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            HR Technology integration becomes the new HR currency as it outperforms non-integration by 41% “Survey findings of the 2010 State of Global People Management research, released by Massachusetts-based international people management software company Softscape, reveals that organisations that integrate talent processes, systems and data on performance, succession planning, compensation, [...]

The annual HR Africa Summit, organised by the Institute for International Research South Africa (IIR), will this year combine with its newly purchased Star HRD Expo. Possibly the largest HR event in South Africa; The Star HR Summit and Expo (Incorporating HRDE), will run at the Sandton Convention Centre from 5 – 8 October, 2010. [...]

In times of lightning change as we are currently experiencing, countries and organisations have to fall back on their culture to keep their dreams alive. Those shared values, symbols and behaviours are supposed to get us safely to the other side. We have something to hold onto, when everything around us is falling apart. Never [...]

With talent engagement being the rage in HR circles, I will be presenting at the HR Africa Conference today on the role of reward – does it drive engagement or disengagement?nbsp;

I plan to cover

• Total Reward
• Base Pay – Traditional amp; CTC Packages
• Pay Equity
• Recognition

As usual I will be turning conventional wisdom on its head.nbsp; If you are attending the conference, you can catch my presentation in Stream 2 at 17h00

You can read the introductory post of this series, Never Revealed Before, Direct from my Vault (No 1) Written by an anonymous individual, known as the Underpaid Worker. Do management development programmes work?…

You can read the introductory post of this series, Never Revealed Before, Direct from my Vault (No 1) Written by an anonymous individual, known as the Underpaid Worker. Training others in the position you never got?…

Get a glimpse behind the corporate glass with HR Future’s workplace radical

In April 1999, Chris Locke, Doc Searles and David Weinberger dropped a bombshell with their Cluetrain Manifesto: the End of Business as Usual – when internetworked markets meet intranetworked workers, there is a transformation of what is inside and outside your business. The organisation has two sweeping choices, hide behind the sanitised corporate babble or get in the conversation. Nine years later, many SA organisations remain outsiders to conversations about them…nbsp;

A defining moment in your business is when you decide to employ people. Each time that the pen glides on the employment contract, you and another individual are setting of on a rollercoaster ride using the tracks of your business and his/her career. Many promising businesses discover abruptly that their track is wrecked beyond repair not by competitors, but by…