I hope all our members had a wonderful and rewarding summer. I repatriated from Singapore to Houston but with no role at HP back in the United States, I've gotten quite active in job search activity. I'm just returning from a few wonderful vacation...
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) has created big new challenges for publicly traded organizations, most often with little to no involvement by the HR function. The burden of compliance has fallen primarily on Finance, as SOX has tangible implications...
E-mail and online shopping are no longer the only concerns employers face regarding employee use of the Internet. Recently, employees have spent time both during and after work disparaging their employer on Internet "blogs" (online Web journals). Comments...
Part I of "Coaching Caveats" in the last issue of Human Resource Planning presented the five organizational or situational variables that can undermine coaching. Here, the focus is on the five characteristics of the coachee that can be used to predict...
Many years of research on leaders and leadership have provided great insights as to how effective leaders are grown. Those of us in the HR community now better understand the role of developmental assignments, coaching, mentoring, and other popular...
Over two millennia ago, Aristotle (trans. 1982) wrote in his Ethics that what is good, virtuous, and effective in thought and action is difficult to achieve. He noted that ineffectiveness is characterized either by deficiency--too little of the prized...
General management talent depth is an obstacle to growth in many large, multi-divisional corporations across diverse industries. Succession-planning practices usually stop short of producing real development actions for high-potential GM candidates....
At the 2005 Annual Conference, thought leaders from among members of the HRPS Board of Directors, HRPS Corporate Sponsors, and the Human Resource Planning Editorial Board met to reflect on new directions in the field of human resource management. As...