Driving return on investment through people
At FedEx, speed is a collective way of thinking and behaving. We refer to this collective way of thinking as an organization’s culture. It is these ways of thinking and behaving that design, produce and sell products and services that are of value to customers. Many internal practices create and […]
HR should focus its measurements and rewards on the unit through which the greatest value is created. Focusing the measurement and reward systems on the wrong unit of analysis can demotivate, create confusion and make the whole less than the sum of the parts, writes Wayne Brockbank. Performance management is […]
By embracing the business agility agenda, HR will create and sustain the organisation capabilities that create turbulence for its competitors instead of responding to turbulence that is created by its competitors, writes Wayne Brockbank HR departments are occasionally accused of sponsoring flavor-of-the-month agendas. Some of these accusations may be justified. However, […]
HR departments which focus on three HR activities will have a more significant impact on customer and shareholder value than HR departments that focus primarily on HR metrics themselves, writes Wayne Brockbank A number of leadership and management thinkers and institutional economists have posited that the “enemy of the great is […]
HR departments may play important roles in creating faster and more agile competitive organisations through the acceleration of learning loops at different levels of an organisation, writes Wayne Brockbank This is the second of a two-part article that addresses how to establish learning loops in the context of fast moving, uncertain, morphing and complex business environments. […]
The day-to-day working environment often operates like a pressure chamber. When everything is going smoothly the working environment hums along. But when the pressure gets too much, ineffective behaviour rises to the surface. https://www.insidehr.com.au/if-youre-a-bad-leader/
Middle managers, in particular, are in a unique position when it comes to innovation; they’re close enough to day-to-day operations to know where the critical problems are but removed enough from frontline work to see the bigger picture. https://www.insidehr.com.au/engage-middle-managers-for-innovation-success/
Each cyberattack is costing Australia an average of $3.9 million. Organisations cannot afford to continue allowing preventable attacks take place when resources to protect against human error are available. https://www.insidehr.com.au/hr-leaders-fighting-cyberattacks/
