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Measuring the organisational fear factor

If you want to read a detailed case study on how not to run a company, especially a very large bank, I can firmly recommend a 450-page report entitled “The failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland” by the UK’s … Continue reading → Read More....

Published 6 Jun 2012 4:19 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EBHR Solutions, RBS, employee engagement, Q12, analytics, metrics, HR measurement, FSA, leadership.followership
Track records of the 5 management talents

Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball stopped me in my tracks as soon as I read about the ’5 talents’ of baseball. It forced me to ask myself two very important questions. One, did we ever get to grips with what the … Continue reading →...

Published 31 May 2012 12:16 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Solutions, competence, management, talent management, Evaluation & ROI, talent, analytics, metrics, HR measurement, Book Reviews
Just run that HR hypothesis by me one more time would you?

When HR tries to measure itself it always ends in tears and not just in the HR department but by every executive who has endured yet another, interminable, HR slide presentation supposedly demonstrating HR’s incredible value. It would not be Read the...

Published 6 Feb 2012 11:08 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, EBHR Solutions, competence framework, leadership development, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, talent management, analytics, metrics, HR measurement, HR analytics, EOD, 360°.360 feedback, diversity, Gordion knot, HR hypothesis
A travesty of EB-HR principles – A book review of Transformative HR* by John Boudreau and Ravin Jesuthasan

Book titles can be very misleading and we are all used to reading management books that never come close to delivering on what they promise but I think this book deserves a special award – for ‘The Most Perverse use Read the Rest » Read More...

Published 24 Jan 2012 10:38 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, Evidence, damn lies and statistics, RBS, Towers Watson, analytics, metrics, HR measurement, AstraZeneca, Book Reviews, HR analytics, Brian Schipper, Cisco, David farrant, Ed Lawler III, Elaine arden, EOD, John Boudreau, Lynn Tetrault, Nomura Holdings, Ravin Jesuthasan
Hating HR is easy – offering a better alternative is damned difficult

HR is a very easy target. I should know, I have worked in it for over 30 years and taken as much abuse as anyone else; usually from those who haven’t got a clue what they are talking about. But Read the Rest » Read More...

Published 11 Jan 2012 11:01 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, MBA Questions, analytics, metrics, HR measurement, Keith Hammonds, Why we hate HR
The devil is in the concept – A book review of ‘The new HR Analytics’ by Jac Fitz-Enz

I have been criticising Jac Fitz-Enz’s work openly and very vigorously ever since I became aware of it nearly 20 years ago because it was so obviously limited by looking only at inputs and ‘measuring HR’ rather than business value. Read the Rest »...

Published 7 Nov 2011 8:54 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: analytics, metrics, HR measurement, Book Reviews, HR analytics, Jac Fitz-Enz
We can measure what we call ‘talent’ even if we can’t define it

Two posts at once to provide some reading during the vacation period. One of the earliest pieces in this series looked at a truism in human performance – any population will form a normal distribution – the bell curve – Read the Rest » Read More...

Published 12 Aug 2011 3:49 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Solutions, EB Product Testing Lab, talent management, Goldman Sachs, analytics, metrics, HR measurement, McKinsey, war for talent

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Measuring the organisational fear factor

Track records of the 5 management talents

Just run that HR hypothesis by me one more time would you?

A travesty of EB-HR principles – A book review of Transformative HR* by John Boudreau and Ravin Jesuthasan

Hating HR is easy – offering a better alternative is damned difficult

The devil is in the concept – A book review of ‘The new HR Analytics’ by Jac Fitz-Enz

We can measure what we call ‘talent’ even if we can’t define it