Archive for the ‘Human Resource’ Category

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Another way to approach network analysis within your intangible capital knowledge factory is to zoom down to the level of individual workers. One of the common ways of using this kind of map is to identify and find patterns in the interaction between groups of employees and/or groups of external people. This kind of ... Full story

Young & Restless: China's Graduate Dilemma from SOOKSTV on Vimeo. If there was one group that was hit the hardest by the economic downturn was college graduates, and as I have managed to time both of my graduating dates in the middle ... Full story

One image that we have used over and over again in recent years to explain the managerial implications of the knowledge era is depicted in this graphic. It is an abstraction of the organization chart. Like an organization chart, the triangular figure is wider at the bottom where there are more people at the bottom working in units or on projects. There is a management level ... Full story

----Organization chartIn the tangible economy, power and knowledge flowed primarily from the top down. An organization chart was used to explain how resources and authority were distributed. To show who reports to whom. What is the extent of the control of an individual manager? How are resources allocated? Just about every organization had and needed an organization chart. ----Our understanding ... Full story

While working for a few organisations, both public and private, since 1998, I have worked for a wide variety of managers, and have observed many more in action. In this experience, I have come to believe that there are essentially two types of managers--those who primarily focus on managing the tasks executed by their staff and those who primarily ... Full story

The last few months have been filled with labor issues, and while the Foxconn issues received perhaps the most coverage, the recent Reuters Factbox: China Labor Strikes led me to ask one of my interns to see what else she could find in a couple hours on the internet… and ... Full story

Not long ago, a Forbes.com article titled The iPad and Dreamliner Economy discussed the innovation that was taking place inside the US and why domestic technological innovation was far from a standstill. While the article reads like a litany of US brands the author’s firm likely holds an interest ... Full story

Culture is the least tangible of the structural capital assets. It can be hard to define but everyone knows it is there. Culture can be a productive or a destructive force within an organization. In general, a culture is what it is—and can be especially hard to change. As a starting ... Full story

Every human being is different. As employees, human beings bring unique talents and abilities to their employers. This diverse skills set brings a richness to an organization that can be difficult to capture. Do not let this richness keep you from trying to understand your human capital as a productive asset. There are ... Full story

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Do you know anyone who was dying to be in a relationship?  Dated all the time, but never met the right person.  Then, after accepting he would be alone, started focusing on other things and, lo and behold, met someone and got married? Or someone who tried for years to have a baby but ... Full story

Knowledge in an organization begins and ends with people. The knowledge and experience that employees bring to their work is probably the greatest driver of an organization’s success. What employees know helps to build an organization as well as to preserve, maintain and improve it. This importance is generally accepted. It is rare to meet a CEO who won’t tell you that his ... Full story

  How do Cities Organize Communal Life and Maintain Social Harmony ... Full story

Quality vs. Price. One of the seemingly core fundamental decision of business leaders who are bringing products and services to market.  Any market. It is a decision, a trade off, that will guide corporate strategies reaching into the core of the company and dictate brand, spend, investment, HR, communications, etc at nearly every level ... Full story

  Over the last couple of years, one of the firms that has popped up on the radar of firms whose labor conditions I felt were at some point going to come back to haunt them… and I think we have come a bit closer with the above CCTV report, an 11 and a half minute investigative report (in Chinese) where former employees of the Suzhou based Wintek facility speak about the physical ailments they experienced while working at the facility. It is a report that covers all the bases. Interviews of former employees who detail the illnesses they feel come from working at the plant, people in the hospital who are still recovering, labor bureau officials, the cursory tours, some scientific facts on the chemicals used in the process of cleaning/ finishing the screens, and even a Wintek Manager interview. Full story

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Over the last few weeks, I have been spending a lot of time things about the risks of China.  More specifically the risks that either are not thought through, are thought to be too low to consider, or are believed to be removed by a third party relationship.  It is a situation that, as the interview below will show, is almost systematic in the outsourced manufacturing game, and was highlighted by the recent strike at one of Apple’s Suzhou based suppliers two weeks. It was a strike that particularly frustrated me because Apple has had 3 or 4 other incidents in the past two years, and had in my mind simply not done anything to address the problems in a productive manner.  So, I asked long time friend and labor compliance specialist Pierig Vezin  (Founder and CEO of WethicA) to answer some questions for me based on his experiences in the field What are the biggest compliance issues that exist in china? The more common compliance issue in China is about working time. It is found in almost every factory as the Chinese law is quite strict (40 hours per week), but the reality is that the average working time is among the highest worldwide with around 70 to 75 hours per week. The toughest compliance issue, bounded labour (i.e. young child labour),  is rarely an issue of big factories. Second to the issue of child labor though is that we regularly meet factories that pay workers once a year only, which essentially means that workers can’t resign from their job once they have started. This kind of practice leads workers to be fully dependent on the factory, even in case of major needs to change. Full story

  Following up on some earlier posts about driving sustainability through education, McKinsey has loaded an interview with the Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Encouraging to see these shifts, although I personally would like to see more schools really integrate sustainability into their core curriculum.  That, rather ... Full story

This afternoon I was asked by someone why I am involved in CSR and sustainability.  It is a question that I seem to asked frequently, but one that I am not sure I ever answer with any measure of clarity as I have worked in a very wide range of issues related to these big topics, and my interests for each issue hit me in different spots. But, if there is one common thread that I feel binds each of the issues I work on (see a recent list of 35 projects I am managing through my class at CEIBS), it is that of responsibility… or the lack there of. Full story