Read about how Spotify is re-thinking the way they do career development and performance management.(https://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/climbing-cto-ladder-fall-2)
Read about how Agoda, a Priceline group, is challenging and changing its approach toward leadership development: HR should empower managers to decide on standards, hire how they choose, and develop company-wide leaders http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/toward_a_new_hr_philosophy
This is how impactful engineering leadership looks like at Dropbox, according to Jessica McKellar: “When engineering management is done right, you’re focusing on three big things,” she says. “You’re directly supporting the people on your team; you’re managing execution and coordination across teams; and you’re stepping back to observe and evolve the broader organization and its processes as it grows.” http://firstround.com/review/this-is-what-impactful-engineering-leadership-looks-like/
Be inspired by Valve Corp. a very well known phenomenal success for its games but especially for its unorthodox management structure. After a copy of Valve’s employee handbook was leaked online, a lot of light was finally shed on the ‘flat’ corporate hierarchy. The handbook confirmed that there is indeed no formal hierarchy and there are no official job titles for anyone who works at the company! Here you go: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
Look at I Love Rewards, a similarly fast-growing company which is applying the agile model to rewards and recognition. I Love Rewards is upsetting the traditional “waterfall” model for rewards and recognition, a $48 billion marketplace, by giving companies a platform and set of tools to let employees recognize each other on a continuous, highly engaging basis.
Read about how Atlassian, one of the fastest growing software companies in the world, manages its performance feedback process. Joris Luijke, the VP of HR, has totally rewritten the rules and mentions the use of other new tools like small-improvements, and cadence.
Look at this article published in the CHRO website about a new vision of HR: reviewing HR trends and the creative use of these trends to increase the impact of HR in the Biz. http://chro.nl/artikel/its-time-for-some-guerrilla-hr
Look at Rypple – a hot young company which is revolutionizing the process of social performance management in companies like Facebook, Gilt Groupe, Rackspace, and other fast-moving organizations. Rypple brings Agile to performance management and coaching, competing with the more traditional approach offered by SuccessFactors, Taleo, Oracle, and others.
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First book on this topic published in 2017 by Pia-Maria Thoren: Agile People – A Radical Approach for HR and Managers (That Leads to Motivated Employees)
Great Books that came out later, in 2020:
Agile People Principles : your call to action for the Future of Work
Purpose Driven People: creating business agility and sustainable growth
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