David Wexler
The Business of HR
Re-thinking Vacation
With vacation season in full swing, perhaps now is a good time for CEO’s to give serious thought to the concept of Vacation.
My observation is that the perception of vacation by employers has not much changed in the past 30 years.
When I started out in the workforce, vacation time was carefully doled out, based on criteria such as years of service with the company, job title and level, and employment standards for the jurisdiction in which the employee worked.
David Wexler
The Business of HR
What Is Your “EVP”?
What is your Employment Value Proposition (“EVP”)?
David Wexler
The Business of HR
There Is No War For Talent
Since the early 90’s, newspaper articles and books have trumpeted the pending “war for talent”, and conference sponsors have made a very lucrative return on running workshops on the supposed shortage of talent in the workplace.
David Wexler
The Business of HR
The Peril Of Acquisitions
Ever participated in an acquisition? Considering one now? The process of fixing an appropriate price and then determining how to make the transaction work, without diluting the value of the acquiring organization is an interesting one.
David Wexler
The Business of HR
HR: Friend or Foe?
When I started in HR many years ago, a lot of companies still referred to the function as “Personnel”. The name did not have a good connotation. The function’s mandate back then was to act as a controller. In fact, it was often difficult to distinguish between HR and Finance at the time. Finance was perceived as the guardian of the company’s physical capital information and the place where spending and project budgeting requests went to die. HR was perceived as the place where hiring, promotions, and salary increase requests went to die.
David Wexler
The Business of HR
“It’s The People Of Course”
People are the currency of today’s business. We have, to a large extent, exited businesses where people were simply hands and feet and occasionally asked to think, as they performed their parts.