Four Groups

There is some more positive feedback on the Commercial Added Value HR Association. Jerry Hayter at Xecutive Search further endorses the position adopted by Neil Griffin in his letter (see the bottom of the page).

It is very sad to see the CIPD doesn’t seem to engage with the most senior, and most influential people in the profession. It’s even sadder to see that the headlines in the personnel media are still full of features bemoaning that HR isn’t aligned to business goals.

I remember reading something very similar in the personnel press when I joined the profession 15 years ago. We should ask ourselves: why hasn’t the profession yet made enough impact on business under the sole stewardship of the CIPD after so long?

Not to make the CIPD a target, but I think these sentiments are very well made and echo many comments we hear in conversations with our own clients.

Just a quick post to thank Bill Ives for his kind announcement and review of our new blog “Value Added HR”

Bill writes;

Their blog is meant to provide a place for more informal discussions around people in the workplace and understanding the nature of relationships in the workplace. It is great to see more businesses adding a blog to their web site and beginning these informal conversations with whoever wants to participate. They appear to be off to a good start.

Thank you Bill - I’ve added you to our blogroll!

There is lots of talk about Social Software at the moment. While this ranges from sites like Ecademy and Linkedin through to the growth of blogs and knowledge management software, what is clear is that the people aspect can’t be left behind.

While there is no substitute for people in this process, The Work Foundation have emphasised this in their own report “You Don’t Know Me, but… Social Capital & Social Software“.

Successfully marshalling human and technological resources in tandem is the key organisational and social challenge of our times. Organisations have been mystified as to why ICTs have failed to deliver promised productivity benefits, only to find that they have paid insufficient attention to the social infrastructure in which these new tools are embedded.

This report has already been picked up by Centrality and I think these ideas add weight to the people agenda within organisations which should really been seen on a par with processes and systems, if not a priority!