Inside HR

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Below you’ll find the posts from Elephants at Work from the Inside HR category. As an employee, you may not understand the role of Human Resources (HR) in your organization or know how to use them to your advantage. The Inside HR articles will give you information to feel more confident before you talk with HR.

You will find information in the Inside HR category on:

  • Succession planning
  • Organizational development
  • Using Assessments such as HBDI, MBTI etc.
  • Turnover
  • Bullying and Sexual Harassment
  • Communication

If you don’t see your topic here, submit your question and perhaps it will be featured in an upcoming article!

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Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes What is your opinion on performance reviews? Do you think performance reviews are a valuable tool for organizational effectiveness? Personally, I think it depends on a number of factors and knowing how organizations run, the jury’s out for me. Here’s why. Not Enough Time Whoever is in charge of making sure that all the performance reviews are done in an organization knows this only too well. It doesn’t matter if you give the manager 1 or 3 months to complete them, there is always an excuse. The number one excuse is “I don’t have ...

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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes 5 Minute Survey on Psychometric Assessments I have a special request from a couple of assessment experts (details below) who are conducting research on psychometric assessments to measure the awareness and usage of certain psychometric instruments. The five minute survey will help them tremendously (no personal information collected), click on the following link to take the survey today! https://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22D7EEYXJ73 Survey ends on Thursday, September 20, 2011. Please share this article via any of the social media links below with other assessment users who you believe could aid in furthering the research. Survey Researchers and ...

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Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes The selection of assessments for personal or business use can become overwhelming, especially with the vast number of assessment products available on the market. There can be dissatisfaction with using an assessment without proper research and decision making parameters. As you make your selection, these nine important considerations may help you decide which assessment to use: Assessment Validity Validity is “the extent to which a test measures what its authors or users claim it measures; specifically, test validity concerns the appropriateness of the inferences that can be made on the basis of test results” ...

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Leadership Development Carnival Heads to Elephants at Work

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes The Leadership Development Carnival is going to be heading its way to Elephants at Work on October 2, 2011. I am excited to be a guest host for Dan McCarthy, a former Rochester resident that now resides in New Hampshire making a career move to Director of Executive Development Programs at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics (WSBE). I met Dan about a year ago. While researching the internet on Leadership Development and blogs, I found my way to Great Leadership. I wrote him (along with a number of ...

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Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes “We will just create a mentoring program” says a company president. His comment is in response to criticism that his company fails to develop employees. Sure, it takes some cash to send people to outside skill or behavioral development programs or to bring a consultant/trainer in to do the training – money that he doesn’t have. He figures he can skirt the money issue by assigning people to other people in his organization and let it all happen organically, after all isn’t that what a mentoring program is about? Unfortunately, he is far off ...

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