AFTER THE WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION – Learning from purchasing means…
Human Resources is facing major challenges that will change the function. In the two previous articles, I described how strategic workforce management will affect the skills requirements for HR. In the discussions that followed, I was asked: What comes next… When we have transformed everything? Where is the workforce of the future? I had the […]
WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION – new skills for HR?
Workforce transformation is a strategic challenge for Human Resources. The age-old question keeps coming up: Is this our role as HR? And do we even have the right skills? I would like to take a closer look at these questions in this article. As always, with practical experience. What does Strategic Workforce Transformation require from […]
WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION – Is the journey the goal?
Workforce transformation has been the most discussed topic in the HR community for years. The coronavirus pandemic has only accelerated this. How much workforce expansion, contraction and restructuring is needed due to digitalization, for example, and where exactly? We have gained some important insights from specific projects and I would like to share them here. […]
DIGITAL STATE FAILURE – Does the corona crisis also reveal a dangerous deficit in the way public authorities handle IT innovations?
The tightening of the lockdown measures in Bavaria was overdue! However, one of Söders 10 measures points to where the core problem of the exponential growth in infection lay: in the lack of software at the health authorities. This was announced and the problem was already known in May. And it shows: we have a […]
Myth of Culture Change
Can culture really be managed? “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” Peter Drucker once said. This is why culture change is often regarded as the supreme discipline in change management. Strategies, organizations, processes or rules can be developed and changed relatively easily on paper. But do people and organizations behave as desired afterwards? Academics and the […]
Conflict culture in the management team – the basis for successful change management
The coronavirus crisis has triggered far-reaching changes and necessitated new business strategies, which will necessarily result in organizational changes. However, any change usually also carries the potential for conflict and often results in clashes of interest within the management team. The way in which the management team handles this is one of the most important […]
Leadership tandems
Janina Kugel and other prominent women have reignited the justified debate about quotas for women. Rightly so, in my opinion – an initiative by the German Chancellor on voluntary quotas about 10 years ago failed miserably. Is now the time for a quota? And what is still needed? Should a man take a stand in […]
HR at the mixer
What will HR work look like in the future? At the HR BarCamp on October 24, we discussed the future role of HR with HR managers from various companies. And we developed the idea that there could be a radical individualization of employment conditions in the future. We have consistently developed this idea further here. […]
What if it gets really tough? The topic of insolvency
What if dealing with the operational consequences of the global pandemic is suddenly the least of your problems? In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, Wirecard is certainly one of the most spectacular white-collar crimes of the post-war period. Anyone who has experienced this from the inside is certainly shaped for life. Annegret Jansen held […]
h&z HR BarCamp September 24, 2020
At the first h&z HR BarCamp this week, we had an exciting discussion with HR professionals from seven companies on the question ‚HR, what’s next? – What lies ahead for HR after corona?‘ The HR BarCamp was not only the first h&z symposium focused on HR as a function, it was also a first in […]
The new HR dilemma
Is a new wave of downsizing presenting HR with an insoluble dilemma? The past few years have had a positive impact on HR work: New work culture, digitalization, NewWork, diversity, flat structures, agile mindset, new learning formats, GenY, democratization, value-based leadership – and, above all, a positive external employer image geared towards recruiting markets. However, […]
Talents to combat crises
The waves of crisis are increasingly overlapping: Covid waves, climate crisis, supply bottlenecks, energy supply, embargo consequences and a new looming financial crisis. And the ‚old‘ challenges are still there too: digital transformation, demographic change, skills shortages, decarbonization and electrification.How do you make an organization strategically fit and resilient? How can employees be emotionally stabilized? […]
Digital skills management – the new currency for business success
The digitalization of HR is sparking a renaissance of competence management. For many years, competence management was an unfulfilled promise of HR.A complex, bureaucratic system of organization – with dubious benefits for the company – except for the satisfaction of collective bargaining systems.Digital HR tools are now taking a new approach and really promising added […]
Back to the alpha animal with Trump – Do we need new heroes?
Donald Trump, Xi Jingping, Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Victor Orban, but also Macron for a moment, Söder: the last few years give the impression that we are developing back into the age of authoritarian alpha animals – at least in political leadership roles. The masses vote for them or support them. Are we experiencing […]
An HR day in the year 2030
June 6, 2023 6:15 a.m.:The alarm clock projects the sunrise. On the way to the bathroom – don’t look now – there are 4 alerts. Four! Already in the bedroom! “Not now, Alexi, please, after breakfast. In the car.” Alexi is the echo box. The company’s AI system runs on Echo. Another alert at breakfast. […]
IT-supported campaign management also in change?
IT-supported campaign management for change? – Yes, but … What is fluid, IT-supported campaign management? IT-supported, so-called “fluid” campaign management is the new wonder weapon of campaign strategists. Intelligent, learning algorithms permanently identify target groups and adapt the approach to the specific interests and needs of the target groups. The mechanism is simple in principle […]
Generation Y: Spoiled, self-absorbed and delusional?
In many German companies, five generations work under one roof. Sometimes worlds collide. How do you motivate employees from different age groups and how do they work together? It is obvious that measures to increase motivation and commitment do not reach everyone equally. So if you want to go beyond general measures to increase the […]
Committed or internally resigned?
For 14 years, Gallup has been asking German companies the crucial question: What is the level of commitment among employees and managers in Germany? With slight fluctuations, this representative survey always comes to a result that makes you sit up and take notice. 16% of employees are engaged 68% of employees are not committed or […]