[:en]Engagement Survey Use and Misuse[:ja]エンゲージメントサーベイの誤った使い方[:]

engagement survey

[:en]Leaders cannot engage people. People must engage themselves. All a leader can do is clear the way. Despite this, I often find overreaching conclusions from employee engagement surveys about leader’s capability that ought not be drawn, and decisions based on those conclusions that ought not be made. Engagement is either in the nature of a person or it is not. Some employees will never be engaged no matter what you say or do because the business you want is not what they want. That’s fine, but perhaps they should be in a different role or in a different company. Other employees are simply disengaged from life, not just from your […]

[:en]Automate HR, Proliferate Mediocrity[:ja]人事の自動化は凡庸の始まり[:]

Automate HR, Proliferate Mediocrity

[:en]Machine learning algorithms are no smarter than the humans they learn from, and in most cases not nearly as smart. I am no luddite. I am aware of the power of big data when used with good analytics and artificial intelligence in automating functions like logistics, supply chain management, manufacturing and market intelligence. However, business leaders ought to treat automating human resources with particular skepticism and caution.

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