Recently, there’s been some chatter about the death of HR. It may be a bit premature… Much like the old man, HR isn’t dead yet. But it is being pushed inevitably along in new directions as technology replaces bureaucracy in organizations. In the world of wikis, web sites, and stored soft documents, this isn’t a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Personnel Selection'
Bring out your dead!
October 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Employee Engagement, High-performance Workplace, Personnel Selection
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A Few Points About Negligent Hiring Lawsuits
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Legal, Personnel Selection
Kim Lerner recently published an entry about legal considerations when conducting background checks. The article about negligent hiring started me thinking about the apparent widespread use of such lawsuit prevention screens when employers routinely neglect to use screens to maximize individual and organizational performance. Preventing workplace violence and other terrible events are important, but it [...]
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Supreme Court Tweaks Personnel Selection
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Legal, Personnel Selection
I wrote a few weeks ago that the case law supported the city of New Haven in avoiding creating a basis for adversely impacted minorities to sue. Today, the Supreme Court has changed the interpretation of Title VII. Although I am not a lawyer, here are the relevant holdings by the Supreme Court, with my explanations: [...]
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How intuition blinds managers
June 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Emotion, Neurobiology, Personnel Selection
Human beings are odd creatures. We like to pride ourselves on our logic. However, our brains contain two systems for processing. The first is fast, automatic, and not at the conscious level of use. Kahneman and Tversky, the Nobel prize winners who documented these systems, called this system our intuition system. The second system, being [...]
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Avoiding the Rodney Dangerfield syndrome
June 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Employee Engagement, High-performance Workplace, Organizational Performance, Performance Management, Personnel Selection, Training, Training Evaluation
The point of High-performance Workforce is to provide advice and techniques to optimize individual and organizational performance. To that end, describing the characteristics of a high-performance workforce is important so that you can understand why I am planning on spilling so much ink on this subject. High-performance workforces are characterized by these accomplishments: Personnel are [...]
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Of trials and tribulations: a tip on personnel selection
June 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Legal, Personnel Selection
The recent nomination of Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has increased the discussion of employment law. Sotomayor concurred but did not author the judgment in the appeal of Ricci vs. Destefano, which continues to inspire many complaints about reverse racism and judicial activism. Ricci is a white firefighter for the city of New Haven who [...]
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