January, 2008

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The New Year is Bringing in a New Look

IHRIM staff has been working since the fall of 2007 on redesigning the IHRIM web site. The project scope is to modernize the site’s visual design and make it easier for you to quickly find relevant information and purchase products.  Keep watch as we unveil the new look at the end of January.                

Predictions for HR Technology in 2008

This time of year people are writing about either the "best and worst" of the year, resolutions for the new year or predicting what will occur in the upcoming year. My last blog talked about resolutions, my chair message in the IHRIM annual report highlighted the "IHRIM Top 10 Accomplishments" and not one to focus on the negative, I am going to pass on mentioning the "worst" of the year. Thus, I will move on to predictions for 2008.

Click here to read the most recent IHRIM Chairman's Blog written by Jacqueline Kuhn.

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"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers."  

 - Adlai E. Stevenson


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IHRIM News and Links

  • IHRIM Education – IHRIM events are certified for recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI).  Click on the program title for more information and to register.  

First Three IHRIM Webinars of 2008 Open for Registration.  Our Webinars are not product promotions, just a quality educational experience. Audience polling, live and email Q&A and application sharing are just some of the things you can look forward to experiencing when you participate. Click on the title below for more information.
February 7, 2008 IHRIM Webinar - Getting Your Employees Plugged In:  An Employee’s Electronic Life Cycle.  Presented by Greg Harmer, Vice President, HR Services, The ServiceMaster Company and Mike Smith, Senior Vice President, Market Development, TALX
March 5, 2008 IHRIM Webinar - Employing Enterprise Workforce Management to Eliminate Compliance Risk.  Presented by Tim Lett, Founder and Managing Partner, Axsium Group, Inc
March 12, 2008 IHRIM's Essentials for Successful Project Management, Rockville, MD.
April 9, 2008 IHRIM Webinar - Blending Formal and Informal Learning to Drive Collaboration at Kaiser Permanente.  Presented by Christopher Henry, Senior Manager, Management Development, Learning and Organizational Development, Kaiser Permanente Health Plan and Bell Zeidman, Senior Account Manager, Interaction Associates, Inc.
June 1-4, 2008 IHRIM 2008 Conference and Technology Expo, Disney's Contemporary Resort, Orlando, FL

  • The IHRIM Learning Center is your place to find information on a variety of topics related to HR management systems.  Included under the topic areas are articles of interest, white papers, summaries of research results and tools to help you manage your organization's HRMS investment.   To search the material, click here 

  • IHRIM’s HR Technology Evaluation Center  Use RFP templates to establish your selection criteria based on up to 856 features and functions. TEC's RFP templates provide the depth and clarity you need to be on time and on target. Recognized by the IT industry and used in more than 45,000 projects last year. RFP Templates can be used in any step of your IT project and will benefit your entire enterprise software research. Don’t forget to take advantage of your IHRIM Membership discount of 20% on an RFP template purchase. If you’ve forgotten the code, simply email moreinfo@ihrim.org  and the code will be sent to you.   Click here for more information on the RFP Templates.

  • If the New Year is Time for a Change – Try IHRIM’s Job Central.  These are just some of the exciting positions currently posted:
    - HRIS Coordinator – John C Lincolns Hospital
    - Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Consultant – Ultimate Software
    - HRIS Analyst – Sears Holding Management Corporation
    - Systems Analyst - Microsoft
    - HR Analyst – The Dannon Co.
    - Consultant (New York, NY) – Capital H Group
    - HR Technology and Analytics Director – Intermountain Healthcare
    - Sr. Analyst, HR Tech – SAP Analyst - Daiichi Sankyo

IHRIM’s Job Central offers job seekers a place to post their resume (confidentially if requested) and search for jobs free of charge. Jobs are searchable by keyword, location or company. The Job Search Agent will even notify you when jobs meeting your criteria are posted so you don’t have to spend time searching each day. The Resume Builder lets you build and store your resume in the system making it easy to apply online. And employers that have a posting on Job Central have access to your resume so they can see if you have what their looking for in an employee.  Visit IHRIM’s Job Central today – it’s where HRMS employers and job seekers meet!

 

Employers Contemplate Social Networking, Focus on Improving Technology in 2008, Watson Wyatt Says

Companies will focus on upgrading and integrating their human resources technology in 2008 in an effort to improve administration and better engage employees, according to experts at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a leading global consulting firm. Among likely trends are the increased adoption of advanced Web solutions, such as wikis, blogs and social networking, and a focus on making HR technology easier for employees to use.  

·                     Click here to read the full press release.

HR tech
 
Harnessing the power of informal employee networks

In any professional setting, networks flourish spontaneously: human nature, including mutual self-interest, leads people to share ideas and work together even when no one requires them to do so. As they connect around shared interests and knowledge, they may build networks that can range in size from fewer than a dozen colleagues and acquaintances to hundreds. Research scientists working in related fields, for example, or investment bankers serving clients in the same industry frequently create informal—and often socially based—networks to collaborate.

Click here to read the full article.
 
Networking Over the Internet: The Emerging World of Peer-to-Peer Commerce

Peer-to-peer embraces the networking capabilities of the Internet. “P2P” (as dubbed by advocates) enables the sharing and direct publication of resources and also allows the unused processing capability of computers to be shared and used more productively. While the peer-to-peer concept has, in fact, been around for decades, it’s grown as the Internet has become part of daily life. The concept first attracted serious attention as the original Napster music-swapping service gained popularity; peer-to-peer garnered more attention with the growth of Skype, a service that provides high-quality voice calls over the Internet.

Click here to read the full article.
 

Everest Research Institute: 2008 Market Predictions

In this manifesto, Matthew Kelly warns of the high price of turnover. Sure, we all know that losing employees costs money, but lost opportunity is often an incalculable cost. Many pundits and business owners blame employees, thinking they are uncommitted. But, Kelly argues, people leave their jobs because there is a disconnect between the work that they are doing and the dreams for their future. And it is up to managers to help reconnect their employees to their dreams.

Click here to read the full article.

 

 

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Work is Broken: Here's How We Fix It

Meetings, presentations, and e-mail are a part of many people’s work day. Used effectively, each can help keep teams aligned, impart important information, and move projects forward. We now are bombarded with information from the web, blogs, wikis, intranets, search engines, and other digital sources in addition to paper. We’re challenged to develop and maintain a system for collecting, processing, and acting on all of this information. And the classic techniques we’ve relied on in the past have either ceased to be effective or have simply broken. In this essay, originally written for The More Space Project, the late Marc Orchant shared some proven techniques for fixing what’s been broken.

Click here to download the full article.

  

 

10 Ways to Inspire Your Team

Inspire. Just the word itself causes us to pause and think. We may remember our own personal heroes like Martin Luther King or Mother Theresa or a teacher or mentor who brought out the best in us and showed us the power of one person. 

Click here to read the full article.

  
 

Update from the Workforce Privacy Network
Covering December 2007

  • The top advisory board to the US federal government on health care privacy has concluded that current laws and rules are woefully inadequate and is recommending passage of new legislation to strengthen and expand protections far beyond those provided by HIPAA.  The 40-page report by the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) could become the basis for new national policy following the 2008 election, with profound implications for employers handling medical information in any context.
  • Moody’s Investors Services is preparing to launch a new service providing risk/quality ratings of vendors who process information for financial services firms in 11 areas:  information security policy; organization; information classification; physical security; communications and operations management; access control; application security; incident management; business continuity; data security; and privacy.  According to an interview in the December issue of the IAPP’s Privacy Advisor, Moody’s plans to build on the experience in the financial arena to expand the rating service to vendors serving clients in other industries.
  • Breaches of employee data resumed their normal pace in December, with embarrassing losses by two forms that provide data security advice:  Forrester Research (a laptop stolen from a staff member’s home, affecting an undisclosed number of employees) and Deloitte & Touche (a laptop stolen from a pension advisor, affecting an unknown number of partners, principals and employees).  Other breaches were reported by the New York State Dormitory Authority (back-up tapes missing in transit, affecting 800 employees); the Greenville County (SC) School District (computer hacking, affecting hundreds of employees; DHS is investigating, as a rash of government computers have been hacked in the state); and the US Air Force (a laptop missing from Bolling Air Force Base (WA), affecting 10,500 airmen).
  • The firestorm surrounding the November HMRC data breach affecting 25 million UK citizens continues to grow, with reports of hundreds of past losses by government agencies; new breaches of the data of those applying for passports and drivers licenses; Parliamentary hearings; and mounting pressure for tougher data protection laws and C-level accountability.  Independently of this, the UK Information Commissioner released a Privacy Impact Assessment Handbook, the first by a European regulator, and Pinsent Masons, a prominent legal firm, called into question the data protection practices of Santa Claus.
  • PIPEDA continues under the microscope in Canada, with Industry Canada issuing its own recommendations and requesting public comment by January 18.  This follows reviews and recommendations by a Parliamentary committee and by the Harper government.
  • Dockworkers in Vancouver have forced a delay until mid-February in the Canadian government’s efforts to require updated background checks of those working in the port, while a legal challenge to the new requirement proceeds.  Meanwhile, a federal judge in the US expressed sympathy for the position taken by JPL employees and their attorneys during a trial over new DHS requirements for intensive background checks.

For more privacy and security content, go to the Workforce Privacy Network's web site:
http://www.hr-privacy-security.org/ 

 

IHRIM Publications

Coming in the February/March 2008 issue: “Technology: From Concise Tools to Abstract Visions” is the editorial focus of this issue. Whether the utilization of technology is in the form of completely turning transaction-based tasks over to employees and managers via a comprehensive outsourced solution, simply implementing a repository for HR data, or turning to new technology to gain an edge, companies today are putting technology to work in their HR functions. The articles in this issue will cover Web 2.0, organizational modeling solutions, Google’s impact on the enterprise and HR, in particular, total cost of ownership, global HCM solutions, and more...plus the Benefits and Compensation Buyer’s Guide.  Contact Patty Huber at +1.512.310.9795 or phuber2@austin.rr.com to be sure your listing is in this issue. The Buyer’s Guide will also appear in the online issues.

Coming in the April/May 2008 issue: Company benefits are constantly changing as companies look for ways to save costs, ARM (attract, retain, and motivate) employees, and meet stakeholder needs.  The Apr/May issue is dedicated to the topic of Benefits and Compensation with feature articles on "cafeteria-style" compensation plans, High Deductible Health Plans (a discussion of HRAs, HSAs, and CDHPs), Integrating Benefit Administration and Onboarding, Absence Management, and HR Outsourcing.  In addition, this issue will have case studies of Sarbanes-Oxley's Impact on Golden Parachutes, Tax Credits, and Changes in global labor market pricing…plus the Learning Management and Training Systems/Services Buyer’s Guide.  Contact Patty Huber at +1.512.310.9795 or phuber2@austin.rr.com to be sure your listing is in this issue. The Buyer’s Guide will also appear in the online issues.

New Search Feature Now in Online IHRIM Journal (www.ihrimpublications.com) – Subscribers have full access to the Journal’s new expanded online features including Issue Archives, Timely Book and Article Reviews, Interviews with HR Thought Leaders, Just-in-time Articles and Links to many other HR educational tools, and high quality PDFs for article reprints.

If you are already a subscriber, but haven’t logged in, just go to www.ihrimpublications.com  and click on “Subscriber Login,” follow the directions for “first time login.” Then register and choose your password.  If you are not yet a subscriber, visit the site and take advantage of this great educational and research tool at a substantial member discount price. Should you have any difficulty logging in or subscribing, please contact us at info@ihrimpublications.com or +1-512-374-9961 outside North America, fax +1-512-323-6790. We will continually improve the content and the convenience of the online Journal ensuring that you receive maximum value.

IHRIM Journal e-Review – The e-Review is available in a PDF format on the IHRIM Web site under the “Resources” tab. The content includes reviews of timely articles and books that are of specific interest to current and emerging thought leaders and senior executives in the HR and IT field. In addition, the IHRIM e-Review also includes interviews with business leaders and strategists with expertise in global industry trends and international business, as well as excerpts from recent surveys and white papers. Download the latest issue at http://www.ihrim.org/resources/eJournal/ejindex.asp.

IHRIM Books – IHRIM’s books are an integral part of the HRMS learning resources, and are available to members and non-members alike. The classic book series and the Go-to-Guide workbooks provide the knowledge you need in the rapidly changing world of HR information and technology. Order your books or Go-to-Guides at www.ihrimpublications.com

  • HR: Funny Side Up by Elliott Witkin
  • Remote Control: A Practitioners Guide to Managing Virtual Teams by Gerald Falkowski and Stephen Troutman
  • Out of Site: An Inside Look at HR Outsourcing edited by Karen V. Beaman
  • Boundaryless HR: Human Capital Management in the Global Economy edited by Karen V. Beaman
  • E-Learning: Expanding the Training Classroom through Technology edited by Lynne Mealy and Bob Loller
  • e-Work Architect: How HR Leads the Way Using the Internet edited by Al Doran
  • Common Cause: Shared Services for Human Resources edited by Karen V. Beaman.  

Go-to-Guides Workbooks: (each workbook includes a CD)

  • The Foundation Series – includes from Creating the HR Technology Infrastructure to Marketing and Selling the HRMS

  • The Advanced Management Series – from Developing Specifications and Documents to Understanding and Applying Analytics

  • The E-Merging Technology Series – from e-Recruiting to e-Compensation to LDAP Directories and Security Issues

For more information about becoming a sponsor of the IHRIM Wire, or other IHRIM marketing opportunities, contact Patty Huber at 1-512-310-9795 or phuber2@austin.rr.com. 

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