On Goals and Progress
August 29, 2005
So much of how employees (myself included) are evaluated is based on
performance relative to goals. And that, of course, makes those goals
pretty darn important.
Some thoughts on this from a truly interesting essay on goal setting as it relates to…
Workforce Issues Top List of Executive Priorities
August 26, 2005
The HR Blog at Boston.com points to an article at PersonnelToday discussing the results of an Accenture global survey of executive priorities. The top of the list? Attracting and retaining skilled staff. Beyond that, a full 40% of the list is related…
What Enterprises Want from On-Demand Vendors
August 26, 2005
Check out this post by Phil Wainewright over at ZDnet. He talks about the Enterprise SaaS Working Group of which we are a charter member and interviews Greg Gianforte from RightNow about how On-Demand vendors are working to make Software as Service…
Tips for Annual Reviews
August 26, 2005
I was just pointed to this great post by a 15-year Microsoft employee named John Porcaro on doing annual reviews. As we all know, the process can be tough, and John provides some great advice for getting through them and focusing…
Tom Peters Talks About People
August 25, 2005
Anyone who reads it knows that Tom Peters’ blog is a repository of great thinking and a free window into a very well-paid mind. I admit that I’ve only been subscribed to the feed for a couple of weeks now, but…
iReview: Peformance Reviews for Small Business
August 25, 2005
Just heard about some new development going on here around a product called iReview. Basically, the idea is for small businesses or business units within larger organizations to have immediate access to do performance reviews online. Think it one minute…
The Coming Labor Shortage
August 23, 2005
Dave Lefkow from Jobster has a new article up at ERE discussing the possibility of a nearing labor shortage.
The gist: The possibility of such a shortage is debatable at best but -
Organizations that do a better job finding and deploying…
Is Pay for Performance a sham?
August 23, 2005
Pay for Performance is everywhere these days; software vendors hawk it, speakers at
conferences yak about it and professors preach it. But when you sit down and
think about it, it seems like it’s a long way off. And who knows if it’s…
How Courageous Are You?
August 22, 2005
Johnny Taylor, chairman of SHRM, is pushing HR to be more courageous and position itself for more strategic roles.
The topic is covered today over at the Wisconsin State Journal by Cindy Krischer Goodman for Knight Ridder.
Measuring HR: The Workforce as Deliverable
August 22, 2005
How do you measure the effectiveness of HR? Cost per hire? HR headcount per number of employees? If you do, Dick Beatty thinks you’re wasting your time.
Dick is a professor of Human Resources Management at Rutgers and in an web…
