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Forget Middle Managers. Here’s Why.

Have you ever seen the movie Office Space? Do you remember the scene where Peter Gibbons tells the consultants (the “Bobs”) that he has eight different bosses at Initech? It’s a great scene because it touches on the complete waste of time and resources caused by bureaucracy.

In the first part of our Q&A with Dr. Gary Hamel, we discussed the limitations of bureaucratic organizations like Initech – how they fail to inspire employees and fall victim to more agile startups.

In part two, Dr. Hame...

Top 16 Blog Posts of 2016

Before you break out the Champagne and ring in the new year this weekend, we thought we’d take a moment and highlight the top 16 most popular posts on the Globoforce blog this year.

What do these posts tell us? For one, they highlight the fundamental shift in focus from human capital management to creating a more human employee experience (case in point: the top post is titled “The End of Management as We Know It”).

Three of the top 16 are about the end of traditional performance management....

Finding Joy in the Chaos

The holidays are meant to be a time when we shift our focus to all the good in our lives – when we invite family and friends into our homes and spread the joy. For many, though, the holidays can feel like the opposite of joyful. There is so much to catch up on at work before everyone leaves for vacation. I recently spoke with a friend who was complaining about a performance evaluation she needed to write, on top of all her other work (annual reviews are a discussion for another post).

Amid a...

5 Takeaways from the New SHRM/Globoforce Recognition Survey

2016 SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey

For the data geeks among us, the release of the 2016 SHRM/Globoforce Recognition Survey is like an early holiday gift. It’s packed with fascinating new insights from nearly 800 HR leaders and practitioners about their top workforce challenges and strategies to help address them.

Are you busy planning for the year ahead? This report shows where to focus your efforts by examining best practices in budgeting employee recognition, the impact of re...

HR’s Role in the Post-Bureaucratic Organization

If you’re a word nerd like me, you might be curious where the word bureaucracy comes from.

It’s actually derived from the French word bureaucratie, a term coined by French economist Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay in 1818. Bureau is the French word for office or desk, and –cracy is a Greek suffix meaning “power of.” So basically it refers to power held by people in big offices.

WorkHuman 2016 speaker Dr. Gary Hamel, director of the Management Innovation eXchange, is not a fan of bureauc...

‘Tis the Season to Evaluate Your Total Rewards Strategy

‘Tis the season for holiday parties, gift swaps, and … budgets, if you’re in compensation and total rewards. Perhaps your organization is ahead of the curve and you’ve already figured out 2017. Or maybe you’re in the process of preparing your recommendations to review with finance.

Regardless, it’s the time of year when many of us think about how we reward employees and what it will take to remain competitive in 2017.

A survey from Willis Towers Watson shows that pay raises for employees are...

[WEBINAR] The Secrets to CAA’s Award-Winning Recognition Program

Any organization in the process of launching a new recognition program must work through questions around socialization, budget, and remote employees. If you’re curious how a company with an award-winning program addressed these challenges, we invite you to join our webinar with the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) this Thursday, Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. ET.

Reserve your place and register for the webinar here.

Kate Hardie, HR analytics manager at CAA South Central Ontario, and her colleague T...

What Everyone Should Know About Introverts At Work

Don’t miss Susan Cain at WorkHuman 2017.

Did you know that as much as a third to half of people are introverts? That means potentially half of our workers require time alone to recharge and autonomous environments to be their best selves at work.

This raises interesting questions, like how do you know if you’re an introvert? What are the most effective ways to coach introverts? What kind of work environments will help both introverts and extroverts thrive? What if you’re an introvert yoursel...

Top 10 Posts on Gratitude at Work

It’s safe to say that Thanksgiving is our favorite holiday here at Globoforce (followed closely by Halloween; we love costumes). We even hold an annual GloboThanks potluck, a day when we bring in our favorite dishes and share a meal with colleagues and friends.

But beyond the food, we love Thanksgiving because we understand (and fully embrace) the power of gratitude in building happier, more committed, and more engaged workplaces. WorkHuman speaker and professor Dr. Robert Emmons once told u...

[INFOGRAPHIC] The Anatomy of the Employee Experience

Most HR professionals are focused on measuring and improving employee engagement. But what about the employee experience? How does an employee’s experience at work impact retention, effort, and performance? Which practices actually improve the employee experience?

The infographic below shares nine new findings in The Employee Experience Index from Globoforce’s WorkHuman Research Institute and IBM Smarter Workforce Institute.

Enjoy!

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