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'

Educating HR on metrics & technology

October 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · HR Management, HRIS, Learning · 1,464 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 · 2,615 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 · 2,076 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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Cyber attacks, SaaS, SOA and your business

June 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · Digital Identity, HRIS, Technology · 1,488 views

Over the last month or so Estonia (a small Baltic nation) has been under attack, not a traditional military attack but a cyber attack. The NY Times provides a good run down (via Kim Cameron) of what has been going on.
When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet [...]

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Inside out, back to front and open recruiting

June 4th, 2006 · No Comments · HRIS, Recruitment, Social Networks, Technology · 1,900 views

Rob Merrill over at GoodRecruits has a taken several ideas that are brewing across the blogosphere and produced an interesting business idea.
Jobster, but distributed…
Rob feel we all need to get into Microformats, Microformat Search engines, social networks, XFN (or would RapLeaf be just as good?) mash them all together and create a distributed referral network.
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