Posts Tagged ‘HR’

Meta4′s Corporate Business Development Director, Santiago Lecomte’s, and  Thomas Otter, Research director at Gartner, explain combinedly 7 reasons why HR projects are important to us here in Meta4. When customers come to us looking for a HR system strategy solution along with answers to their needs. Our contributions to our customer’s success range from Core HR administration to [...]

Mergers and acquisitions between companies have turned into a business strategy for increasing profitability and competiveness in difficult times. Although we use these terms interchangeably as synonyms, there are substantial differences between them. A merger occurs when two or more companies join together to convert into a single one. If one of the intervening entities [...]

Not so long ago I read a very interesting article trying to give advice to students on what careers, studies and languages to pursue to ensure them a professional future in the workplace. The conclusion the article drew was clear; in the new labour framework, neither university or post-grad qualifications, nor language skills guarantee a [...]

Every time I read a financial paper, I come across press that continues to remind us all of the productivity gap between Spain and our neighbours, not to mention absenteeism which is much higher than the European average. Given this information, it’s not surprising we’d tie one thing in with the other. If we do, [...]

During times of crisis like now where the financial outlook impacts all business decisions, managing our main capital, the people themselves has become vital for breezing through this complicated situation. During bonanzas, all our efforts focus on retaining talent, adapting our salary policies in a bullish market, defining compensation policies… However, in down times everything [...]

I wonder whether Laurence J. Peter (Peter Principle) and Scott Adams (Dilbert Principle) ever met and ever discussed their visionary ideas about the way organizations work. Given the difference in age between these two, I doubt it, although Peter’s theories clearly made their mark in Scott, who knew how to express them at their best [...]

I can’t explain why or how, the human resources “gurus” insist on rescuing words from other disciplines, which have nothing to do with ours, to explain phenomena that occurs in companies, and more so in their employees. The latest buzzword is the term resilience, which according to Wikipedia is “in psychology is the positive capacity [...]

The purpose of the programme is to train HR professionals in their Meta4 PeopleNet product. The participants will obtain certification which will prepare them for using Meta4 solutions in the labour market. “Our objective with this training programme is to make it easier for all HR professionals interested filling current and future vacancies in any [...]