HRM

hrmonline | April 18, 2016

During a weeklong trip to Melbourne, Australia, founder and CEO of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey, spoke of why it was sometimes necessary to let top employees go. “One of the things I learnt early, early on in Twitter is sometimes you have these people who are just superstars – they have all the right answers, they have all the skills and they’re amazing,” he said at a Square Talk Shop event in Federation Square....

hrmonline | April 15, 2016

Some industry commentators may say that robotic workers threaten millions of jobs around the world but one Chinese restaurant chain is sure to disagree after it was forced to scale back operations thanks to the incompetent AI. When Guangshou-based eatery Heweilai introduced the $7,000 machines to three of its restaurants last year, the move was met with much excitement and customers flocked to see the wait-staff in action....

HRM | April 13, 2016

HR professionals who find themselves grappling with unethical or dishonest employees may want to consider the results of one U.S. study which claims to have uncovered a possible cause. According to researchers from John Hopkins University, the University of Washington and Georgetown University, people are more inclined to lie if they’re lacking in sleep or are working at the wrong time of day....

Hrm Online | April 13, 2016

While the vast majority of companies see leadership as a top priority, very few of them are actually taking the right approach to developing high potential staff, said Simon Moylan, head of talent management at Hudson. In fact, he adds, his company’s annual surveys have highlighted this gap over and over. Each year when we survey for the HR priorities, leadership always comes out at number one or two,” he said. “What was surprising was every year we get that as number one, but ...