Blogs / 2005 / June

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	Onboarding Best Practices

	Good Guy = Bad Manager :: Bad Guy = Good Manager. Is it a Myth?

	Five Interview Tips for Winning Your First $100K+ Job

	Base Pay Increases Remain Steady in 2007, Mercer Survey Finds

	Online Overload: The Perfect Candidates Are Out There - If You Can Find Them

	Cartus Global Survey Shows Trend to Shorter-Term International Relocation Assignments

	New Survey Indicates Majority Plan to Postpone Retirement

	What do You Mean My Company’s A Stepping Stone?

	Rewards, Vacation and Perks Are Passé; Canadians Care Most About Cash

	Do’s and Don’ts of Offshoring

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Blogs / 2005 / June

September 25, 2003-- The economy is improving. Will this be a jobless recovery...or will thousands of new jobs will be created? We anticipate a job-filled recovery...eventually. Looking at the factors one way, we see a rapid rise in employment. Looki... More...

December 8, 2004 As we completed the election campaigns in the United States, the economy showed signs of improvement. Those indicators, combined with relief that the campaigns would be over and corporate expansion could resume, stimulated job gr... More...

November 24, 2004 Recently, we heard about an employer who is a forerunner of what we believe is to come. A 120-person advanced manufacturing organization in Browns Summit, North Carolina literally fired its biggest client---refusing additional w... More...

"Retirement, as we have known it for the past couple of generations, is gone," says Joyce L. Gioia, a workforce trends expert. "People are not going to retire the same way anymore. They will move into phased retirement, gradually work... More...

When I first sat down to write this article, I thought my topic might be Performance Appraisal. Then, I asked myself "What about Performance Planning?" "Goal Setting?" "Measurement?" "Rewards?" and I quickly realized that this is a huge topic. There ... More...

According to workplace futurist Joyce Gioia, the retiring boomers are going to have a strong impact on employers and the job market for two primary reasons. Says Gioia, "First, if we look at the traditional retirement age of 65, the first boome... More...

September 22, 2004 Over the next few years, more employers will operate longer hours. In some cases, the motivation will be to gain productivity by greater use of the same capital equipment. In other cases, the drive will be to increase sales by ... More...

Interview Etiquette Do you know what is appropriate to wear to a job interview? What to say or do to impress and not turn off an employer? Interview etiquette is an often overlooked but important part of job search success. In Webster's New Wor... More...

As you visualize the path your life has taken over the last decade, think about viewing it through a telescope, not a microscope. Too many times, we focus on the small stuff, and it zaps our mental energy. What really matters in life? As a univers... More...

Human resources is a relatively new field of study compared with others in business such as Operations, Sales, Finance or Marketing. Since modern business administration studies started, Taylor focused on Operations and productivity. Sales... More...

Dear Joan: We have an employee who dresses like she is going to a bar to get picked up. Everyday, and I mean every day, she wears hip hugger jeans and low cut blouses. When she sits down, the crack in her butt is showing. She wears waist tops an... More...

During the last century, mega corporations throughout the world followed the prime rules of building corporate image and name identity in the strictest sense. Their goal was simply to achieve an elite, world-class image by having their name and logo ... More...

Hiring dynamics are changing. As the economy rebounds, and employment levels approach 5%, employers are losing the upper hand in the hiring process. Interviews today are more of a courtship ritual with both sides interviewing the other. Com... More...

With all the business focus on improving the bottom line, increasing sales and productivity metrics, the individual employee often struggles to keep focused on what is truly important to them. With the workplace productivity gains over the past... More...

Dear Joan: I am a teacher and I share with my students many of the ideas you bring up in your columns. My son is graduating from college this Spring with a Math Major and Accounting Degree. We have read that companies like it when you co... More...

The company my daughter worked for was swallowed up in one of those "merger" deals where one side gets to call most of the shots and they were moving her division halfway across the continent. Only a few years into the workforce with more abili... More...

We can see a storm on the horizon. The Tsunami that struck Asia reminded us what the force of nature can do to unsuspecting people. The Tsunami's greatest danger is they give no warning. They appear when things seem to be safe and sou... More...

Okay. You have survived a harassment, discrimination, whistleblower---(you fill in the blank) complaint and investigation. The employer responded promptly. A thorough investigation was performed and the conclusion was that... More...

We´re getting a lot of questions about tax advances from our international assignees. Is there an efficient way to communicate tax advance information to our assignees? The key to having assignees understand tax advances is... More...

Most of you know by now that employers need a few good policies on hand to deal with troublesome employee issues. Little things like dress codes, attendance policies, disciplinary procedures, and, oh yes, maybe a statement about anti-discrimina... More...

I got a call the other day, one of those conversations that begin, "You know about this stuff. What can I do? It was Ron, a nice guy I once met at a nice neighbor's house. His younger brother, Carl, had just applied for a job with a large company an... More...

Annie Murphy Paul's recent book, The Cult of Personality, demonstrates why most commonly used behavioral assessment and personality "profiling techniques range from flawed to fraud. Even the vaunted Rorschach has questionable roots and results. The ... More...

Luxembourg ranks as the world´s top city for personal safety and security, according to a quality-of-life survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. The city scores 122.5 followed by Helsinki, Bern, Geneva, and Zurich, which place se... More...

I don´t understand what a tax advance is. Can you help? Tax advances are a complicated topic. First, we´re going to presume that your company has a written tax equalization policy. Second, we´re presuming ... More...

Don´t substitute email for one-on-one leader communication Use email for scheduling, routine updating, quick questions and other administrative efficiencies. Use the phone or face-to-face communication for everything else. Email is not ... More...

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Personal Leadership: In a Jar of Peanut Butter

Putting Human into Human Resources

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Appropriate Office Wear

Avoiding HR Cyber Oblivion

Getting the Team Ready to Interview

Get Your Life in Your Work: A Call for Individual Responsibility

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: What to ask the Interviewer

Everyone Sells Something

The Coming Workforce Tsunami

Costly "Paybacks": Retaliation Claims in an Employment Setting

Answers About Tax Advances for International Assignees

When Good Policies Just Aren't Enough

The Problem of Corporate Theft

You INTJ Assertive High D Son of a Gun!

City of Luxembourg scores highest for personal safety and security

Tax Advances

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: E-Mail Management