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Google làm gì để giữ chân nhân tài?
Cách Google giữ chân nhân tài Một trong ba nền tảng cho Văn Hóa Google là tiếng nói của nhân viên. Vì thế công ty luôn hạn chế sự chênh lệch và khác biệt địa vị cũng như luôn có một nhóm cùng thảo luận và đưa ra quyết định dựa trên hệ thống dữ liệu thay vì chỉ có người quản lý. Chúng tôi cũng hạn chế những dấu hiệu và yếu tố kích thích khác của thứ bậc: các điều hành viên cấp cao nhất của chúng tôi chỉ nhận được những lợi ích, bổng lộc và tài nguyên giống như những nhân viên mới tuyển.
Cách Google tuyển dụng nhân tài
Tuyển dụng thực hiện chức năng quan trọng nhất về nguồn nhân lực, và hầu hết chúng ta không làm tốt như chúng ta tưởng. Bằng cách tập trung các nguồn lực lại để tuyển dụng hiệu quả hơn, bạn sẽ nhận được kết quả cao hơn gần như bất cứ chương trình đào tạo nào mà bạn xây dựng. “Có hai con đường để có được một cá nhân kiệt xuất.
Tại sao quy tắc làm việc của Google hữu dụng với bạn?
Laszlo Bock “nản chí vì những người lãnh đạo luôn nói về việc con người là trước hết, nhưng sau đó đối xử với họ như những bánh răng có thể thay thế dễ dàng”. Ông được tuyển vào Google để phụ trách bộ phận Hoạt động Con người (People Operations) vào năm 2006.
Best Leadership Books to Inspire Positive Change
Strong, effective leadership is essential for any organization to succeed. Leaders motivate teams, provide vision and direction, make key decisions, and work to better their organizations. There is no single formula or path to becoming an extraordinary leader, but studying the experiences and advice of great leaders can provide invaluable perspective and guidance.
Top Best Books On HR
1. The Essential HR Handbook, 2. Work Rules!, 3. Unleashing the Power of Diversity, 4. Rituals for Work, 5. People Processes, 6. People Analytics For Dummies, 7. The Drama-Free Workplace, 8. Bring Your Human to Work, 9. The Hr Answer Book, 10. HR on Purpose. There are stacks of books you can read to support your interest and learning, whether you manage people, have a casual interest in HR, or are an HR professional looking to expand your knowledge base. We've compiled a list of the best books on HR here.
Top Best Books On HR
1. The Essential HR Handbook, 2. Work Rules!, 3. Unleashing the Power of Diversity, 4. Rituals for Work, 5. People Processes, 6. People Analytics For Dummies, 7. The Drama-Free Workplace, 8. Bring Your Human to Work, 9. The Hr Answer Book, 10. HR on Purpose. There are stacks of books you can read to support your interest and learning, whether you manage people, have a casual interest in HR, or are an HR professional looking to expand your knowledge base. We've compiled a list of the best books on HR here.
A Well-known HR Platform Recently Acquired Humu, A Startup Co-founded By Laszlo Bock
Humu from the former Google executive was acquired by HR platform Perceptix. What is it that the latter has in mind.
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10 Books Every Engineering Leader Should Read
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Join For Free DZone is an ever-growing community of authors from various technical fields who have a wide range of skill-sets and share their knowledge with the rest of the development community. We asked our DZone Core community members to recommend books they swear helped them up-skill or improvise in their work. We received a list of awesome books that are not only helpful but are interesting reads.
$60M Series C: The future of making work better
At Humu, our mission is to make work better. We’re excited to share that we’ve hit an exciting milestone towards achieving that goal: we recently closed a $60m Series C to accelerate our product development and hiring efforts. The round was led by TCV, one of the world’s leading growth equity firms, with investors from Humu’s previous funding rounds including Index Ventures, IVP, and SVB Capital and new investors Global Founders Capital and Blue Ivy Ventures.
2022: Time to simplify
For nearly two years now, employees have grappled with uncertainty and doubt. When will I go back to the office? Will it be safe? Does working from home reduce my chance of a promotion? Is my job secure? At the same time, HR and business leaders have had their best-laid plans for returning to “normalcy” foiled time and again as COVID cases surged.
Viewpoint: 5 New Rules for Leading a Hybrid Team
Editor's Note: SHRM has partnered with Harvard Business Review to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. As CEO at Humu, where we help Fortune 500 companies build world-class cultures, I've seen firsthand how experienced leadership teams are struggling to navigate the shift to hybrid work and maintain a culture of excellence.
2021 Forbes CHRO Forward Summit - Forbes Connect
November 3, 2021, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. ET / 8 - 10 a.m. PT - Virtual Event Speakers Agenda Sponsors Register Register for Free The volatility of the last two years has unearthed the need for business organizations to quickly build upon their flexibility and agility. Now, more than ever, business success lies not just in being able to anticipate and plan for the future but also in the ability to lead your organization there efficiently and thoughtfully.
Ex-Google HR chief: Why returning to the office could be a ‘recipe for disaster’
By Laszlo Bock 5 minute Read As businesses start to reopen their offices, many are planning for a hybrid model that will see more employees working remotely all or part of the time. But this return to a semblance of normal working life could be more disruptive—and potentially more damaging—than the initial pivot to all-remote work in 2020. The shutdown last year was brutal and chaotic for both individuals and businesses, but it was also a unifying moment. We faced fear and uncertainty together.
Work Rules! Insight from Inside Google
Twice in the first 22 pages of Work Rules! Insights From Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead, a book by the company’s “head of people operations,” Laszlo Bock, it’s mentioned that those who work at Google are called “Googlers.” Both times it’s brought up, once by Bock and once by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, great pains are taken to make it clear that Googlers have self-designated this assignation—they call themselves that, we’re assured, and it’s definitely not the sort...
Google's Former Head of HR on Why the Coinbase CEO Is Wrong to Expect a Politics-Free Workplace
Companies like Coinbase say employees should leave politics at home. Here’s why that’s impossible. Photo: Seth Herald/Getty Images Co-authored with Liz Fosslien “The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits,” declared economist Milton Freidman in a 1970 essay for the New York Times.
Simplify Collaboration: Kelly Leonard On How To Grow Teams With Improv
Effective collaboration, innovative thinking, and constructive problem-solving can be major struggles for many teams, regardless of industry. But for those who really want to fix these issues, it’s time to look beyond how other companies work and turn to improv comedy ensembles for inspiration. After all, they’ve literally taken teamwork and turned it into an artform.
Leading through COVID: Lessons from Past Pandemics
Sean David Williams Matt Walton July 22, 2020 In this series, we talk with Yale SOM alumni about their professional and personal lives during the global pandemic. Matt Walton ’78, an entrepreneur whose emergency management software was used to direct responses to past pandemics, examines the cost of lessons not learned. Adapted from a phone interview, May 13, 2020. Q: How has the pandemic impacted you? It’s been ironic, fascinating, and frustrating.
Leading through COVID: The Borderlessness of Tech-Driven Media
Adapted from a phone interview, May 20, 2020. I think remaining human in this very unusual context is essential. I tend to start meetings with a check-in to understand how people are doing. I truly want to hear how they are. I want to create space for people to appreciate that we don’t just go to business as usual as the world seems to be changing fundamentally. I am an immigrant living in the UK. I was born in the U.S. My parents are originally from Nigeria.
Leading through COVID: The U.S. Army Adapts to the Pandemic
Sean David Williams Rich Kidd July 02, 2020 In this series, we talk with Yale SOM alumni about their professional and personal lives during the global pandemic. Richard Kidd ’93, who serves as deputy assistant secretary of the army for strategic integration, explains how the U.S. Army has responded to these unique circumstances and the lessons we can learn from the experience. Adapted from a phone interview, May 15, 2020. Q: How has the Army responded to COVID?
Leading through COVID: Buying and Selling Steel as the Global Supply Chain Frays
Adapted from a phone interview, May 11, 2020. Q: How has the pandemic impacted your company? Titan Steel has been fortunate so far. One of our main products is the steel that’s used to make food cans. With canned food flying off the grocery shelves, we’re not only very busy, but in the two states where we have plants, Illinois and Maryland, we were deemed to be essential businesses.
Leading through COVID: Supporting Patients and Families
Adapted from a phone interview, May 7, 2020. I work as a palliative care nurse practitioner at Montefiore, a big academic medical center in the Bronx. The entire hospital was, essentially, filled with COVID-positive patients. The palliative care team includes doctors, nurses, social workers, and a chaplain.
Leading through COVID: An App as a Lifeline for Immigrant Communities
Adapted from a phone interview, May 1, 2020. I got married two months ago to a classmate from Yale SOM. We’ve both been working out of our apartment in New York for the last seven weeks. It’s a one-bedroom, so we each have our own spaces, thank God. Like everyone else, we’re trying to maintain sanity while dealing with the pandemic. On top of everything, our work visa situation is uncertain and we will most likely have to leave the United States within the next three months. My husband is Israeli.
Leading through COVID: An Alumni Conversation
June 09, 2020 We recently convened a group of Yale SOM alumni, leaders of organizations in a variety of industries, for a conversation about the evolving challenges they have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent online conversation, four Yale SOM alumni talked about their experiences leading organizations through the COVID pandemic. Yale SOM’s James Baron, an expert in human resources and organizational design, was the moderator.
Lessons on Leading through a Pandemic
Sean David Williams June 04, 2020 We’ve been talking with Yale SOM alumni about their professional and personal experiences during COVID-19. Here are a few key ideas that have emerged from these conversations. By Ben Mattison The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic isn’t a single crisis; it’s a vast complex of dilemmas, large and small.
Leading through COVID: A New York City Doctor’s Perspective
Sean David Williams Charles Powell June 01, 2020 In this series, we talk with Yale SOM alumni about their professional and personal lives during the global pandemic. Dr. Charles Powell ’19, a graduate of Yale SOM’s MBA for Executive program, is a doctor, scientist, and part of the leadership team at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
Leading through COVID: Training Girls for the Building Trades, Virtually
Sean David Williams May 13, 2020 In this series, we talk with Yale SOM alumni about their professional and personal lives during the global pandemic. Demi Knight Clark, an alumna of the Yale Global Executive Leadership Program and founder of She Built This City, describes how she remade a nonprofit that teaches hands-on buildings skills for a world forced to go virtual. Adapted from a phone interview, April 17, 2020. Q: What led you to found She Built This City?
Leading through COVID: History as a Guide to the Unprecedented
Sean David Williams Jeff Schwartz May 11, 2020 In this series, we talk with Yale SOM alumni about their professional and personal lives during the global pandemic. Jeff Schwartz ’87, a principal at Deloitte leading the Future of Work team, describes agile, adaptable organizations built around empowered teams as best positioned for effective work amid extreme uncertainty. Adapted from a phone interview, April 9, 2020. Q: You lead the Future of Work practice at Deloitte. What are clients asking for?
Leading through COVID: Feeding First Responders
Adapted from a phone interview, April 15, 2020. Just before this started, my wife and I traveled to celebrate our anniversary where we got married. Our flight back to New York was canceled. We’ve been stranded for over five weeks. I’m basically in the middle of nowhere in the California desert, working on Fuel the Frontlines, a project where vendors from the Queens Night Market are providing meals to healthcare workers at hospitals and EMS stations in Queens.
Leading through COVID: Art as a Model for Navigating Uncertainty
Sean David Williams Amy Whitaker May 01, 2020 In this series, we talk with Yale SOM alumni about their professional and personal lives during the global pandemic. NYU professor and author Amy Whitaker ’01 calls for embracing both rational and imaginative tools for solving the crises facing us. Adapted from an email, April 20, 2020. I write as one of many university faculty members moving to teaching online.
4 ways to help your teams combat burnout during the pandemic
By Laszlo Bock5 minute Read Your team has never been more at risk of burning out. The sudden switch to remote work means some of your employees have been completely isolated for weeks. Others are struggling to balance work with learning to homeschool their children. More and more are helping a spouse who has just been laid off, or grieving the loss of a loved one. And you can no longer catch someone in the hallways or notice from their body language how they’re doing.
Leading through COVID: Guiding Family Firms During a Pandemic
Sean David Williams Sean O'Dowd April 21, 2020 No sector will be immune to the impacts of COVID-19. Seán O’Dowd ’03 of Silvercrest Asset Management, who works with family firms, says that while conservatively managed businesses are well positioned to handle an ordinary crisis, even well-run small-and medium-sized firms need help from the government right now. Adapted from an email, April 9, 2020.
Leading through COVID: Providing Childcare for First Responders
Adapted from a phone interview, April 13, 2020. My husband, Roger Brown, and I are at home in Massachusetts. We are both working from the house exclusively, not going into any office or workplace. We’re healthy. We’re safe. With so many people suffering and struggling, we count our blessings every day. We have three children. Two are students—one in college, one in graduate school. They are studying from their apartments and are totally fine.
Leading through COVID: A Vast Experiment in Remote Work
Sean David Williams Scott Wharton April 20, 2020 In this series, we talk with Yale SOM alumni about their professional and personal lives during the global pandemic. Scott Wharton ’95, who leads Logitech’s video collaboration group, sees far-reaching and sustained changes from the remote work explosion forced on us by the pandemic. Adapted from a phone interview, April 8, 2020. Like a lot of people, I’m sequestering in place at home in Silicon Valley.
Leading through COVID: Manage Your Team with Empathy
Sean David Williams Laszlo Bock April 20, 2020 In this series, we talk with Yale SOM alumni about their professional and personal lives during the global pandemic. Laszlo Bock ’99, founder and CEO of Humu and former head of People Operations at Google, says that right now, checking in on how your team members are doing is is the most important thing you can to keep your organization productive.
Company Culture Is More Important Than Ever — Here's Why
Failures of culture—from Wells Fargo to Volkswagen—have been the single biggest destroyers of value in the last five years. Every CEO and HR professional knows (or at least says) that culture is a priority, but for far too long management has had only a blunt set of instruments to deal with cultural issues: fire the offensive engineer, swap in new leaders, overhaul the board and hope for the best.
Top HR Books You Should Add To Your Reading List For Talent Managers
We often get asked about which books that we recommend, and our current reading list. So we’d thought we’d put together a short list of our favourite books that we think all Talent Managers, HR Directors or Heads of People should read.
Book Nook | PDPW
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Summer Reading List for 2019: Human Resources
Even though we’re in the home stretch of summer, it doesn’t mean the fun is over. There’s no better time of year to grab a book, head outdoors and learn something new. Add a few of these books to your HR summer reading list to boost your professional knowledge or gain a new perspective. Want to learn how case management software can help you conduct more effective HR investigations? Download our free eBook.
You Learn Best When You Learn Less
Last year, U.S. companies spent roughly $90 billion on learning and development efforts, a sum higher than the gross domestic product of 130 countries. In 2018, the average American employee received training at a cost close to $1,000 per person. On its own that might not sound like much, but to put those numbers into perspective: for companies with headcounts of over 50,000 that’s around $50 million a year.
Hiring Isn’t Rocket Science: Why the Most Boring Strategy Is Best
A lot of ink has been spilled and consultant hours racked up talking about the ins and outs of hiring heuristics. What deeply nuanced psychological traits should we be looking for? What tactics can you use to see them? What’s the one surprising trick that will help you identify the exceptional among the average?
How Leverage Turns Market Corrections into Crashes
A stock exchange in Huaibei, China, in August 2015. Photo by Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images. Kelly Shue April 24, 2019 Leverage-induced fire sales, in which highly-leveraged investors are forced to sell more and more because prices are falling, can turn stock market corrections into economy-damaging crashes. Look no further than the 1929 and 2008 crashes. Prof. Kelly Shue studied account-level data from the Chinese market crash in 2015 to illuminate how much leverage matters.
Your employment engagement survey is destroying your company’s culture
By Laszlo Bock 3 minute Read It only takes one engagement survey to destroy the company culture you’ve worked years to create. I’ve seen this pattern happen at too many organizations–including ones where I’ve been on the payroll. Leadership sets out with the best intentions: to increase happiness, well-being, and inclusion at work. They know that the best place to start is to ask employees for feedback on what’s going well and what needs attention. And then they make a fatal mistake.
What Does it Take to Bring Offshore Wind to Massachusetts?
A wind farm off Rhode Island's Block Island. Photo: Deepwater Wind. Elizabeth Turnbull April 22, 2019 Offshore wind could bring cheap power to Massachusetts and help turn the state into a green tech hub. But before the turbines start turning, a variety of stakeholders, including the state’s iconic fishing industry, need to be brought on board.
Gig Workers Value their Flexibility... a Lot
Sean David Williams Judith A. Chevalier April 16, 2019 The promise of the gig economy is of working on a schedule of your own choosing. Does controlling their own time actually make gig workers better off? Using extensive data on Uber drivers, Yale SOM’s Judith Chevalier and her co-authors examined their driving patterns to understand the economic value of flexible scheduling. They found that rideshare drivers would have to earn as much as double to accept less-flexible arrangements.
Can the Occasional ‘Nudge’ Make You Better at Your Job?
Laszlo Bock April 12, 2019 As the head of People Operations at Google, Laszlo Bock ’99 applied data analytics to human resources questions that have long been answered with hunches. His company Humu is now extending that approach for other organizations by providing AI-generated prompts to their employees. In a conversation with Yale Insights, Bock said that behavioral science, combined with an understanding of human feeling and careful attention to privacy, can help organizations run better.
HRTech - I think there is a better way
Published on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 • 67 Likes • 13 Comments Matthew BradburnFollow People Collective - People, Strategy, Growth There is a popular vision of the near future for those working in People / HR / Talent that technology will solve everything. We have long been fed the idea that technology is the key for people working in the field to attract, analyse, test and develop their candidates and employees.
Matt Mullenweg and Andreas Klinger on Remote Work and Distributed Teams - Venture Stories
February 15, 2019 Check out the Venture Stories Podcast Page Key Takeaways Hiring remote workers greatly expands the talent pool Even if you work with a remote team, try to get together every so often – there”s nothing like that human connection “Every company that is over a hundred people in size is distributed. They just pretend they’re not.
Companies should get rid of their non-solicitation clause
But in going from an executive at a big company (it created a popular search engine) to a cofounder and CEO of my own startup, Humu, I’ve discovered that there are a lot of things about Silicon Valley that exist merely because “that’s the way they’ve always been.” This psychological phenomenon isn’t unique to tech companies. But from interior design to employment policies–despite priding ourselves on innovation–we seem quick to accept standard practices.
How to Measure - and Fix - the Gender Wage Gap at Your Company
Why did women we hired at Google in 2015 on average receive 30% larger salary increases than the men we hired? Because in the US women are paid less than men for doing the same quality and volume of work. And employers who want to fix that gap - as we do - can fix it every time they hire and promote a woman. I recently published an editorial in The Washington Post about eliminating the gender wage gap, a well-documented, well-researched, and persistent problem.
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