HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kristen Ludgate, who leads 3M’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the “15% culture” philosophy that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. Senior Vice President – Human Resources, 3M. COURAGE UNDER CHANGE.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Fifteen minutes before I saw this banner the operations & human resources managers were telling me about their individual incentive program to increase output. What bromides are posted across the walls, and in your performance review, BUT the how the work gets done and the reward system are different.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We are slowly witnessing the resurgence of Human Resource Management, with companies actively investigating how HR teams can contribute to business growth. For years, HR teams have largely been delegated to admin tasks and rote hiring activities, but there are innumerable ways by which HR can contribute to business success.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 12, 2020

You could award employees who complete the courses with certificates that can be inserted into their human resource (HR) file. To ensure better employee performance and prevent misunderstandings, communicate your expectations with your employees and allow them to make decisions. Keep Communications Open and Productive.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Summer 2013 Mood Tracker Report: Empowering Employees to Improve Performance. What employees really think of reviews and what they want. Do you wish you had more insight into your performance review process and how to make it more effective? How employees would fix reviews for greater effectiveness.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 14, 2020

and global workplace tracking, including interviews of employees and managers from 160 counties, interviews with leading economists and roundtable interviews with CHROs (Chief Human Resource Officers) from 300 of the world’s largest organizations. So, they then perceive that the whole performance management process is unfair.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. They ensure their people have access to both the financial and human resources they need to get the job done and cut them loose to do their thing. These leaders never micro-manage.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2019

and global workplace tracking, including interviews of employees and managers from 160 counties, interviews with leading economists and roundtable interviews with CHROs (Chief Human Resource Officers) from 300 of the world’s largest organizations. So, they then perceive that the whole performance management process is unfair.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

HRIS or Human Resource Information Systems, are critical aids for the HR team within any given organization. They allow HR professionals to master the roles and become familiar with the nuances of their workforce and its performance , allowing them to become even better at their jobs than ever before.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 12, 2017

One of the hottest trends in human resources over the past few years is to rethink the performance management process and abandon the forced ranking systems of old. You Must Treat Hyper Performers Differently. And, unlike a Bell curve, there aren’t an equivalent number of people above and below the mean.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

But cloud computing does represent an architectural shift in how these resources are stored and deployed. Each cloud server is located in a central data center, which is typically operated by a third party company and built on virtualized hardware. Software as a Service.

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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. Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. But not at IBM.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 31, 2010

They are also imposed to provide structure in organizational settings that support the work and build a broad framework within which individuals are free to operate and contribute. In general, rules are put in place to ensure personal safety and to keep things in balance. Some people are of the opinion that rules are made to be broken.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside. Without such clearly defined standardized work for the day-to-day operations manager, two things happen. First, systems revert to previous behaviors and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

For me, creating fluency means building and operating systems that are unimpeded by interests that do not serve the raison d’être of the organization. It is so easy to plug up the flow of authentic activity with non-essential or self-serving work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

What excited Sam was McGregor's clear and compelling articulation of the personnel (today, we say "human resources") policies in which he instinctively believed. Call centers, for example, know how many calls an operator handles per hour, the average time per call and how many sales were made or disputes resolved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

I’d argue that companies already know how to improve employee experience: All they have to do is apply to their HR practices the principles of customer experience design that their marketing and operations teams probably already use. Companies should design them to align with the priorities and differentiators of their brands.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

” But don’t let the conversation turn into a performance review. Over the course of her career, Tania Salgado-Nealous, vice president of human resources and operations at Vectorworks, the design software company, has had to tell many people that they’ve been passed over for promotions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

At one 170,000-employee big box retailer, linking the feedback systems would require approvals from three different senior executives, the CMO, the chief human resources officer, and the president of retail. The Common Myths About Performance Reviews, Debunked. The only person who could drive a linked system was the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Human Resources groups have many line responsibilities of their own, such as succession planning, setting pay scales, and selecting the benefits package. They also work with other departments to help hire and train the human capabilities they need. But performance assessment is completed by employees and managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2016

But amid these changes, how many organizations have ever taken a close look at how performance reviews actually operate in their own workplace, over the long term? My colleague Martin Conyon and I recently had the opportunity to take a deep dive to do just this , analyzing the performance appraisal data from a large U.S.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. What a Review Could Include: Among the components and professional specialties that could be represented in a performance review, per each branch on the Business Tree, include: Branch 1: Core business, core industry. External-Marketplace.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 27, 2012

” For weary leaders feeling beat up by engagement surveys, performance reviews, 360 and other feedback tools highlighting their deficiencies and suffering change fatigue, this book couldn’t come at a better time. Click on Strengths-Based Leadership Development System for details and to register.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 27, 2012

” For weary leaders feeling beat up by engagement surveys, performance reviews, 360 and other feedback tools highlighting their deficiencies and suffering change fatigue, this book couldn’t come at a better time. Click on Strengths-Based Leadership Development System for details and to register.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

” Daniel (not his real name) was a VP human resource manager at a Fortune 500 company. Managers conduct annual performance reviews that they log in a centralized system. The HR department keeps track of every promotion, while the operations department monitors which employees leave the organization.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

This company operates its democracy to the extent that: Employees set their own work schedules They don’t use the same workstation more than two days in a row so that no one really knows when they go to work or how long they stay. But what does a truly democratic workplace look like?

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