Organizational & Employee Development 

Developing Empowered Learners
How do organizations create a culture that fosters employees’ intense intellectual curiosity so that they, and their companies, can maintain their relevance, adapt to change and survive despite competitive market forces? Here are five ways to create a culture of empowered learners.

Making Corporate Learning Work
Fueled by budgetary pressures driven by the economic downturn, there is a real and growing focus at companies on the value of corporate learning—and on how to add value to the corporate learning function.

Skills Gaps Affect Some Jobs, Industries More than Others

Calif. Manufacturers Try to Bridge Skills Gap

Assess Motivation to Yield Better Hires
If behavior-based interviewing is such an effective method of identifying qualified candidates for a job, why does so much research show that employers are regularly dissatisfied with their new hires?

Workforce Data Must Produce Actionable Results
Having lots of data is good. Having data that can be turned into meaningful information is better. But having information that can be translated into action is golden.

HR Unhappy with Talent Data Systems
Fewer than one in five HR professionals are satisfied with their information systems’ ability to manage talent data, according to a new survey of HR professionals in emerging and established economies. That problem might be contributing to an erosion of HR’s role as a strategic player.

Job-Skills Boot Camp: An Award-Winning Idea
The Mississippi SHRM State Council received accolades for its job-skills boot camp for sixth graders, now held in 67 of Mississippi’s 82 counties and at several private schools. 

Rock: 'Start Thinking About Your Thinking' to Improve Performance
Leadership and organizational effectiveness expert David Rock, Ph.D., explained how neuroscience is helping us understand and optimize the brain at work in an interview with SHRM India's managing editor, Jyoti Singh Visvanath.

Chapter’s Intern Institute Fosters HR Education  
South Central Indiana Human Resource Association’s (SCIHRA) creation of a unique college HR internship won it a coveted SHRM 2012 Pinnacle Award.

Study Identifies Drivers of Innovation Success

Human Capital Investments Being Questioned

Fill Those Workplace Experience Gaps

Diagnose, Remedy Organizational Growing Pains

Using Predictive Analytics in Talent Management

SHRM Talent Management Conference & Exposition
April 2013
Keynote speakers addresses some key organizational and employee development themes at the Society for Human Resource Management’s 2013 Talent Management Conference & Exposition, held April 15-17, 2013, in Las Vegas.

Gamers Are 'Greatest Untapped Human Resource'
Gaming can help organizations improve employee engagement, according to researcher and gaming expert Jane McGonigal.

Jacobs: ‘Do What You Like, Like What You Do’
Frisbees, heartwarming stories, a kazoo quartet of Beatles songs, and profuse self-effacing humor were the tools John Jacobs used to share his message that optimism can take you anywhere.