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US Manufacturers | Hiring Practices | Killing Them
The United States is at a dangerous juncture: Manufacturing jobs are on the rise, but the growth is still fragile. Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn’t take much to...
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HR | Human Capital Trends 2012 – Deloitte
“It’s fitting that 2012 is a leap year, since a number of converging market trends are driving HR organizations to make significant leaps in capabilities and performance. HR faces a critical, dual...
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U.S. | Shares of Low-wage and low-income workers have grown over the last...
Three decades of stagnating earnings for bottom deciles of male wage earners and 1990s anti-poverty policies promoting employment among poor single mothers suggest increases in the ranks of low-wage...
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HR Still Isn’t Strategic
For two decades we have been hearing that HR must become a strategic partner to the business. And the fact that we’re still hearing it suggests that in many organizations it hasn’t happened. The need...
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The State of Human Capital: “people processes” are failing to keep pace
Human capital professionals are struggling to meet the needs of an-ever changing global business landscape. As global markets and technology evolve, “people processes” are failing to keep pace. While...
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The Human Capital Summit in Singapore
“Last week I spoke with Karen Cariss, CEO of PageUp People, after she attended the recent Human Capital Summit in Singapore” writes Sylvia Vorhauser-Smith. (Choosen excerpts by JMM to follow) How...
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Long-term unemployment has received insufficient attention during this...
The most disturbing aspect of the high unemployment rate during the past 4 years has been, namely, the large number of the unemployed who have been out of work for at least 6 months. Last month 5...
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Canada / Talent War / Skilled immigrants: They’re not lining up anymore
If you’re an engineer in China or Brazil, you have a good life. Why come and freeze in Canada, right? It’s a truism that Canada is a nation of immigrants, but in the years ahead, demographics — an...
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Canada / Human capital trends survey 2013
To build leadership and talent, organizations need to do more than maintain good employee relations: they need to focus on direct organizational benefits that solve business problems. HR is strategic...
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Russia /Hhuman capital development is the challenge says OECD
To pursue economic growth, Russia must develop its human capital, which requires structural reforms in education, healthcare and pensions. These, in turn, must respond to major trends in service...
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US / Is the Golden Age of Human Capital Over?
It seems that the golden age of human capital is losing its shine. That shine came not just from a high rate of return (both individual and social) on a college degree, but also from a beautiful, if...
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Human Capital / The quality of labor in rich countries would be about twice...
“It is well known by now that the observed cross-country differences in output per worker are large. For example, the richest countries in the world economy are about 30 to 40 times richer than their...
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Ghana / Improving human capital to get the Demographic Dividend
Discussants at a National Dialogue on Harnessing the Demographic Dividend for Ghana’s Development agree there’s a need for the country to improve the quality of its human capital. They believe that...
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Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2014 – The top findings
To gain insights into the 2014 global human capital trends, Deloitte conducted a survey in the last quarter of 2013 that included 2,532 business and HR leaders in 94 countries. The survey covered the...
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Human capital doesn’t alone reduces income inequality research finds
Most developing countries have made a great effort to eradicate illiteracy. As a result, the inequality in the distribution of education has been reduced by more than half from 1950 to 2010. However,...
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The 10 trends in the 2015 Global Human Capital Trends report
Global organizations today navigate a “new world of work”—one that requires a dramatic change in strategies for leadership, talent, and human resources. More than 3,300 organizations from 106 countries...
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Human Capital and Labour Productivity in Canada – HC contribution to...
“The good fortune of bountiful natural resources is not enough to ensure rising incomes for Canadians in the long term. Growing labour productivity is the most important determinant of future economic...
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Immigrants in Canada – Language at landing is one of the most important...
While an extensive literature examines the association between immigrants’ characteristics and their earnings in Canada, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the relative importance of various human...
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HR – CEOs’ selected strategies for meeting the Human Capital challenge
CEOs know that meeting their most urgent business growth challenges is inextricably linked to the strength of their human capital base. Effective use of human capital resources remains a critical issue...
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The Future of Work – Investing in human capital must be a priority says the...
The World Development Report (WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work studies how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Fears that robots will take away jobs from...
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