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Does HR share the blame for corporate wrongdoing?

Trust in senior executives in multinational companies could take another major knock if theraids this week on the company offices of oil giants BP and Shell by the European Commission result in prosecutions. The raids were over suspicions that executives...

Published 17 May 2013 11:46 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, cipd, HR, CSR, shrm, HR metrics, hr data, HR standards, ANSI, BSI, cost per hire, RBS

Can HR data and job boards make recruitment strategic and cut costs?

Most companies use job boards such as Monster or Total Jobs for recruitment but are they getting the most value they could from them? Experts say HR can save money and get much more from job boards by using the data they gather to inform recruitment decisions...

Published 25 Apr 2013 12:06 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: recruitment, job applications, hr policy and strategy, hr data, big data, CVs, job boards, Monster, Total Jobs

Employee engagement surveys are dead, long live social media?

Will social media give employees a voice in their organisations in a way that employee opinion surveys have failed to do? This is a key question in research published in March by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development . The study, carried...

Published 4 Apr 2013 11:21 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, employee engagement, cipd, HR, hr data, organisational change, HR and social media, McKinsey

When does the HR business partner model damage employee engagement?

For well over a decade HR chiefs have fought to win business partner status but evidence is growing that the recession has led to too simplistic an interpretation of what being a business partner is about. This is a key argument in an article by Philip...

Published 28 Mar 2013 3:47 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, employee engagement, HR, hr data, HR analytics, HR business partner, business partner

Big Data or Big Brother: a future of collaboration? Or electronic tagging at toilet breaks?

With the HR Tech Europe conference having taken place this week in London it seems a good time to reflect on contrasting predictions about how technology will change the way we wor k. A series of blog posts in recent days foresees developments as widely...

Published 21 Mar 2013 10:22 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: flexible working, hr policy and strategy, yammer, Google, hr data, big data, Direct Line, HR analystics, HR Tech Europe, remote working, teleworking

KPMG report says HR data and analytics is the new HR specialism

A new report offers the latest wake-up call for HR teams to improve their skills in data and analytics . Or to it put another way, as more business leaders take HR data seriously, HR leaders will need to hire a new kind of HR specialist . A report by...

Published 27 Feb 2013 10:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, HR metrics, hcm, hr data, HR analytics, human capital management, KPMG, sickness absence data

6 steps to double the business value of HR data and metrics

An article by Nick Kemsley (above) on Personnel Today earlier in 2013 triggered a debate about whether f ocusing on risk was putting too much emphasis on negative HR interventions, associated with cost cutting, when HR leaders should be promoting the...

Published 19 Feb 2013 3:02 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, HR, HR strategy, HR metrics, hr data, HR analytics, Nick Kemsley, big data, risk management, Henley Business School

9/10 HR chiefs can't measure HR's impact on the business

A major study of HR leaders in 277 organisations confirms the HR function is struggling to quantify its business impact, and acquire competence at using measurements, data and analytics. The H R's Strategic Effectiveness 2013 Annual Report from HR...

Published 15 Feb 2013 2:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, HR, HR strategy, HR metrics, hcm, hr data, HR analytics, HR business partner, IES

Is organisational risk the key to more HR influence with the CEO?

Employment law compliance and minimum standards are essential if HR is to manage the financial and reputational risk on poor employment practices. But the case could be made that HR needs to invest more time addressing other areas of risk, such as the...

Published 30 Jan 2013 2:07 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, HR, HR strategy, hr data, workforce planning, Henley Management School, Kemsley, risk management

Big study on HR metrics shows HR can boost share prices

Watch out for a white paper this month from the US-based Human Capital Management Institute which will provide evidence from a large scale survey tha t you can link share price rises and falls to human capital metrics . A preview of the white paper was...

Published 18 Jan 2013 10:47 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, HR strategy, human capital, HR metrics, hr data, HR benchmarking, HCMI, human capital management

How to stop HCM becoming just another HR label

When you use the term " human capital management " are you referring to the way you d eploy all of the people in your organisation? If so, you don't understand the meaning of HCM . So says Andrew Mayo in a n article in Personnel Today ....

Published 13 Dec 2012 10:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, talent, talent management, HR strategy, HR metrics, hcm, hr data, competences

HR data round-up November 2012: Who's afraid of HR data?

XpertHR's HR data round-up for November 2012 looks at why it's time for HR to get to grips with data. We also provide links to all the latest additions to XpertHR Benchmarking and present our regular round-up of the best HR data blog posts. Who's...

Published 20 Nov 2012 7:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: HR, diversity, hr data, big data

Best of the HR blogs October 2012: 14 great HR blog posts from October 2012

Master blasters, whipper snappers & living large: 14 great HR blog posts from October 2012! Trick or treat? Welcome to the Halloween edition of my monthly pick of the best from the world of HR blogs...in which treats will hopefully abound. (My thanks...

Published 31 Oct 2012 7:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: HR, HR 2.0, youth unemployment, hr data, adrian beecroft, hrblogs, HRTechConf, owner-employee

HR data round-up September 2012: Back to basics on performance management?

XpertHR's HR data round-up for September 2012 looks in detail at data relating to performance management and performance management training. We also provide links to all the latest additions to XpertHR Benchmarking and present our regular round-up...

Published 21 Sep 2012 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: performance management, HR 2.0, hr data, hrdata

What ratio shows the real added value of an HR function?

What don't HR professionals spend more of their time trying to improve the organisation? The evidence is that most HR people spend their time on: Administration , which we stopped calling "personnel" about 20 years ago because of the term's...

Published 11 Sep 2012 12:42 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, leadership, HR strategy, HR metrics, hr data, corporate reputation, HR added value, HR ratios

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