Insights
Why does group HR-system integration fail? The real challenges of multi-entity HR
Three patterns in which group and multi-entity HR-system integration fails and the conditions for success — balancing standardization and autonomy, an integration-readiness checklist, and the technical requirements for multi-entity HR.
COVID Bids Farewell to Traditional Performance Management
As everyone expects, even after COVID ends, it is unlikely that gathering at the office every day to meet and report will become routine again. According to a PwC survey, workers around the world have already grown accustomed to remote work, and working from home about half of the week (two to three days) is expected to become the new norm.
2021.03.03
Korean Corporate Restructuring and HR's Response Strategy
It may sound a little grim, but the dominant theme for Korean companies this year looks to be "downsizing." The wind of restructuring — including headcount reductions — is already blowing harder.
2021.03.02
Performance Evaluation and Reward: The End of a Honeymoon
If the essence of performance management is to set and manage goals to move employees, then the essence of compensation is to keep capable people inside the company. Since modern times, as companies have grown, globalized, and divided their work, the dominant theme for executives worldwide has been how to deploy people more efficiently to drive better performance.
2021.01.25
The Smart Work Crisis Is the Opportunity
COVID-19 made starkly clear that the technology is what's required to adopt the contactless, electronic, flexible, and self-directed work patterns that can be summed up as "smart work," and that what has to be overcome is culture and conditions.
2020.12.01
Performance Plus: An OKR-Based Continuous Performance Management and Collaboration Platform
An HR Total Solution Provider — Human Consulting Group (HCG) is a Korean HR-specialist firm founded in 2001, providing integrated services across the entire HR value chain.
2020.11.05
From "GENERATION" to "PERSON"
The question of how to draw the lines between generations is always an interesting one. Even ancient Sumerian clay tablets are said to contain text complaining about a poorly behaved son — so the situation in which the older generation finds the younger one new and unfamiliar, and isn't sure how to respond, seems to have been the same in ancient times as it is today.
2020.08.28
The Executive Organization Is Changing
Executives are often called "the flower of the working life." The phrase carries the envious sense of the high authority and additional benefits that come the moment someone becomes an executive — but it is also shorthand for the unlimited responsibility and burden each executive carries for the company's performance and sustainability.
2020.07.03
Post-Corona: HR's Response Strategy
"The coronavirus has spread. The company has ordered work from home. At first I was glad there was no supervisor watching me, but now that I have to report my work output every day, the burden is real. At times like this, I miss my supervisor's advice and my colleagues' help."
2020.06.01
Gig Workers: Who Are They?
A Korean portal site survey of about 1,800 office workers asking whether they were still at their first job found that 87.6% of all respondents had left their first job, and only 12.4% were still at it.
2020.05.03
