This year’s holiday fun survey also took at look resolutions… here are a few things HR had to say about making and keeping resolutions:

Favorite 2007 New Years’ Resolutions for the HR Department

Looking ahead to 2008, HR is very focused streamlining processes, and reducing the sheer amount of paper, with 19% indicating this as their main resolution, up by 5% from last year. Next at 10% is a new entry into the top three in this [...]

HR had a lot to say when it came to our third annual favorite things fun survey conducted over the past few weeks.

The winner of the draw for an iPod Touch is Dalia Chavez. Congratulations!

Here are the results — lots of old favorites holding strong, and a few upsets… here’s what HR had to say about their favorites… stay tuned next week for a look at HR’s resolutions.

Favorite leisure activity

For the third year running, HR [...]

In his blog, John Ingham has two recent interesting posts about the value of HR within an organization — placing them at a new level of involvement with business objectives. We’ve been seeing for some time that in many marketplaces, HR is becoming more and more strategic and when its programs are planned and executed well, HR is offering a competitive advantage. Executives are taking the function much more seriously. And HR is [...]

Check out this great poll from Harris Interactive that Kris Dunn has called out on his HR Capitalist blog. It illustrates how the 18-34 set (we like to call them Gen Y, The Millenials, etc.) need praise and thanks at work, but they want it very specifically. In person, NOT in email works best, and it had better be specific to their work functions, and presented one on one — no groups please.

We’re [...]