Current practices.
HRPS Thought Leader Roundtable
William G. Stopper, Partner; The Walker Group Facilitator: Ed
Gubman, Gubman Consulting
For the third year, HRPS board members gathered on Sunday morning
before . . .
Upcoming HRPS workshops & events.(HRPS News)(Human Resource
Planning Society)(Calendar)
October 12-15, 2003
Corporate Sponsor Forum Corporate Credibility: HR's Role in
Renewing Trust Scottsdale, Arizona
October 27-28, 2003
Understanding and Leading Culture Change Boston, MA
. . .
Upcoming release.(HRPS News)
Look for our new publication, Restoring Trust: HR's Role in
Corporate Governance, to be released in October in time for the
Society's Corporate Sponsor Forum on the same theme.
In an environment . . .
2003 HRPS Corporate Sponsor Forum.(HRPS News)
Corporate Credibility:
HR's Role in Renewing Trust October 12-15, 2003 Scottsdale,
Arizona
Join us in October at the Corporate Sponsor Forum, where HR
professionals can discuss how to influence . . .
Reducing workplace stress and aggression: An action research
project at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Few action research projects intentionally set out to do
multi-stakeholder, longitudinal, mixed-method action research in a large
complicated organization. We describe a multi-year project in the . . .
Acquiring the capacity for operational improvement: an action
research opportunity.
Individuals and organizations facing exponential rates of change
must acquire a capacity for operational improvement, as addressed in
this action research study. The National Action Learning . . .
Managing action and research for rigor and relevance: the case of
Fokker Aircraft.
If research is to serve the field of management science and provide
value to managers, scientific rigor and practical relevance of research
both require deliberate attention. At Fokker Aircraft, . . .
Action research: Building the capacity for learning and change.
(Overview).
Why does action research help organizations improve the success of
problem solving? Action research uses theory to guide change. But theory
is often based on generalizations derived from many . . .
Introduction to the special issue on action research.
(Articles).
This issue of HRP features organizations that have used
participatory action research to address a complex business and
organizational challenge. Action research involves repeated cycles of
problem . . .
Current practices.
Corporate Sponsor Forum
The 2002 Corporate Sponsor Forum, "Power and Influence:
Getting Things Done at the Top," took place on October 13-16, 2002
in Scottsdale, Arizona. Highlights of the Forum . . .
Measuring Human Resource management's effectiveness in
improving performance.
This article examines the strategic role of HR and its main
practices, describes the outcomes of respective categories of HR
practices, explains the critical reasons for measuring HR's
efforts, and . . .
Strategic Human Resource evaluation.
Every day more organizations recognize that their people are a
source of competitive advantage. As a result, HR departments are
evolving from playing a merely administrative role to . . .
Nonstandard employment arrangements: a proposed typology and
policy planning framework.
There is widespread concern that laws and policies designed for the
standard (e.g., full-time) employment model are inadequate in the face
of nonstandard employment. Nonstandard employment . . .
Articles.
One of the interesting things about the first article in this issue
is its title, "Nonstandard Employment Arrangements." By
implication, there is a standard employment arrangement, but many of . . .
The state of the Human Resources profession in 2003: an interview
with Dave Ulrich.(Interview)
Rich Vosburgh (RV): Dave, you have been such a terrific friend of
The Human Resource Planning Society that we appreciate your taking the
time to do this interview before taking your three-year . . .
Message from the executive editor.(Editorial)
HRPS recently asked Richard Vosburgh of Hewlett Packard to co-chair
the Publications Committee (along with Bill Stopper), and to become the
executive editor for our quarterly publication, Human . . .
Where are we going?. (Perspectives).(Editorial)
Wow! Twenty-five years! HRPS has published 100 issues of Human
Resource Planning, reporting research, organizational practices and
experiences, and points of view contributed by myriad authors and . . .
Best practice roundup: corporate sponsor forum participants.
(Current Practices).
During the Forum, participants were asked to describe a best
practice in their company that helped empower the HR function or
influence others in the organization. Twenty-one ideas were written . . .
Point-counterpoint: how does HR outsourcing impact the power and
influence of the function? (Current Practices).(Panel
Discussio
Moderator: Mark B. Hodges, Managing Partner, Business Process
Outsourcing Process, TPI, Inc.
Panel Members: Wayne Malik, Vice President, Global Human Resource
Services, BP plc; Hugh MacDonald, . . .
Advising and consulting to CEOs and Boards. (Current
Practices).
Presenter: David Nadler, Chairman and CEO, Mercer Delta Consulting,
LLC
The interest of the Forum participants in Dr. Nadler's
presentation was palpable. The events of 2002 have given HR . . .
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