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The Weekly HRExaminer 1.31

By John Sumser | Published: September 3, 2010

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Human Machines | Feature
The hangover from the industrial revolution still exists in the HR department. Humans are machines to be procured (hired), programmed (trained), controlled (managed), optimized (incented) and terminated (fired) to produce our desired output (profit).

Editorial Advisory Board Member Paul Hebert says a whole new operating manual must be written to help today’s human machine. Names like Airely, Tversky and Kahneman should roll off the tongues of new HR professionals as easily as EFCA and COBRA do today. Read more in our Feature by Paul Hebert Maintaining Human Machines……Re-program Me Now

Review: WorkForUs
You know all of that fuss about social Recruiting? Everyone is so busy trying to figure out the meaning of life that they seem to have overlooked the simplest thing. WorkForUs hasn’t….Read More

Review: New Tools
Much of what passes for social recruiting is neither social nor recruiting. The high value pieces of the recruiting process involve judgment, assessment, selection, evaluation, interaction and conversation. Most internet recruiting tools don’t do much more than publicize opportunity and collect data. Emerging companies are part of a new wave that imagines work as an auction, reputation process or focuses on relationships in small batches…Read More

Virtual HR
It won’t be long before the Virtual Recruiter makes its way to your iPad. Want to remain in the queue for that promising career opportunity? Be a good candidate and keep doing nice things for your Virtual Recruiter. There will be points for referrals, connections to gate keepers, updating your resume. Win enough good candidate points and you’ll make the short list….Read More

In The Know v 1.31: Future of Work
Five links for thinking about the Future of Work: Steve Jobs In Concert, Maintaining Human Machines (yeah, we’re putting it in twice just in case), Best and Worst Jobs: 2010, PWC on the Future of Work, The New York Times on Gartner’s View of The Future of Work….Read More

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The Weekly HRExaminer 1.30

By John Sumser | Published: August 27, 2010

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Feature | Looking for Talent
looking-for-talent-70pxWe know all too well that today there are real problems and challenges in society, companies and HR. But is the glass half full or empty? With great challenge comes great opportunity and that’s what we’re talking about this week at HRExaminer. We start it off in our feature about the loss of talent (and perhaps innocence too) in Looking For Talent and continue with more views on how HR can use these times to achieve meaningful transformation…Find It

The problem you are trying to solve is not the problem you have | HRXformation II
great-hr-makes-money-83pxDon’t write this off as yet another whiny, negative piece on the failings of HR – this is a story about how great HR makes money. There are many, many ways that HR can be the generator of massive transformation and huge economic success. It’s just that none of those things involve doing HR faster, better or cheaper. They all involve applying smart Human Capital planning and practice to the business…Transform It

HRExaminer-In-The-Know1.30-120pxIn The Know 1.30 Still More HRXformation
Five links to improve your view of HR Transformation. Here’s what we’ve got: The Next Silicon Valley, Thousands of Workers are Standing By, The Future of The Internet, The Big Lie (Thoughts on Why School Is Not Only About Workforce Development), and A Deeper Kind of Joblessness…Have a Fiver

amitai-givertz-amg-management-advisors-hr-talent-management-120pxUnprotected Classes: Prejudice and Double-Standards | Amitai Givertz Editorial Advisory Board
Amitai writes: “Our society fails on so many levels to anticipate workforce needs that allowing sanctioned, institutional prejudice to compound the problem should be an anathema to any right-minded HR leader …the truth is, sometimes it is more politic to practice the double standards embodied in “pragmatism” and “expediency” than champion change.” Change This

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In The Know v1.30 Still More HRXformation

By John Sumser | Published: August 26, 2010

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Five links to improve your view of HR Transformation

We’re in a challenging time. Seeing the present is as difficult as seeing the future. The rules don’t seem to be operating properly.

This week’s links will stretch your thinking about the future of the Internet, the role of schools, the way work is distributed and how cultures of innovation are created. Each idea has its place in the macrocosm and in your enterprise. HR ought to be the source of this conversation in the organization.

It isn’t always.

  • The Next Silicon Valley
    For more than 100 years, the San Francisco Baty area has been turning itself into a global model for innovation and technical development. When things go well, the world is envious. When there is a bust (like now) there’s not so much envy. The culture of innovation jas been built over that history. Developing a similar phenomenon requires a similar horizon. This is a great think piece about the intersection of technology, capital, education, culture and human capital.
  • Thousands of Workers are Standing By
    Why crowd sourcing may be the next outsourcing. Labor on Demand is like cloud computing for staffing agencies. This function, which would be run under purchasing in the current construct, is how organizations will interface with many of their people.
  • The Future of The Internet
    Save this one for a serious hour of your time over the weekend. The 45 page pdf is the product of a project between Cisco and the Global Business Network. The report offers four different potential futures. Underlying those scenarios are several simple and important ideas… the keyboard will disappear quickly; the Internet’s real growth will be in lower economic strata; digital natives will interact in ways beyond our imagining. The scenarios will give you a range of input with which to imagine your future.
  • The Big Lie (Thoughts on Why School Is Not Only About Workforce Development)
    A public education that centers first around workforce development will put a high premium on following directions and doing what you’re told. A public education that centers first around citizenship development will still teach rules, but it will teach students to question the underlying ideas behind the rules. Workforce development will reinforce the hierarchies that we see in most corporate culture, while a citizenship-focus will teach students that their voice matters, regardless of station.
  • A Deeper Kind of Joblessness
    A reminder that Henry Ford knew that economies were grown by paying workers more.

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