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 […]