Assessment Centres are considered the gold, if somewhat expensive, standard for selecting candidates for a job or role. However, there are perils if you do not know what you are doing, as demonstrated below. An excerpt from People Management (p.23): “The employer had developed a candidate assessment centre with exercises that scored people according to… Read More
Business Performance: [Table] Size Does Matter
An excerpt from People Management: “…he quickly noted two distinct groups of employees: data sets showed one would consistently relax at tables of four people, even when the make-up of the table varied from day to day. The other group consistently had 12 people. Analysis confirmed that the people in larger groups were much more… Read More
The Future of Hiring?
Online gaming ‘helps predict candidates future job performance’. The future of recruitment lies in hiring for ‘predicted performance in role’ rather than judging a candidate on past skills or competencies. However, to do this HR would need to radically shift its thinking around how it assesses candidates and embrace online gaming or ‘gamification’. Apparently the trouble… Read More
Are You A Deceiver?
UK organisations are flooded with applications from willing candidates, leaving employers to separate the wheat from the chaff (the CIPD’s recent Labour Market Outlook reported an average of 45 applications for each vacancy). Experienced recruiters therefore become the coveted custodians of one of the most important talent management strategies. Worryingly, a study from the Journal… Read More
Organisational Change & Employee Health
A recent study of the Whitehall II cohort in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2013,doi:10.1136/oemed-2013-101385) finds that “organisational change affects employees’ health negatively in the short term but also that it is possible to recover from such negative effects.” I would presume to say that the short term effect is due to the fear of losing… Read More
Homeworking: Fairness Works Both Ways
This article gives rich evidence on key things to get right in managing homeworking. It also points to some of the benefits, notably in employees’ commitment. The research asks how homeworking practices relate to employees’ psychological contracts, which is to say, their expectations of the flexible working scheme and their employment relationship as a whole.… Read More
Remember the challenge of John Maynard Keynes:
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?”
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