By Quentin Millington - hrmagazine.co.uk In this last article of the series, I consider the demands placed on individual executives mandated to build high-performance cultures. Corporate culture, the patterns of tacit assumptions that emerge as groups in an organisation solve shared problems, is highly stable. Tough to...
By Howard J. Ross - mylinkage.com Where diversity is concerned, unconscious bias can create irrational circumstances where people make choices that seem to be driven by overt prejudice, even when they are not. Of course, there are still some cases where people are consciously hateful, hurtful, and...
By Sam Burne James - recruiter.co.uk Austerity has forced HR to be more commercially minded and technology has contributed to making this happen — a virtuous circle is in place Recruitment agencies report steady but far from overwhelming demand across the HR market as a whole, with...
By David Roe - cmswire.com It seems hard to believe that anything to do with data, content management and business performance management could be 20-years-old. But it is. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Balanced Scorecard, the Advanced Performance Institute and Actuate carried out a...
By N. Dayasindhu - thehindubusinessline.com Focussing solely on cost-cutting may not get you through a recession. Evolving to meet the needs of changing times and pursuing learning opportunities are the key to success. In Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, authors Jim Collins and Jerry...
By Jeff Durr, Senior Managing Consultant, and Craig Kamins, Subject Matter Expert - thegallupblog.gallup.com We, at Gallup, hear all too often from senior leaders who are frustrated with change management initiatives that are failing. Leaders continue to fall short of their goals with change programs, whether...
By Stuart Jones - hrmagazine.co.uk As an HR director, you and your colleagues have a well-defined organisational recruitment strategy in place, which serves to set the tone, the volume and the specifics for new hires. Right? If you nodded a 'yes' to that question, congratulations - you're...
As more employees train outside work, there is the danger that development will get pushed aside By Debbie Andalo - guardian.co.uk The number of employees getting training in work fell over the last year. Photograph: Bloomimage/Getty Images / BloomImage RF On-the-job training and development for people working in...
By Stephan Liozu - innovationexcellence.com Change is hard. Literature on change reports that over 70% of projects fail due to the inability of people and organizations to change. Change is even harder when it is transformational in nature and requires a change in culture and DNA....
By Chris Welford - hrmagazine.co.uk There’s a theory that we have four basic emotions: fear, anger, sadness and joy, the primary colours of emotional life. Putting joy aside as self-evidently a good thing, it’s hard to believe that anyone would deliberately try to invoke sadness or...