HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

From ensuring DEI initiatives in the workplace to helping the rest of the workforce with change management to keep up with the changing times, the presence of a Human Resources team is essential for the entire organization to thrive. Job cuts and reorganization aren’t the only aspects of the need for change management either.

Trends 109

Trends Efficiency Learning-by-Doing Tools 109

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

Human Resources 183

Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

Decentralization 130

Decentralization Construction Restructuring Tools 130

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2022

Who is responsible when corporate restructuring creates unacceptable levels of stress and unhappiness for employees?

Restructuring 13

Restructuring Stress Human Resources Resources 13

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

It can be used to identify the risks that workers face today, which should be acknowledged and recognized by both HR and management. Artificial intelligence is considered today to be the most creative and promising field for workforce management. Performance Management. People Analytics.

How To 111

How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

HR Digest

AUGUST 4, 2023

A Strategic Approach to Conflict Management To truly address office drama and create drama-free workplaces , HR professionals need to embrace a strategic approach to conflict management. HR professionals have a crucial role to play in creating drama-free workplaces by adopting a strategic approach to conflict management.

Construction 98

Construction Restructuring Mentor Self-aware 98

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

SAP SE Executive Board Member and Chief Human Resources Officer, Stefan Ries explains how he is utilizing AI and Big Data to advance HR analytics as the foundations for a successful global future. The HR Digest: What challenges and obstacles do you see Human Resources Management facing in the future?

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Welcome to the painful world of human resources where AI tools may take over work from professional hirers who are currently facing the axe. Companies are now restructuring with measures such as layoffs and hiring freezes as they enter the last phase of the boom-bust cycle. This trend isn’t new.

Engineering 64

Engineering Industry Software Tools 64

Rapid BI

MARCH 25, 2015

You have restructured to be as cost efficient as possible. Human Resources & Talent Management customer service minifig Training' You have introduced a new IT system to streamline your operations. You have implemented LEAN or other process based efficiency analysis strategies. […].

Training 28

Training Restructuring Human Resources Talent Management 28

HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Change is the only constant and agile HR appears to be the next evolutionary stage of human resources in an organization. Agile HR can be defined by its principles of responsiveness that encourage restructuring of work to facilitate immediate feedback, planning, and action. Let’s explore the concept in more detail.

Agility 59

Agility Short-term Reference Examples 59

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

This is a short-term aggravation, and though it may thrash earnings for the quarter or the year, it is not a restructuring of the marketplace. When I was a CEO, I managed to squirrel away a “rainy day” fund for nasty business blips. At best, they are managers. They’ve seen it before and they’ll see it again.

Short-term 232

Short-term Long-term Advertising Hammer 232

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online. The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

When I was a young product manager back in the ’70s, the only people I could talk to about brands were my colleagues in the marketing department and the advertising agency. Now my accountant, my lawyer, my portfolio manager and even my neighbour talk to me about brands. Human Resources. Search My Site. Leadership.

Magazine 100

Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. A manager that can provide this to their employees will develop a loyal and strong team. I have observed many firms attempt to create loyalty and.

Press Release 100

Press Release Motivation Discount PR 100

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience. The new economy has accelerated the need for change in the branding process. With the exception of niche, specialty, and some consumer technology markets, I see less and less of this in big business.

Brand 260

Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2010

The Hospital Human Resources Department had changed its name to The Employee Engagement Department. Each time I see that sign, I wonder what they might be doing differently now that they weren’t doing when they were called The Human Resources Department. And it started me thinking. Did they feel more energized and valued?

Survey 40

Survey Human Resources Blog Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

Managers in an up-or-out organization are expected to advance. It’s why companies like Colorcon and Deloitte are giving their performance management systems an overhaul. Our Senior Supply Managers shared process refinements for utilizing the Army’s digital property tracking system.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Operations Restructuring Conference 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. To get the "people" part of process improvement right, HR needs employees who can go toe-to-toe discussing operational changes with line managers.

Process 14

Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. There are several ways to restructure work either to require fewer skilled people or to get more flexible in deploying skills.

Skills 15

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 15

Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

How should organizations restructure and change in light of it? To enable this, businesses must shift to make talent mobility a core part of the traditional human resources function and consolidate the responsibilities for these different types of movement. ” -Brynne Kennedy. 4 Types of Talent Mobility.

Policies 104

Policies Trends Career Real Estate 104

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. The reason: a fundamental flaw in the management process that is supposed to renew brand health. The blemish is the abdication of brand attention by top management. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

Brand 168

Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes). The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

It''s not that troubled economies and disruptive innovations inherently shed more jobs than they create; it''s that ongoing global restructuring of markets makes temporary and/or part-time employment more attractive for more organizations. Economy Hiring Human resources' Underemployed assets are frequently undervalued assets.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Ignite managers’ passion to coach their employees. Historically, managers passed on knowledge, skills, and insights through coaching and mentoring. But in our more global, complex, and competitive world, the role of the manager has eroded. Managers are now overburdened with responsibilities.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

The fact is that Greece is monstrously inefficient as a manager of public services. The restructuring of ERT, Greece''s national radio and TV corporation, had been under discussion for a while but the unions and other entrenched interests had so far seen to it that the discussion had gone nowhere. It is past time.

Politics 8

Politics Restructuring Crisis McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But there are smarter, more humane approaches. Many cling to the idea that reducing staff is the fastest, easiest way to cut costs.

Company 21

Company Cost Public Relations Restructuring 21

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

I propose that we take a cue from other types of markets and create a Labor Market Maker — a team that proactively manages supply and demand. Ultimately, we'll need to look at ways of restructuring work to enable it to be accomplished in ways that fit evolving education and behaviors. How can the U.S.

Marketing 13

Marketing Restructuring McKinsey Education 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Innovation consultancies tend to have a preferred methodology for working with their clients, such as human centered design (also called ‘design thinking,’ popularized by IDEO, Continuum, Frog Design and others), Lean Start-up, or analytical models used by large management consulting firms.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a new partnership between UBS Wealth Management and Amazon allows some of UBS’s European wealth-management clients to ask Alexa certain financial and economic questions. Another area in which leaders will soon be relying on AI is in managing their human capital.

Consultative 8

Consultative Budgeting Advice Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. These advances will have also significantly increased the workload of more senior managers, keeping them working around the clock.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Culture, and how to build and sustain one, is one of the toughest challenges for managers, especially in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive organizations. How do you manage the evolution of your company’s culture, and hold on to what makes you great, even as you change and grow? Performance enablement.

Technology 8

Technology Company Tools Information 8