HRExaminer v8.01

“If we listen to the rhetoric, the function of HR is progressing nicely along the path to being recognized as a strategic business partner within organizations and a critical player in the overall corporate cycle. In my experience the rhetoric doesn’t match the reality.” Read Neil McCormick’s article, My three wishes for HR and business in 2017.


Joe Gerstandt says that if you cannot settle on clear, concise, and logical definitions of diversity and inclusion you will only truly benefit from them by accident. Read, Different Kinds of Difference.


Employment Branding is an old, old story. Here’s how John Sumser was talking about it in late 2000. Start with From The Vault: Employment Branding 1 of 2 and then finish with Part 2.


This week on Episode 102 of HR Tech Weekly: SAP Analyst Update, Talemetry HealthcareSource Announce Partnership, DOL issues final rule on city retirement programs, “So What Kind of Performance Review Do You Want, Anyway?,” and Gartner predicts future of personal data in smart cities.


On episode 103 of HR Tech Weekly Stacey and John host the year-end show on notable HR Tech news, acquisitions, mergers, funding, and The Top 5 Ways Work Changed in 2016.


Chris Bruce is the managing director and co-founder of Thomsons Online Benefits. Chris led the development of Thomsons Online Benefits very first benefits administration technology platform, Darwin. He is also a patron of the charity JustAid. Listen to Chris Bruce on HRExaminer Radio.


Rounding out the first issue of 2017 we have Episode 2 of HRx Big Ideas Radio where John talks with Alise Cortez, PhD about Finding Meaning in Work.
 

From The Vault: Employment Branding 2 of 2

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Employment Branding is an old, old story. Here’s part two on how we were talking about it in late 2000. – John Sumser
 

From The Vault: Employment Branding 1 of 2

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Employment Branding is an old, old story. Here’s how we were talking about it in late 2000. – John Sumser
 

My three wishes for HR and business in 2017

Topics: HR Trends, HRExaminer, Neil McCormick, by Neil McCormick
Over the course of traveling to 18 countries in the pursuit of better HR practices in 2016, Neil McCormick has developed a perspective on where things stand and three wishes for HR and business in 2017.
 

Different Kinds of Difference

Topics: HRExaminer, Joe Gerstandt, by Joe Gerstandt
Diversity means difference. Rather than continuing to copy and paste hollow and lazy phrases such as “we celebrate and embrace the rich diversity…,” we can consider that difference shows up in a lot of different ways and we need to understand what kinds of difference have value to us and why.
 

HRExaminer v7.48

The long awaited time for a low cost SMB wellness platform may be at hand. Oliver Ryan stops by from his post as founder and CEO of Count It Labs, where his team connect wearable tracking devices and apps to power community fitness challenges in the workplace. Read more in his article, Wellness As a Service: Coming To Your Small Business Soon.


John Sumser marvels at Workday’s latest release: the Learning Module. Learning Module provides the means to create, deliver, and track learning material that is intimately coupled with workflow. Each employee can receive just the right amount of content just exactly where it is needed. Read more in, Workday Learning Q and A.


This week on Episode 101 of HR Tech Weekly: Mercer To Acquire Thomsons Online Benefits, Cornerstone OnDemand Said to Mull Sale Under Activist Pressure, Dynamic Signal gets $25M led by Microsoft’s VC to replace the company bulletin board, IBM’s Rometty to urge Trump to support worker retraining, and Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away From Coding Schools.


Leela Srinivasan is chief marketing officer at Lever, a San Francisco-based hiring software company that aims to transform the way companies find, engage, and recruit top talent. Listen to Leela Srinivasan talk about her obsession with talent acquisition and digital marketing on HRExaminer Radio.


Jeanne Meister and Kevin Mulcahy work at the consulting firm Future Workplace. John sits down with Kevin and Jeanne to discuss how they assist organizations in re-inventing the workplace. Jeanne Meister and Kevin Mulcahy are on our first episode of HRExaminer Big Ideas Radio.
 

Workday Learning Q and A

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Over the past 90 days or so, I’ve been marveling at Workday’s latest important release: the Learning Module. My sense is that it provides revolutionary capabilities that make it possible to radically reimagine many of the Talent Management functions by positioning them as learning.
 

Wellness As a Service: Coming To Your Small Business Soon

Topics: HRExaminer, Oliver Ryan, by Oliver Ryan
“Wellness” is a powerfully dull catchphrase for a number of different types of programs. “We want to do these things,” says a typical SMB HR manager. “But it’s a major headache. I’d love for someone to just take it off my plate.”
 

HRExaminer v7.47

Topics: HR Technology, HRExaminer, John Sumser, Radio, Tom Janz, Weekly, by John Sumser
We introduce Tom Janz as a member of our Editorial Advisory Board with his article, John, You Ignorant #$X!&. Tom is a leading thinker in I/O psychology and predictive analytics. Tom takes John Sumser to task for the opinions John laid out in “Predictive What?” a couple of weeks ago. Above all, HRExaminer’s utility as an industry analyst firm comes from the diversity of opinion we deliver. We’d rather that our deliverables make you think more and be certain less. Read, John, You Ignorant #$X!&.

Critical thinking depends on not drinking a steady flow of ‘your own champagne’ (or drinking your own bathwater, or eating your own dog food). It depends on being willing to examine your own assumptions. John Sumser has, New Rules For HR, Old Rules For Politics.

It’s Episode 100 of HR Tech Weekly! Zenefits penalized $7 million in California for insurance licensing violations, European Commission clears the way for Microsoft-LinkedIn deal, Slack and Google announce partnership, Mercer Acquires Sirota Consulting, and Outdated 401(k) Rules Are Shortchanging Americans.

Oliver Ryan is the Founder and CEO of CountIT and a long time digital media entrepreneur. Listen to Oliver Ryan talk about the leading edge of corporate wellness on HRExaminer Radio.

Daniel Chait is CEO & co-founder of Greenhouse. Daniel has been a technology entrepreneur in New York for nearly 20 years. Daniel Chait is on HRExaminer Radio.
 

New Rules For HR, Old Rules For Politics

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Very little has been demonized as intensely as Saul Alinsky‘s “Rules for Radicals.“ From what I can tell, there really isn’t a political slant to Alinsky’s theory. These things are true regardless of your political persuasion (like Machiavelli). With that in mind, I wanted to offer the list of Alinsky’s principles. They are worth a read, I promise.