The State of Performance Management and Employee Engagement — A 10-Year Loathe Story is Over!
In 2007, Josh Bersin predicted the death of the performance appraisal. Earlier this year, he suggested that we have wasted the last ten years talking about performance ratings. While the rumor of its death has been greatly exaggerated, the reinvention of performance management is alive and well. For nearly a decade, many companies have been experimenting […]
Going from HRTech to WorkTech
Photo courtesy of Phil Wainewright @ diginomica Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting at the UNLEASH Conference in Amsterdam. My goal was simple — challenge the audience to expand their thinking about “HR Tech”. Thanks to Becky Norman for a nice write-up of my presentation. I think we should start talking about “WorkTech.” […]
Why high-performing cultures barf at most employee engagement initiatives
Employee engagement is clearly the new kale. It’s become a contender in the game of buzzword bingo in the workplace and even boardrooms. But in all fairness, it’s a real issue. Forbes magazine cites results from a Gallup poll: “…70% of American workers are ‘not engaged’ or ‘actively disengaged’ and are emotionally disconnected from their […]
Does technology improve employee engagement?
From telephone and e-mail in the 20th century to unified communication and enterprise social networks in the 21st, businesses have long applied the latest technology in the hopes of improving efficiency and productivity. When this happens successfully, the investment turns in sufficient business impact to justify the cost. When it doesn’t, businesses eventually try something […]
Re-Imagining the Old Company Intranet
Every company has one, and, let’s be honest, the vast majority of them stink. I’m talking about the standard-issue (and still industry standard) Company Intranet — typically, a collection of Web pages where companies stockpile resources like employee handbooks and policies, the company directory, health and benefit portals and other content that sees some activity […]
Bridging the Great Divide in HR — Between Compliance and Engagement
For years, HR managers have been the enforcers when it comes to establishing employee policies and setting standards for behavior, conduct, and expectations. But in many ways, they’ve become more enmeshed in the demands of corporate compliance than they have in the realm of talent management, engagement, learning and training, and other critical attributes of […]
CloudApps releases their employee engagement app Sumo
CloudApps recently released SuMo, their sustainability employee engagement app. The name SuMo comes from the words Sustainability Momentum we’re told, and this is because SuMo was designed to maintain the momentum of an organisation’s sustainability initiative. GreenMonk was given a demo account on SuMo so we could take it for a test drive, and it […]
Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/19/2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: World’s top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates | Environment | The Guardian Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment […]
