Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Organizational Development”
A while back I wrote a post called “What Would It Take To Get You To Work 80 Hrs Per Week?” over at The Project. The post was meant to dig into what it would take to get employees to go beyond their normal 40 hour work week, and give you that discretionary effort all of HR Pros want to …
So, here’s your organization, talent pro: strong employment brand, national recruiting, and no trouble filling vacancies. Employees pay no premiums for medical, dental, or vision coverage. They also get tuition reimbursement (including time off to study full time), free housing, and about a third of their paycheck is tax free. No 401k match, but a fairly generous pension. And, best …
If you’re an FOT reader, then we already know you’re an enlightened person and there’s a pretty good chance you already understand the importance of culture in an organization. But even for the enlightened, it’s a squishy concept – you usually know when it’s good and you know when it’s bad. Knowing when it’s going down the tubes, however, isn’t …
We’ve all been beat over the head for the last 18 months or so with the idea that incentives don’t work. We’ve watched Wall Street bonuses become the “it girl” for bad incentives. We’ve read and listened to Dan Pink talk about how incentives are not the best way to drive performance in an organization. As HR people we get …
A few weeks ago, I was on a family vacation up on Lake Winnipesaukee with my whole family – parents, siblings, significant others and babies, 11 of us in all. Given our past history when it comes to family vacations, we were all expecting some Griswald trip to Walley World type moments. Things were actually going just fine until my …
Why didn’t someone tell you that you only need to give it 10% to be successful? I am. Sorta. The Company Culture It’s not too unlikely that if you’re an HR pro you’ve been in meetings where the company culture is being discussed – or complained about more likely. The fact is, whenever someone brings up corporate culture, all heads …
The Harvard Business Review recently highlighted a recent study by Professors Anita Woolley and Thomas Malone, in which the researchers studied how team/group diversification would impact overall team intelligence (you can view their explanation of the findings in Defend Your Research: What Makes A Team Smarter? More Women). Big surprise to all us husbands, they found that teams with more women are smarter! From the article: “The …
Usually my rants move from topic to topic and I was ready to move on, until I learned last week that it’s unlikely any of us at FOT (especially Sackett after his Casey Anthony post) will ever find a job again. That’s right, let me introduce you to Social Intelligence, the next fad in recruitment! For a fee, they’ll go …
Get up, get, get down… 911 is a joke in yo’ town. Unfortunately, so are the majority of performance assessments. And no, it doesn’t take sporting a Viking Helmet to realize the why behind the ineptitude. It’s because they’re nothing more than how one human being (usually a Manager) rates another. As we all know, that ‘rating’ is littered by …
‘And you shut up! Who are you, anyway? Sitting there – telling people what to do. You can’t hunt, you can’t sing – ’ ‘I’m chief. I was chosen.’ ‘Why should choosing make any difference? Just giving orders that don’t make any sense – ’ ‘Piggy’s got the conch.’ ‘That’s right – favour Piggy as you always do – ’ …
