How to Group-Think Your Way To Better HR Metrics
Great article last week in The Wall Street Journal on “What Gives Social Norms Their Power.” The research doesn’t have direct implications to HR, but you can derive much out of not just how social...
View ArticleTLNT Webinar: Your CEO Just Said Your Metrics Suck! Now What?
Upcoming free TLNT webinar on Thursday August 11, 2011: join TLNT contributor and longtime HR pro Tim Sackett for Strategies to put you back in the Driver’s Seat! There is nothing worse than being in...
View ArticleHR Metrics: Why They’re So Hot – and Why HR Needs to Embrace Them
Editor’s Note: Dr. John Sullivan has been a strategist in HR and talent management for over 30 years. His specialty is HR strategy and designing world class HR systems and tools for Fortune 200 firms....
View ArticleDoes Your Organization’s “Magic Metric” Include Employee Recognition?
In Fistful of Talent last week, Steve Gifford tackled the ever-present topic of (my take) “what metric should we use to measure employee productivity/performance in terms everyone in the business cares...
View ArticleHR Now Has Its First Official Standard: Cost-Per-Hire
For the first time in the history of the profession, human resource practitioners now have a uniform way to measure and compare one of HR’s oldest metrics. The American National Standards Institute has...
View ArticleHitting a Home Run in Talent Management: The Key is HR Analytics
Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s General Manager, described in Moneyball the need to rethink his team’s business (baseball) and make a scientific investigation of the sport by determining what qualities in...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Strategic HR, Everything Else is the Supporting Cast
Of all the developments and trends in human resources, what would be at the top of your list? Would strategic HR be there? How about outsourcing; or should that be in-sourcing? Does employer branding...
View ArticleWeekly Wrap: SHRM Forced to Back Off on New Human Capital Standard
I’m not always a big fan of SHRM — particularly how SHRM’s Board of Directors has chosen to operate — but this week, I think SHRM got big footed and forced to back off something that might have...
View ArticleHow to Measure If You’re Hiring Great People – or Not
“HR should be every company’s ‘killer app.’ What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?” — Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO I wish more CEOs and their respective CFOs agreed with...
View Article3 Ways For HR to Start Building a Data-Centric Approach
No one could argue that being proactive and smarter about what you do is a bad strategy. Big Data enables proactive, evidence-based decision-making throughout the enterprise — and yet, HR continues to...
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