Debunking the latest “trends” in HR: What you really need to know about truth versus hype
With Alec Levenson
Research and Insights Archive
Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
Available Content
EEN Session: Talent vs. technology: What does talent really mean, and how can we better leverage technology?
Talent vs. technology: What does talent really mean, and how can we better leverage technology?
Leaders: Sharna Wiblen and Alec Levenson
EEN Session: HR technology purchasing and talent decisions: Who gets to decide how we act on talent?
Thursday, February 24, 2022
HR technology purchasing and talent decisions: Who gets to decide how we act on talent?
Leaders: Sharna Wiblen and Alec Levenson
EEN Session: Investing in people vs. automation: What do we need to consider?
This session addresses the challenges of evaluating human capital investments vs. investments in other ways of doing the work, including the comparisons of: 1) Human capital competencies vs. machine capabilities; and 2) Workforce performance vs. machine performance.
EEN Session: What’s Next for Employee Engagement?
Through global data trends and themes this session will focus upon: 1) The effect on employee engagement during the pandemic; 2) Which areas of employee engagement have changed and become more important?; and 3) the impact on different types of workers.
EEN Session: Increasing Compensation Costs and the Great Resignation
In this session, we will review these recent developments in the market for talent from both a historical and current-day perspective.
EEN Session: Loneliness: It’s Not Just Personal
In this session, we will explore and discuss the effects of loneliness on workplace effectiveness, the multiplicity of risk factors for workplace loneliness, and future organizational considerations to improve workforce sustainability and effectiveness.
EEN Session: Cracking the Culture Code
This session will explore learnings, examples and case studies: How to measure culture through quantitative behavior diagnostic and analytics; How did workplace culture help organizations navigate or hinder their response to the pandemic; What are the behavioral changes required to align culture with strategy
EEN Session: An HR Operating Model for the Digital Era
This session presents a new approach for designing both HR and People Analytics operating models which address current operating limitations.
EEN Session: Social Capital and Hybrid Work
This session the group will discuss three key areas companies need to address in return-to-work and hybrid work plans to maintain and increase productivity: (a) developing the “weak ties” that facilitate collaboration, (b) online team formation, and (c) supporting new employees.
EEN Session: The upsides and downsides of social media-type collaboration platforms at work
The history of knowledge management systems is littered with attempts to capture information in online repositories which are infrequently used. And collaboration across space and org silos has always been a challenge. Recent adoption at work of social media-type platforms to solve both collaboration and knowledge management challenges has created a new way information can be exchanged and housed. Can these new internal platforms be better at promoting collaboration and knowledge management? Are there potential downsides in terms of team and interpersonal dynamics?
EEN Session: Building an evidence-based culture
Since the rise of “business analytics” there has been a lot of talk about “data-based culture”. But this creates a schism between “data people” and “the rest” leading to unrealistic demands for data and expectations of data analysis. Perhaps the time has come to instead emphasise an evidence-based culture where organizational decision-making is informed by insights from social science research combined with pragmatic management experience. This session will explore how to begin to build an evidence-based culture, and transform away from a non-evidence-based culture.