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A Professor’s Take on Employee Engagement

HR as a profession and a practice is finding itself at a crossroads. Does employee engagement as a measure still matter? Should we conduct annual performance reviews? How can we make a tangible impact on work culture?

These are a few topics we discussed in part 2 of our Q&A with Dr. Bill Castellano (check out part 1 here). He shared advice based on his experience as a consultant in the field and a professor at Rutgers University. In particular, we talked about employee fit, continuous feedba...

The Secret Sauce to a Successful M&A

“Everything changes and nothing stands still,” according to Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher. Buddhists promote a similar idea with their doctrine of impermanence, which states that all existence is transient, evanescent, and inconstant.

Even if you take just a cursory look at the news today, it becomes clear that these concepts of change and impermanence could never be more relevant. We certainly see it in politics. How do we move forward with such polarized views in the United States and ab...

How to Be a More Strategic HR Leader in 2017

Bill Castellano, Ph.D., associate dean, executive and professional education, at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

How can we be more strategic tackling some of today’s greatest workforce challenges – like the skills gap, generational diversity, and the growing population of contract workers?

To gain some insight, we reached out to Bill Castellano, Ph.D., associate dean, executive and professional education, at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. He has more than...

The HR Metric You’re Not Measuring (But Should Be)

New research suggests employee engagement may not tell the whole story of the employee experience at work.

For years, HR leaders and professionals have been laser-focused on measuring and improving employee engagement. In fact, Josh Bersin noted in a Forbes editorial that the roots of engagement surveys go all the way back to the late 1800s when Fredrick Taylor studied how people’s attitudes impacted their productivity in the steel industry.

And we’ve been focused on engagement for good reas...

The Best Workday Integration You Never Knew About

Learn more about Globoforce’s pre-packed integration for social recognition in our webinar this Wednesday.

Are you a Workday customer or currently going through a Workday implementation? Did you know you can quickly and easily launch a recognition solution that integrates seamlessly with your Workday HCM solution?

Globoforce is the only certified Workday partner offering pre-packed integration for social recognition. That means you get:

Faster and easy recognition deployment Greater talent...

Unicorns at HR Tech World

If I had to choose the two topics that most intrigued me at the HR Tech World conference in Paris this week, they would be unicorns and bureaucracy. That might seem like an odd mix. Let me explain.

For those unfamiliar with the term, a unicorn (in business) is used to describe a venture-backed, private company valued at $1 billion or more. Examples of unicorns include Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat.

“Unicorns get big fast,” reads an HBR article from earlier this year. It continues:

The small siz...

Oui Will See You in Paris

Who would have guessed that the city of love is also the city of HR technology?

This year’s HR Tech World conference will be held in Paris again on Tuesday – Wednesday (October 25-26) of next week. And if by chance you’re attending the show, Globoforce will have a few sessions for you to choose from, depending on your area of interest.

For sweet enthusiasts, drop by stand #217 in the expo hall and we’ll be sure to give you something sweet to get you through the day.

For data gurus, don’t mis...

5 Ways Recognition Powers Eaton’s Global Workforce

Join Globoforce for a webinar with Eaton next Thursday.

How do you engage a workforce of more than 100,000 employees, working in the United States, China, Switzerland, and Brazil? What if 50 percent of the population is offline, without access to a company computer?

These are just a few of the challenges faced by Eaton, a leading power management company that sells to consumers in 175 countries. With such a diverse workforce, Eaton partnered with Globoforce to create E-STAR, their social rec...

4 Quick Tips on Authenticity from LinkedIn’s Talent Connect

LinkedIn’s Talent Connect conference was held in Las Vegas last week.

LinkedIn’s annual Talent Connect conference, a gathering leaders in HR, recruiting, and talent acquisition, was held in Las Vegas last week. As I walked along the Las Vegas strip each day, I couldn’t help but think that the strip serves as a bit of a microcosm for the greater talent landscape.

Everywhere I turned, casinos and bars were fighting for my attention—handing out drink coupons or blasting top 40 hits. One person...

3 HR Lessons from Adam Grant

See Adam Grant live at WorkHuman 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Long-time readers of the Globoforce blog know that we are huge fans of Adam Grant. Not only is he a New York Times bestselling author, but he’s also Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s top-rated professor, and ranked one of the top 25 management thinkers in the world. Did I mention he’s only 35?

We’re such big fans of his work that we invited Adam to be a keynote speaker at our inaugural WorkHuman conference back in 20...