People.Processes.Networks

HRM TV at our undergraduate HRM class

robikase — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:36:00 +0000

We all often hear that it is very difficult to teach and work with Yers and that they do not deliver. I beg to differ. This generation has so much potential. They do need a lot of intrinsic motivation (they are quickly bored and who’s to blame them in today’s hyper content flowing world) and the right challenges. Especially in schools and universities we will have to offer new ways to attract their attention and engage them to do their best. This year we decided that instead of good old project presentations the students will do video clips, publish them on You tube and compete for attention. Their task was to present one HRM-related concept so that every student in Slovenia will understand it. Here is what they did and we all liked it a lot! Soon, the authors of the best videos will visit the studios of one of the commercial television networks in Slovenia, where their videos will be evaluated by the experts.

Academy of Management in San Antonio

robikase — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:51:02 +0000

This year the Academy of Management was in San Antonio, Texas. For people from Europe it was a bit different from usually because it was quite inconvenient to fly there and because it was hot like h…. (I think the average max temperature was around 40 C during the Academy). So, staying indoors was the best way to spend your time (I did violate this rule only once, that is, when a group of around 7 assistant professors did their morning jogging at 6.00!!! – I managed to survive the heat and the early hour, though) .

My schedule was very intense. I started before the conference even started with a day meeting of the 5C group (we study careers across the globe) in a very nice historical hotel. We made good progress and are getting ready for the global survey phase. Then I was involved in a PDW about new research methods in HRM, where I talked about using social network methods in HRM, I participated in the Advanced social network PDW, where I really enjoyed the dialogue between Martin Kilduff and Ron Burt about attributes of individuals and their network-related behavior. Two other highlights were the inspiring talk bt the CEO of HTC Peter Chou, who talked about how East meets West in HTC and the launch of our Global HR casebook, a product of HR Division Ambassadors.

Once again I have met so many great people and got so many ideas. I flew out of San Antonio, drafting plans for the coming academic year and anticipating the next AOM in Boston. Hopefully, some of these ideas will end on a nice paper.

The first publication for Eva

robikase — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:27:51 +0000

It is a great pleasure to share with you that Eva Repovš, my master student, just got a note from Economic and Business Review that her first research paper has been accepted for publication. Eva examined how Slovenian accountants and auditors identfy with their profession and with the organization where they are employed and discussed differences. Congratulations and keep up the good work!

Dogajanje na Slovenski kadrovski konferenci

robikase — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:56:40 +0000

Letos je Slovenska kadrovska zveza v partnerstvu s Planetom GV organizirala prvo Slovensko kadrovsko konferenco (na 30 let podlage ). Vesel sem, da sem bil lahko del tega dogodka, ki ima velik potencial za prihodnost. Konferenca je potekala pod naslovom “Soustvarjajmo poslovni preobrat! Načini, kako HRM vpliva na poslovni uspeh”. Videli smo veliko zanimivih prezentacij in precej svetlih zgodb iz slovenskih podjetijh, časa pa je bilo dovolj tudi za druženje in iskrivih diskusij.

Spodaj si lahko ogledate videoklip mojega predavanja o povezovanju poslovne in kadrovske strategije:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHZ6cIB6QoQ

Preberite pa tudi članek “Deset pasti pri razvijanju in uveljavljanju kadrovske strategije“, ki je omenjen in se navezuje na posnetek.

SHRM workshop in Reykjavik

robikase — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:16:13 +0000

Strategic human resource workshops organized by EIASM provide a very friendly and constructive atmosphere to present your work in progress and get good feedback. This time we really wanted to get feedback because our papers were at a decisive stage when this was most needed. My colleagues Saša Batistič, Sachiko Yamao and I were lucky to get feedback from some eminent names that were present at the conference. We presented the cocitation paper “The development of HRM-firm performance debate domains: A co-citation analysis” and a social network, international HRM paper ” Interunit Ties and Social Networks of Expatriates in MNCs:Towards a Cross-Level Process Model”. The Reykjavik University, which was hosting the workshop, is instrumental for Iceland’s further development. The country that virtually bursts with geothermal energy is aware of its limited talent pool and tries to do everything to create the best conditions to attract global talent, even shaping the university building as our solar system.

Saša won the Prešeren award

robikase — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:24:16 +0000

One of my favourite students Saša Batistič has received the University of Ljubljana Prešeren A ward for his thesis. This is the most prestigious award for student theses at the University in Ljubljana. He examined the development of academic debate on HRM-firm performance debate using the cocitation analysis. Congratulations Saša!

Saša now moved to Reading, UK, where he works on his doctoral dissertation - looking at newcomers and their social networks while onboarding in organizations. I am sure we will hear more from Saša…

Transforming the Slovenian HR Association

robikase — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:34:00 +0000

For the past year I have worked with a team of enthusiastic HR professionals on redesigning/restrucutring the Slovenian HR Association. Last week at the Autumn meeting of Slovenian HR Association we presented our plans & initaitves for the transformation and energized our members to go for it. There were a lot of areas that needed change (i.e., publich ralations, web communications, facilitating more engagement of the members, restructuring the formal bodies) and we hope that our proposals will help the SHRA to serve its members, grow and prosper. You can see the new logo – hope you like it!

A special issue on Knowledge and learning networks just came out

robikase — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:08:24 +0000

A very interesting special issue in EJIM just came out: Knowledge and Learning Networks in Organisations. My colleague Miha Škerlavaj and I were guest editors. We aimed to bring researchers together from different disciplines that applied social networks theories, concepts and/or methodology to study learning and knowledge transfer in organisations. Read more about it in the introduction.

Visiting at ISM University of Management and Economics

robikase — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:08:01 +0000

I just spent a great week at ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. The occasion was regular Erasmus exchange – this time my intention was to see how management teaching unfolds in one of the best known schools in the Baltic region. Even though it was terribly cold (close to -20 C) I really enjoyed the hospitality of the school and my host Raimonda, interaction with students and faculty (I gave a lesson on Change Management and HRM and a did research seminar), and two very interesting cities. Raimonda and I also had a couple of very in-depth discussion about our countries, management development and teaching. Our counties seem to have much more in common than one would think.

Social Side of Creativity

robikase — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:38:57 +0000

Together with Miha Škerlavaj, my officemate and great researcher in social networks arena, and Sandra Ohly, a psychologist and colleague of ours from Germany, we published a very interesting paper Networks for generating and for validating ideas: The social side of creativity. It was published in Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, 12(1), 2010.

Here is the abstract:

In recent years, research has recognized that creativity is a social process. By communicating with others, individuals get access to novel perspectives and unique knowledge, and they can get political support for their ideas by ensuring that they meet others’ standards. Based on the different function of idea-related communication, we expected the structure of idea-generation networks to differ from that of idea-validation networks. Specifically, we expected different effects of leadership status and tenure. Our results indicated some differences in the structure of the two networks. This leads to the recommendation that future research on idea-related communication and creativity needs to distinguish the different phases of the creative process.

Miha, Sanda and I met at the ERC workshop in Groningen a couple of years back, where we have learned have to use ERGM models. In this paper we show that this was very useful.