Blogs / 2009 / 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 / 2009 / April

Last December, as the recession was beginning to deepen, Littler published an Insight, Furloughs and Reduced Hours: Cost-Cutting Strategies Other Than Layoffs, discussing several alternatives to layoffs, particularly mandatory furloughs of exempt emp... More...

On March 26th, the Wall Street Journal reported that IBM plans to cut nearly 5,000 jobs in the US and move many of them to India. Many other multinational corporations are also considering this option. India offers lower wages – a skilled engin... More...

Job hunting and careful hiring seem to be front and center as the economy continues to wobble. Here are a few letters. Dear Joan: How would I set up a chronological resume if I've been unemployed for up to eight months? Should I use month and y... More...

Making delicious meals and snacks that contain antioxidants can be fun and easy, and can bring out your creative side. There are no limitations or rules that I have come across, so the sky is the limit. Sometimes, however, we find ourselves in a pi... More...

Unfortunately, these difficult economic times increase the likelihood that employees will be moved to part-time employment. From an employee benefits perspective, moving someone to part-time can have an impact on things like eligibility an... More...

When to Use an Executive Coach When you have a talented executive/manager who makes a solid contribution to the business but who (examples): • Has problems managing people • Can’t communicate his/her ideas effectively • Has problems making go... More...

Right now, smart leaders are engaged and focused on a two-pronged strategy. On the one hand, they're looking inward-working to solidify their team, customer relationships, and overall business, on the other, they're looking outside-identifying opport... More...

By now you may have read some comments in the HR blogosphere about Right Management ’s survey on change. When 100 senior North American HR professionals were asked “Is your workforce able to adapt to change and increase their effectiveness on the jo... More...

Traditionally outplacement programs were more focused on developing skills for participants to find new employement. Over the past decade or so, the emotional counselling aspect of outplacement has become a conerstone to programs. Is there any eviden... More...

Knowing the degree to which world-class HR organizations outsource and what processes are outsourced most often is important as you evaluate business process sourcing options in your own organization. The payroll and benefits administration outsourci... More...

While every sales force is different, there are factors that ring true when trying to understand what is behind the success of your sales organization. When leading indicators are understood, they can often be used to predict and affect the outcome. ... More...

Last Fall, Ascent Group released their “Reward & Recognition Program Profiles & Best Practices 2008” report. (Available for purchase here .) Covering respondents from across industries and around the world, the report comes to many of the... More...

Findley Davies works with companies interested in maximizing the effectiveness of their human resources strategies and programs. They specialize in helping clients attract and retain talent, enhance the effectiveness of HR processes, leverage technol... More...

Challenge A publishing company produces a daily newspaper that services a tri-state area. The Company offers a highly competitive benefits package to their salaried employees, which included a defined benefit pension plan and a defined contributi... More...

Yahoo! Finance aggregates information on publicly traded companies from a number of sources and presents them for free for your use. The Sector List, a section of Yahoo! Finance, divides businesses into their respective industries (similar to NAICS c... More...

This technique locates keywords contained in the document’s URL. This is often called the Internet “address” as well. Each web page has a unique address on the Internet and you can search these addresses for keywords and phrases. The Google search sy... More...

In corresponding with Allie (thank you, Facebook), I learned the feature I mentioned in this previous Blog item was broadcast on the Big Ten Network, not ESPN. The feature is five minutes and twenty three seconds worth watching. Here's the link . It... More...

As I mentioned in my last blog of this type, I hope to make “calling all HR.com managers” a regular feature. This week, I will pose a question based upon a Washington Post article by Michelle Singletary . Dear HR.com Managers, We recently ... More...

I have never really had the patience to sit through an entire episode of Survivor . I think becoming a fan of this show is similar to becoming a soap opera devotee. When you only watch a few episodes, or catch a glimpse of one episode, the storyline... More...

I was fortunate to recently have the opportunity to return to visit my father’s place of birth with my family. We also visited the gravesite of my grandfather. As fate would have it, the day we chose to visit, the usually locked yard was open. ... More...

To get through the tough times, your organization cut staff to bare bones. Work tasks were re-assigned and divided amongst the remaining employees. How does this impact morale and productivity? This is an important question that Tom Krattenmaker to... More...

“Diabetes currently affects 246 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 380 million by 2025” says the International Diabetes Federation . The number of people affected by diabetes grows by 7 million people each year and its health implica... More...

Allie Southard broke her back in the summer of 2007 training on the uneven parallel bars. Doctors told her she would never compete as a gymnast again. That's the beginning of the story. In March 2008, after months of rehabilitation and training,... More...

As Freeman Dyson explained ; - “Life is defined as a material system that can acquire, store, process, and use information to organize its activities. In this broad view, the essence of life is information, but information is not synonymous wit... More...

"Peace is tranquility i.e. when you reduce the volume of the clutter button in your life. Silence is when you push that button off." Do you agree? Great question by a fellow member on a Linkedin Group , which triggered a painful introspection , ... More...

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News

New Guidance on Cost-Cutting Strategies Other than Layoffs

Companies Continue to Look to India For Reduced Operating Costs During Recession

Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: The Job Search From Both Sides of the Desk

Creating Meals with Antioxidants

So What is "Part Time" and How Does it Affect My Benefit Plans?

Tips for when, and how, to use an executive coach

What Smart Leaders Are Doing Now

Change and Productivity

Counselling in outplacement

Outsourcing Utilization by HR Process Category

Leverage Revenue Indicators to Drive Sales Performance Management

Employee Recognition Best Practices

About Findley Davies, Inc.

Findley Davies Retirement Program Redesign Case Study

Gather Recruiting Intelligence from Yahoo! Finance

URL Search in Google

Link to Video: Everything that Happens...

Calling all HR.com Managers #2

Are Trust Levels Declining?

You Never Know Who You Will Meet in a Graveyard

When Job Expectations Change

Diabetes Prevention in the Workplace

Everything that Happens...

Control What You Share Online or Repent Later

Can We Reduce the Clutter Buttons ?