The HR Practitioner

HR.com is the largest online community for human resources professionals featuring articles, news, webcasts, events, white papers, discussion forums, templates, forms, best practices , and more.
The Role of Assessments in Leader Selection & Development
Charles Handler, Rocket Hire, and HR.com´s Karen Elmhirst lead a discussion of many types of assessments and within each type, a look at some of their advantages and limitations.

The Reference Check: More Than a Formality
For many organizations, the search committee lets out a collective sigh of relief after getting through the interview process and narrowing the field down to a potential hire. Though it is tempting to think of the reference check as a mere formality, this step is critical; from Bridgestar.

Shifting the Role of the HR Staff from Transactional to Strategic
To be successful in this turbulent environment, HR leaders need to break down the barriers and silos between them and management, writes Kathleen Dodaro.

Reality HR: Dan Hilbert, Valero Energy Corporation, on World Class Managing From the Future
Dan Hilbert, Valero Energy Corporation with Debbie McGrath, HR.com on Xtreme Staffing World Class Managing From the Future. Part IV of four parts on how Valero Energy used data to turn staffing into a proactive, rather than a reactive, supply chain proposition.

D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T
Whenever you go to a program on employment law, the presenters probably emphasizes the importance of documentation. Mary Anne Q. Wood has summarized what you need to know about when and how to document.

Make Your Customers Say "Wow!"
To get your customers to say "Wow," Greg Smith has some suggestions to follow: four steps of exceptional service .

Thinking about "Resistance to Change"
Over the years, a handy term has been borrowed from psychotherapy for use in organizational literature and conversation:   resistance to change.   Patty McManus explains how being able to label you "xyz", shifts blame to you, and the organization doesn´t have to change anything about the way they're operating.

E-Commerce Branding: The Big HR Challenge of 2006
"Cheap" is losing its power as now "free" is in. Global competition is so fierce and the labor-cost disparity is so wide that most bargain pricing is no longer effective, as there is always some other supplier to offer a product for far less -- or even for free, writes Naseem Javed.

High-Maintenance Employee: Why Your Best People Will Also Be Your Most Difficult ... and What You Ca
High-maintenance employees are your company´s greatest asset top executive coach Katherine Graham Leviss reveals how to tap their best characteristics in new book.

Know Your Zone
How to overcome defensiveness and build more successful relationships; from Jim Tamm.

Management In Real Life: Leadership
Just look around and it´s easy to see that we have far more managers than leaders in most organizations, writes Kevin Herring.

The HR School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Unless you live in an alternate universe you know someone who's crazy about the Harry Potter series. In the spirit of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, let's consider some tasks you might have to face as your company's HR champion and how you might handle them; From M Lee Smith.

Personal Integrity: A Self-Diagnostic
Individuals with integrity create an organization with integrity. To see how you´re shaping up, Don Phin thinks you need to ask yourself these questions.

HR's New Directive is to Deliver Value to All Stakeholders
Find out how to increase the impact of HR on your company´s business performance by 250 percent from leading HR expert Wayne Brockbank in his interview with Veritude´s Workforce Insights.

Six Questions For the New Year
Carol Ross passes on her favorite six ideas for 2006!

Can we talk?
Communicating across generations requires understanding, so stay with it until you see the logic, writes Susan Lucia Annunzio.

Tribute to Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
Marshall Goldsmith offers this tribute to a friend and mentor.

University of Toronto and University of Ottawa Join Forces to Serve Ottawa's Leading HR Executives
The University of Toronto Joseph L. Rotman  School of Management and the University of Ottawa School of Management announced today that they will partner to deliver the Advanced Program in Human Resources Management (APHRM) in Ottawa.

The Performance Edge: New Strategies To Maximize Your Work Effectiveness & Competitive Advantage - 600 word review
The Performance Edge is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and thoroughly researched guide to the latest thinking on personal effectiveness and workplace performance. Find out more. Read this review.

HR.com Hosts Inaugural Human Resources Pavilion at FOSE 2006
FOSE, the nation´s largest technology event serving the government marketplace, attracts 25,000 government professionals.

The HR industry´s premier online community and resource for Human Resource professionals: HR, human resources, HR community, human resources community, HR best practices, best practices in human resources, online communities for HR, HR articles, HR news, human resources articles, human resources news, HR events, leadership, performance management, staffing and recruitment, benefits, compensation, staffing, recruitment, workforce acquisition, human capital management, HR management, human resources management, HR metrics and measurement, organizational development, executive coaching, HR law, employment law, labor relations, hiring employees, HR outsourcing, human resources outsourcing, training and development
hr.com. human resources management resources for hr professionals. | HR menus | HR events | HR Sitemap