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Leadership Characteristics – A Shift In Requirements?

Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 2010-08-23 13:01. HR Leadership

For the past 20 years, a piece of work often quoted in relation to the required Characteristics of Admired Leaders has been The Leadership Challenge. First released in 1987 by Kouzes and Posner, the book has become one of the best selling leadership books of all time. As part of their research and ongoing data collection, they ask the

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Virtual HR - The Irresistible Force?

Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 2010-08-23 10:32. HR Leadership

Among the many difficulties facing the HR community today, perhaps none is proving as intractable nor as profound in its ramifications than the question of how to respond to the rapid automation of the discipline. The rise of "virtual HR" challenges the very nature of human resources; with more and more companies opting for increasingly hi-tech solutions devolving growing portions of the core HR burden to the end-users themselves, what is the nature of the role to be played by the remaining human participants within the process?

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HR’s Role in High-Performing Companies

Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 2010-08-16 10:30. HR Leadership

By: Ron Lawrence and published with permission by Canadian Management

What creates high-performing companies? Customers, investors, and employees try to answer that question and that academics and business theorists study and debate it endlessly. In his best-selling book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t, Jim Collins writes that companies can’t achieve great things without great people. But what defines “great people?” Are they the smartest, most ambitious, most aggressive?