March-April 2009: In This Issue
Up Close with Joe Ruocco: Driving Results—the Road to Success for Goodyear's New HR Leader
In mid-2008, Joe Ruocco took over the top HR job at Goodyear after 23 years with GE. Although his transition took place on the cusp of the economic crisis, Ruocco and his HR team—not to mention his chairman and CEO—remain focused on retaining top talent and enabling the business to "win big" when markets eventually rebound.
Kennametal: Talent Wins—Focus on Talent, Technology and Values Drives Business Success
New CAHRS partner Kennametal is a global firm making tooling and materials used in most every manufacturing process. Learn about how their global HR function is organized, HR's role in global expansion goals, challenges they've faced along the way, and how partnership in CAHRS is an integral part of meeting those goals.
Simulating Success: The Promise of Simulation-Based Training
Simulation-based training is widely used, with 75 percent of large U.S. companies (more than 1,000 employees) and an estimated 98 percent of business schools currently using them for training and teaching. Yet recent data shows the economic downturn is driving many companies to cut back on their use of simulations.
However, a new study by Cornell CAHRS and ILR School researchers suggests companies should look more carefully at the great promise of simulation-based training before pulling the plug on it wholesale due to costs.
IBM Redefining Diversity in the 21st Century—the Globally Integrated Enterprise
As a guest speaker at the fall 2008 CAHRS partner conference, Ron Glover, vice president, Diversity and Workforce Programs at IBM, talked candidly about bringing diversity and inclusion programs into the 21st century, IBM's current challenges, and how firms can best utilize their diversity to hit rapidly changing targets.
Faculty Q&A: Patrick Wright on New Research into the Modern Chief HR Officer
What do successful CHROs do on the job, who do they spend their time with, and what's the delta between the jargon and HR's true role in modern business? Is there a way companies can tell which executives are the best fit for the constantly evolving CHRO position—or better yet—develop employees from within with the right stuff?
To start answering those questions, we talk with Patrick M. Wright, the William J. Conaty GE Professor of Strategic HR at Cornell's ILR School and former CAHRS director, who has begun a multi-faceted research project on the CHRO role.