Letter to HREC: December 2012

Dear HR Executives Connected members, I hope you enjoy this interactive site with great features such as a regular blog to which you can reply yourself, inspirational videos, the HREC featured member and many more! If you have postings, a blog or relevant HR news yourself that you want to share please don’t hesitate and share it with me at stendert@krommendam.com. Remember that the forum is there for you to share, interact and network with more then 500 senior HR executives from across the globe! Regards, Stendert Krommend...

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5 Myths Of Human Resources Management

One of the more popular features in the Washington Post is its “5 Myths” opinions column, where commonly held misapprehensions about politics, society, and even science are weighed against evidence. Often, the evidence is obtained from top-tier academic journals, large-scale government studies, or national databases, and addresses topics characterized by vigorous, though misinformed debate. HR is one of those fields where numerous myths endure. Part of the reason is HR tends to be more professional practice than rigorous academic discipline,...

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Letter from HREC: November 2012

Dear HR Executives Connected members, I hope you enjoy this interactive site with great features such as a regular blog to which you can reply yourself, inspirational videos, the HREC featured member and many more! If you have postings, a blog or relevant HR news yourself that you want to share please don’t hesitate and share it with me at stendert@krommendam.com. Remember that the forum is there for you to share, interact and network with more then 500 senior HR executives from across the globe! First thing I’d like to hear from you is...

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Letter from HREC: October 2012

Dear HR Executives Connected members, Welcome to our new website!  I hope you enjoy this interactive site with great features such as a regular blog to which you can reply yourself, inspirational videos, the HREC member of the week and many more! If you have postings, a blog or relevant HR news yourself that you want to share please don’t hesitate and share it with me at stendert@krommendam.com. Remember that the forum is there for you to share, interact and network with more then 500 senior HR executives from across the globe! First...

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Employee Voice has ‘Positive Impact on Business Performance’

But social media discouraged as platform for discussion, survey shows. The majority of businesses believe that ‘employee voice’ has a positive impact on engagement and performance, according to new research. But employers – particularly larger organisations – remain wary about workers using social media to express opinions about their company, found the survey from IPA and Tomorrow’s Company. Employee voice was one of the four key enablers of employee engagement identified in the 2009 MacLeod Report, ‘Engaging for Success’. Respondents to...

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The First Step in Becoming an Innovative Culture

There’s lots of conversation going on about being innovative. About the need for companies to innovate.  How we should give employees the ability to innovate. But the more I hear about the imperative of innovation, the more I’m convinced that people don’t know what innovation means. Merriam-Webster defines innovation as the act of introducing something new (i.e. a new idea, method or device). The key word for me is “new”. Notice the definition doesn’t include the word “better” or “more efficient” or “cheaper”. It only says “new”. The way...

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Why Great Leaders Do What Must Be Done

An entrepreneur and a venture capitalist walk into a bar. The VC says, "I'll have a scotch and milk." The bartender grimaces, shrugs, looks at the entrepreneur and says, "How about you?" The entrepreneur looks down and mutters, "I'll have what he's having." I've raised funding rounds in tough economic times. I gave dozens of presentations, had hundreds of meetings, answered the same questions over and over, and yes, I kissed the occasional investor tail. It wasn't pretty, but it had to be done. I've spent months working to close deals with...

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Social workplaces: The Death of the Cubicle

Increasingly, offices are becoming open. We get rid of cubicles and walls in order to create more collaborative and social spaces for employees. Open offices have meant a revolution in office furniture: quarter tables that can be scattered throughout an office and brought together to make one big round table; nooks with living room-like setups to encourage spontaneous meetings; and even power hookups that hang down from the ceiling so roving employees can plug in. Not all employees welcome the changes in their environment at first. Red Hat employee...

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