HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. Without the right skills, employers and employees will struggle to be agile in the future. Power Skills. It is said that soft skills are the new ‘power skills.’

Trends 116

Trends Agility Bottom-up Attrition 116

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Fortunately, today’s business leaders have numerous technologies and solutions available in order to effectively manage and integrate their entire enterprise.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. Our ways of measuring success are reductive and backward-looking.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Historically, business schools have so far been through two waves.

Education 15

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

When Frederick Taylor published his pioneering principles of scientific management in 1912, the repetitive and mundane nature of most jobs required employees to think as little as possible. So how can managers do a better job of fostering learnability in the workplace? We suggest starting with three things: Select for it.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Open-book Scientific Management 8