HR’s Vital Role in How Employees Spend Their Time, Talent, and Energy by Eric Garton in Harvard Business Review
HR’s value and efficacy is a favorite topic of debate in business. Complaints about HR include things from weak, reactive business partnering to poor talent recruitment and development, from time-wasting processes to incomprehensible communications. I don’t intend to defend HR or provide guidance on how to change all those HR processes that have failed to deliver. But my colleagues and I will make a case for why hating HR can be bad for your company — and why HR has a vital role to play in helping an organization make the best use of its human capital.
Five evidence-based steps to creativity and innovation, by Jamie Lawrence in HR Zone
This five-step process is based on the thoughts of Mark Batey, Senior Lecturer In Organisational Psychology at Alliance Manchester Business School. HRZone interviewed Mark in January 2017. His thoughts are based on a decade worth of research and practice with senior teams, helping them be creative and develop new strategies. Mark’s approach is to draw together the best of the research and combine it with what actually works in the real world. We interviewed Mark in January 2017…
The HR Ice Cream Truck by David Kovacovich @DavidKovacovich in SHRM Blog
The Society for Human Resource Management created their competency model with the intention of solving today’s most pressing people issues. This year, our blog squad is tasked with exploring the SHRM Competency Wheel. You’ll get a variety of viewpoints that translate how these competencies serve workforce development.
5 Talent Management Trends That Are Changing HR, by Marc Effron in TLNT.com
The new year brings new goals, new challenges and new trends in the still-evolving field of talent management. We describe below 5 talent management trends for 2017 based on insights from HR leaders globally, our NTMN research, experiences at our clients and discussions at the Talent Management Institute. In no particular order, we believe that the key macro trends in talent management are…
A Brief History of Productivity: How Getting Stuff Done Became an Industry, by Amanda Zantal-Wiener | @amanda_zw in Hubspot Blog
Anyone who’s ever been a teenager is likely familiar with the question, “Why aren’t you doing something productive?” If only I knew, as an angsty 15-year-old, what I know after conducting the research for this article. If only I could respond to my parents with the brilliant retort, “You know, the idea of productivity actually dates back to before the 1800s.” If only I could ask, “Do you mean ‘productive’ in an economic or modern context?”…