Citation
(2009), "Whats on the web", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 17 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/hrmid.2009.04417aag.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2009, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Whats on the web
Article Type: What’s on the web From: Human Resource Management International Digest, Volume 17, Issue 1
HR focused
According to this professional looking, easy to navigate web site, IOMA has been an independent source of exclusive business management information for experienced senior and middle management professionals for over 20 years. One of their “focus” areas is human resources and, through a mixture of publications, web services, audio conferences, research, consulting and on-site conferences, they offer focused information on the best practices in human resources, compensation and benefits. The information is easily accessible and clearly written and presented. It also appears to be the sort of information human resource senior and middle management professionals will find useful. It does not come free, however, but IOMA have a simple and effective payment system for any and all information that grabs your fancy.
HR dedication
The Human Resource Department is an Ohio based American company providing outsourced professional human resource projects and services. Their products and services include project management and consulting, temporary professionals and help desks. Founded in 1994, and specializing in HR, they have a team of project managers who are assigned to projects based on their area of specialization. With a comprehensive, neat, tidy and inviting web site to browse, all of their services are easily accessed and understood. They have an extensive client list, covering a wide range of business sectors and they promise to serve employers, including non-profit organizations, who do not have HR professionals on their staff or employers who find themselves in an HR “overload” situation.
A factor of success
SuccessFactors is, according to the web site, the established global leader in human capital management solutions that help organizations align, develop, motivate and maintain their workforces. With over two thousand customers and more than four million users worldwide accessing their web-based solutions, SuccessFactors claim to be helping companies of all sizes in all industries transform their businesses by focusing on their people. With a broad range of services and an extensive client list, all displayed clearly on this easy on the eye web site, it is hard to argue with what they have to say about themselves and what they offer. But with a mission to “strive to change the world by making every company we work with a more meritocratic place to work, where promotion and pay is based on performance and not politics”, they might just be either naïve, or have bitten off more than they can chew.
At the HR coal face
HROA are an independent organization who provide a members only web service, for all those who purchase, provide, or participate in HR transformation and outsourcing.
Their web site is professional, clean and very easy to get around. Perhaps, to be picky, it could be argued that it would make a refreshing change not to see the standard photo library images of “HR professionals” all standing tall, bold, with arms folded and faces content and satisfied – and looking every inch the models they are! With a diverse membership that HROA claim to bring together to set standards and practices, provide peer networking, and maintain a robust curriculum, this is an organization at the cutting of all things HR. Membership may not be on the cards, but the site is well worth a visit, browse and peruse.
HR humor
www.freemaninstitute.com/hrhumor.htm
Times, we keep hearing, are tough out there. Global recession, credit crunch, freak weather, and the nights are getting darker. HR professionals can end up more stressed than most staff as it is the HR staff, whatever else they have become in recent years, who are the interface between management and employees. To make matters worse, in today’s ultra politically correct working environment, it is a brave soul who to tries to lighten an otherwise serious and somber situation with the age old remedy for lightening serious and somber situations – humor! But just because you cannot say it, does not mean you cannot think it. This site, while nothing to look at, and laid out in an antiquated format, offers a series of light-hearted “HR speakisms” translated. And the funniest thing is that, in among all the babble of boring business speak, there’s many a true word spoken in jest!
And finally
Not sure if we agree with this (or understand it) but it is on the above site.
“We’re in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 to 300 years when people don’t understand the world anymore, when the past is not sufficient to explain the future” (Peter Drucker).
Best of all
For a particularly interesting and useful site you could always try the Emerald one!
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