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Is Your HR Department Overworked?
HR department is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of employee data – what we call the transactional role of HR. They manage employee personal files, leave and attendance, salary data, promotions, travel and expenses, benefits enrollments, timesheets and performance records. All this data has to be combined together in various ways, queries answered, reports … Read more
Does Your HR Policy Support ‘Same-Sex Marriage’?
Did you hear about ‘Celebrate Pride’ tool – a photo editing tool by Facebook? Many of you (including HR managers) may have even used this tool, without reading the fine print in your own HR policy (whether it is pro or against LGBT). Facebook’s idea was to turn your profile picture into rainbow flag (with … Read more
Top 7 posts in the HR space ( August 25th – August 31st)
We know that being an HR manager can be particularly taxing – from outlining workplace rules to preventing the next discrimination lawsuit. Wouldn’t you just love it if all the latest in HR news was condensed into a capsule for a quick read? Help us, help you stay updated. Subscribe to our blog posts for the latest … Read more
Data and tech-driven HR: Is it future perfect?
Do you like being told how to behave? No, not even me. That’s why, in almost every organization, it is very easy to find critics of HR. Harvard Business Review very nicely captured general people’s perception about the HR practices in its July/August 2015 edition, with a very PROVOCATIVE HEADLINE: “It’s Time to BLOW UP … Read more
Performance Review Process Demystified
Performance review is an important activity for all organizations and HR either implements a new performance review process or improves the existing process. In this procedure, HR has many queries on the performance review best practices. In my earlier blog Competencies across performance appraisals, I had analyzed the competency usage in existing performance appraisals. Analyzing … Read more
HR Department – a whipping boy for failing businesses
When a business is failing who do you blame – and is any of it HR’s fault? This topic is trending on LinkedIn currently and the discussion is apparently yielding interesting, and useful insights about HR practices. The whole discussion looks biased with two old clichés. HR controls the hiring process, and is also responsible … Read more
Top 7 posts in the HR space ( August 19th – August 24th)
We know that being an HR manager can be particularly taxing – from outlining workplace rules to preventing the next discrimination lawsuit. Wouldn’t you just love it if all the latest in HR news was condensed into a capsule for a quick read? Help us, help you stay updated. Subscribe to our blog posts for the latest … Read more
Amazon’s Work Culture – A Classic Case of Mismanagement of ‘Human Resource Data’?
Last weekend, an inside story of Amazon, published by The New York Times, stormed the Internet. The story led to a huge outcry on social media. The outcry was so loud that Amazon’s PR team could not handle it. Mr. Jeff Bezos, CEO of the company, immediately issued a memo. He urged his employees to … Read more
How to Baseline your Goal Setting Process?
An excellent article on Forbes Why You Should Be Writing Down Your Goals says that most of us don’t have a clear idea on how to write goals and hence don’t spend time in writing them down. There are over 84% employees who do not write goals and hence there is a significant loss of … Read more
Top 7 posts in the HR space ( August 12th – August 18th)
We know that being an HR manager can be particularly taxing – from outlining workplace rules to preventing the next discrimination lawsuit. Wouldn’t you just love it if all the latest in HR news was condensed into a capsule for a quick read? Help us, help you stay updated. Why Online Onboarding Is Better For … Read more
