What ratio shows the real added value of an HR function?
Why don’t HR professionals spend more of their time trying to improve the organisation? The evidence is that most HR people spend their time on: Administration, which we stopped calling “personnel”...
View Article4 reasons why strategic workforce planning tops the HR agenda in 2012
The topic of strategic workforce planning seems to have risen to the top of the HR agenda this year. Last week a networking event on the topic took place in London, organised by the HR Society. I...
View ArticleTalent management is the top workforce concern for HR in 2012
Following on from my recent post on strategic workforce planning, the related theme of talent management seems to be a top concern for HR directors (photo by miggslives). Fortunately, I haven’t had to...
View ArticleSocial media: more a benefit for HR than a risk?
Social media is changing how we socialise but collaboration and social networks existed before Twitter and Facebook. A recent blog by Darcy Jacobsen offers historical examples in the arts and business...
View ArticleHR engages in the social and mobile arenas… er… what arenas?
The importance of social media to HR is now so obvious that even the CIPD’s house magazine People Management has published a list of HR’s ” top power tweeters”. Other evidence is the plethora of...
View ArticleWhat’s next after the HR business partner model? Dave Ulrich writes for XpertHR
Next week I’m chairing a live video link with Dave Ulrich (above) at the HR Performance conference in London . It’s probably fair to say Ulrich is the most influential thinker on HR strategy in the...
View ArticleTop HR directors get behind employee engagement movement
The Engage for Success website went live on in November (2012) with case studies, tools and information and details of events where you can share good practice on employee engagement. It was developed...
View ArticleHow to stop HCM becoming just another HR label
When you use the term “human capital management” are you referring to the way you deploy all of the people in your organisation? If so, you don’t understand the meaning of HCM. So says Andrew Mayo in...
View ArticleBig study on HR metrics shows HR can boost share prices
Watch out for a white paper this month from the US-based Human Capital Management Institute which will provide evidence from a large scale survey that you can link share price rises and falls to human...
View ArticleIs “HR maturity” the new Human Capital Management?
The CIPD’s latest HR outlook survey published this month shows HR leaders are still struggling to achieve credibility as strategic business partners. While 62% of HR leaders surveyed consider...
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