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Choose human capital substance over HR style: Evaluate intent, not just the design
The problem is that HR too often focuses on the programs as designed, not whether they really address what the business needs. Three examples illustrate this point: compensation, leadership development and competency models, and training and development.
HR Perfect Processes are the Enemy of What’s Good for the Business
a.k.a. Are You Helping to Improve Strategy Execution Where It’s Most Needed?
The Right Way to Scorecard HR (Don’t Focus on Turnover and Safety)
The balanced scorecard has popularized the idea that organizations should regularly measure and monitor key metrics about people.
Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational Effectiveness
More than ever, data drives decisions in organizations–and we have more data, and more ways to analyze it, than ever. Yet strategic initiatives continue to fail as often as they did when computers ran on punch cards. Economist and research scientist Alec Levenson says we need a new approach.
ROI falls short for evaluating human capital and HR: Alec Levenson’s latest post on LinkedIn
In my previous post I discussed why ROI falls short as a tool for making business decisions. Here I address why ROI doesn’t live up to the promise it’s supposed to have for evaluating human capital and HR.
Evolution of HR Leadership, 8/11/15
Ian Ziskin led a conversation about the evolution of leadership and of HR.
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