HR Tech Weekly: Episode #289: Stacey Harris and John Sumser

Stacey and John discuss the upcoming Virtual HR Tech event and Prezi introduces dynamic video teaching tools as education moves online.
 

Why Less is More with Policies

Topics: Editorial Advisory Board, Heather Bussing, HRExaminer, by Heather Bussing
“If you need a screwdriver, don’t use a mallet. The more comprehensive the policy, the less flexibility there is to deal with people. Pretty soon, the plan defeats the purpose.” - Heather Bussing
 

Employee Engagement Is About To Get Much More Difficult

Employee engagement is at an all-time high while 30 million Americans are out of work. What’s that about? F1000 corporate executive and start-up CEO Jason Lauritsen shares his analysis.
 

The HR Product Manager in The Emerging HR Data Department – Conclusion

Current intelligent tools and AI in HR Technology default to a view that the future is just the past plus a little more; that tomorrow is just more yesterday. Then there’s the idea of assessing group intelligence and how that could evolve to include machines as members of human organizations, and finally, there are limits of specialized AI in HR that we must understand and manage.
 

The HR Product Manager in The Emerging HR Data Department

“It’s the inherent benefits of a unified data asset, coupled with reduced costs and increased employee satisfaction that will drive the emergence of a new role: The HR Product Manager.” - John Sumser
 

HRExaminer v10.94

A new era in HR management will evolve over the next two to five years. Read more from John Sumser in, The Emerging HR Data Department.



On this week’s HR Tech Weekly: Stacey and John have a far-ranging conversation about the state of HR Tech and the reality of living and working in what we’ll call “The United Nations of COVID.”



Dr. Todd Dewett writes, “You cannot choose civility over candor. Civility is vital, but without candor it is useless.” Civility vs. Candor - It’s not an either/or Equation.



Can Your Team Recover from Workplace Drama? People’s lives and sanity depend on how you handle things. So does your company’s bottom line. So taking care of yourself as you move through the drama is the most important thing. Heather Bussing offers some good advice.



The world we want is simple and controllable. Technology is not. Heather Bussing explores the intersection of Time and People and Technological Change.



 

HR Tech Weekly: Episode #288: Stacey Harris and John Sumser

Stacey and John have a far-ranging conversation about the state of HR Tech and the reality of living and working in what we’ll call “The United Nations of COVID.”
 

The Emerging HR Data Department

A new era in HR management will evolve over the next two to five years. What we’re talking about here is the emergence of a new set of analytics-driven data-based elements of the HR department. Read more in, The Emerging HR Data Department.
 

Can Your Team Recover from Workplace Drama?

Heather Bussing asks, “Can a workplace recover from discrimination or harassment or whistleblower drama?” It seems that second chances are never evenly distributed and resentments have a long half-life. What can HR do?
 

Time and People and Technological Change

Technology changes all the time but people don’t change at the same rate as technology. It’s way easier to tweak an algorithm. It is expensive and demoralizing when the software that’s supposed to help us just becomes the work.