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EB-HR is designed to manage the illogical behaviour of rational people

News of the UK’s recent experience of the panic-buying of petrol (gas) by motorists will probably be of little interest to anyone outside of the UK but for students of organisational behaviour and EB-HR there is a very important lesson Read the...

Published 3 Apr 2012 8:52 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: MBA Questions, EBHR Solutions, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, illogical behaviour, rational beings

So how would EB-HR apply to …. ?

If you somehow stumbled across this blog-book because you heard some oblique reference somewhere to the words ‘evidence’ and ‘HR’ being used in the same sentence by someone who you cannot remember saying something that you may or may not Read the Rest...

Published 22 Feb 2012 6:08 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, EBHR Solutions, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, employee engagement, Tesco

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

Harvard Business School finally realises the advantages of learning by doing

For anyone interested in progressive management education at the highest professional standard there is a must-read article in the Economist (December 3rd 2011 p.75) entitled “Field of dreams – Harvard Business School reinvents its MBA course”. It features...

Published 5 Jan 2012 10:52 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: MBA Questions, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, HBS, Nitin Nohria, behavioral economics, Dan Ariely, Harvard Business School MBA, irrational behaviour

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 14 – Operating plans should be viewed as a fantastic and valuable learning opportunity.

This is the last of the EBM ‘Doing it for real’ series, which have all hinged around the same strategic framework. We are at the bottom of the anatomy chart now, where the real work takes place; real people in Read the Rest » Read More...

Published 18 Oct 2011 4:02 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: Truth Seekers & Idealists, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, Grameen, Muhammad Yunus

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 13 – EB-HR Partners translate the Business Plan into Employese.

Our dissection of what is required to do EBM for real all started with a framework that is analogous to the human anatomy. Up until this point the Lessons have been about strategy and building organisational capability rather than delivery Read the Rest...

Published 13 Sep 2011 10:15 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Solutions, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, business plan, employese, incrementalism

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 12 – 31* Best Organisation Design Principles

In organisational anatomy terms how we structure the organisation is obviously the skeleton from which everything else hangs. Following that analogy, if we keep changing the structure or playing around with the skeleton we need to ensure we are keeping...

Published 19 Jul 2011 11:34 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, NHS, EBHR Solutions, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, Bank of England, organisation design checklist, Treasury

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 11 – The Ultimate Test of HR Strategy – in just 4 words.

Having reduced the interminable topic of training evaluation to about 700 words (and generated the biggest response to date), it seemed like a good idea to try the same trick again, going one step further this time, by condensing the Read the Rest »...

Published 11 Jul 2011 3:39 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, Truth Seekers & Idealists, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, Andy Coulson, human capital analyst, human capital checklist, News of the World, phone hacking, police corruption, Rupert Murdoch

All you need to know about training evaluation in about 700 words

When asked by the editor for a title for my CIPD book on evaluation I suggested – ‘The Last Word on Evaluation’ – not out of arrogance but because the mountain of literature and endless debate around the subject had Read the Rest » Read...

Published 28 Jun 2011 1:37 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, EBHR Solutions, EB Product Testing Lab, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, ROI, SHRM, training evaluation, 4 levels, ASTD, Jack Phillips, Kirkpatrick, Laurie Bassi, return on expectations, ROE

Criteria for producing the Best HR Evidence available.

A recurring theme in this series, and a very annoying obstacle to the further development of the evidence-based management movement, is the limitations of language – especially the one word that is meant to underpin everything – evidence. What should...

Published 15 Jun 2011 3:00 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: Evidence, PwC, Saratoga, causation, correlation, Truth Seekers & Idealists, damn lies and statistics, Uncategorized, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, HCI, Towers Watson

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 10 – Design Human Systems

In our continued exploration of organisational anatomy and the strategic management framework you should have noticed by now a distinct emphasis here on the human aspects. In reality the human dimension is rarely, if ever, fully taken into account; especially...

Published 2 Jun 2011 11:56 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EB Learning & Development, EBHR Solutions, systems, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, Fukushima, human systems, IAEA, systems design

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 9 – Culture is the lifeblood of the organisation

Of all the ‘limbs’, ‘organs’ and ‘life support systems’ on our organisational anatomy chart introduced in Lesson 4 probably the most important, from a human perspective, is culture. This is shown as an overlapping circle but one could easily draw Read...

Published 17 May 2011 2:30 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, Starbucks, culture, Howard Schultz, Skype

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 8 – Your Mission, should you decide to accept it ….

Can you imagine the audience reaction if, 15 minutes into Mission Impossible XXIII, Tom Cruise’s response (as a geriatric Ethan Hunt) was – “Nah thanks, that really is impossible” – roll end credits. Would you grab the cinema manager round Read the Rest...

Published 4 May 2011 11:06 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, Amundsen, Mission impossible, Scott of the Antarctic, Tom Cruise

If surgeons use checklists EB Managers have no excuse

How wrong can an assumption be? My piece last week assumed that those doyens of evidence-based practice – surgeons – always get the basics right, only to read 5 days later (in a fascinating article) that even they have to Read the Rest » Read...

Published 27 Apr 2011 11:46 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Solutions, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, Atul Gawande, EBM checklist, Surgery safety checklist, WHO

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 7 – ROI it

I did warn you in Lesson 1 that this series would not offer a simple sequence. So why does ‘ROI’ (return on investment) follow on from Vision? Well it doesn’t have to but considering ROI is an essential discipline for Read the Rest » Read More.....

Published 8 Apr 2011 10:22 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, ROI, cost benefit, learning investment

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