Human Resource Management Articles
May 14 2012 - Managing employee information on a global scale when data privacy rules differ by country
May 14 2012 - HR software has for many years been revolutionising the processes and procedures of HR departments.
But the growing power of intuitive technologies means the opportunities for forward-thinking HR professionals are ever-increasing.
May 11 2012 - Statistics Canada reported that the unemployment rate rose by 0.1% to 7.3% in
April despite employment increasing by 58,000 mostly full-time jobs.
May 4 2012 - Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 115,000
in April, and the unemployment rate fell by 0.1% to 8.1%.
April 26 2012 - Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are actively doing something at all times and if you don’t want that
something to be aimlessly browsing or looking at online job boards, engagement at work is key.
April 26 2012 - It's All About You is specifically for you, the entrepreneur, the lone adventurer, who is relentlessly
driving forward business, focusing more on achieving business objectives, but possibly to the detriment of your personal wellbeing and basic
health.
April 24 2012 - There is evidence to suggest that organizations are only achieving 'surface diversity' while
key customer-facing staff such as servers are behaving in a racist way towards diners.
April 19 2012 - Often at times being caught up in all the distractions
of HR, many people don't make the time to create a crisis or advice centre for struggling employees and this is SO needed within the workplace.
April 18 2012 - The unemployment rate stands at 8.3% - down 0.1% over the quarter but up 0.5% over the year.
April 18 2012 - Richard van der Lee argues that we need to use a bit more intuition to find talent
April 12 2012 - Seasonally adjusted, unemployment remained at 5.2% and the number of people in employment
rose by 44,000 to 11,491,200
April 10 2012 - A LMS is a tool used for documenting, tracking and reporting on training programs in a bid to increase employee efficiency and
productivity.
March 25 2012 - It’s surprisingly easy to take on someone who isn’t who they say they are, especially when your focus is on can they do the job in question, not who they say they might be.
March 16 2012 - The term 'business partner' is often highlighted as an important aspect in discussions about
the role of the human resource manager but being a 'business partner' needs wide business knowledge.
March 2 2012 - Employees need to feel like they are progressing. If you think about a time when you did something extraordinary at work, most
likely you accomplished a difficult goal that was important to the organization.
March 2 2012 - It has been claimed that one in three office employees skips a proper lunch, and instead snacks on unhealthy options,
which can lead to lethargy, irritability and decreased productivity.
March 1 2012 - There are many organizations which, for various reasons, do not put much energy into developing a 'Vision on talent'
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February 22 2012 - This article presents data that for the first time examines the collaboration and power structure dimensions
of management.
February 16 2012 - An analysis of UK local authority areas by claimant to vacancies ratio in January 2012 shows
that a number of Scottish areas have passed the inner London boroughs to become the UK's worst employment
blackspots.
February 10 2012 - Do organizations task an outside company with the training of their charges, or do they do it themselves?
February 10 2012 - Employee satisfaction is a key indicator for defining staff rewards and benefits and
over 70% of businesses have taken steps to monitor it.
February 10 2012 - Workforce analytics has become the hottest topic in the HR technology arena.
February 3 2012 - Today's business founders and CEOs are much more likely to have advanced engineering degrees than MBAs.
February 2 2012 - Hyland Software director, Mark Greatorex, explores how combining strategy with technology can help maximise HR capability and contribution
January 25 2012 - There are strong, well-rehearsed arguments both for and against the use of
personality testing, but we have identified a particular, and thus far potentially overlooked, risk of discrimination against disabled participants.
January 23 2012 - Richard van der Lee asks if the way organizations deal with some HRD methodologies can lead to the right moves.
January 11 2012 - Some Do's and Don'ts for job hunting
December 19 2011 - One of the most exciting new trends in recent years has been the emergence of the human cloud, as more and more businesses go
online to hire and manage talented staff on an hourly or project basis.
December 13 2011 - Graduate unemployment is at a record level but many organizations say they cannot
find the right talent.
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December 13 2011 - Recruiting practices need to be consistent with branding strategies or organizations risk missing out on top talent and potential
revenue. More recuiting organizations are likely to turn to social media in 2012.
December 10 2011 - Excerpt from Now You’re Thinking: Change Your Thinking, Revolutionize Your Career, Transform Your Life (FT Press),
December 8 2011 - 1.7 million Australians over 18 are prevented from working as much as they
want for a variety of reasons, according to a new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) study.
December 7 2011 - Using the Internet for job-hunting reduced time spent unemployed by an
average of 25%.
December 6 2011 - Employees who have flexibility in the workplace tend to sustain healthier lifestyle habits.
December 6 2011 - Richard van der Lee wonders if organizations lose track of (potential)
customers or have ‘too much internal focus’?
December 1 2011 - Smartphones, tablets and other types of 24-7 technology
can make life easier for many people but they make it harder to switch off even when at home and
also keep us at work longer.
November 25 2011 - Changes to come for UK employment law.
November 5 2011 - In these uncertain times no word is used more often than 'trust'. This creates some beautiful discussions but all the more misunderstandings.
October 31 2011 - A tribunal of judges appointed by Fair Work Australia has determined that the industrial dispute
called by three unions that triggered the airline's lockout must end.
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October 21 2011 - When organizations actively want to participate in the changing environment a question arises: why is available talent not being fully utilized. Of course employees who are classified as a "young and high potential" are important to these organizations but beyond these individuals a complete scenario is obscured: the individual talents of every single employee.
October 5 2011 - Stress has been identified as the most significant cause of long-term absence according to this year's
CIPD/Simplyhealth Absence Management survey.
October 5 2011 - The announcement that
the qualification period for the right to claim unfair dismissal will be extended from one year to two years has attracted mixed responses.
September 23 2011 - Do Business and HR Managers speak the same language?
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September 7 2011 - Every business needs effective HR (human resources) to retain a happy, motivated and productive workforce.
July 18 2011 - Research findings reported in the Journal of Management shows that we consider some
leaders to be charismatic because we attribute 'magical thinking' to them.
July 18 2011 - A new Canadian study published in the Journal of Managerial Psychology shows the value of
structured approaches to orientation (induction) training and mentoring.
July 13 2011 - Australian workers have a low-pressure, stress-free working life, and are not worried about losing their jobs,
according to findings from ORC International’s perspectives database.
July 12 2011 - Employees still do not trust company management, nearly three years after the
beginning of the economic downturn, according to results from a Maritz© Poll conducted by Maritz Research.
July 11 2011 - An analysis of over 39,000 jobs listed on Trade Me Jobs between April and June
shows that the New Zealand job market is strong, with listings up by 27 per cent on the same period in 2010.
July 11 2011 - People with skills, qualifications and experience can pick and choose the country in which to live and work
and this is leading to an international battle for skills with New Zealand losing out.
May 16 2011 - Knowledge transfer may not be happening as often as organizations would like because
staff don't always want to share.
April 23 2011 - Employers are concerned that they are vulnerable to frivolous or unjustified employment tribunal claims
according to a Conflict Management survey published prior to a recent CIPD conference.
April 22 2011 - A half of the participants in an online survey conducted for Globoforce think that employee performance reviews do not provide
accurate appraisals of their work.
April 22 2011 - Qantas has been threatened with 'a strong industrial campaign' if it does not take workers' demands seriously.
April 20 2011 - New research shows that jobless Americans face discrimination unrelated to their skills or
to ways in which they lost their previous jobs.
March 16 2011 - Badly paid, poorly supported, or short term jobs
can be as harmful as being without a job.
March 16 2011 - The notion of a 'lost generation' of young jobless people is simplistic, according to the latest Work Audit report on official labour market statistics "Getting the measure of youth unemployment"
from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
March 12 2011 - A recently published study indicates that honesty pays off for job applicants.
January 19 2011 - Successive Governments have seen public sector HR as either a cost to be managed or a means of dealing
with redundancies, but not as a crucial strategic function, according to a recent CIPD report.
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