One of the most interesting challenges in the field of people analytics at the moment is to create a data-driven culture in HR. If you already have a great people analytics ‘machine’ in place, with all the governance, processes, and tech, you still need HR professionals to make this machine actually work and add business…
The labor market is globalizing at high speed. Students are doing foreign exchanges and internships to boost their CVs, young professionals are eagerly applying for international assignments, virtual teams and frequent, long-distance commuting have become mainstream, and intercultural management experiences are these days a requisite to get ahead in corporate life. In sum, people are…
Have you seen The Intern? If you haven’t, I’d recommend you watch it. It’s a film starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro and although I doubt it was the writer’s intention, it’s about age diversity in the workplace. But wrapped in a slick-looking, Hollywood style package of course. In a nutshell – and without…
Accepting a new job is never an easy decision. Even if the interview process goes perfectly, many candidates still experience a lot of hesitation. After all, what if the actual job is nothing like the interview led them to believe? It can be a real struggle to accurately represent what a job really is like before…
Diversity & Inclusion initiatives are more than only counting demographic or gender headcounts and reporting these metrics in bite-size “diversity” scorecards or dashboards. These types of metrics are quota-based metrics and will tell you how many women hold a leadership role or how many people from black, Asian, and other minority backgrounds are part of…
At AIHR we get a lot of requests for case studies to make the analytics process more tangible. In their new book, Predicting Business Success, Scott Mondore and co-authors provided one of the most interesting studies we’ve come across. In this article, they will show how smart people analytics helped to counter a downward trend…
Just last week, The Predictive Index published its 2018 People Management Survey. The survey was held among more than 5000 people across various industries and holds some very interesting findings – not just for managers but for HR too. In this article, we’ll highlight some of the findings from the report. They’ll help you get…
The newly appointed people operations manager of a fast-growing scale-up (120 people today) called me. She had just started, and asked if I could give some advice. We drank a coffee in Amsterdam. Below a short summary of my tips. 1. Don’t hire an HR manager My first message was: I would not have hired…
How can HR design employee experiences that empower critical thinking, teamwork, and innovation? Design Thinking is an approach that will change HR in its core. It will develop a human-centric mindset that focuses beyond designing programs or processes to create meaningful experiences. In one sentence: design thinking is a process for creative “problem solving” Design…
No matter how big your company or what industry you are in, many companies often miss the opportunity to effectively engage their new hires, leading to lower levels of productivity and advocacy. In today’s article, we wanted to share some great examples of how new hire engagement can be built. 1. Don’t have a disconnect…