According to very public revelations this week, even friendly nations are using technology to spy on each other. This goes to show how even stunning technological advances have their downsides.
Do you remember the war for talent? Everyone fought to attract the few candidates around; criteria were relaxed and the emphasis switched from ‘selection’ to ‘attraction’. With the recession, things...
Living in the iPad, Twitter and texting world, nobody can be unaware of the power of contemporary technology. Theodore George Paraskevakos first patented the concept of combining intelligence, data...
The move to globalisation has not been led by a representative range of global companies; it has been led largely by US and, to a lesser extent, European companies, each of whom have either acquired...
The recession has focused minds on the importance of individual performance and many organisations have learnt that 1950’s style, ‘keep it simple, stupid’ performance management processes did nothing...
Organisations spend inordinate amounts of time designing and redesigning rating scales, but the goal of achieving objective and equitable assessments continues to elude them.
HR software as a service (SaaS}, accessible through the ‘cloud’, has certainly opened up access to HR technology. However, I’m not convinced that this really addressed our core HR challenges; have we...
