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HR News & Trends

Keynote by Hillary Clinton at SHRM Chicago Will Be Closed to Media

by on May 16, 2013, 12:40 PM  |  20 Comments
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Just when I think I have seen just about everything happen when it comes to dealing with SHRM — the Society for Human Resource Management — something like this pops up and makes you wonder, “What could they be thinking?”

SHRM’s annual conference & exhibition, which is the single largest event in HR each year, will be held this year in Chicago June 16-19. Chicago native and former First Lady/Secretary of State/U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the opening general session on Sunday.

However, SHRM says that the media will NOT be permitted to cover Secretary Clinton’s SHRM speech. Read more…

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HR Insights

Rejected Again to Speak at SHRM – Could It Be I’m Not Boring Enough?

by on May 2, 2013, 9:10 AM  |  25 Comments
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I got a SHRM Strategy Conference rejection letter last week.

Some of you might remember the last rejection I got from SHRM. If not, here’s the post on Fistful of Talent (FOT)  – SHRM Doesn’t Like Us – But You Should.

Here’s the email from Rejection No. 2:

Dear Tim,

Thank you for submitting a proposal for the SHRM Strategy Conference being held September 30 – October 2, 2013 in San Diego, California. Read more…

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HR News & Trends, Recruiting and Staffing

Dispute Over .Jobs Addresses Settled In Favor of Job Boards

by on Dec 18, 2012, 8:05 AM  |  No comments yet
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The long-standing legal dispute over the establishment of job boards using the SHRM-sponsored .jobs Internet address has been resolved in favor of the job boards.

This means that the 40,000 site Universe.jobs network, run by DirectEmployers Association, will continue to operate, and can even expand if it chooses. Other job boards now will also be able to use the .jobs Internet domain, an extension just like the more familiar .com, .org, and .net. A new round of address issuance is scheduled to open in January.

Industry analyst Kevin Murphy called the decision by the Internet’s addressing authority — the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — “opening the floodgates for third-party job listings services.” Read more…

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HR News & Trends

Transparency Group Says It Will End Push to Change SHRM Board Policies

by on Dec 6, 2012, 11:40 AM  |  2 Comments
From the HR blog at TLNT.

SHRM Members for Transparency, the outside group that has been challenging the Board of Directors of the Society for Human Resource Management to be more open, transparent, and to modify certain questionable decisions and policies, has decided to end their efforts.

According to an email sent to members of their mailing list, the leadership of the Transparency Group now says that, “These last several years have been an incredible roller coaster ride, but it’s time for us to get off. This was a gut-wrenching decision, but a necessary one for us.”

In a longer message attached to the email titled SMFT Passes the Torch, the group wrote: Read more…

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HR Management, HR News & Trends

Business Community to HR: You’re Completely Irrelevant

by on Dec 4, 2012, 10:40 AM  |  5 Comments
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In 2005, Fast Company published Why We Hate HR. It caused much hand wringing and introspection inside the HR profession.

Here’s the last paragraph from that article:

That’s where human resources is today. Stuck. “This is a unique organization in the company,” says USC’s (John) Boudreau. “It discovers things about the business through the lens of people and talent. That’s an opportunity for competitive advantage.” In most companies, that opportunity is utterly wasted.”

Seven years later, that opportunity remains utterly wasted. Read more…

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HR News & Trends

Weekly Wrap: SHRM Forced to Back Off on New Human Capital Standard

by on Nov 30, 2012, 12:15 PM  |  2 Comments
From the HR blog at TLNT.

I’m not always a big fan of SHRM — particularly how SHRM’s Board of Directors has chosen to operate — but this week, I think SHRM got big footed and forced to back off something that might have ultimately been a good thing.

In case you missed it, the American Staffing Association (ASA) and a number of other related organizations are crowing about forcing the Society for Human Resource Management to back off an effort they were leading to create standards around the reporting of HR metrics to investors.

According to a story on SHRM’s website, “This standard was to consist of a series of metrics intended to show the value of human capital in a manner that would be compelling to investors in publicly traded companies” according to Lee Webster, HR standards director for the SHRM. Read more…

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HR News & Trends

SHRM Board Elections: The Results Are In … Sort Of

by on Sep 14, 2012, 12:00 PM  |  1 comment
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Nothing should be surprising when it comes to this year’s election of new members to the SHRM Board of Directors — not even the way the results are being announced.

With six (6) Director At Large positions at stake and two competing slates of candidates — one official slate being pushed by SHRM versus an alternative slate that was touted by the group SHRM Members for Transparency (SMFT) – it was, as I described it last week, “one of the most contentious and talked about elections for the SHRM Board of Directors, ever.”

Now, the results are apparently in with the SHRM-recommended Board candidates winning all six Director At Large Board seats. Read more…

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HR News & Trends

SHRM Board Elections: This Week, the Battle Comes Down to the Wire

by on Sep 4, 2012, 11:44 AM  |  1 comment
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Next week — noon EDT on Sunday September 9, to be exact — wraps up one of the most contentious and talked about elections for the SHRM Board of Directors, ever.

Normally, SHRM Board elections are quiet affairs with little to no discussion of the candidates, zero controversy, and an election turnout that never exceeds 5 percent of the overall SHRM membership. Few members actually vote, and fewer still actually seem to care much about who gets elected to the Board.

That’s not the case this year. Read more…

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HR News & Trends

Transparency Group: SHRM Is “Stacking the Deck” in Board Elections

by on Aug 6, 2012, 11:20 AM  |  3 Comments
From the HR blog at TLNT.

A group challenging the current policies of the SHRM Board of Directors is questioning whether the world’s largest HR organization is “stacking the deck” by expediting this year’s Board election — a charge that SHRM denies.

The group SHRM Members for Transparency (SMFT) – a group of respected former SHRM Board members, executives, and current SHRM members who have challenged the incumbent Society for Human Resource Management Board over a number of issues, including a lack of transparency and refusal to stand up and publicly explain what it is doing — announced in June that they were going to field (6) six candidates for seats on the SHRM Board of Directors in an attempt to change the Board’s actions from the inside.

Now, in an update to their membership titled “Stacking the Deck,” the Transparency Group questions whether SHRM has accelerated the Board election cycle, presumably to put the Transparency Group’s slate of write-in Board candidates at a greater disadvantage. SMFT says in its update that: Read more…

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HR Technology, Legal Issues

Still Don’t Have a Smartphone Policy? Join the Club – and Maybe the Lawsuit

by on Jul 17, 2012, 9:14 AM  |  No comments yet
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Five years after the iPhone was introduced, companies are still struggling with how to handle after-hours usage by their employees.

New research from SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management, says more than half the companies responding to a survey about usage policies don’t have any.

“Employers are not creating policies that delve into employees working outside of the traditional workday,” said Evren Esen, manager of SHRM’s Survey Research Center. “Whether an employee responds to e-mail at night or during the weekend is usually linked to organizational norms. If there is such an expectation, then employees are likely to follow suit.” Read more…

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