructuring and compliance and reward matters. As a consequence, building a diversity and inclusion team has not always been...
By Ann Pace - astd.org According to a recent ASTD-i4cp research report, Millennial employees are in need of leadership development—and are asking for it, too. With 1 million Millennials entering the workforce each year and nearly 40 percent of the U.S. workforce expected to be comprised of...
By Jeremy Langley - hrmagazine.co.uk The fact the recent HR Tech Europe Spring conference in London focused not on technology but on data tells you just how important the issue is becoming for organisations. Why now? Because the volume of data, the velocity (speed at which it...
By Rachel Nickless - afr.com Neuroleadership expert David Rock believes companies are going about staff management entirely the wrong way. In fact, the man who helped kick-start the international trend of applying brain science to the workplace is partial to abandoning performance management and forced ranking...