HR Bible

Foreword

Preface

Recruitment

• Talent time-bomb explodes for HR
• Gen-Y look for 'happening' workplaces
• Talent shortage
• Y shouldn’t we be happy?
• Employer branding
• Harnessing social media to maximise EVPs
• Strategic targeted recruitment
• No more Russian roulette recruiting
• The right way to use psychometric assessments
• Recruiting your recruitment firm
• HR Fight Club: winning new hires
• Spotting agile leaders: tips for interviewers
• Jardines’ HR recruitment roadmap
• Recruitment & outsourcing strategies
• Angry Birds and HR
• Manulife Financial: recruitment strategies
• Oregon Scientific: recruiting the Oregon Trail of leaders
• Hsin Chong Construction: line managers key in recruitment
• Hong Kong Broadband Network: talent selection
• Newell Rubbermaid: proactive recruitment strategies
• Hang Seng Bank: HR strategies
• Global nomads: avoiding HR headaches
• Humanising recruitment and relocation policies
• Mazars: selecting staff, sending them to Africa

Employee services

• C&B strategies that work
• Japan pays most for expats in Asia
• 2013 HK salaries worth more
• 3% of Asian salaries frozen
• Salaries constant in uncertain market
• To outsource...or not to outsource?

Legal

• HR basic guide to the Minimum Wage Ordinance
• Hiring and firing in China
• Balancing the ethics formula: A tool for guiding choices
• Toolkit on directors’ ethics
• HR trends & compliance strategies 104

Retention

• Growth markets show best talent management
• Enhancing staff staying power
• Quick fix or rainy day rewards?
• Money isn't everything: motivating staff without money
• Ageing China: pension plans a way to go
• Poor HR governance hinders companies going global
• Why HR should wear a sales hat
• Workplace confessional: secrets HR needs to know to retain staff
• Office relations
• How CSR can also drive the bottom line
• SociétéGénérale: responsible HR
• ExxonMobil on CSR
• Green HR
• Writing meaningful CSR reports
• Gen-Y retention strategies
• Nurturing Gen-Y
• Business case for recruitment diversity
• Towards a global culture
• End to male monopoly
• More female managers, higher share price
• How effective are your HR discrimination skills?
• Work-life balance global issue
• Experiential gifting
• Fit minds matter
• Motivational mushrooms
• Parent-preneurs: work-life balance secrets
• Beaches, bananas and Bollywood belly dancing: innovative ideas to boost wellness
• Group health insurance: key trends
• Heathy staff, healthy business
• Corporate wellness: building a resilient workforce
• Health: the ultimate wealth
• Sharing medical costs with employees through flex plans
• Great governance of medical plans: best practices
• Managing staff benefits the easy way
• Health and wellness benefits a must in global mobility strategies
• Healthcare for dormant expats

Learning and development

• Evolution of L&D

• Building an L&D framework Global
• L&D trends
• Traditional L&D values
• Global creativity crisis
• Keeping staff ahead in financial L&D
• Trainer tactics: walking the talk
• Brains over brawn: assessing staff
• Leadership development: is it working?
• Training leaders
• Senior execs: MBAs, might, morals, minds and more
• Six Sigma black belts
• Women leaders
• Staff learning & development strategies
• Racing for talent: HKJC L&D programmes
• Disney: staff training at the Disney University
• P&G: training tomorrow's talent at P&G University
• Hong Kong Police Force: e-learning and Knowledge Café drive innovative L&D strategies
• Hospital Authority: why L&D is a critical talent management strategy
• Keeping learners engaged: advice from HSBC, AIA and FedEx
• Diversifying training methods to enhance L&D effectiveness
• Morgan Stanley's take on T&D
• Blended approach enhances L&D at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
• Maximising L&D effectiveness at Fuji Xerox
• RSM university cadet programmes
• Great Expectations
• Measuring training results

Performance management

• Stephen M R Covey on HR
• Learning the ropes of HR: performance lessons from sailing
• Confidence, creativity & collaboration
• Give me space!
• 7 HR deadly sins when managing sales staff
• Performance excellence
• What makes employees smile?
• Managing stress in the workplace
• Just get it done!
• Introduction to ontological coaching
• Coaching and kings
• Coaching the right decision
• Assessing talent
• Certification for staff
• Benchmarking abilities
• Benchmarking IT staff
• Annual appraisals

Strategic HR & Transitions

• Do the HR strategy maths: EVP + TR = 7 x engagement + 3 x revenue
• HR hard sell
• HR failing to keep pace with HC analytics
• Musicians not MBAs
• HRO trends
• Life or death HR
• Accident culture: nurturing staff creativity
• Reshaping organisational culture by learning from mistakes
• Staff exodus from China T1 cities
• A word to the wise: plan
• Driving business performance via L&D
• Succession management
• Scoping global talent & succession planning on a shoestring
• Developing your next generation of leaders
• Filling gaps in leadership pipelines
• China chases dream of leadership pipeline
• Frozen pipelines
• HR karma: peace of mind in succession planning
• Cross-fertilising HR with PR
• Ogilvy: cultivating company creativity
• Understanding human capital in mergers & acquisitions
• Harmonising benefits after M&A
• C&B strategies in mergers and acquisitions
• Coping with career change
• Outsourcing decruitment
• Exit strategies
• Don't ask, don't tell: terminating employment
• Avoiding liability when giving references
• References: obligations and risks for employer

HR service provider listings

• Executive education providers
• Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)
• Insurance providers
• Recruiters
• Recruiter matrix
• Serviced apartments
• Training providers
• Training venues