HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

At the heart of this organizational transformation lies the critical role of Human Resources (HR) professionals. By thoroughly analyzing the change, HR can better anticipate and address any concerns or resistance that may arise, as well as identify the resources and support that will be needed to facilitate a successful transition.

Management 64

Management Agility Training Policies 64

Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

Consider, as examples, the following five jobs that are made more effective with a change management approach – a structured, systemic way to transition the elements of an organization and the people in it from their current state to one that brings about desired results. Human Resources.

Six Sigma 124

Six Sigma Management Human Resources Project 124

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In Simple Sabotage , authors Robert Galford, Bob Frisch and Cary Greene explain that in January 1944 the OSS (Office of Strategic Services—predecessor of the CIA) published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual to train resistance members in the art of sabotage. Sabotage by CC: Everyone CC: Everyone.

Committee 150

Committee Tactics Reference Resistance 150

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: the differentiation promoting and hiring executives and managers are looking for in potential candidates.

Human Resources 58

Human Resources Open-book Competitive Advantage Resistance 58

LDRLB

OCTOBER 5, 2012

For example, Four Seasons Hotels puts candidates through five separate interviews. What I appreciated the most about this book is that Parker resisted the urge to stuff culture into a Maxwell-ian “Three Keys to Fixing Your Culture” type summary. Generating a culture is an art, not a science. New York: McGraw Hill.

Books 115

Books Review Competitive Advantage Hotels 115

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Zappos is one example. Trader Joe’s is another example. There are many examples of healthy culture, and unfortunately, many more examples of unhealthy ones. It is not an afterthought or a nice-to-have plan that they delegate to human resources to develop. percent to Kroger’s 0.2 Be open and honest.

How To 111

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 111

Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

They support change projects throughout the organization, by acting as internal consultants or by providing the resources departments need to implement change themselves. Some change management teams are formed within existing departments, such as human resources, organization development or effectiveness, or project management.

Succession 132

Succession Management Project Tools 132

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2012

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: the opportunities to ascend into management given today’s economic conditions. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

Management 50

Management Human Resources Open-book Competitive Advantage 50

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 9, 2012

At Software Advice , for example, Marketing employees recorded video tutorials for various tools we use. For HR, Resistance is Futile There are bound to be hiccups when opening channels for employees to exchange ideas and information in real-time. It’s also effective to get your employees involved.

Technology 54

Technology Software Tools Reputation 54

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges a company can face is changing people’s behavior — getting them to collaborate and be humble, for example, or put the company’s long-term interests first. From there, we guided people through an online library of materials, centered on videos showing good and bad examples of each behavior.

Resistance 8

Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. Consider, for example, the bathtub. Human resources'

Company 8

Company Human Resources Human Capital Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

For example, just 3% of leadership positions were held by women in Pakistan, but numbers stood at 38% in Ukraine. Authorities are more likely to put forth quotas with weak or no sanctions, and the citizenry maybe more resistant, preferring to let capable women rise through the ranks organically. Cultural context matters.

Strategy 8

Strategy Human Resources Diversity Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. There was lots of resistance. Another example: In the U.S., But not at IBM.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 18, 2009

It is a very perceptive post and one that cites a clear example of how time and money can be wasted because people have worked on the wrong problem. In her blog post, The Problem with Problem Solving , Susan Mazza talks about the importance of identifying the real issue when problem solving. So, how do you stay in “O”?

Schein 40

Schein Blog Learning-by-Doing Delegation 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2017

For example, a trainee might set a goal to challenge inappropriate comments about marginalized groups when overhearing them in the future (in combination with receiving information about how best to handle such situations). So, as you design or tweak your company’s diversity training program, keep these findings in mind.

Diversity 8

Diversity Training Resistance Comparison 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

When human learning slows down, people tend to lose creative and problem solving capacity. E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. These are just a few examples.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, so few computer and information systems managers existed in 1980 that data used here did not record this occupation. Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Several positions, however, remain dominated by men.

Management 9

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

That’s because cyber criminals are opportunists who seek the path of least resistance. For example, if an organization sees an IP address from a country where there are no employees, it is likely that an unauthorized user is on their network. Recognizing Irregularities.

Asset Management 8

Asset Management Software Licensing Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper. Who could resist? For example, Uber promises to be safest, but its partner drivers and their cars are not subject to the safety rules that govern taxis. Look more carefully, and there’s reason to pause.

Hotels 8

Hotels Price Tactics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Organizational structures and cultures, for example, should be as distinctive as the strategies they support and make possible, which in turn depend upon the organization’s long-term purpose. Enterprise leaders are not people leaders in the traditional sense; they are the system architects of their company’s long-term success.

Company 8

Company Long-term System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The partner replied, “Human resource management.”. Off to San Francisco I went to be a human resource management associate at a Big Six consulting firm. One of the best examples of I’ve seen of this was a sales rep for a major daily newspaper. My 22-year-old self thought, How cool is that ?

Advertising 8

Advertising Human Resources Consultative Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Do we go along to get along or do we resist? This could entail speaking to your supervisor, or if the dispute involves her or him, speaking to that person’s superiors, an ombudsman, or someone in human resources. How we address such disputes can have serious consequences for our organization and ourselves. Broadcast no.

Tactics 8

Tactics Shaw Ethics Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In a tragic example, at a Dutch energy supplier that used rigorous, transparent safety standards to deal with toxic waste, employees came to work one day to find the company’s safety officer dead of a workplace accident. Too much transparency can spark resistance. Note that fairness doesn’t mean treating everyone the same.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market. Invest real money.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

All that is true, or least should be so, but companies are also forever having to reinvent themselves — IBM, Nucor, and Wipro bear only the faintest resemblance to their founding forms — and boards ought to be at the forefront of those transformations, not rearguard or resistant.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. Many software developers at GE were concerned about reliability and security, which led some of them to resist moving some of the capabilities to the “cloud.”

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. Their number one answer: employee resistance. workers over those in poorer countries. We asked owners why not.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

For example, the smaller an executive’s original family, the less effort he made in building wide relations with the executive team. Using his chief human resources officer as his adviser, he started to regard his team as a business unit rather than a family, and engaged with them in a more businesslike manner when necessary.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Micromanagement CEO Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

This sharply contrasts with typical legacy reactions to more comprehensive testing or innovation rollouts, i.e., resistance and confusion. For example, one startnership pilot successfully got a business unit to write a simple but powerful analytic through its API.

KPI 8

KPI Innovation Ries Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

While leaders who do not make any pretense of creating and implementing a succession plan can be challenging, leaders who pretend to be on board with succession but who are actively or passively resisting the transition process can be even more difficult.

Planning 8

Planning Succession Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures. Roivant’s second innovation initiative was to forcefully inject an openness to fresh thinking and outside practices.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

They have become such a deeply entrenched part of life at top schools that these companies and their recruiting practices have been referred by students and administrators as “the deluge,” “the onslaught,” and even “the path of least resistance.” ’s most elite universities.

EPS 8

EPS Diversity Banking Reputation 8