I was referred, by one on my team, to a recent thread in HR space on the theme of 'Big ideas in HR'.
Naturally I was curious to find out what had been written. I must say I was quite disappointed with the reponses. Some contributors should get out more!
Here's a few not only doing the rounds in thought leadership but have already begun to cross-over into organisation application:
Strategic Human Capital Management (Vol 1 No 1 2007 & Vol 2 No 1 2008)
HR Function 2.0 (Brave New HR World) (Vol 1 No 1&2 2007)
Performance based employee engagement (Vol 1 No 1&2, 2007; Vol 2 No 1 2008 and Vol 3 No 1 forthcoming)
Evidence based Management/Leadership (Vol 2 No 1 2008)
Human Capital Reporting (Vol 1 No 3 2007)
Real HR Transformation (Vol 1 No 3 2007)
Human Capital Management Intelligence (Vol 2 No 1 2008)
Organisation Engagement (Vol 1 No 2 2007)
Other articles relating to all of these can be found at either (a) Journal of AHCM, or (b) ISHCM.
If that fails to light your fire then I would suggest new insights into topics related to people management include:
Behavioural economics (and neuroscience)
Analytics and decision-making; and the role of everyday probability (decision theory)
The continuing talent management debate
White collar deception and fraud causes and forensics
I've mentioned evidence based management already but its a potentially large area and its at the heart of what we do/stand for - I trust that HR isn't in danger of missing the boat again!
There's also evidence-based ethics (includes elements of philosophy but that's not new) and its role in decision-making and culture which we are currently developing as a cross-hybrid as well!
For those of you who want to really push the boat out there's the heuristic/predictive thingy related to analytics and decison-making (see above) and its organisational application (which is where we're at)
Of course there's always the new 12-month part-time HCMI qualification to learn about these.
So no big ideas? Have a read and let me know.
It s not that we lack big ideas in HR we just don't seem to know them and apply them in large numbers.
Enjoy......
