{"id":5458,"date":"2017-02-02T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T16:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glocalthinking.com\/best-hr-articles-of-the-month-january-2017\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:39:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:39:27","slug":"best-hr-articles-of-the-month-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glocalthinking.com\/en\/best-hr-articles-of-the-month-january-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Best HR Articles of the Month! &#8211; January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/01\/hrs-vital-role-in-how-employees-spend-their-time-talent-and-energy\">HR\u2019s Vital Role in How Employees Spend Their Time, Talent, and Energy<\/a> <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>by Eric Garton in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HarvardBiz\">Harvard Business Review<\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HR\u2019s value and efficacy is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2015\/07\/why-we-love-to-hate-hr-and-what-hr-can-do-about-it\">favorite topic of debate<\/a>&nbsp;in business. Complaints about HR include things&nbsp;from weak, reactive business partnering to poor talent recruitment and development, from time-wasting processes to incomprehensible communications. I don\u2019t 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&nbsp;make a&nbsp;case for why hating HR can be bad for your company \u2014 and why&nbsp;HR has a vital role to play in helping an organization make the best use of its human capital.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrzone.com\/lead\/culture\/five-evidence-based-steps-to-creativity-and-innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Five evidence-based steps to creativity and innovation<\/a>, by Jamie Lawrence in HR Zone<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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&#8217;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\u2026<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shrm.org\/blog\/the-hr-ice-cream-truck\">The HR Ice Cream Truck<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;David Kovacovich <a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidKovacovich\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">DavidKovacovich<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;in<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>SHRM Blog<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Society for Human Resource Management created their competency model with the intention of solving today&#8217;s most pressing people issues. This year, our blog squad is tasked with exploring the SHRM Competency Wheel. You&#8217;ll get a variety of viewpoints that translate how these competencies serve workforce development.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eremedia.com\/tlnt\/5-trends-that-will-change-hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 Talent Management Trends That Are Changing HR<\/a>, by Marc Effron in TLNT.com<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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\u2026<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/marketing\/a-brief-history-of-productivity#sm.0000052fxoancdskuuz1mvqnvw2cm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Brief History of Productivity: How Getting Stuff Done Became an Industry<\/a>, by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/marketing\/author\/amanda-zantal-wiener\"><strong>Amanda Zantal-Wiener<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>| @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amanda_zw\"><strong>amanda_zw<\/strong><\/a> in Hubspot Blog<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyone who\u2019s ever been a teenager is likely familiar with the question, &#8220;Why aren\u2019t you doing something productive?\u201d 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, &#8220;You know, the idea of productivity actually dates back to before the 1800s.&#8221; If only I could ask, &#8220;Do you mean &#8216;productive&#8217; in an economic or modern context?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at our selection for the best HR and tech articles in January 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[347],"tags":[229,258,77],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hr-trends","tag-future-of-work","tag-hr-culture","tag-hr-trends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Best HR Articles of the Month! - January 2017 - Glocalthinking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/glocalthinking.com\/en\/best-hr-articles-of-the-month-january-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best HR Articles of the Month! 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