What’s Next by…John Sumser

John Sumser Twitter || LinkedIn What are your predictions for Human Capital in 2010 Job Boards Refuse To Sign Do Not Resuscitate Orders. The habits of job hunters outweigh the push towards social media. Job Boards find new lives. Multiple Kafka Moments. People who wake in the new normal will write in their diaries, “On morning, as I woke from [...]

What’s Next by…Patricia McFarlane

Patricia McFarlane Twitter || LinkedIn What are your predictions for Human Capital in 2010 Workplace privacy will become an issue in 2010- As the need to use social media in the work setting emerges stronger in 2010, there will be more attention given to workplace privacy issues.  Employees and companies will begin to figure out how to use social [...]

What’s Next by…Steven Rothberg

Steven Rothberg Twitter || LinkedIn What are your predictions for Human Capital in 2010 I hope that we’ll see fewer uses of phrases like “human capital.” As my friend Don Ramer likes to hammer home, humans are not capital. Humans are people. I feel that the job market is clearly in a very slow and uneven recovery and that we’ll [...]

What’s Next by…Laurie Ruettimann

Laurie Ruettimann Twitter || LinkedIn What are your predictions for Human Capital in 2010 HR professionals, vendors, and consultants will still use the words ‘Human Capital’ instead of referring to employees as people. Organizations will continue to manage the recession on the backs of workers and blame the economy for paltry merit increases and the rising cost of health insurance. Workers [...]

What’s Next by..Sharlyn Lauby

Sharlyn Lauby Twitter || LinkedIn What are your predictions for Human Capital in 2010 Professional development is going to look different.  We need conferences to stimulate business travel as part of our economic recovery.  But what events will people attend?  I believe it will be the ones that figure out how to balance the traditional conference structure with the [...]

What’s Next by…Alexandra Levit

Alexandra Levit Twitter || LinkedIn What are your predictions for Human Capital in 2010? The workplace model of “same time, same place” will continue to disappear:  Now that we can be connected regardless of our physical location, work activities will be distributed across central offices, remote locations, and community locations.  The typical eight-hour workday will be spread across a [...]

What’s Next by…Bill Copeland

Bill Copeland LinkedIn What are your predictions for Human Capital in 2010? More leadership positions for people managing various HR Disciplines into boards, executive leadership and committees. Further understanding and dealing with globalization issues for SMB companies, managing the bridging of cultures, and corporate social responsibility. A serious security breach or outage bringing back into focus questions about methods, location [...]

What’s Next by…Ed Rankin

Ed Rankin Twitter || LinkedIn What are your predictions for Human Capital in 2010? Government limitations on executive pay at TARP recipients will have a spillover effect on other companies. There will be an increase in roles such as chief regulatory affairs/public policy officer, chief risk officer, and sustainability leader. A higher percentage of corporations will appoint HR leaders to their Boards [...]

What’s Next by…Guatam Ghosh

Guatam Ghosh Twitter || LinkedIn What are your predictions for Human Capital in 2010? Organizations will have to become more and more social internally (http://www.gautamblogs.com/2009/11/building-open-organizations.html) - leveraging collaboration between diverse employee groups - if they have to compete with each other. Leadership (http://www.gautamblogs.com/2009/11/leadership-in-hyper-linked-times.html) needs to change too. As the lines between internal and external networks blur, recruitment would be a matter [...]

What’s Next by…Jason Alba

Jason Alba Twitter || LinkedIn What are your predictions for Human Capital in 2010? More people, having gone through a scary 2009 with regard to “job security,” will be less trusting of the idea of job security and trying to figure out how to create their own (which I call “income security”).  The impact to companies will be the [...]