Weekly Reading List - Week 19
After a few weeks of break, we’re back with your Weekly Reading List: the ultimate way, to find and read only those articles that are relevant to you and your field of interest.
This week, a lot of focus has been placed on the blogosphere about personal behavior and leadership in the current economy. Enjoy your reading and don’t hesitate to comment, either on the content or the form of this blog post.
With people talking about recovery, crisis talk is decreasing steadily:
- Analysis: HR demand and the recession (Nick Martindale)
- Layoffs Continue Despite Belief in Upturn (Erik Samdahl)
- Don’t tolerate poor retail staff - replace them while you can! (Andy)
- Should You Hire New Employees in a Slow Economy? (Jim Stroud)
- Taking the Easy Way Out - Cutting Hours to Reduce Costs Is Not the Answer… (Tim Sackett)
- When Is Enough Enough? (Angie Roach) (Finally some optimism!)
Some interesting articles about recruitment, CVs and the employer brand:
- New White Paper: Poor Economy’s Affect on Employment Verification (Employee Screen IQ University)
- Use Your Culture To Brand Your Company/Department/Team (Miki Saxon)
- Panel Interviews Made Simple (The Staffing Advisor)
- What It’s Like to Make a Job Offer (Alison Green)
- What’s the Right Mix of Interviews in Your Hiring Funnel? (Kris Dunn)
- You need the right person, not the almost-right person (Alison Green)
- How To Craft A Remarkable “Purple Cow” Resume (Amber Shah)
- Why HR Rarely Develops the Employment Brand (Jason C. Blais)
And some articles about employee termination and employee departure:
- The cost of cutting jobs: legal Q&A (Michael Ball)
- Employee Resigns - Walk Them Out the Door Or Let Them Work a Notice?… (Kris Dunn)
- Does Anyone Really Think They Have a ‘Job for Life?’ (John Hollon)
- A Question About Answering, “Why Are You Leaving?” (Sabine Hikel)
- Another Day, Another Bad Layoff (John Hollon)
- 3 Reasons Why Alumni Networks (”Huddled Masses”) Don’t Work for Small/Medium Sized Companies… (Kris Dunn)
Two interesting general HR articles:
- Corporate B.S. Term #40 Human Capital (Shenanigans)
- HR metrics: What do high-performing companies track? (Erik Samdahl)
As promised: Leadership & Change Management:
- What Leadership List Are You On? (Art Petty)
- Use Competence, Not Dominance (Steve Roesler)
- When Intensity Becomes Bullying (Carmine Coyote)
- More leaders v managers nonsense (Wally Bock)
- Don’t just tell me. Show me (Wally Bock)
- Bob The Builder (Dike Drummond)
- The Inconvenience Of Change (Matt Cheuvront)
- Function, Not Form, Matters Most in Board’s Non-executive Leader (Ben W. Heineman, Jr.)
- Three Little Words Every Leader Needs to Learn (Rosabeth Moss Kanter)
- The Right Way to Manage Surprises (Ed Gilligan)
- Fixing Problems (Guy Farmer)
- Cheerleading is a Full Time Job… (Lisa Kaye)
Career Management and Personal Performance:
- Getting Promoted Is Bad For You (Lilit Marcus)
- The Leader of the Future: Ten skills to begin developing now (Dan McCarthy)
- Feeling Tense? Hate the New Guy? It Might be Making YOU Better at Your Job! (Maren Hogan)
Best Practices when it comes to communication in the workplace:
- Lack of Communication You Say? (Gwyn Teatro)
- 5 Tips to Get the Feedback You Need Now (Pam Fox Rollin)
- Internal Communication 101 – why re-invent the wheel? (Ian Buckingham)
- Why I Hate the “Sandwich” Technique for Delivering Feedback (Art Petty)
HR 2.0 - Social Networks in the People Management Function:
- A Quick Note On LinkedIn Etiquette (Human Resource Pufnstuf)
- HR: You’re Doing It Wrong Something to Tweet About (Laurie Ruettimann)
- What Should Your Reward Program Communication Plans Have in Common With the Swine Flu? (Anonymous)
- Social Media: A Resource for the Unemployed (Sarah Welstead)
Reward & Benefits (in the broader sense of the term) being used as strategic tools:
- Agility. The New Reward Watchword (Ann Bares)
- What’s the Value of External Advice? (Freek Vermeule)
- Are We Entitled to Coffee? (Human Resources Pufnstuf)
- Are Rewards, Incentives and Recognition Programs Employee Benefits? (Ann Barres)
Learning & Development - new views, old ones in new packages:
- Training + Development = Strong Organization…….. Training - Development = Disaster (Brian J. Beck)
- Embrace online learning, HR urged (People Management)
- Supervision: Take the Time for Proper Job Instruction (Michael Taplin)
Employee Engagement - a growing topic in these difficult conditions:
- What, Really, Is Employee Engagement? (Steve Roesler)
- On the Edge: If You’re Worried About Employee Engagement, You’ve Got It Wrong (Paul Herbert)
- Engaging Times (Alice Snell)
And to conclude, our usual “gender in the workplace” section:
- Male team won’t talk to me (Alison Green)
- Women’s Issues: Communication, The C-Suite and Compensation (Michael D. Haberman)
- Leadership’s Future: Women Will Run The World (Miki Saxon)
- Women will lead Generation Y - What will men do? (Rebecca Thorman)
- CIPD: reports won’t close gender pay gap (People Management)
Followed by the also usual “generations in the workplace” one:
- Generation Y & The Brett Favre Effect (Brad Hilderbrand)
- Leadership and the Millennials (Art Petty)
Since people are not very keep on talking about team-roles on the blogs I follow (and that is quite a significant number already), let me just finish by quoting a sentence found on Fistfuloftalent:
You know why people spend so much time and money on tests like the Myers-Briggs and the DISC profile? Because what makes you successful today won’t necessarily make you successful tomorrow, and one way to hedge against that risk is to have a balanced team that complements each other..
That’s it for this time. See you next week and may your week be truly engaging… and may your comments get flourishing!
