Today I received an email directing me to a new list called “The HR Bible: 100 Articles Every Human Resources Pro Should Read“. Given at one point had grand plans of building a one stop shop of this information, I had to look. An initial scan over the titles provided we with a sense ofContinue reading “101 Links about HR”
Category Archives: HR Management
Employee engagement
Found a great video (for some reason I can’t embed it in my blog) via Employee Engagement: Results That Matter put together by McDaniel Partners detailing some very interesting insights and statistics around employee engagement, well worth the 4 minute watch. (Hat tip: HR 101).
Top companies to work for
Just a quick follow up post, on my higher ESAT = profitable companies post last week. The 2008 Fortune Top 100 Places to Work for in America has been released, and the winners are:- 1. Google 2. Quicken Loans 3. Wegmans Food Markets 4. Edward Jones 5. Genentech 6. Cisco Systems 7. Starbucks 8. QualcommContinue reading “Top companies to work for”
Satisfaction does equal higher returns
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 firmsContinue reading “Satisfaction does equal higher returns”
Top 25 HR blogs
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.
Listing of Top 100 HR blogs
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 newContinue reading “Listing of Top 100 HR blogs”
Educating HR on metrics & technology
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 haveContinue reading “Educating HR on metrics & technology”
Slide show available online
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 ToContinue reading “Slide show available online”
Employees and Web 2.0
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 outContinue reading “Employees and Web 2.0”
Web 2.0 and HR
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 useContinue reading “Web 2.0 and HR”
Michael Specht 