By Sian Harrington - hrmagazine.co.uk Can HR ever really be strategic? It’s a question I have pondered over the seven years I have edited HR magazine. It is timely to revisit the question in this July issue. For not only do we announce the winners of the...
By James Taylor - information-management.com t seems to me that there are two different perspectives for the use of performance management software (dashboards and such). There are the folks who really think deeply about performance management (like my friend Gary Cokins who just passed 100 monthly...
By Stuart Rudner - hrreporter.com On June 12, 2013, my partner Natalie MacDonald and I were interviewed by James Munroe of 680 News, an AM radio station in Toronto. While we ended up covering a variety of topics, the thrust of the discussion was “top tips on...
By Kate Russell - hrmagazine.co.uk One of the remarks often bandied around the workplace is “people are critical to the business”. Wrong! You need to re-write that to “the right people are critical to the business”. Getting the right people into the right position in your organisation...
By Dick Grote - hbr.org After 30 years of consulting, I thought I had run across every question regarding performance management. But a client recently came up with an intriguing query that I hadn't encountered before. Bob wrote: Sometimes it happens in our business that a management employee...
By Jack Zenger - forbes.com One lesson that you learn reasonably early in life is that if you need to be somewhere at a specific time, and you know roughly how long it will take to make the trip to your destination, it is important to...
By Jeff Russell - GeniusHR Synopsis: Employee leave laws and regulations are adding new entitlements at all levels of government, and the burden is on HR to avoid liability for violations. Open up any HR blog or newsletter these days, and one constant lament is the Sisyphean...
By Mano Ramakrishnan - businesstimes.com.sg They are adept at harmonising paradoxes and correcting imbalances in the organisation. WHEN we ask CEOs in Asia what their key challenges are, many tell us the speed of business growth continues to outpace their ability to develop leaders. Hence, a strategic...
By Graham Scrivener - hrmagazine.co.uk As many HR professionals are aware, behaviour change is key to knowing if leadership training and development has been effective. But it's being able to demonstrate and sustain change as well as show that behaviours are having a positive impact on...
By Frédéric Parisien - employmentlawtoday.com Quebec workers' compensation board finds employee Facebook postings can be used by employers as evidence if the information is obtained honestly and fairly. Can employers use information from their employees’ Facebook pages in managing the employment relationship? Not an age-old question, but...