Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries Tagged as 'HRIS'

Privacy of personal data

November 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment · HRIS, Privacy · 1,355 views

I haven’t written about data privacy in a while but I could not help it. The “little” issue in the UK in the last couple of days has brought the topic back up. The UK Taxman has “misplaced” 2 CDs full of personal and banking details of about 25 million people. To make matters worse [...]

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Hidden costs of software projects

October 13th, 2007 · No Comments · HRIS, Technology · 1,945 views

Today I have been writing content about selection and implementation of HRIS systems. One area where I have spent a bit of time, probably too much, is around identifying costs and benefits.  Many for HR professionals the implementation of an HRIS is the first time they have been involved in a software project, and therefore [...]

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Educating HR on metrics & technology

October 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · HR Management, HRIS, Learning · 1,415 views

As I mentioned a few days ago I have been asked to help re-write a topic in AHRI’s Professional Diploma of HR looking at measuring and reporting on the effectiveness of HR and selection and implementation of HRIS systems. Over the last few days I have been re-reading lots of books and articles I have [...]

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Justifying Social Networks?

August 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · HR Management, HRIS, Social Networks · 2,542 views

UPDATE: I changed the title as I hated it, don’t even like the new one but it is better.
For some of my new readers I suspect this post is a bit “old-skool” in style.
Jason Corsello from The Human Capitalist blog wrote an interesting piece the other day proposing that maybe HR could shepherd social networking [...]

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Technology is still failing to meet the needs of HR

June 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments · HR Management, HRIS, Recruitment · 2,033 views

Sorry this is a major rant, I don’t have time to fully explore the whole issues but I had to blog about it anyway.
Watson Wyatt Worldwide released a press statement overnight that concerns me greatly and leaves me to believe that either their research is wrong or technology has fundamentally let down HR over the [...]

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