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Talent Retention: Fact & Fiction
Good talent is worth fighting for. At senior levels of an organization, the ability to adapt, to make decisions quickly in situations of high uncertainty, and to steer through wrenching change is critical. But at a time when the need for better talent is increasing, big companies continue to find it difficult to attract and ...
Performance Pay, The Mafia, & Ethics
Recently I have been reminded that business ethics remains a huge area of debate. First was a recent article in the FT that suggests there are lessons business can learn from organised crime. A business lesson from mafia mobsters.
Cynics will no doubt not be surprised by the linkage between business and crime, but better to ...
Video Friday
German Coast Guard - 1st day on the job!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMQjRkoGH3Y[/youtube]
Inspiration to help find a job!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3icQBxF5-Yw&feature=youtu.be&hd=1[/youtube]
The speed of social media in HR
Some more visuals on the changing landscape of social media. Employees have over the past 12 months according to Nielson, spent 28% less time looking at e-mails. Firmly placed in the Number 1 spot is of course Social Media. Below some social maps on the changing landscapes in just under 3 years. Any predictions on ...
Societe Generale – Ambition 2015
Here is are an interesting set of initiatives from Societe Generale Banking Group in Paris on "Ambition 2015" and how they aim "to deliver growth with lower risk" over the next 5 years. As Europe's banks have supposedly tightened their belts and somewhat regulated over the past 12 months or so, if you have been ...
Video Friday
Latest installment of funny videos - this week from Armstrong and Miller on the Origins of Job Interviews!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSoCwN23vdE[/youtube]
Talent Management: A Time to Review and Renew
We are delighted to introduce Allan Freed as a guest author. Allan Freed is a principal consultant with The RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping leaders and organizations deliver results and increase value. Allan’s current work helps organizations identify and build capabilities required for the execution of strategy through leveraging human resources and ...
Create your own Career
Below, you will find some of the more interesting career sites and graduate programs out there today. Plus, a couple of corporate student competitions which have become a successful way of sourcing young talent and helping businesses find innovative ideas and solutions to some of their biggest challenges. I have also included an interesting thread ...
Generation Lost?
The blogosphere and media has of recent years focussed on the characteristics and traits of people classified as either Generation X or Generation Y, and the interplay of tensions that may or may not exist between the two and their seniors in the so called Baby Boom Generation. Meanwhile, if the ILO is to ...
Video Friday
Some feedback from past video's we've posted, is to "please post more". So if there is anything out there that is funny-timely (please do send them in) we will do our best to share them on time for your Friday morning coffee. This week I have pinched a funny advert from an HR job agency ...
The HP Way
On reflection of one of our most visited blog posts – Vision Values and SuperPerformance – Mark Hurd has come through with flying colours for our HP Insider, as various discussion groups on the blogosphere from some "HPers" to vent and in some cases confirm his/her comments.
Our Comments on the good, the bad and the ...
What Kids can teach HR?
I found BBC’s Tom Burridge’s recent report on Finnish Schools very interesting.
Why do Finland's schools get the best results?
Finland's schools score consistently at the top of world rankings, yet the pupils have the fewest number of class hours in the developed world. Last year more than 100 foreign delegations and governments visited Helsinki, hoping to learn ...
Good Job Green Job Creation
Siemens are to create jobs through green investment in Germany and Hungary. Siemens is participating in the development of two ecofriendly combined-cycle power plants - one in the German state of Brandenburg and the other in Hungary - in scope of which it will employ about 1,000 people over the next three years, the company ...
Friday Funny: When the Cats Away
Great ideas for conference calling!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQNusht-Hzs[/youtube]
Workplace Change
“I would tell you to go to Hell but I work there and I don’t want to see you every day.”
The above quote is apparently available as a fridge magnet in the USA .... no comment required!
Writing in the FT recently Lynda Gratton asked readers if they could feel the wind of change heading for ...
HR’s Hyperreality: The Skills Shortage
The prominence of demographic change and skill shortages has recently been overtaken by the financial crisis of the past two or so years. With unemployment at record highs during that period, it would be easy to assume we no longer have a skills shortage problem. However, skills shortages still exist in many industries, and the ...
Undercover HR
Recently on holiday, over a well earned beer (we spent most of the first two days of our holiday abroad with my wife and son in the hospital - my wife broke her leg), I picked up the remote and switched on the TV for the first time in a long time.
Undercover Boss: Joseph M. ...
Europeans Best at Fictitous Sick Leave
Europe, 1 billion man hours lost to fictitious sick leave each year.
Across Europe, more than 120 million sick days a year are actually taken for personal reasons rather than for an illness according to Aon Consulting, the employee risk and benefits management firm.
15% of the 7,500 European workers surveyed in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, ...
Apple, Pixar, Culture and Decision Science
Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull - a backstage look at the mechanics of culture, decision making and innovation in Apple and Pixar.
Steve Jobs' description of Apple's culture as that of a startup gives an important insight into the company's ongoing success. At the recent All Things D conference, Steve Jobs described Apple's (AAPL) culture as "that ...
Highest Unemployment
The 15 Highest Unemployment Rates in the World by MarketWatch, DailyFinance, Yahoo! Finance, and TheStreet.com. (Europe not listed as a nation)
The global unemployment problem is so huge that the total number of jobless in the ten most populous nations in the world totals 1.1 billion. That is only slightly smaller than the population of China.
Macedonia's ...