By mauzenne on November 30, 2008
This cast explains a simple technique to consider the impact of decisions on multiple stakeholders.
Decision-making (which is more than choosing!) is a core part of our jobs as managers. But yet again, there’s not a lot of training or development spent on it. Everyone hates learning it on their own…but then they visit [...]
Posted in Management, Manager Tools
By Erik Berggren on November 30, 2008
Often when meeting with customers and prospects I get the question: how do we make SuccessFactors so easy to use for managers and employees across the world? The question always arises from HR pros when I explain that we don’t…
Posted in Human Resources, Performance management
By Jon Ingham on November 30, 2008
I’ve got some experience of salary reductions from the last Russian financial crisis at the end of the 1990s. They’re never going to be easy to implement and so I was concerned to learn from my Singapore hotel that the city state is slashing civil servant wages.
I agree with Management Issues that it’s interesting to see the public sector taking a lead in doing this. The UK would certainly benefit from following the lead and doing something about its public / private sector pensions divide.
But there’s a growing need for other sectors to start thinking about how they can reduce compensation costs too. In particular, I think it’s the next thing financial services firms need to think about once they’ve got their heads around ‘maluses’.
I’d recommend readers who aren’t convinced of the need to make some rather unconventional changes at the moment to consult some great posts by Know HR. As Frank Roche explains:
"The world economy is in Holy Crap Mode. If you’re clinging to old HR rules because it’s the only thing you know, it’s time to practice this phrase: “You want fries with that?”
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By John Hunter on November 30, 2008
Performance Without Appraisal – When asked “If we eliminate performance appraisals, as you suggest, what do we do instead?” Dr. Deming’s reply: “Whatever Peter Scholtes says.” Read The Leader’s Handbooks, by Peter Scholtes
Ford and Managing the Supplier Relationship – “Until they acknowledge what problems in their management system have caused them to fail to [...]
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