Blogs / 2006 / August

At our annual Employers of Excellence National Conference being held October 24-27th in Las Vegas, HR.com will be formally launching several new initiatives, Â enabling our 135,000 members to showcase their expertise, grow our community and rate the... More...

Recruiting the Techie ....look for them in the Blog We all know that the best and brightest technical folks spend countless hours in front of a computer screen. But what are they looking at? Well, one place that they seem to be visiting w... More...

The focus on linking performance management more closely with learning activities continues to intensify. The focus on linking performance management more closely with learning activities continues to intensify. As organizations st... More...

Carol S. Dweck offers some bedrock insight as to why people behave as they do. She explains in her Thought Leader interview with me how a person's mindset- either fixed or growth, has every thing to do with how success is defined, what types of proje... More...

Do you remember your first day of school? I do, and I'm about to relieve it as my twins head off to kindergarten. I realized today that the questions they are pondering are the same as the ones I ask myself each time I join a new organization. I inte... More...

While offshoring to India offers savings of up to 50% on labor costs, enterprises thinking of offshoring smaller initiatives should reconsider. The high technical skills and best-practices of the leading offshore providers are available only to enter... More...

Millions of dollars and thousands of hours are spent each year trying to teach leaders and managers how to coach their employees and give them effective feedback--and, in turn, to listen to criticism from their employees. Yet much of this training is... More...

There´s an insidious problem lurking in workplaces nationwide, and it´s not the obvious bad hires or misfits that simply don´t belong on the payroll. Those people are usually terminated during their probationary period and life goes... More...

Over the past ten years, China has become the favorite location of foreign companies, who have come to China to set up factories and utilize China´s cheap labor. Specifically, Guangdong Province in Southern China is home to millions of fo... More...

Site visits are a crucial part of the selection process for enterprise software such as ERP. They are useful for observing real implementations as they occur in the wild of comparable enterprises. Adhere to best practices to avoid the common pitfalls... More...

Excerpted from Tennessee Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Miller and Martin Are you in compliance with the federal Anti-Cursing and Profanity in the Workplace Act? OK, before you call your lawyer asking why she hasn&acut... More...

This morning you arrived at work early to check on a special project. As you enter the building you hear excited voices coming down the hall. As you walk through the office door, Mary, your Sales Manager, notices the surprised expression ... More...

Two out of five companies do not disclose employee diversity information, according to a survey of 3,100 senior human resources executives by Novations Group, a consulting and training organization based in Boston. Thirty-eight percent of companie... More...

A simple benchmark like "budget as a percent of revenue" may look attractive but like flypaper, getting stuck on numbers can be deadly. Unfortunately, senior decision makers are often most attracted to benchmark flypaper. Use a range of int... More...

Being able to quickly locate and keep track of client files is a major challenge for law firms and other professional services enterprises. Current RFID file-tracking solutions promise lower file management costs and facilitate secure, simplified tra... More...

The Minnesota Federal District Court has recently confirmed the standard of review that will be applied to the decisions made by a plan administrator. Anderson v. U.S. Bancorp (July 28, 2006). In this case the employer had adopted a sever... More...

The 3 or 4 percent "merit" or base pay increase budget has been the norm for so long now that many employees, managers and HR professionals have never experienced anything else. According to the WorldatWork 2005/06 Salary Budget Survey, the... More...

What is the one factor that distinguishes organizations that continuously win, from those that want to win but don´t: TALENT. What is it that enables organizations to be leaders in their field year after year: TALENT. What do these organization... More...

In today´s price conscious business environments, justifying added business expenses and weighing the ROI, or expected return on investment, is very often a critical consideration. And with HR frequently being perceived as a cost center versus ... More...

Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Mark Stiffler, Founder, President, and CEO of Synygy Inc., a provider of compensation management solutions, about his new book: Performance: Creating the Performance-Driven Organization published by Jo... More...

Good Deeds Drive Candidates An argument could be made that companies that lead an industry typically do so because their business strategies share a common platform with society... citizenship. Whether private citizen or corporate cit... More...

More and more, I hear managers express frustration over the behaviour of the people they lead. They complain about their failure to take initiative and responsibility, grumble about lateness to meetings or lousy teamwork. But it's so much easier... More...

Nobody likes difficult conversations. Dealing with conflict is one of the most challenging leadership issues for the technically gifted executives I coach. We know a conversation will be difficult when we feel anticipatory dread or anger.... More...

Dear Joan: Since we are a small office, our administrative staff all wear many hats and are assigned daily, weekly and longer-term projects. When we were small enough, I would track these tasks on a status report - but I am not happy with how ... More...

Like many employers, you may supplement your usual background-checking procedures by searching the Internet for additional information on applicants. Not by signing up for an online background-checking service, but by using Google and other notable w... More...

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HR.com Announces New Programs to Increase Member Participation

Recruiting the Techie ....look for them in the Blog

Linking Learning and Performance: Update

Carol Dweck is Definitely On to Something!

The First Day of School and Thoughts on Engagement

Offshoring: A Quick No Is Better than a Slow Maybe

Management, Leadership, and Mindset

Poison Apples

China: Rising Wages and Labor Shortages in Southern China are Forcing Foreign Companies to Move Factories to Other Regions

Site Visits for Enterprise Software: 13 Best Practices

Watch Your Mouth in the Workplace

"United We Stand . . .Divided We Fall"

Many Companies Reluctant to Divulge Diversity Data

Avoid the Single Peer Benchmark Flypaper

Manage Client File and Paper Chaos with RFID

ERISA Standard of Review

Making Merit Matter: Putting the Merit Back in Merit Pay

The Six Secrets of Talent Retention

How HR Can Validate Proposed Solutions and Address the Needs of Its Business by Exposing the True ROI

Creating Performance Driven Organizations: A Conversation

Good Deeds Drive Candidates

'Do As I Say, Not As I Do' Doesn't Cut It Any More

Whose Side Are You On?

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Process Improvement

"Googling" Applicants: Worth the Facts or Waste of Fiction?

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

	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

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