Blogs / 2006 / May

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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 / May

A Recruitment Lesson from Microsoft and IBM There is an opportunity around every corner if you keep your eyes open and your ear to the ground. And sometimes, if you just let people know what you want, the opportunities will find you. Such is th... More...

The Defined Benefit Pension Plan needs to and will survive. The Future of Defined Benefit Plans The recurring theme for May´s Benefit Vertical will be defined benefit plans and their expected longevity. Over the next month, we will touch on... More...

A leader's fundamental assumptions make a huge difference in the ways in which they lead. This isn't news and yet, it's worth being reminded. It has occurred to me recently that the way leaders lead has a lot to do with their fundamental orientati... More...

Excerpted from New York Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firms Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Charles "Slip" Shod has been employed by your company for more than two years, during which time you have received repe... More...

Dear Joan: I just read your response to Dealing with the Workplace Sniper and I think that was excellent advice. I have a very similar issue only the employee works for me. I believe she is badmouthing me behind my back and brings down... More...

Recently we had the pleasure of working with Dr. Michael Lowenstein of Harris Interactive. He is working on a large HR research project on Customer and Employee Advocacy. According to Dr. Lowenstein, "Arguably, one of the most serious and financially... More...

Our performance management theme for the month of May is the use of an online performance management system. Prior to implementing a performance management system, two things need to be addressed first Our performance management theme for the month... More...

Excerpted from North Carolina Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice One of the benefits of being employment lawyers who represent clients of all shapes and sizes is that we can quickly iden... More...

I often work with teams to work through an issue or do some future planning. As a part of the process, we develop Groundrules for guiding our behavior during the meeting. Similarly, I am asked to help organizations with a cultural transformation. And... More...

Are CEOs overpaid? Many people think so. If so, many potential causes have been identified: CEOs with too much power, inattentive boards of directors, conflicts of interest by compensation consultants, the use of stock options - the list goes on. Dep... More...

By now, we all (hopefully) have our Family and Medical Leave Act "FMLA" procedures down to a science. After twelve years of practice, most employers are very familiar with the basic eligibility standards, paperwork requirements, and timekeeping... More...

For those old enough to remember the early '60s album title song You Talk Too Much, you probably can't even count the number of times the tune has popped into your head when speaking with certain, let's say vocally stimulated, coworkers. If old... More...

Getting employees' ideas is no longer an option. If your organization is going to be competitive, it is mandatory you involve the minds, hands, and ideas of everyone in your organization. Getting employees involved not only yields valuable ideas and ... More...

I recently worked with the U.S. Army who is experiencing a severe retention problem. Highly skilled Generation X junior officers and enlisted soldiers are leaving in droves. The lure of higher paying civilian jobs is only part of the problem. Accordi... More...

Dear Recruitment Professional...take inventory of the weak ties. In The Tipping Point, author Malcolm Gladwell references sociologist Mark Granovetter´s 1974 study Getting a Job. The purpose of the reference was to highlight Granovetter&... More...

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A Recruitment Lesson from Microsoft and IBM

The Future of Defined Benefit Pension Plans

X + ? = Y

Why put off what can be documented today?

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: The Workplace Sniper

Hello from Whistler and IHRIM

Spring Cleaning

HR Trends of the Day

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Setting Some Groundrules

The Myth of the Average Worker Pay Ratio

Notice the Leave, and Leave with Notice: FMLA Recent Developments

Management in Real Life: Conversations

Employee Involvement Campaigns: Capturing Employee Ideas and Suggestions

Baby Boomer Versus Generation X Managing the New Workforce

Dear Recruitment Professional...take inventory of the weak ties.