Michael Specht

A fairly common statement heard these days in organisations is “high employee satisfaction translates to higher earnings”. Gautam Gosh pointed me to a recent paper by Alex Edmans, a Finance Professor at Wharton which compares;
stock returns of companies with high employee satisfaction and compares them to various benchmarks — the broader market, peer firms in [...]

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There must be something in the water cause here is a list of the Top 25 HR blogs, there is some cross over with the Top 100 list from yesterday, and a couple of new ones which were noticeably absent from the first list, eg The Human Capitalist by Jason Corsello.
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Came across a list of the Top 100 HR blogs from back in September. An interesting read and well worth checking them out if you are looking to expand your feeds.
A couple of thoughts. First it is good to see some of the older blogs (2 year +) there and a lot of new ones. [...]

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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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I have put the slides from last night’s presentation online at SlideShare, they can be viewed via http://www.slideshare.net/mspecht/intro-for-hr-on-blogs-web-20/, only issue is you miss out on my fantastic commentary.
A couple of points

The cartoons are all Hugh Macleod’s of gapingvoid fame
To review the buzz words you need to view the CommonCraft Show videos
To learn about Web 2.0 [...]

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One of the topics I covered during last night’s presentation was how to build safeguards within your organisation so that employees for who were interacting in this brave new web 2.0 world. (Converts of Web 2.0 you might think I have lost it so before you all stand up and walk out hear me [...]

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Over the last few weeks I have been preparing a presentation on Web 2.0 and Social Networks to give to a group of HR professionals. The topics I plan to cover are:-

Provide a quick overview of what this all is
How they help employees use them for good not evil
How Enterprises can use the tools, [...]

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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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It was about 10 years ago I first heard of the PMKeyS project at Australian Department of Defence. At the time it was one of the large PeopleSoft implementations in the world, and the largest in Australia (if not in the top 3 I can’t remember). Anyway, I read today that they are in the [...]

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Just a short post on emotion.
Have employees who don’t have their emotions under control and you have a toxic (Update: Kevin rightly points out that toxic might not be the right word but to be honest as given the number of different emotional issue employee could face having people in the workplace who don’t have [...]

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