How to Fix Your Hiring Process
Peter Cappelli, professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and director of its Center for Human Resources, says managers at companies large and small are doing hiring all wrong. A confluence of changes, from the onslaught of online tools to a rise in recruitment outsourcing, have promised more efficiency but actually made us less effective at finding the best candidates. Cappelli says … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Peter Cappelli | Source: “Harvard Business Review” | Subject: Human Resources
How to Create Happier Employees
Professor Jochen Menges on the ways companies can develop well-being initiatives that genuinely make people feel better.
Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Jochen Menges, Laura W. Geller | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
How Your Hiring Process Could Predict Unethical Behavior
Carnegie Mellon professor Taya Cohen explains the connection between moral character and workplace performance
Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Laura W. Geller, Taya Cohen | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Warning: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s Talent Planning
Kim Scott, co-founder of Candor, Inc., has built her career around creating bullshit-free zones where people love their work and working together. Inspired by her talk at First Round’s CEO Summit, Scott shares her epiphany about management — and the mindset and framework it takes to really build a kick-ass team, starting with deciphering the distinct attributes and incentives of high-performers.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Kim Scott | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Human Resources
Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals
Bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant has spent years researching and interviewing originals. In this interview, Grant explains why it’s imperative for early-stage companies to hire originals. He shares how he singles them out and delves into recommended questions and exercises that can help startups find and hire them.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Adam Grant | Source: “First Round Review” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Lose Your Just-Good-Enough Managers
You can’t build a great company by tolerating mediocre leaders. A Q&A with Raad Al-Saady, managing director at Abdul Latif Jameel.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: “Gallup Management Journal” | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior
Javier Bajer: Engaged, Committed and Confident—Isn’t That What You Mean by Talent?
The founding CEO of The Talent Foundation, Javier Bajer, challenges conventional views on talent management. He believes, for example, that most investments in talent are simply being wasted by the use of expensive but flawed programs to find or cultivate the right people.
Bajer argues that companies should spend less time trying to separate the right and wrong people, and more time trying to help individuals … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Javier Bajer | Source: “Accenture” | Subject: Human Resources