Blogs / 2007 / 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 / 2007 / June

Excerpted from Alabama Employment Law Letter and written by an attorney at the law firm of Lehr Middlebrooks & Vreeland, P.C. You're sitting in your favorite HR juke joint, crying into your beer over the pain and heartache your employees have... More...

Optimistic, confident employees are vastly more delightful to have on-board. Methods to help companies have optimistic, positive employees include pre-employment tests, job interviews of applicants, managing being role-models, and reinforcing smil... More...

Are meetings just a waste of time? That's what researchers from Indiana University suggested in a recent study published on LiveScience.com. The researchers asked people to come up with ideas for new soft drinks, and found that groups came up wit... More...

According to a report from The Hay Group , called Waking Up To China businesses leaders are turning to MBA students from China because they believe too few local graduates have Chinese language skills. 41% of business leaders surveyed said they pl... More...

Traditionally, Korean women were expected to take charge of domestic activities, while men were seen as the “breadwinners” of the household. Even well-educated women often found it difficult to compete in the labor market because of fe... More...

Few would want to swap shoes with David Neeleman whose JetBlue Airlines was flying high until Valentines Day. Some passengers described the experience as a repeat of the historic massacre as they sat stranded for 8-plus hours on planes planted on the... More...

My twelve-year-old daughter had her first "shooter drill at school today. The drill involved students hiding beneath their desks. While the students hid, the teacher goes to the door, calls in any students in the hallway, then locks the classroom do... More...

Early in my career, I was charged with conducting a management training course declared mandatory by the CEO. Several managers who had expressed no intention of attending found themselves consulting their strategy manuals on how to meet the minimal s... More...

"There is no objective reality. We don't see the world as it is, we see the world as we are." Sean was filling out a university questionnaire to help determine roommate compatibility. Beside the questions, "Do you make your bed every day?" and "Do... More...

In 1997, a friend of mine invested in a firm called “Where’s Frankie?” The concept was a directory or network of University Alumni. They talked to several Ivy League schools that were interested in licensing this technology and community but were not... More...

A code is a universal set of written standards for governance of behavior. Obviously, the idea is that we want to localize in one place a statement of the company’s values and its commitment to following the law. To read more... clic... More...

Many smaller IT shops are tempted to outsource Web development processes due to limited internal resources. In fact, roughly one third of small and mid-sized enterprises outsourced Web site development last year. Look out for unexpected risks when ex... More...

I was recently reading a Consulting Magazine article entitled “The Cloistered Corporation” and found the following interesting and troubling. According to the article; If your company is within your industry’s top revenue quarti... More...

Managers must hire job applicants who already possess key work-related talents. Unfortunately, many job applicants are deficient in crucial talents. Fortunately, you can use pre-employment tests, bio-data, work simulations, and interviews to hire j... More...

How do people find jobs they love and are passionate about? First, they start by selecting an area in which they are interested. Hobbies can be very rewarding and can lead to new, second or even post-retirement careers. Many business owners confess t... More...

Dear Joan: I am doing a research paper on various styles of management, such as micromanagers. But I'm not sure of other types. But I am having such a difficult time finding the appropriate names of different styles in order to narrow it down to a... More...

Below are seven myths about employee surveys. They are based on the questions we've heard from clients over the years. The myths are found in bold text below and our attempt at debunking each myth follows. If there are other myths you've pondered, pl... More...

We’ve all experienced dysfunctional organizations as unfortunate customers, but what, if anything, do we learn from the experience beyond confirmation that it’s time to hit the road and go elsewhere? Is the problem really employee incompe... More...

For years, many large corporations have relied on e-Learning to train their employees more effectively and efficiently. How widespread is the trend of businesses using online training? A 2005 study by the e-Learning Guild indicated that 73% of their... More...

Excerpted from Vermont Employment Law Letter and written by an attorney at the law firm of Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently determined that a job applicant presented enough disputed informatio... More...

According to the Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions report produced by Irving Levin & Associates (www.levinassociates.com) 2006 was a record year. For the 13 sectors covered in the healthcare industry, a total of $260.7 billion was committed t... More...

Employee turnover is unavoidable. It is a fact of business life as are its associated costs. Or are they? The costs of employee turnover can be staggering, ranging anywhere from 1/2 to 5 times an employee's annual wages dependant upon his or her posi... More...

How do your teams look at problems? Do they self-reflect? Do they concentrate on looking beyond the team for answers? Deborah Ancona, along with Henrik Bresman, say traditional teams aren’t looking in the right direction. The two have writ... More...

Executive teams spend countless hours on devising and organizing their business strategies. Too often their is a step left out of the implementation process. . . aligning employees with the strategy. Read more. Click here. More...

When it comes to public speaking, human resources specialists must technically speak well, but they must also have substance. They must look and sound like true leaders—especially if they’re on the front lines whether describing their co... More...

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Management In Real Life: Social Systems

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Management In Real Life: Automated Employees

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The Ins and Outs of the Interview

Best Practices for Healthcare

Employee Turnover – What is Poor Employee Retention Costing You?

Thought Leader Interview with Deborah Ancona: X-Teams

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