Recent Posts by Mark Lintern

By Richard Doherty If the following recent article is anything to go by - Startup Ups the Ante for Employee Referrals ? an incredible $20K referral bonus for employees - employee referral programs are certainly increasing in popularity! Given that referred employees typically perform better and are 15% less likely to quit than other types of new hires and referral programs can open up difficult to access talent pools, this makes perfect business sense. I would also suggest...

During an exciting event at Oracle Headquarters, Chris Leone, senior vice president, Application Development, presented Colin Schiller VP, IT PMO & IT Strategy, Activision; Wendy Cottrell, Senior HRIS Manager, National Instruments; and Blane Kingsmore, HRIS Director, Newfield Exploration Company, with an Award in Appreciation of their Outstanding Oracle HCM Cloud Advocacy. These individuals received their award in recognition for their continued partnership with Oracle and...

By Mike Bollinger & Alex Anvari HR and finance executives agree on many people and performance-related issues according to a survey of HR and finance executives by Towers Watson and Forbes Insight. The top areas of joint activity, according to the survey were, setting annual budgets for reward programs (cited by 46 percent of finance and 62 percent of HR), determining changes to reward programs (43 percent finance and 42 percent HR), and setting reward strategy (39 percent...

By Mark Sunday We had a chance to sit down with Oracle CIO, Mark Sunday who is responsible for the information technology infrastructure used across the company globally. We asked Mark about his perspectives on hot topics such Cloud, Social, and IT partnering with HR. Q: Mark, the cloud has changed everything, including the speed at which business can adopt technology. How is this changing the way IT approaches strategy and planning? Sunday: Cloud, combined with mobile, social,...

By Richard Doherty The annual PWC CEO survey is a great source of macro level data and I look forward each year to the HR and Talent related insight it generates. The 2014 survey did not disappoint with some quite startling results if you're involved in HR in some shape or form. There are a couple of statistics from the talent part of the survey that I would like to focus on for this blog posting. Specifically the fact that 93% of the CEO's surveyed, yes 93%, ?say that they...

At this year's Oracle HCM User Group (OHUG) Global conference, we had the opportunity to sit down with Oracle HCM Cloud customers for a short Q&A. We got to hear about what brought them to the OHUG conference, some of the benefits they are receiving from their Oracle HCM Cloud solutions, and advice they would give other businesses looking to move to the cloud. Below is the discussion we had with Bob Moser, Senior Director, Oracle HCM Applications at eVerge Group. Q: What made...

Originally posted on Profit In May, Oracle announced the latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, which includes Oracle Talent Profile Analytics, a new module of Oracle Human Resources Analytics that helps HR and business managers assess talent strengths and build potential leaders by delivering greater insight into job profiles, employee skills and competency levels. "Oracle Talent Profile Analytics helps managers identify critical skills and assess talent...

At this year's Oracle HCM User Group (OHUG) Global conference, we had the opportunity to sit down with Oracle HCM Cloud customers for a short Q&A. We got to hear about what brought them to the OHUG conference, some of the benefits they are receiving from their Oracle HCM Cloud solutions, and advice they would give other businesses looking to move to the cloud. Below is a discussion we had with Melissa Halverson, Benefits & HRIS Manager at WAXIE Sanitary Supply. Q: What made you...

By Kate Pavao - Originally posted on Profit Executive coaches Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee noticed something during their leadership development coaching and consulting: Frustrated employees and overwhelmed managers. ?We heard from voices saying, 'I wish my manager understood me better' or 'I hope my manager would take the time to learn more about me and my background,'? remembers Hyun. ?At the same token, the managers we were coaching had a hard time even knowing how to start...