Measuring HR: The Workforce as Deliverable
How do you measure the effectiveness of HR? Cost per hire? HR headcount per number of employees? If you do, Dick Beatty thinks you’re wasting your time. Dick is a professor of Human Resources...
View ArticleIs Pay for Performance a sham?
Pay for Performance is everywhere these days; software vendors hawk it, speakers at conferences yak about it and professors preach it. But when you sit down and think about it, it seems like it’s a...
View ArticlePowerful Performance Management
Hope everybody had a great long weekend. I don’t know if this is new, of if its just new to me, but I’ve found an e-course at about.com on “Powerful Performance Management,” penned by Susan Heathfield....
View ArticleThe Bench Strength Dilemma: Thinking About Succession Planning
One of the questions we hear most often when talking about succession planning has to do with bench strength. Bench strength is another one of those sports analogies we’ve all come to love that...
View ArticleSocking It to Employees at Appraisal Time
Did you ever know a manager who waited until performance evaluation time to “sock it to” an employee? This is a pretty horrible tactic for a number of reasons – most obviously becuase the employee...
View ArticlePoll: Make salaries public? NO!
The poll we’ve been running here for the last few weeks has been asking “Would you be in favor of an “open salary” policy at your company in which everyone’s salary was published for all to see?â€...
View ArticleGoogle: HR Innovator?
Not to keep flogging the Google horse or anything, but it appears the company is doing some innovative stuff beyond its products. The company has gained some HR-related attention before for using...
View ArticleWant to succeed in High-Tech? Focus on your customers
A guest post by Erik Berggren – Director of Customer Results, SuccessFactors. You probably don’t need me to tell you that successful companies are ones who provide products people want. But what...
View ArticleFindings from our Research on the Impact of Competencies in Financial...
A guest post by Josh Bersin – CEO, Bersin & Associates Competencies are one of the most difficult and under-utilized part of performance management. Bersin & Associates research shows that...
View ArticleThe No Asshole Rule
A note: if the title offends you, please excuse me. I think the content and concepts make it worthwhile. Also, it’s the title of a real book – and so that makes it okay (right?). I’m now kicking myself...
View ArticleMoney Chases Talent
Erik’s note: We’re happy to present another guest post by Chris Lozaga a Research Analyst in SuccessFactors Global Research team We talk a lot about the future of work, borderless collaboration, as the...
View ArticleSuccessConnect NYC
SuccessConnect 2010 had an amazing kickoff today in New York. Lars opened up his keynote using a big spinning “Wheel of Success” to determine what to talk about, all while holding his son, Lars Jr....
View ArticleSuccessConnect San Francisco
SuccessConnect 2010 kicked off today in San Francisco and has been nothing but non-stop action. Leading the action, was Lars’ by jumping for joy onstage to open up his keynote. Lars recapped...
View ArticleSuccessConnect 2010 Frankfurt
Willkommen in Frankfurt (Welcome to Frankfurt)! SuccessConnect 2010 kicked off today in the beautiful city of Frankfurt, our final SuccessConnect destination for 2010. The event started with a bang...
View ArticleSocial Learning: Speed Time to Productivity
SuccessFactors Jam unleashes the creativity, spontaneity, and teamwork to power your social learning, onboarding and other talent processes. Jam makes sharing and finding relevant information and...
View ArticleNext Generation Recruiting
With SuccessFactors and Jobs2web you can deploy a recruiting execution strategy on one platform that powers talent attraction, talent engagement and talent selection engine. Are you ready for the next...
View ArticleSuccessFactors an SAP Company
SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors combines the powerful assets of each company – including world-class cloud expertise, software applications and go-to-market capabilities – to create a global cloud...
View ArticleThe countdown to SuccessConnect 2012 is on!
The countdown to SuccessConnect is on! Whether you are new to SuccessFactors products or an experienced user, our six tracks and 50+ conference sessions offer a wealth of information. You’re guaranteed...
View ArticleSpring into innovation with new BizX features.
Spring is here and so is the April 2012 release with a number of innovations to the BizX suite. When you and your co-workers are better informed, more efficient and provided with appropriate...
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