Personnel Management
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How to keep IT staff happy during downturn
Insight perspective In tough economic times, businesses must do more with fewer people. An industry expert offers some advice on how to make this happen.
Tags: Personnel management, HR policies and procedures, Leadership, Staff, Tool, Environment, CIO, performance, Process Management, career
A '30-year headstart' connecting people
Insight newsmaker SAP's Asia-Pacific and Japan CEO on attracting talent and why the ERP giant can stand unfazed in light of new Web 2.0 entrants to the market.
Tags: Recruiting, Professional Development, Personnel management, Web 2.0, SAP AG, Google Inc., India, Business Process, Japan, CEO
Intel embraces social networks in phases
News Social workforce is about being open and leveraging "wisdom of crowds", where small work groups aren't conducive for collaboration, says Intel exec.
Tags: Web 2.0, Corporate culture, Personnel management, Best strategies, Generation Y, Intel Corp., Workforce, IT Security, Tool, social networking tool
Prevent employees from 'going rogue'
Techguide There is often a personal crisis trigger that causes an already borderline employee to cross the border. Would intervention prevent information compromise or system loss?
Tags: Communication skills, Personnel management, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Data security, Employee, Security, Behavior, auditing, photocopier
Facebook names a CFO, at last
News David Ebersman, former chief financial officer of Genentech, takes over CFO role in September replacing Gideon Yu, who left this spring.
Tags: Domain names, Personnel management, CFO, Gideon Yu, venture capital, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, CEO, financial, finance
Apple's Steve Jobs back at work
News The company's chief executive has officially returned from a six-month medical leave of absence.
Tags: Personnel management, Investments, Apple Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Absence, Cupertino, CEO, Tennessee, senior vice president, Apple iPhone
Banyan Tree invests $1M in talent management
News Singapore hotels and resorts operator employs SAP in bid to better nurture and manage talent pool of over 10,000 staff, according to company executives.
Tags: Business development/management, Personnel management, Recruiting, Banyan Systems, Database, SAP AG, Talent Management, Human Resources Inc., Training, Bangkok
S'pore workers job-hunting, IT professionals in high demand
News Though Singapore's unemployment rates are near a four-year high, more workers are looking to change jobs while IT and financial companies find employees hard to come by, finds survey.
Tags: Recruiting, Personnel management, Business Strategies & Functions, Unemployment Rate, Worker, Employer, construction industry, Survey, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.
IT execs urged to take MBA path to CIO's chair
News Frameworks, concepts, strategic thinking and business vocabulary taught in MBA programs are useful en route to senior management post, says academic.
Tags: Personnel management, Communication skills, Certification, Business, Nanyang Technological University, Banking Industry, business management, e-mail, teamwork, professor
Broader skill sets way to retrain
News Economic downturn demands more from job roles, so companies will do well to train staff for more general IT skills, say corporate HR heads.
Tags: Trends, Personal development, Personnel management, HR policies and procedures, Citrix Systems Inc., India, Training, Workforce, Hyderabad, Environment
CIO role still relevant to businesses
News IT heads continue to play a pivotal role steering their companies toward increased market advantage, even if they now report to their CFO, not CEO.
Tags: Corporate culture, Organizational structure, Personnel management, CFO, Asia-Pacific, EMC Corp., Gartner Inc., Tsamados, CIO, e-mail
IT illiteracy drags on UK economy
News The United Kingdom is losing millions of working hours a week due to a lack of basic IT literacy among employees, according to City & Guilds.
Tags: Professional Development, Personnel management, Human resources, Training, Worker, job, U.K., information technology, call-center, Human resources
IT wages fall as credit crunch bites
News Contractor rates for staff in the financial services sector have slumped to a five-year low, according to recent research.
Tags: Personnel management, Human resources, Financial, Contractor, layoff, Salary, compliance, Silicon.com, Y2K, recession
Indian SMB workforce going mobile
News Employees are now more mobile as India's small and midsize firms recognize need to improve relationships with partners, customers and suppliers.
Tags: Employee policy/training, Mobile platforms/communications, Personnel management, Communications, Mobile, India, Workforce, Midsize Business, Small And Medium Business, Small Business
Techies must rebrand themselves as 'integral'
News IT professionals still seen as personnel who serve other departments, rather than as an integral part of the business, notes IASA CEO.
Tags: Organizational structure, Personnel management, Workforce, IT Professional, Malaysia, CIO, CEO, revenue, finance, Edwin Yapp
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