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Judge HR by the ‘metrics’ they choose

One of the most common HR ‘metrics’ cited by HR people is the number of HR people employed per 100 FTE’s (full time equivalents – employees) and this is used by HR itself and auditors (see “Primary Indicator 2″ on Read the Rest » Read...

Published 6 Jul 2011 12:53 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, Evidence, PwC, Saratoga, EBHR Solutions, damn lies and statistics, analytics, HR audit, HR metrics, NAO

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

Managers with ‘ODD’ attitudes do not get EBM

One of the many aspects of human behaviour that I have never been able to fathom is the ‘polar shift’ – moving from one extreme position to another without any rational explanation. Anyone who has children will have witnessed it. Read the Rest »...

Published 14 Apr 2011 9:43 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: PwC, Saratoga, EBHR Solutions, EB Product Testing Lab, Accenture, control groups, double blind, oppositional defiance disorder, proving a negative, randomised trials

PwC – The March of the Clones

Anyone who has ever seen the films Village of the Damned (based on the book The Midwich Cuckoos) or Stepford Wives, or any other work in the genre of people being turned into crazed automatons, and has also had the … Continue reading → Read...

Published 12 Jan 2011 10:07 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: General HR Council, EB Leadership, Evidence, PwC, Saratoga, Neil Roden, Truth Seekers & Idealists, damn lies and statistics, CIPD, Fred Goodwin, RBS

Evidence-based management has to be a new paradigm

Evidence-based management (EBM), and particularly EB-HR, are already in danger of being consigned to the trash can of fads before they have even started. There are many different definitions of what EBM is supposed to be and plenty of people will …...

Published 10 Sep 2010 12:43 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: statistics and damn lies, Conference Board, Evidence, Fitz-enz, GM, Pfeffer, PwC, Saratoga, Ulrich

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Judge HR by the ‘metrics’ they choose

Criteria for producing the Best HR Evidence available.

Managers with ‘ODD’ attitudes do not get EBM

PwC – The March of the Clones

Evidence-based management has to be a new paradigm