You can’t throw a shoe across the average HR office these days without hitting a couple self-proclaimed organizational development experts. But what exactly is organizational development and what does it have to do with human resources? Organizational development emerged from studies of human relationships and their impacts on organizational performance in the 1930s. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found that the organization itself tended to influence how people behaved and performed. Designing …
Let’s go ahead and be honest for a moment, okay? It’s a no-brainer that no one is going to love the department that has to say no to vacation time or unapproved expenses. And HR gets hit both ways on hiring… current staff are convinced the new hires are all incompetent, and job candidates all believe the interviews are stacked against them. But that’s just the run-of-the-mill stuff, the cost …
Under the COVID-19 Paradigm, HR Pros are Feeling the Pressure of Change and Working Harder than Ever
Nobody in any HR department in America is going to be able to slack off ever again, or at least that’s how it feels right now… Okay, let’s be fair; maybe slacking off is not the right choice of words for teams with a reputation for always being on-task and always stepping up to do the heavy lifting. But ask yourself: did human resources ever get as much done in …
Professional development should be an important part of any HR professional’s short- and long-term goals. And if you hold a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), HR Certification Institute, or International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA) credential, professional development will be absolute requirement for maintaining your designation. But your professional development efforts should by no means begin and end with maintaining your HR credential. This is because the …
When you get right down to it, human resources is really all about solving problems. Some of them you’re responsible for solving even before they happen… putting together payroll and benefits systems that make sure employees get paid correctly and on-time, and making healthcare and other services available to employees and just a couple things that fit this description. But as you would expect whenever a big group of people …
Let’s go ahead and be honest for a moment, okay? It’s a no-brainer that no one is going to love the department that has to say no to vacation time or unapproved expenses. And HR gets hit both ways on hiring… current staff are convinced the new hires are all incompetent, and job candidates all believe the interviews are stacked against them. But that’s just the run-of-the-mill stuff, the cost …