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The Value of Financial Planning and Debt Reduction Services for Employees and Employers
"Employers can no longer afford to ignore or underestimate the effects that personal financial problems have on their employees Ultimately, the bottom line is affected." Erica Sandberg explores the issue.
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Leadership
Thought Leader: Catherine Nomura on "The Laws of Lifetime Growth"
Catherine Nomura is an expert on entrepreneurship and co-author of the recently published book, "The Laws of Lifetime Growth." She recently spoke with Rich DiGeorgio on her book and her work.
Featured Blog: Naming What Is in the Room - A Critical Function of a Leader
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HR Measurements and Metrics
Making Sense out of HR Data
We are constantly told that the real power of HR data lies behind the ability to use it in a strategic manner. The need to extract and report on HR data forces organizations to put their thinking cap on ... so we can determine where the labour shortfalls are going to be, writes Jennifer Guitard.
Featured Blog: There is more to 'human capital metrics' than 'staffing metrics'.
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Human Resources Management
Be Specific
Patricia Wheeler writes, very bright contributors must learn to balance their natural analytic tendencies with acknowledging what is already working, already complete, and moving in the desired direction. And they must share this knowledge with others...up, down and across their organization.
Featured Blog: The Top Talent Acquisition System Vendors
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Organizational Development
New Research Connects Profits to Leadership Capacity
The Service-Profit Chain, Value-Profit Chain, and Employee/ Customer Profit Chain have been well established by independent researchers, but the connection between profits and leadership has been a missing link; from The Ken Blanchard Group.
Featured Blog: Play-Down Personal Style
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Compensation
Salary.com Surveys: 2006 Six Sigma Compensation Survey
Salary.com Surveys releases results from the 2006 Six Sigma Compensation Survey; Most comprehensive report on this job category.
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Performance Management
Raising the Bar on Performance Management - Best Practices To Optimize Performance Reviews and Goal Management
In today's workplace, performance improvement and the role of performance management is an increasingly popular topic. Aileen MacMillan explores the reasons behind the focus on performance management in this HR.com Whitepaper.
Featured Blog: Performance Review: An Ongoing Conversation
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Executive Coaching
Ask the Coach - Issue 16: How to Position a Part-Time Schedule?
Whether its moving to part time or creating something new or untraditional in your current position don't be afraid to build a business case to get what you want at work, writes Merry Marcus.
Featured Blog: Teleforum: Strategies To Revolutionize Leadership Feedback Into Measurable Action
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Staffing and Recruitment
Why Employees Stay: Top Companies Share Their Secrets
When high-performing employees leave an organization, leaders tend to ask, "Why are you leaving?" writes Scott Cawood. What they don't do enough of is ask those who stay, "Why are you staying?"
Featured Blog: Lessons Learned from the RPO World.
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Workforce Acquisition
TruStar Executive Interview: Recruitment Strategy
Mark McAuliffe, HR.com's Senior Analyst covering Workforce Acquisition, recently sat down with LeRoy Robbins, the Executive VP of First Advantage (formerly TruStar).
Featured Blog: Executive Opportunity Gets Even Better
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HR Outsourcing
Outsourcing Boomerang?
Despite pronouncements that we live in an age of outsourcing, the prevalence of the practice didn't increase among Veritude's survey respondents from 2005 to 2006.
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HRIS/ERP
The Best CIOs Earn a Seat on Corporate Management Committees To Drive
World-class IT and Strategic Alignment The Hackett Group Book of Numbers shows that to drive world-class IT and strategic alignment, the best CIOs earn a seat on corporate management committees and report directly to the CEO.
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Training and Development
The Evolving Role of the Chief Learning Officer
Some see the CLO as a people development and talent management function and others see it as a knowledge capacity building function, while others would just let it evolve to whatever the context of the organization desires, writes David Koehn.
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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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HR.com Employers of Excellence National Conference 2006
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.
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How Your Mindset Impacts Your Success - in Business and in Life - August 7, 2006
More than twenty years of research have led Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D, to the conclusion that your mindset plays a monumental role in your goals, attitudes, relationships and overall success. Come find out about the two different mindsets and how they translate into action so that you choose your path and help others do so as well.
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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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