What is he? These terms name executive positions, manager of all informatics systems and resources afferent to them from a company. Depending on the organizational specific and needs, both the name of the job and the responsibilities can vary. Therefore, if the IT Head is present in non-IT companies and names the person who runes [...]
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The HR “Poem” or the Uselessness of the Human Resources Departments
April192010In my junior years, when going to interviews was an activity intensely practices and assumed, I felt sometimes in the middle of a beauty contest. Don’t take me wrong, I wasn’t a contestant, but the ones who interviewed me and were telling stories about the HR specialist/manager’s role in the organization were. The most common [...]
Multisource Feedback or 360° Evaluation
March12010The multisource feedback is a method of evaluating employees, using more sources, multiple evaluators in different hierarchical and functional positions towards the evaluated person, inside or outside the organization. It is preferable that every evaluator to tell their opinion anonymously, so that the risk of biases be low. It is a greatly used system, US [...]
Performance assessment – what do my employees know, can, do and want?
January262010Performances assessment represents an important process in the human resources activity and most certainly the easiest concept to quantify and monetize. What does “performance” mean? In general performance is seen as a favorable result. However performance evaluation doesn’t take into account only the employees’ professional results but the whole complex of interpersonal and professional qualities, [...]
Ethics and Man as Resource
September172009The present crisis, more or less faded, represents an excellent opportunity to discuss about the man as a resource. Because what is the man in an organization but a resource, an important one, even if inconstant and often unpredictable. However it is concerning that small and large companies started peering man not as a capital, [...]
Employee Monitoring: One Man’s Meat Is Another Man’s Poison
September172009According to a study conducted by GeCad company and summoned by Mediafax, half of the Romanian managers are preoccupied with monitoring employee activity, the majority thus using two or more computer applications. As not to create a term confusion in the following, I will specify that monitoring means all actions meant to supervise employees during [...]
Recruitment Strategy – Whom, How Much and How I Hire?
July132009The lack of a strategic thinking in the company’s recruitment processes is invoked both by candidates and by some HR specialists. As a rule, multinationals import the directing lines form the strongest branches, without adapting them to the national specific, and the native companies hire by the rule “hic et nunc” (here and now), forgetting [...]
Myths, Crisis and Human Resources
June222009From the installation of the so invoked crisis, specialists’ prophecies started pouring: it will last long, or a little, it will be destructive or imperceptible, we will face a new economical era or we will live in the present one. The prophet –specialists didn’t forget to go over the human resources field. Therefore an opinion [...]
Performance Management
June222009In the near past of local HR management, performance management didn’t exist as a concept, being assimilated by the evaluation of performance. In turn it consists in appreciating the degree in which the employee is fulfilling his/her responsibilities, in relation with the occupied position. In modern acceptation (at least theoretical, as practice is kind of [...]
Motivation versus Cutting Costs
April302009The most acute paradigm of the moment is that of performing with fewer employees and of course with them powerfully affected by the present socio-economical context. Reduction of personnel, cost cuttings, smaller bonuses, grater responsibilities, all because of the decimation of teams. Therefore the fight for clients is keener than ever, services and products must [...]
Astrology and Human Resources – Compatible or Not?
April302009Of late years, astrology has become a field of interest, which starts to interfere with political and social predictions, latest trying to impose itself in recruitment and selection area. More often the compatibility between signs seems to become important in team stability and in choosing a professional. However can astrology generate valid instruments for human [...]
The Most Frequent Mistakes in Recruitment and Selection
March112009Even though they are considered to be administrative processes, recruitment and selection represent the cornerstone of Human Resources Management. Because if you can’t find and attract the right employees, there won’t be anything further to administer or develop. The most frequent mistakes in recruitment and selection are: Chaotic activity: there are companies which recruit and [...]
Healthy Management in Healthy Organizations
February102009We live times where health has become an important value: we eat healthy, we live healthy or at least we wish we would. However, it seems it’s very hard for us to extend these principals to the type of management that we adopt. We think strategic, we plan, we present ourselves as leaders, but do [...]
Time Management
November192008Even though few managers are aware of it, the incapacity of those with whom they work to control their own time is one of the best met reasons for low performance. In common signification, time management is reflected in respected terms, in efficient working and personal time planning and in tasks delegation. It looks simple, [...]
The Exit Interview
October72008This category of interview is a common practice when the employee has decided to end the working relations, therefore when they chose to resign. In reality, whatever the grounds for resigning, the employee can provide valuable pieces of information regarding the company’s internal policies, relations, organization, being a genuine instrument in determining retention methods. Generally [...]
Internal Communication – Directions, Characteristics, Barriers
October72008The least invoked concept from the local HR management, internal communication defines the total amount of communication means and ways employed inside the company. Though many consider it unidirectional, internal communication actually presents two types of orientations: On the vertical – between top managers and the great mass of employees; On the horizontal – between [...]
Negative attitude, a phenomenon which can be stoped
September162008Your work place is permanently hit by hostile behavior and negative attitude. No matter the source of the calamity howler, it’s up to you to help building a positive and productive atmosphere. As a manager, supervisor or team member as often as not you can’t control the situation which causes the negative attitude. When you [...]
The Gang from the Office
September162008It is well-known that we have to deal with coteries everywhere: at school, at home even at the office. The “bigoted” groups of employees go to lunch and drink their coffee together, talk and socialize during and after the work program. If the office starts reminding you more and more of the high school years, [...]
Career Success – Other Possible Ingredients
September162008Defined as a victory, a favorable result, career success is commonly associated with notoriety in a certain professional field, with remarkable results in that domain. We always envied or admired the ones who succeeded and wondered what their secret was. What do they have, what do they know, and what can they do better than [...]
To do’s for this autumn
September162008Holidays are long gone over; most of the companies start their activity with fresh forces. The recruitment projects are re-engaged or start adventitiously, a new breath can be felt in the HR department’s activity. What can you do this autumn to make the activity coherent in the department you run? 1. If this thing didn’t [...]
Career Success: Personal Branding
July232008One’s career must be in a continuous movement. Without dynamics, it can collapse anytime. That’s why any professional is proactive regarding his career, always being attentive at the opportunities that can set him going. The development of a personal brand is a key component in keeping a career. Such as a commercial brand differentiates a [...]
Closed for overhaul!
July232008Welcome Holiday! This is how we ended our troubling school compositions. Now, after half year of work, we would make it’s apology in far more numerous and great words; it wound maybe include the rough sand, the hot sun, the salty smell of the sea, the fade one of relaxation, maybe a sunset or a [...]
You’re Fired!
July22008I don’t have (yet) orange hair and I haven’t said that often this painfull words. But I believe that you can not be a complex manager if you haven’t been in the shoes of one who has to fire a colleague. I start with an obvious idea and with the hope that there is no [...]
Delegation – an efficient management instrument
July22008In most cases, the today management style is a flexible one, which depends on the situation: on the task that must be done, abilities and knowledge of the team or of a certain employee, available time and instruments or on the wanted results. As a supervisor, manager or team leader, everyday you make decisions regarding [...]
How do you negotiate the departure of an employee?
July22008Because of the information than an employee takes with him, all “breakups” are dangerous. More frequently, employers take into consideration the problem of leaving employees, because these separations aren’t correctly administrated, can harm other people, as well as the organizations with which they are associated. After you find out an employee is leaving, most of [...]