Human Resources Strategies

#37 Employee Retention. One Problem, multiple Views

Losing a valuable employee could just be a pity or even a tragedy. The problem seems to be clear. However, the way how companies deal with this topic really differs. Some

#36 Strategies to get Employee Surveys straight

Employee survey are among the most commonly used approaches in HR. The classic idea is to ask everyone everything so that all people work on almost anything. This episode

#35 What makes flexible working conditions really flexible?

There are a lot of measures known about how to shape flexible working arrangements. However, the most important question is, who decides upon those measures. By any mean,

#34 What it really means being an attractive Employer

Most company strive for being attractive employers. However, there is much confusion about what this actually could mean. What seems simple and nice might turn out as a c

#33 The Puzzle of Compensating High Performers in Teams

Even in teams there might be high performers. Treating high performers differently might be a mistake. Not doing so might be a mistake too. You might either kill collabor

#32 Does Pay for Performance really motivate?

Contingent pay could either increase or decrease employees’ motivation. It is an oversimplified and often wrong idea about money being a motivator only. Often rewards cou

#31 Fundamentals and Strategies of Base Pay

Base pay could be seen as a kind of flat rate. It mainly becomes relevant when it comes to attracting and retaining people. While most companies share a common approach o

#30 Meanings and Effects of Remuneration

Remuneration is not only about financials. It’s a social and psychological matter. When thinking about compensation system, four themes are to be taken into consideration

#29 Managing Careers of Experts who do not manage

Some experts might be more critical to a company’s organizational success than some managers or executives. However, experts have a different impact and their careers loo

#28 The Power of Experience for personal Growth

To a large extend people learn through experience. There are powerful ways to manage this particular way of development. In this episode we talk primarily about, action l

#27 How talented People learn from and with Others

A good way to learn and develop is to learn from and with others. In order to make this happen companies could run various initiatives. In this episode we talk primarily

#26 Who are your most talented People?

One major challenge of talent management is to understand who got talent. It is the question though, what talent actually is compared to competence and potential. Most co

#25 The Blessing and Curse of Competence Models

Competence models often serve as a strategic framework for the development, promotion, evaluation and selection of future leaders. While this could make sense there are v

#24 The Idea and Challenge of Talent Management

Talent management in most companies is seen as all activities and initiatives to fill key and bottleneck functions from the inside. While talent management is about both

#23 Find, transfer and retain Knowledge in your Organization

Knowledge management is about finding, retaining and transferring knowledge inside an organization. This episode briefly demonstrates a comprehensive approach on how to s

#22 Developing Leaders for organizational Success

Education of senior leaders, executives and managers might be critical to an organization’s long-term success. However, there is a significant variety of strategic ways o

#21 Nature and Strategies of Learning in an agile Setting

How can and will people learn in a situation when there is no knowledge available. This happen primarily in complex situations and when innovation is key. In this particu

#20 How to build a corporate Learning Strategy

A corporate learning strategy is a systematic way not only to understand learning needs but to translate needs into concrete learning activities based on strategic learni

#19 Learning in Organizations happens in many different Ways

Learning is about becoming able to solve problems. In organizations learning happens in all possible forms. In order manage learning, it is reasonable to classify differe

#18 Formal Performance Review, Judgement and Assessment

In every organizations judgement upon people are needed at some point of time. However, formal judgement could do a lot of harm to teams depending on the structural and c