So, you did have to restructure, after all. For most companies, this is a process led mainly by the legal team, with specific stages and guidelines set by the applicable legislation. Do not forget the human part of this painful process, as it will make the difference between a success or a potentially damaging lash...
Five ways not to restructure These are interesting times, so as not say straight away that these are hard times. When most organizations struggle with coping with the current challenges, restructuring is one of the first ideas that comes to the managing team as a solution. In fact, it is not always so. If...
We hear a lot of talk about this employer brand. But what is it exactly? The sum of the opinions of all the stakeholders in a company? The perception of whether it would make a desirable employer or not? Who makes the employer brand? One thing is for sure, it cannot be made only by...
The idea for this article came to me while writing about the advent of the artificial intelligence (AI) inside the HR profession as a versatile tool we use or wish we used, especially in administration and recruitment. And I wanted to stop and explore more in detail if and how AI and Human can work...
We have all heard many times that employees are the greatest asset a company has and that a motivated team makes much more profit than a demotivated one. I believe that in the future one of the necessary developments will be – more so in the context of accelerated use of technology – to count...
If I had written this last year, I would have started with the one word that was paramount in the training world: gamification, a theory in which I believe, saying that learning is a difficult and painful process, which can be eased through play. By playing, we learn without being aware that we are learning....
I read many opinions on how recruitment will evolve in the future and people seem to all think HR processes will go fully digital. I do not entirely agree on this, or at least I think recruitment will evolve in a different way. In those companies where HR is seen as a partner for business...
Since the beginning of the story HR functions on the service model where each HR function reports to the HR Director in a formula structured by content and expertise. In the large companies a second service model gradually developed, spun from the idea that HR is more than an internal provider of services, but a...
The HR team works in a pattern in which the managers of each function reports to the HR Director: recruitment, administration usually together with payroll, training usually together with development, industrial relations and compensation and benefits, often shortened to Comp&Ben. So, an orga chart of 5 teams. Here is what they do: Recruitment manages the...
In Romania HR is a new job, mostly coming up within the last 20 years or so. For a long while, there were no dedicated university studies in HR and no specialization options were available to someone looking to learn. Currently Romania has around 10.000 HR professionals and this number keeps growing, as compared to...
