Author Archives: Bruce Lewin
Apparently, nearly 50% of employees fail in the first 18 months of their jobs
Thank you to Max Goldman’s blog for the title. We’ve also seen research by Ciampa and Watkins (1999) who claim that 64% of external hires ‘fail to make it in their new jobs’. Max writes; Apparently, nearly 50% of employees … Continue reading
Relationships as the Killer App?!
My friend Johnnie Moore has been spending some time at Reboot8. Here’s a quick extract that caught my eye from an update from Johnnie; …here are a few soundbites from Doc Searls who is speaking at the moment. Not sure … Continue reading
More on Recruitment Methods
Following on from an earlier post, Robert Cenek raises the question ‘Can Job Turnover be Predicted?’ To me, it seems that Robert’s line of thinking runs in parrell to the earlier post, particularly when he writes; Can Job Turnover be … Continue reading
Links on Relationships
I’ve been seeing a number of posts and articles on conflict and relationships. Here are some to mull over if you fancy a browse; Poor conflict management costs business billions In the UK alone, the CEDR calculates, conflict costs business … Continue reading
HCM Software Growth
Research group IDC are reporting growth in the Human Capital Management field from £700m today to £1bn in 2010. Much of this growth appears to come from the increasing complexity in managing the HR function. Bo Lykkegaard, an analyst at … Continue reading
Groundbreaking Research
Jason Corsello highlights the ability of Talent Management software firms to match and link competencies across industries and clients. Demonstrating the relationship between this data and revenues and costs in the words of Jason; …is…can I say…groundbreaking? This could be … Continue reading
A Consensus on Recruitment Methods?
An interesting article and comment from HR Magazine highlights the lack of consensus over appropriate selection methods (also see Personnel Today). There are some pretty startling figures in here too, along with the editorial comment; Popular recruitment methods are useless … Continue reading
Demonstrating Value?
Personnel Today have an interesting opinion piece in which they call for greater sophistication in demonstrating the value added by HR and HR Outsourcing in general; HR outsourcing’s tools and techniques need to move up to a new level of … Continue reading
HR Strategy and Strategy Execution
Max Goldman makes a very telling remark about the means and methods of adding value from a HR standpoint. Commenting on a 2006 Talent Management Survey Max writes; The most interesting piece, I thought, was this quote from Averbrook: “Many … Continue reading
Emotional Injury Liability Insurance
I read an interesting post from Jerry Pounds at Management Issues. In short, the issue of intentional emotional distress can now carry a hefty penalty, at least in the US. A hospital maintenance worker was recently awarded an $11.65 million … Continue reading
