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The Alternative Theory Theory

How many of the things you plan to do today are based on sound theory? If you work in HR you might be running an assessment centre, organising an employee survey or developing a competence policy. Each one of these … Continue reading → Read...

Published 9 May 2012 9:35 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, MBA Questions, Evidence, Truth Seekers & Idealists, damn lies and statistics, alternative theory, top business school ranking, top MBA ranking

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

Did Jack Welch ever square the people-profit circle?

The perennial debate about whether to put profit before people, or vice versa, has been reinvigorated in the aftermath of the financial collapse of 2008 amidst growing anxiety as to how Western capitalism might evolve in the light of emerging Read the...

Published 17 Feb 2012 12:28 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, MBA Questions, forced ranking, GE, Jack Welch, Jeff Immelt, neutron Jack

Kill the ‘Leadership Team’!

No, of course I am not inciting anyone to literally go out and kill their ‘leadership team’ – I mean let’s kill off the notion that any group of executives or managers should ever be allowed to call themselves the Read the Rest » Read More...

Published 9 Feb 2012 3:27 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EBHR Critiques, MBA Questions, control freak, leadership team

Is profit the best way to motivate and manage people?

At a time when the fundamental tenets of capitalism are being closely re-examined this question is now more relevant and urgent than ever. So those interested in EB-HR should welcome a unique, real-time experiment that is now underway in the Read the...

Published 18 Jan 2012 3:55 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: MBA Questions, NHS, Circle healthcare, employee ownership, John Lewis partnership

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

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

Organisational Maturity 3 – Off the scale and on the road to nowhere

The Learning and HR Maturity Scales explored in Parts 1 and 2 only apply to organisations that really mean what they say about making the most of their people. They have been designed to offer such organisations a clear and Read the Rest » Read More...

Published 13 Dec 2011 11:13 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, MBA Questions, EBHR Solutions, CIPD, Clare Chapman, Jacki Orme, PepsiCo

Organisational Maturity 2 – HR is toddling around at Stage 2

In the first Part of this 3-Part assessment of organisational maturity we considered to what extent organisations are designed to learn. This can only ever happen as part of a wider HR strategy that aims to create a competitive advantage Read the Rest...

Published 12 Dec 2011 10:48 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, MBA Questions, EBHR Solutions, HR strategy, competence framework, HR Maturity, HR audit, Auditing HR and L&D, HR benchmarking

Organisational Maturity 1 – All organisations are immature when it comes to learning

Do you remember something called the ‘learning organisation’? It was all the rage about 15 years ago. All of a sudden everyone was calling themselves a learning organisation because if you were not a learning organisation then what were you Read the Rest...

Published 6 Dec 2011 12:10 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, EB Learning & Development, MBA Questions, EBHR Solutions, benchmarking training, learning maturity, learning organization

‘Best practice’ is the enemy of EB-HR

Ask any HR director whether they are using ‘best practice’ and of course they will say ‘yes’ – if only because they believe ‘no’ is the wrong answer. Even if they genuinely mean ‘yes’ what they are really saying is Read the Rest » Read More...

Published 19 Nov 2011 8:22 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: General HR Council, EBHR Critiques, MBA Questions, EBHR Solutions, CIPD, best practice

We haven’t stopped evolving just yet.

If you look at the timeline for the Earth and its human inhabitants it looks something like this (in years): 5,000,000,000 – 5 billion years ago Earth forms 4,000,000,000 – Life forms on Earth 8,000,000 – Something like humans...

Published 24 Oct 2011 9:32 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: MBA Questions, evolution, homo sapiens

Why is HR so expensive? Part 1.

I bet that is a question that every CFO has asked themselves a million times and at a time when they would dearly love to decimate HR they are probably no nearer to finding an answer than they ever were. Read the Rest » Read More...

Published 5 Oct 2011 3:43 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: MBA Questions, Evaluation & ROI, Auditing HR and L&D, CFO

Imagine a world without evidence

Imagine you wake up tomorrow and your natural facility for using and sifting evidence has completely disappeared. The first thing you know is the alarm has just gone off and you ignore it – actually, that’s probably no different to Read the Rest »...

Published 30 Sep 2011 4:09 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, MBA Questions, awayday, NLP

A different brand of HR and L&D – actual results

In the last post we looked at the empty rhetoric of ‘talent management’ but we could equally have asked to see the substance behind ‘employer branding’, ‘employee engagement’, ‘competence’, ‘HR business partners’, ‘e-learning’, ‘social media’ – the list...

Published 12 Aug 2011 4:05 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: MBA Questions, SHRM, Evaluation & ROI, HR Magazine, talent

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