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October 2008

Manners Matter

October 29, 2008

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”
The quote above is attributed to Fred Astaire, although it is not clear when he said it. There is no doubt that this statement is somewhat timeless since a major task of childhood has always been gaining knowledge of manners and ethics. As [...]

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Beach Games

October 27, 2008

Today Crain’s Cleveland Business featured an article by Sharon Schnall on “Some firms spice things up with team-building activities.” This article extolled the virtues of such team oriented exercises as cooking and eating a meal together (which also seems to be featured in the Executive MBA programs we discussed earlier) and some sort of blindfolded [...]

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Should We Get Rid of Performance Reviews???

October 21, 2008

The argument that we should get rid of performance reviews is hardly a new one. The difficulty of effectively rating and appraising performance has been recognized for at least 50 years. No effective solution has been found and newer results suggest the problems may be even more intractable than previously thought. This does not even [...]

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Psychology Licensing and Cultural Competence

October 20, 2008

For those interested in licensing, there is a great article by Stephen DeMers (ASPPB) on “Changes in Training and Practice of Psychologists: Current Challenges for Licensing Boards” in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 2008, 473-479
Ken Pope has an excellent web site dealing with licensing issues in psychology.
For those interested in cultural competency, a report on [...]

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Benchmarking Performance Management and Googling

October 15, 2008

Two recent publications that might be of interest, especially to those in the public sector.
The first is the recently completed 2008 IPMA Benchmarking Report dealing with performance management in the public sector. Even though I have a personal interest, I have to say this is a very well done report. 
The conclusion of the article is [...]

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Technology and HR Services Article Published

October 14, 2008

I have published another column in the IPMA-HR News for September (access to the article usually requires membership). The article deals with Internet technology and selection.
Briefly, in the article I argue that Selection and Web-based recruitment strategies need not be seen as incompatible. Well-designed selection instruments can compliment the recruitment process by creating a positive [...]

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Executive Coaching Symposium

October 13, 2008

A reminder, coming up this week, for those interested in Executive Coaching
The latest trends and developments in executive coaching will be the topic on Oct. 17-18, when the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s will host its fourth annual Leading Edge Consortium at the Westin Hotel in Cincinnati.  Entitled “Executive Coaching for Effective Performance: Leading [...]

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Informed Consent

October 11, 2008

Informed consent is of primary concern to researchers and to psychologists, rather than internal HR personnel. However, in that it deals with ethics, it is a topic that should be of concern to anyone involved in the assessment of people.
The following comes from Ken Pope’s webpage. 
In the last couple of days I’ve expanded and updated [...]

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HR in the Federal Government – Homeland Security

October 10, 2008

The following item appeared in the IPMA HR News today and is offered without any additional comment.
The Department of Homeland Security announced that it was abandoning efforts to move employees into a new personnel system after the September 30 continuing resolution prohibited the expenditure of any funds for it. According to a report by the [...]

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From Horse Sense to Music

October 2, 2008

What the leaders of the financial instutions were doing when they should have been in the class on not sending credit cards to dogs and children.
Music paradigms.

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