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Archives for November, 2009
Do you use your social media at work? Come on, I won’t tell… On the HR’s Raging Debates Forum, the question, “should you ban the use of social media in the workplace” caught my eye. After all, anyone who’s worked in a cubicle or open concept office is an expert in how to quickly toggle back and forth between eBay and their weekly spreadsheet report! Probably the most bang-on response about how organizations should respond to social media was from Peter Cappelli: Assuming the employer doesn’t ban use of the Internet on company time for personal business already, then it is impossible to ban social media. Many companies use sites like LinkedIn for recruiting, and they also check Facebook and other social media sites for potentially damaging information about candidates. So it’s hard to outlaw visiting them.
On the new (and cool!) HR’s Raging Debates Forum, I was really interested in the question about generational differences in the workplace. The experts were asked if they felt that organizations really needed to manage the generations differently. There definitely was a wide range of answers. David Creelman says no: The differences between generations are overplayed. The main point to note is that every manager needs to be tuned into the differences in ability, personality and worldview of the people around them. But Libby Sartain thinks there’s some value to the concept:
Recently I wrote a little post about hiring zombies. It was surprisingly popular, and I mentioned that fact to a friend. His response made me laugh, but it also gave me something interesting to think about. He said, “Zombies are to horror what bacon is to meat.” In other words, both bacon and zombies are the “cream of the crop” in the horror and meat categories. But what does that have to do with HR? Well, I think HR has a bit too much bacon and zombies already. Zombie Trance |
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