Blogs / 2008 / September

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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 / 2008 / September

I have been thinking a lot about courage. It is at the core of leadership. What is courage? Most of us recognize its opposite in this snippet from The Wizard of Oz: Cowardly Lion: Look at the circles under my eyes. I haven't slept in weeks. Ti... More...

For those of you who grew up with the comic strip For Better or For Worse , the news that Lynn Johnston – the comic strip creator -- is going to take the family back over one quarter of a century may or may not be welcome news. This comic strip fa... More...

What is your age? How long have you worked here? What is your gender? Which is your ethnic/racial category? These questions seem innocuous enough, but can make some respondents uncomfortable. The same people that will tell you they have pl... More...

When we read a news story about a man shooting his uncle over a card game, the incident shocks us because of the enormity of the deed in response to the provocation. In such incidents, we can be sure the immediate act was not the whole of the situat... More...

I often watch Careers TV . This television show explores the world of work and of entrepreneurship. Many of the entrepreneurs on the show emphasize the importance of “doing something you love,” stating that this helps a business person sustain the e... More...

In order to understand your IT workers, you need to understand what their jobs are like. Most IT jobs consist of doing work in a reoccurring cycle: define, design, create, test, deploy, repeat. When workers get their first IT job or when they jump on... More...

The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI)" continued its year-long decline in August, suggesting even more softening to come in the labor market. The index fell in August to 110.8, down 0.5 percent from July's revised figure of 111.4, and do... More...

Talent Acquisition Strategies: Employer Branding and Quality of Hire Take Center Stage Best-in-Class companies improved quality of hire on average by 32%. Best-in-Class companies increased overall satisfaction of hiring managers on average ... More...

Why buy a company when you can cherry pick the employees? Companies often acquire other organizations to attain talent, and do not realize all of the costs involved other than the initial sticker price. Goldmines of Talent. Some co... More...

Nowadays, most online training instructors like to evaluate what learners learnt during the learning process through traditional summative evaluation. However, this assessment approach needs to be changed, as it only considers final learning outcomes... More...

How many sick days do you get? It may not matter that in your entire career you've never taken any sick time. If a flu bug happens to hit you twice this year, you might be in trouble. Vacation policies can have their limitations, too. When you use up... More...

A global study by Princeton consultants BlessingWhite finds that fewer than one in four information technology department employees are fully engaged in their work. Of the eight staff areas studied for levels of employee engagement, the IT function ... More...

In an interesting case involving competing business printers, a Minnesota district court issued a temporary injunction against certain employees who had left one firm and went with another. Their employment contract included a provision that prohibi... More...

On July 22, 2008, " n response to an increase in charges of religious discrimination, increased religious diversity in the United States, and requests for guidance from stakeholders and agency personnel investigating and litigating claims of religiou... More...

So why isn't your IT staff performing up to your expectations? Don't they understand just how important the work that they do is to the company? Why is it so hard to keep the really good ones -- they just seem to keep leaving! If you work with a... More...

This Briefing Paper explores the business case for investing in employee and manager self-service, from the widely-anticipated efficiency gains for HR functions, line managers and individual employees to the broader business benefits that come from b... More...

There's a lot of discussion, not to mention statistics, about the impending mass retirements of the global workforce. It's a driving concern for the implementation of succession planning systems, as well as many knowledge transfer and mentoring pro... More...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a computing architectural style for creating and managing services that represent business function and processes. Due to its complexity, when it comes time to plan for a SOA initiative, the task can seem overwh... More...

Change can be opportunistic or chaotic: it depends on your perspective. Do the trends and changes swirling around your organization spur entrepreneurial thinking or defensive action? Do you foster an entrepreneurial environment? Are there barriers in... More...

Economic pressure felt by employees can trickle into the workplace and affect performance. In August, “The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index” showed that more Americans reported they were struggling than were thriving “for the fourth consecutive mo... More...

Notwithstanding a slumping housing market, surging energy prices and a fluctuating stock market, nearly two thirds of employed Americans say they are happy at work, according to a recent survey. The 65 percent of content U.S. workers is up slightly ... More...

Excerpted from Michigan Employment Law Letter written by attorneys at the law firm of Vercruysse Murray & Calzone, P.C. Workers who qualify as executive, administrative, or professional employees may be exempt from the overtime requirement... More...

The closing of the summer brought an end to temporary employment for many young workers. With seasonal summer jobs behind us, it will not be long before retailers begin hiring in preparation for the shopping season. The temporary job market is an imp... More...

Warming Cold Shoulders "what did I do wrong? This smart as a whip, politically astute, ambitious, and determined young lady in my office tried to figure out why, since accepting her promotion, her co-workers were suddenly distant and unfriendly. ... More...

Managers need to be prepared to handle potential layoffs and cutbacks. Reuter’s reports numbers from employment consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. that show “downsizing at U.S. companies last month totaled 88,736, 14 percent lower than... More...

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News

Courage is at the Core of Leadership

Memo to Self: Many Years Later

Why Race and Diversity Matter in 2008

Listen for the Context

Values Matter

What Is The True Meaning Of An IT Job?

No Turnaround in the Job Market Anytime Soon

Aberdeen Group Talent Acquisition Strategies Report

An Economic Decision

Online Training Needs Assessments: How to Measure Learning Performance Effortlessly

Management In Real Life: It’s Not About Time

IT Employees are Grumpy the World Over

Non-Compete Agreement Enforced and Interpreted

EEOC Issues New Compliance Assistance on Religious Discrimination

How Come All Of The Good IT Workers Are Already Taken?

Beyond Efficiency: Building a Broader Business Case for HR Self-Service

Reorganizing for the Talent Crunch

A Baker's Dozen of SOA Pitfalls

Leverage Change – Develop Entrepreneurs

Employee Financial Stress and Productivity

Despite Down Economy, Workers’ Spirits Still Up,Says Annual Job Happiness Index

Payroll Deductions That Don't Affect Exempt Status

Motivating Temporary Workers

Warm Cold Shoulders

Respect is Key When Terminating an Employee