Losing a valuable employee could just be a pity or even a tragedy. The problem seems to be clear. However, the way how companies deal with this topic really differs. Some do everything to protect themselves from missing loyalty. Some deal with

#36 Strategies to get Employee Surveys straight

Apr 27th, 2020 31m 51s

Employee survey are among the most commonly used approaches in HR. The classic idea is to ask everyone everything so that all people work on almost anything. This episode proposes an alternative view, that is more focused on what really matters

#35 What makes flexible working conditions really flexible?

Apr 27th, 2020 38m 15s

There are a lot of measures known about how to shape flexible working arrangements. However, the most important question is, who decides upon those measures. By any mean, there must be a match between structural conditions and cultural beliefs.

#34 What it really means being an attractive Employer

Apr 26th, 2020 27m 24s

Most company strive for being attractive employers. However, there is much confusion about what this actually could mean. What seems simple and nice might turn out as a concept of multiple dilemmas.You'll find all slides here: https://armintr

#33 The Puzzle of Compensating High Performers in Teams

Apr 24th, 2020 33m 18s

Even in teams there might be high performers. Treating high performers differently might be a mistake. Not doing so might be a mistake too. You might either kill collaboration or you lose or not attract high performers. There is no perfect solu

#32 Does Pay for Performance really motivate?

Apr 23rd, 2020 37m 31s

Contingent pay could either increase or decrease employees’ motivation. It is an oversimplified and often wrong idea about money being a motivator only. Often rewards could even do harm. Whether or not money motivates heavily depends on the nat

#31 Fundamentals and Strategies of Base Pay

Apr 22nd, 2020 27m 14s

Base pay could be seen as a kind of flat rate. It mainly becomes relevant when it comes to attracting and retaining people. While most companies share a common approach on how to manage compensation with pay structures there still are various s

#30 Meanings and Effects of Remuneration

Apr 21st, 2020 25m 58s

Remuneration is not only about financials. It’s a social and psychological matter. When thinking about compensation system, four themes are to be taken into consideration: fairness, motivation, social dynamics and acquisition.All slides of th

#29 Managing Careers of Experts who do not manage

Apr 20th, 2020 28m 48s

Some experts might be more critical to a company’s organizational success than some managers or executives. However, experts have a different impact and their careers look different. Once a company thinks about managing expert careers, they wil

#28 The Power of Experience for personal Growth

Apr 18th, 2020 31m 27s

To a large extend people learn through experience. There are powerful ways to manage this particular way of development. In this episode we talk primarily about, action learning, which is a commonly used approach.All slides of the entire seri

#27 How talented People learn from and with Others

Apr 17th, 2020 36m

A good way to learn and develop is to learn from and with others. In order to make this happen companies could run various initiatives. In this episode we talk primarily about career paths, mentoring and coaching.All slides of the entire seri

#26 Who are your most talented People?

Apr 16th, 2020 35m 23s

One major challenge of talent management is to understand who got talent. It is the question though, what talent actually is compared to competence and potential. Most companies run so called talent reviews, which might be a good idea. However,

#25 The Blessing and Curse of Competence Models

Apr 15th, 2020 23m 59s

Competence models often serve as a strategic framework for the development, promotion, evaluation and selection of future leaders. While this could make sense there are various limitations related to competence models. The usage of competence m

#24 The Idea and Challenge of Talent Management

Apr 14th, 2020 34m 47s

Talent management in most companies is seen as all activities and initiatives to fill key and bottleneck functions from the inside. While talent management is about both make (develop) and buy (hire) the focus lies on development. All slides

#23 Find, transfer and retain Knowledge in your Organization

Apr 13th, 2020 29m 22s

Knowledge management is about finding, retaining and transferring knowledge inside an organization. This episode briefly demonstrates a comprehensive approach on how to set your knowledge management strategy straight. All slides of the entire

#22 Developing Leaders for organizational Success

Apr 12th, 2020 40m 57s

Education of senior leaders, executives and managers might be critical to an organization’s long-term success. However, there is a significant variety of strategic ways of running executive education programs. This podcast outlines some of the

#21 Nature and Strategies of Learning in an agile Setting

Apr 11th, 2020 31m 6s

How can and will people learn in a situation when there is no knowledge available. This happen primarily in complex situations and when innovation is key. In this particular case there is no difference between work and learning. It is simply th

#20 How to build a corporate Learning Strategy

Apr 10th, 2020 33m 12s

A corporate learning strategy is a systematic way not only to understand learning needs but to translate needs into concrete learning activities based on strategic learning priorities. Through a learning strategy you will reduce complexity of l

#19 Learning in Organizations happens in many different Ways

Apr 9th, 2020 39m 10s

Learning is about becoming able to solve problems. In organizations learning happens in all possible forms. In order manage learning, it is reasonable to classify different learning needs into distinct learning cases based on a few learning cha

#18 Formal Performance Review, Judgement and Assessment

Apr 8th, 2020 31m 12s

In every organizations judgement upon people are needed at some point of time. However, formal judgement could do a lot of harm to teams depending on the structural and cultural context.All slides of the entire series can be downloaded here:

#17 Making social Feedback most effective

Apr 6th, 2020 36m 12s

Feedback is essential for learning and improvement. That’s for sure. To be most effective the one receiving feedback must be open for it in order to reach the highest possible level of reflection. This depends on how social feedback is being ma

#16 Defining Objectives and Performance Expectations

Apr 5th, 2020 34m 40s

At some point organizations, teams and employees must be clear about what is supposed to be achieved. We either talk about objectives, results, standards or performance expectations in general. There is the question though how to handle this de

#15 How you relaunch your Performance Appraisal

Apr 4th, 2020 31m 27s

More and more companies think about alternative ways of running performance appraisal. This episode provides a good roadmap on how to do such a relaunchAll slides of the entire series can be downloaded here: https://armintrost.de/en/professor

#14 A strategic View and Outlook on Performance Appraisal

Apr 4th, 2020 30m 5s

Performance appraisal is one of most commonly used approach in HRM. In times of digitization and agility criticism regarding performance appraisal is getting louder. This episode provides an overview on the traditional view.All slides of the

#13 Is your Onboarding about Babysitting or about cold Water?

Apr 1st, 2020 14m 56s

Onboarding is about reducing new hires’ uncertainty and steepening their learning curve towards a required level of productivity. However, there are different strategic options. New hires could either be taken by their hands or be thrown into t