Marie-Hélène Budworth

A MHRM student shared a story posted on smartplanet regarding innovation in corporations.  This brief piece implies that innovation at the organizational level is more a ‘state of mind’ than it is about dollar investments in research and development.  I would be interested in learning more about what this finding means.  What is it that […]

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Social media is changing all kinds of things – including how we do research.  Take a look at this review in the New York Times of some work that was recently published in Science.   Researchers at Cornell looked at mood cycles of 2 million people as gleamed by their Twitter feeds.  Essentially they found that […]

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The Globe and Mail recently polled readers about their views on performance appraisals.  In their survey of  1337 people, they found that only 27% of people found appraisals to be a useful tool.  Another 20% believed it to be a necessary evil and a majority, 53%, described it as a total waste of time.  This […]

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This is an ‘eye catching’ topic that finds its way back into popular conversation every once in a while.  It would be outrageous, if it weren’t true.  Daniel Hamermesh published a piece in the New York Times on the weekend arguing that “ugly” people should be protected by some form of affirmative action.  This is […]

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There has been some interesting work recently on what really motivates employees.  And a lot of this work has received a great deal of media attention thanks to Dan Pink’s book, Drive.  (For a summary of this work by the author himself, take a look at this YouTube video).  I think the most interesting work […]

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Argh!  The Globe and Mail recently published a short piece supporting the use of Kirkpatrick’s training evaluation model as the standard for training evaluation. I find this frustrating.  Training evaluation in practice is a place where thinking has not changed in close to 30 years.  It is a bit of a mystery given that organizations […]

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Recently, I was fortunate to be present for a talk by one of Canada’s leading economists, David Foot.  Dr. Foot is the author of books that explore social trends as they relate to shifts in demographics.  His popular book, Boom, Bust, and Echo was a widely celebrated upon its release in 2000.  The premise of […]

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I, like everyone else, have been watching the Vancouver riots and the ensuing aftermath with jaw dropping awe.  I am stunned by the images of young people setting police cars on fire, breaking windows, hitting each other – it is just incredible.  But when I look through the photos my primary thoughts are not around […]

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