There have been three key strategic priorities for multinational banking and financial services company Standard Chartered in transforming its talent acquisition function on a global scale. “There’s an old business cliché that says if you want something to be cheap, fast and good, you can only pick two,” said James Lodder, senior manager, group resourcing…
There are five critical trends which are of critical importance to Australian HR executives and managers if they intend to thrive in what is a fast-evolving and challenging field of work, writes Andrej Kovacevic There are a number of important trends which are impacting employers all over Australia, who are going through a digital revolution that’s changing…
As CEOs want richer information about human capital and as organisations seek to make sense of an abundance of data through analytics tools, the head of people analytics is emerging as an important executive role, according to a global executive search firm. “With the richness of data available to organisations and HRDs, CEOs around the…
A strengths-based approach has been critical to driving increases in employee engagement, improving leadership capability and changing mindsets around talent management within The Star Entertainment Group, according to its CHRO Kim Lee. With aggressive plans for growth and expansion, she explained that the group has a vision of being Australia’s leading integrated resort company –…
Effective HR teams are starting to practice “design thinking” – studying the behaviour of employees and designing solutions to fit their work lives – in a bid to improve workforce performance and productivity. A new Bersin by Deloitte report suggests that HR will face 10 major talent management challenges over the coming year – one of which…
Innovations in technology will drive a number of significant talent acquisition trends over the coming year, according to Futurestep. As the economy strengthened in 2014, companies began allocating greater resources to manage their workforces, said Byrne Mulrooney, CEO of Futurestep. “While rebuilding and expanding is on the corporate agenda, organisations are increasingly focused on quality…
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 sustain a company’s culture including…
HR will naturally become more and more measurable in the future, based on real value added to the bottom line, writes Oracle’s Aaron Green The past decade has seen HR professionals charged with delivering ROI back to the business. With HR traditionally viewed as the softer, subjective area of an enterprise, companies need to change…
Talent reviews can play a critical role in driving business goals through effective talent management, and there are a number of steps HR leaders and organisations should follow in order to facilitate successful talent reviews, writes Alec Bashinsky Over the course of the past six months, I’m increasingly hearing more conversations centred around talent reviews,…
There are seven areas leaders and managers need to focus on to increase employee engagement and enhance workplace performance, according to the head of HR for global recruitment firm Talent International. The firm, which was recently recognised in Gallup’s global 2019 Great Workplace Awards (the only recruitment company in the world and one of only…