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Business Roundtable Releases New Research that Sets the Record Straight on Executive Compensation
Business Roundtable, an association of 160 chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies, released new research conducted by executive compensation expert Frederic W. Cook indicating that the growth in median total compensation of CEOs of 350 large companies surveyed is consistent with the growth of the market value and shareholder returns of those companies.
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Leadership
CEO Confidence Survey
The Conference Board survey reports chief executives are pessimistic about short-term economic outlook.
Featured Blog: Naming What Is in the Room - A Critical Function of a Leader
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HR Measurements and Metrics
Predictive Analysis For Retention Management
This paper provides insight on how any Human Resources department can leverage technology to proactively manage employee retention while decreasing the rate of turnover using predictive analysis; from Salman K. Khan.
Featured Blog: There is more to 'human capital metrics' than 'staffing metrics'.
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Human Resources Management
Valuing Intangibles
Numerous experts have put forth theories about how best to go about snagging that coveted "seat at the table," but as far as Charlie Wonderlic is concerned, there's really only one way: You must earn it.
Featured Blog: The Top Talent Acquisition System Vendors
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Organizational Development
Building Horizontal Organizations
By "going horizontal" organizations move from the traditional hierarchical business model to a flatter, faster-moving operation, where cross-functional teams took responsibility for resolving business issues, and raised the performance bar to an unprecedented level. A whitepaper from Howard Guttman.
Featured Blog: Play-Down Personal Style
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Compensation
China: Cities Set to Increase Minimum Wage
On July 1, 2006, the minimum wage in Shenzhen increased by over 17% in the city's special economic zone (SEZ) and by over 20% in the surrounding suburbs; from PacificBridge International.
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Performance Management
Peer Regression Analysis
PRA methodology is highly effective in recruiting for roles where reaching passive candidates is key, and finding new or previously untapped talent pools is critical, write Shally Steckerl and Rob McIntosh.
Featured Blog: Performance Review: An Ongoing Conversation
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Executive Coaching
The Dilemma for Human Resource Professionals
Bruce Katcher writes: 1 out of 2 human resource professionals believe their employees don't respect them.
Featured Blog: Teleforum: Strategies To Revolutionize Leadership Feedback Into Measurable Action
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Staffing and Recruitment
A New Leader's Success - The First 100 Days ... And Beyond
You've just been promoted to a new leadership position. You're not yet sure of the exciting challenges ahead or how you will meet them. All you know is that you have three months to get on top of the job and move forward or fail, writes Susan Richardson.
Featured Blog: Lessons Learned from the RPO World.
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Workforce Acquisition
Talent Acquisition Software Selection 101
With time at a premium, you can hasten your selection process, yet ensure an informed choice that reflects thorough investigation of the options, vendors, and software available and is aligned with your organization's goals, writes Alice Snell.
Featured Blog: Executive Opportunity Gets Even Better
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HR Outsourcing
Global Supply Chains Battle Data Management
As the trend towards low-cost procurement from overseas continues to grow, more and more enterprises are finding that their supply chains are stretching to become global in scope. Data systems must adapt to globalization as well, or risk becoming a bottleneck for productivity; from InfoTech.
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HRIS/ERP
Scheduling the Manufacturing Workforce: The Job From Hell
For many large-scale manufacturing companies, scheduling the workforce has become a costly nightmare. Automating the scheduling process stands out as an area where IT should focus; from Tugboat Software.
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Training and Development
Online Team Assessment Study Reveals Accountability Crisis on Teams
Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions questionnaire indicates 68% of teams struggle to confront one another on unproductive actions and behaviors.
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Labor Relations
Off Duty Conduct: Balancing An Employer's Needs With An Employee's Right To Privacy
As companies struggle with the reasonable business needs of controlling rising healthcare costs, increasing productivity, maintaining company confidentiality, and keeping bad publicity out of the headlines, they become concerned with how employees spend their time away from work; A whitepaper from the HRN Management Group.
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Legal
What do I do about a randy employee?
Office romances are fairly common these days because people spend so much time at the workplace. Handled well, workplace romance can lead to a meaningful relationship. Handled badly, it can lead to a lawsuit for harassment; from M. Lee Smith.
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Join us October 24 - 27, 2006 at the magnificent Red Rock Resort Spa & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The program includes a world class lineup of 12 keynote speakers, individualized custom tracks with workshops and roundtable presentations from leading HR Executives.
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Trends in Recruitment Technology - August 3, 2006
We'll talk about what we've seen work and fail in recruitment technology, what candidates are saying are the most effective strategies they've seen, what the pundits and vendors are saying about technology and what might be the next best thing.
Strategies for Building and Retaining a World-Class Workforce - August 8, 2006
Hiring managers across the board understand: having the right people, in the right place at the right time is the key to success. But, take a step back, go deeper ... what does this really mean? How do you overcome today's recruiting and retention obstacles to develop a truly winning, resilient talent management process?
The Importance of Integrating Learning and Performance Management Solutions - August 15, 2006
Organizations have become caught in a constantly changing environment where adaptation is critical to survival and success. So when the market mandates change, will your people be ready? In order to have the right workforce to address current and future strategic needs organizations must be able to identify employee's performance and competency gaps and have a program in place to improve those skills. An integrated performance and learning management system is the key to this process. Join this webcast and learn how continuous investment in employee development ensures your organization will be ready as business needs evolve.
Next week's Thought Leaders Live Webcast:
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The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning - July 31, 2006
Cal Wick is an expert on transfer of learning. He will share his insights into why some corporate education programs are transformational and others have little impact. We will explore positive results from real cases.
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Book Review: Built From Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew the Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion - summary
By: Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, with Bob Andelman
Date: July 24, 2006
Take two men who have just been fired, add another who just walked away from a bankruptcy and yet another running a no-name investment banking firm ... fill a space the size of a football field full of hardware (and a few hundred empty boxes), and you've got a company. Built From Scratch is the no-holds-barred account of how cofounders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank grew the home improvement retail giant, Home Depot, from four stores in Atlanta to 775 stores nationwide, 160,000 employees, and $30 billion in sales.
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