Entries from Guru tagged with 'human resources'
HR gets its own comic strip
Guru's attention has been diverted State-side by the launch of new comic book hitting the shelves of US newsagents. Super Human Resources seems the most unlikely title for a comic you are ever going to see, but details the antics of...
Sharing salary details always ends in tears
A recent post on the excellent Evil HR Lady blog struck a chord with Guru. For those of you unfamiliar with Evil HR Lady's work, she is a kind of human resources agony aunt. The Claire Rayner of HR, if...
'HR with Oomph' divides opinion
Personnel Today achieved great success with its recent campaign for "HR with Oomph", timed to coincide with the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development's (CIPD) Annual Conference and Exhibition in Harrogate. The magazine and its readers defined 'oomph' in the...
Guru not invited to blog league table
Blog aficionados will be well familar with the now-commonplace blogger tactic of creating blog league tables. Guru has (inexplicably) not yet been inducted into any of these human resources blog halls of fame, and now notes that his arch enemy...
CIPD Harrogate conference grows a fringe
Guru and his colleagues from Personnel Today are this week making their annual pilgrimage to the Chartered Instutute of Personnel & Development's (CIPD) Annual Conference and Exhibition in Harrogate. The CIPD is marketing this year's human resources 'extravaganza' as: ...the...
New twist to Facebook-at-work fears
Guru has rather enjoyed the recent debate questioning whether employers should ban Facebook in offices up and down the land. It brings a certain sense of deja vu and makes him feel even wiser than he already knows he...
Creative HR job titles stretch the imagination
Human resources is very clever at reinventing itself. In recent decades the function has evolved from welfare to personnel to human resources and beyond. And, of course, HR job titles have changed in line with this transformation. Doesn't HR just...
Catbert shows tougher side to human resources
Guru has previously examined how the human resources profession receives relatively little TV airtime. Flip Chart Fairt Tales takes on the debate this week, arguing that "very few television dramas are set in the sort of workplaces in which most...
Censors rate Guru blog suitable for all the family
If the Guru blog was a film, it would be a blockbuster. But what rating would it get from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) or the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)? Well, thanks to the people at...
HR offered new approach to talent management
Thanks to Disciple Colin for the following new talent management technique: Put 400 bricks in a room; then shut all your new employees in the room. Leave them alone and come back after six hours; then analyse the situation. •...
Unusual hobbyists crawl out from under Ceroc
Personnel Today 's news editor Mike Berry has put out a call to the HR profession to find out what people who work in human resources do in their spare time. Mike is particularly looking for unusual hobbies and strange...
Political correctness gone mad - HR style
Thanks to Disciple Anita for this contribution towards Guru's quest for the best HR jokes. It's not a joke, as such, but an amusing parable on the modern age. Memo From Human Resources Re Political Correctness It has come to...
Guru (nearly) aces new Ceridian HR quiz
Human resources service provider Ceridian - they of the highly amusing banana guard - this week sent Guru a copy of their latest HR e-newsletter, Ceridian Connection. The communication contained a link to the first edition of the Ceridian HR...
Who says human resources isn't glamorous?
This is the high-resolution, soft-focus photograph that accompanied a news release from Buckinghamshire County Council, which announced that Angela O'Connor side-kick Gill Hibberd, formerly director of HR and organisational development (and current Public Sector People Managers Association (PPMA) lead on...
Feminist protests at men-only membership club
It had to happen. The jealous feminists are trying to hijack Guru's HR Wild Hogs. Disciple Fleur wrote to Guru with the following: In these modern times I was astonished to read that women and young people are barred from...
When did phones and laptops become benefits?
An interesting question today from Disciple Stuart on the issue of new employee benefits packages. Stuart asks: I refer to a number of recent human resources job advertisements in Personnel Today. Is it now a trend to offer as part...
Putting the 'work' into work/life balance
For those of you who believe employees have too much life in their work/life balance, disciple Becks offers the following amendments to the terms and conditions of the contract of employment: FROM THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT Effective Immediately... SICK DAYS:...
HR is Far Far Away - in Shrek The Third
In response to Guru's blog post on the top HR characters in TV and film, disciple Kate has contributed the following: On taking my children to the cinema recently to see Shrek The Third, I was delighted to find that...
Comedian Colin supplies more HR jokes
The human resources jokes just keep on coming. Guru's plea for HR funnies was met with some decent personnel jokes first time round. And that seems to have inspired disciple Colin to submit three more of his personal favourites:...
Job application covering letters disappoint
Guru occasionally gets into trouble for crossing the fine line between his particular brand of satire/humour and taste/decency. Sections of the human resources profession are renowned for their political correctness, and occasionally take umbrage at Guru's unreconstructed opinions. One...
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