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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
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
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
Time for National HR Strategies?

Any student of HR strategy will usually only read about strategies at the level of the individual organisation, even though there should at least be a nod to the geographical or cultural context in which they have to operate. So, Read the Rest »...

Published 28 Nov 2011 5:20 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, Rousseau, Occupy Wall Street, social contract
‘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
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 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
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
‘You were absolutely wonderful darling’ – Amateur dramatics in L&D

Some years ago a friend in a local, and very amateur, drama group – we’re talking village halls here not the Royal Shakespeare Company – was about to start rehearsals for their big, annual performance but had to pull out Read the Rest »...

Published 11 Oct 2011 11:19 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, EB Learning & Development, Truth Seekers & Idealists, amateur dramatics, amdram

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Kill the ‘Leadership Team’!

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

Is profit the best way to motivate and manage people?

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

Harvard Business School finally realises the advantages of learning by doing

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

Organisational Maturity 2 – HR is toddling around at Stage 2

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

Time for National HR Strategies?

‘Best practice’ is the enemy of EB-HR

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

We haven’t stopped evolving just yet.

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

‘You were absolutely wonderful darling’ – Amateur dramatics in L&D