Blogs / 2006 / April

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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 / 2006 / April

You can't improve what you don't measure, so metrics are a crucial element of great recruiting. I recommend three basic approaches to employment metrics. The first is a "dashboard" (like a car dashboard), which is so named because it allows you to c... More...

Excerpted from South Carolina Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at McNair Law Firm, P.A. Q: Our company is currently reviewing its termination policies. Should our company attempt to obtain a release of liability at the time it terminate... More...

The drive for responsible executive compensation is showing results. Confounding the expectations of some observers, CEO compensation changes last year were modest, and pay and corporate performance were closely aligned, according to the Mercer Human... More...

Think about the last time you truly felt safe enough to speak your mind and have an open and frank conversation at work. Where were you? What were you doing and what made this possible? What were the benefits to you and the others who were invo... More...

Like one of those ancient wooly mammoths that the Russians periodically extract intact from the Siberian ice, human resources seem perfectly preserved in time somewhere around 1965. The mammoths, of course, are items of special scientific and anthrop... More...

Nearly a decade ago, Spherion began tracking historical changes in America s workforce. From taking control of their careers and the rise of free agency to the increasing emphasis on work/life balance, a growing group of U.S. workers - dubbed emergen... More...

A perfect storm of employee preferences and business realities has spurred the growth of telecommuting to almost 10 million workers in the United States. The quest for a better work-life balance, the increased use of part-time workers like retirees, ... More...

My OD discussion list currently addresses the roles of the Organizational Development Consultant and Project Manager. Primarily, does the OD consultant work with an organization´s project manager, or does the consultant serve as the project man... More...

What is HR's Role in Your Organization, What's New in the Vendor Space, and Much More Greetings from my desk (for a change). HR's Role in your Firm Let me ask you a very important question. What is HR's role within your firm? Typically, w... More...

As we move forward the need for innovative thinking seems to be accelerating. We are dealing with such a rapid rate of change on many fronts that thinking using our familiar frameworks just may not cut it. As we move forward the need for innovativ... More...

For an Employee Referral Program (ERP) to take root and flourish within a corporation it must be embedded within the corporate culture. For an Employee Referral Program (ERP) to take root and flourish within a corporation it must be embedded within ... More...

In recent coaching assignments I am seeing a strong trend toward the use of onboarding coaching to help newly hired executives quickly deliver in their new role. It seems that HR and OD departments are aware of the high cost of attrition and ... More...

The South Korean Parliamentary Committee recently proposed a new regulation that outlines guidelines for company hiring policies with regard to non-regular and regular workers. The regulation restricts discrimination among non-regular... More...

China´s National People´s Congress (NPC) issued a draft of a new Labor Contract Law on March 20, 2006. After the draft was announced, several foreign companies expressed concern because the new regulation will give more po... More...

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) recently adopted a package of bills to limit spending on medical care benefits and reduce medical insurance coverage for a portion of the elderly population in Japan. Under the... More...

On March 8, 2006, the Deputy Secretary of Security of Hong Kong, Michael Wong, announced that the law barring expatriate spouses from obtaining a job in Hong Kong would be abolished. In 2003, the Hong Kong government issued a restrict... More...

Job Hunting ... the Air Google WayAir Google makes it possible to inspect new job sites, vacation destinations, conduct market research, spy, carry out competitive surveillance, hunt for a job, trade property, study ecologies, jog trails and fis... More...

What the hiring managers are sayingAccording to the national hiring managers' survey published in my books, "Winning Resumes" and "Winning Cover Letters," generic resumes were heavily criticized as a worthless effort."Job applicants fail misera... More...

Zurich ranks as the world´s top city for quality of living, according to a survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. The city scores 108.2 and is only marginally ahead of Geneva, which scores 108.1, while Vancouver follows in third place with... More...

I was reminded of an incident not long ago where I was standing toward the back of a meeting room as the CEO and his key staff delivered a presentation on just how the company would be embarking on the implementation of a new performance improvement ... More...

Recently, I had a long-time colleague say: ´Krista, you really need to work on compartmentalizing things.´ At first I thought it was a typical guy thing to say - so uncaring - and I blew him off thinking he was being callous. But I know m... More...

"Don´t sweat the small stuff." This seems like sound advice, but it doesn´t apply when the little things are the array of diminutive computing and communications gadgets that are proliferating in the workplace. Whether they´re pr... More...

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend part of the International Society for Performance Improvement annual conference http://www.ispi.org/. The Human Performance Technology Model utilized by Certified Performance Technologists http://w... More...

"A good novel tells us the truth about the hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about the author." -- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) A good organization tells us the truth about employees; but a bad organization tells us the truth about leaders... More...

Too much management training takes place in the classroom. We can teach facts, figures and concepts in the classroom, but learning happens when we apply management principles in the work place: With real people, our employees. And that s where the tr... More...

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Paradise by the Dashboard Light - well sort of...

Does a release help?

Mercer Issues Annual Study of CEO Compensation at Large US Firms

Facilitating Safe Conversations

Frozen In Time

The Bottom-Line Impact Of Key Emergent Practices

Telecommuting: Why Managing People You Can´t See Is Visionary

Project Manager: Work With or Serve As?

Vendor Files, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 13, 2006

Moving Forward - Performance Management Best Next Practices

3 Keys to Embedding an Employee Referral Program within your Corporate Culture

Executive Onboarding: Coaching Executives to Quickly Deliver in New Roles

KOREA: GOVERNMENT ISSUES NEW REGULATION FOR TEMPORARY WORKERS

CHINA: GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES NEW LABOR LAW REGULATING EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS

JAPAN: GOVERNMENT ADOPTS POLICY TO CUT MEDICAL INSURANCE FOR THE ELDERLY

HONG KONG: SPOUSES OF EXPATRIATES IN HONG KONG NOW PERMITTED TO WORK AGAIN

Job Hunting ... the Air Google Way

Resumes that WORK to market YOU so employers will start calling

New Quality of Living Survey from Mercer - 2006

This Too Will Pass

Compartmentalization at Work: Strike a Balance that Works

Mobile Tech Gadgets Pose Challenges to HR

Improving Performance

People Parts

The 6th Phase: The Future of Management Training is Outside the Traditional Classroom