Putting employees in control of their personal development
Organisations invest enormous amounts of time, effort and money in the personal development of employees, yet results are patchy at best. Is it time to hand control back to the employees themselves? The process of personal development, with its objectives, support structures, training tools, feedback sessions and reviews can be painful. Even mature businesses with […]
Encouraging HR resource best practice – five tips to self-service success
We recently conducted research into the current state of employee service in the UK’s HR departments and discovered some worrying results when it came to the additional strain being put on an already stretched resource. According to our research, HR decision makers are spending more than a third of their day on average – that’s […]
What are invisible workers and why are they putting your information at risk?
Research[1] from Iron Mountain suggests that close to two thirds of employees in Europe are now able to work from home for all or part of the time. This ranges from once every two to three months for 3% of employees to full-time home-working for 15%. In each case the picture will be a similar […]
Top 10 security reminders for the post-summer period
Now firmly into autumn and back to normal, it’s time to review your company’s cyber security practices after the summer break has been and gone. Although a lot of people have returned back to the office, in today’s 24/7 connected world most people were still checking email and in work mode from their sun loungers. […]
Employment law and the Cloud – all you need to know
Increasingly HR managers are using Cloud-based HR systems as a cost-effective and efficient way to manage staff and data across the world. But what employment law considerations should HR managers be aware of when thinking about and operating such a system? To understand this, it is helpful to know why Cloud-based systems differ from more […]
Using technology to cultivate a culture of learning and development
Why go with self-service? Technology has been one of the great enablers in this era of employee empowerment. Self-service HR systems allow employees to carry out a range of functions that previously they would have been reliant on the HR and payroll departments or their manager to perform. Holidays can be booked, benefits chosen and […]
Interview: Mick Collins, Principal Consultant, SuccessFactors
Mick Collins is the Principal Consultant for Workforce Analytics & Planning at SuccessFactors, an SAP Company. In his role, Mick leads a global team and provides consulting services to multiple clients including Fortune 500 firms in the retail, publishing and consumer products sectors. He has extensive experience in public speaking and regularly participates at some […]
How the Millennial Generation is transforming the workplace for the better
This article was written by Prithvi Shergill, Chief Human Resources Officer at HCL Technologies. Post, Pin, Tweet, Webinar, Video Conference, Tele-presence, Social – these are some of the new business terms that we are increasingly seeing heard in our workplace. Gone is the static, paper-based, boardroom-centric world of work. In its place, a new social, collaborative […]
Interview: Shawn Farshchi, CEO of Saba Software
Shawn Farshchi is CEO of Saba Software, a provider of learning and HR software. Shawn has over 30 years' experience leading, driving and managing technological, organisational and cultural change across many different business environments. Before joining Saba, he was COO for IBM subsidiary Coremetrics. 1. How are the expectations of the client evolving when it comes to […]
Talent Management: The market landscape
It’s talent that’s the challenge, never more so than in the middle of the worst set of economic conditions since the 1920s. And that challenge is only going to get tougher with pay rises that are flat – or non-existent – taking away one of the most obvious motivational incentives. According to the Deloitte 2013 […]
Talent Management: vendor selection – analyst perspective
The Talent Management sector is rapidly consolidating as the leading HCM software vendors jostle for position in the wider market. The rise of newcomers such as Workday have put the old guard of SAP and Oracle et al on an unaccustomed back foot and racing to shore up their positions in the market. All vendors […]
HR and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – it’s all about balance
This article was written by Simon Meager, Managing Director of Footprint Media. Bring your own device (BYOD) programmes spark many a conversation in and outside the IT department. It’s a growing trend that clearly identifies the consumerisation of IT, in which consumer preference – rather than corporate direction – drives the decision on what technology […]
Blog: how not to ruin a team in 10 conference calls
Working in virtual and ad-hoc teams is on the rise. Here at Brother, employees work in changing groups that often involve people in Japan, the States and all over Europe – some from within Brother, some from external suppliers, consultants and partners. Over the last 10 years, remote collaboration has usually been achieved through […]
Technology – HCM Cloud customers line up to make their choice
Analysts continue to cite the Cloud HCM market as the great battlefront for business applications in 2013. With Oracle rolling out its Fusion HCM offering, SAP putting its corporate weight behind SuccessFactors, Workday causing pain to the traditional HR powerhouses and Salesforce.com pitching its Rypple-flavoured offering, there’s certainly enough activity among the vendors to assume […]
Mid-Staffordshire: a challenge to HR to show its mettle
The Francis Report into the scandal of Stafford Hospital needs to be read thoroughly by all senior managers for the lessons to be learned about executive responsibility. The inquiry chaired by Robert Francis QC was set up to assess the wider lessons to be learnt by the NHS from the Staffordshire scandal where up to […]
Technology: stopping employees going rogue
It seems that stories of employees ‘going rogue’ are always in the press – but how can companies stop them before they make the headlines? Do you even know if you have a rogue employee? If you’re a large multi-national organisation, the laws of probability aren’t in your favour. Add to the mix a person […]
Social media powers bullying in the workplace
More than half of adults believe privacy in the workplace has been eroded with the proliferation of social media. According to a new study by AVG Technologies, mis-use of social media infiltrates the workplace with often negative effects on employees’ privacy, forcing many to switch off or limit their use of social networking sites. […]
Technology and the changing face of work
Stephen Walker dares to gaze into the future and predict the next working revolution and the skills that will be needed. The human race’s story is one of the development of technology. From the discovery of fire and the flint-cutting edge to the iPhone and 3D printing, technological developments have changed the daily tasks of […]
Technology: the shocking truth about HCM Cloud chief Lars Dalgaard
"What we’re seeing is a shocking uptake, extremely fast!" So declares the never knowingly under-enthusiastic Lars Dalgaard, former CEO and founder of Cloud HCM firm SuccessFactors and now Cloud chief at SAP. Dalgaard stepped up to his current role last year after the German giant bought out SuccessFactors as part of its own push into […]
The changing market for HCM applications
The market for HR applications is in a state of flux as a wealth of systems start coming up for renewal and cloud computing begins to enter the mainstream. Cloud offerings – where users pay a subscription to access software over the internet instead of licencing and running it in-house at a hefty capital cost […]
