Monthly Archives: May 2005
Managing the Informal Organisation
I think the realisation that the informal organisation, i.e, the one that is in people’s heads, rather than that which is posted on the org. chart, is of equal or greater value is a good thing. What is even more … Continue reading
Relationships and Personality Testing
Over at George’s Employment Blawg, George Lenard draws our attention to various personality tests and different takes on them. For newer readers of this Blawg who may have missed it, we’ve previously posted some fairly detailed (and in my case … Continue reading
Management Jargon
Some more wordology! I found these charmers via Thad at the Monster blog. I’ll just repeat the phrases themselves, feel free to visit the post for the definitions. “At the end of the day” “The 50,000-foot perspective” “Pushing the envelope” … Continue reading
HR Value and Influence Delivered
I read a great story in Personnel Today looking at the HR function at Home Depot – Home Improvement. The two juicy bits are the rapid rate of growth and the pay of the HR director. On the subject of … Continue reading
What are Bioteams?
I stumbled across Ken Thompson’s blog which looks at Bioteams. This is a new idea to me, but I like the sound of self organising teams, developing some of the biological metaphors and applying them to organisations and teams. Ken’s … Continue reading
4G Research – Validity and Reliability
For those people interested in the statistics and research behind psychometrics in general and 4G in particular, we’ve just added a new page to the site with a summary of the reliability and validity of 4G. This is only a … Continue reading
Character traits and their use
There is always lots of talk of competencies, traits and the links to performance. I think there are basically two ways to cut this cake. The first, as implied by Rebecca Thomas and Curt Rosengren, looks at the use of … Continue reading
The changing role of HR
I read an interesting piece on the evolution of the HR function within organisations and organisational culture. Just as IT and Finance departments mature, so does HR. This author, writing partially from a Japanese perspective at least, comments * The … Continue reading
Transitionist – Get it before its gone
A great bit of lingual humour via Terrence Seamon who mentions the newly minted term “Transitionist” Transition is most esentially about change and thanks to the suffix ‘-ist’ to be a transitionist is to be adept at transitions and more … Continue reading
Putting a number on HR?
Andrew Weissman picked up on the popular theme of measuring and placing a value on HR. Andrew wrote In exploring the concept of how to measure the return an enterprise receives from its investment in people (the largest single investment … Continue reading
