Blogs / 2009 / 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 / 2009 / June

A playful challenge from an audience member helps bring to life the importance of searching for and developing your passion, whether in the face of skepticism, long periods of self-doubt and/or having to accept (even better, learn to play with and la... More...

With today’s job market as competitive as ever, standing out from the crowd is vital to landing that next position. With so many people unemployed right now and looking for work, most hiring managers are inundated with resumes. So just how do... More...

Dear Joan: I have worked for a company for 21 years. I love my job and get along well with management. I perceive they really like me and would probably hate losing me. I am being courted for a position at a new company...a competitor. I was not a... More...

The Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations on May 18, 2009 which allow for the suspension or reduction of safe harbor nonelective contributions under certain 401(k) safe harbor plans. A safe harbor 401(k) plan is a 401(k) plan that... More...

What in the world is going on? The course of the torture debate has taken us from ignorance, to a glimpse of something, to the truth (we did). In the cry for ‘why’ what was the answer from those who did? They (and by ‘they’ I mean ‘he’) said it was e... More...

If your employee communication strategy to communicate change focuses on stakeholder communication plans, an intranet site, CEO forums and Staff Information Bulletins via email stop right there. Your efforts are focused on information, not communica... More...

Opportunity knocks. You want a workforce of only productive, responsible, dependable employees. Right? Problem = You have some (A) unproductive or underachieving employees, (B) irresponsible employees, plus (C) employees you cannot depend on. ... More...

A recent survey of HR professionals and employees ( "Voice of the Employee: How to Overcome the Morale Crisis with Increased Communication and Recognition" ) found the recession and resulting actions by companies are negatively impacting employee m... More...

Through out my career in manufacturing industry , i had been eating, sleeping,dreaming and what not about achieving the target defined by management:- section target , dept target , division target , organization target and all this targets were... More...

In May, HR.com ran a survey asking its members how H1N1 Influenza has had an impact on their organizations. We wanted to find out what organizations were doing to handle the situation. Click here to view the results. More...

The proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) that is before the U.S. Congress is sending chills down the spines of many employers. Feeling threatened by the prospect that they soon could be bargaining with unions instead of dealing directly with thei... More...

An employee-centered workplace is one in which all individuals, programs, processes, and systems are focused on helping employees become fully successful. Individuals who feel valued will provide excellent products and service, which will result in t... More...

Are you trying to foster a culture of appreciation in your workplace or organization? Foundational to such a culture is frequent, meaningful and personal recognition of effort. What’s the level of recognition in your organization? To find out, as... More...

Hello- I just started a job and I am managing a number of department managers that are coming and going as they please, and not putting in their full 40 hours a week. The job seems to be getting done, but when they leave in less than 8 ho... More...

Formal career assessment can shorten the time it takes to identify and change careers. It has become very popular and, when used judiciously, provides reliable information in a concentrated timeframe. Four major categories of career tests exist: inte... More...

A Knowledge Infusion client asked me a question last night and I thought I would get the communities thought on the question. Do you think that Oracle HR Fusion will transform the HR technology space over the next two years? Respond t... More...

In a recent post , I wrote about six different types of recognition – effort, skills and talents, the need for focus and direction, personal needs, the need to grow and develop, and the need to let of steam. I asked blog readers to let me know if... More...

Last week we sent out the Improvement Point below to subscribers. “Despite all the talk - passionate speeches, glossy brochures, clever ads, high tech videos, convincing sales pitches, snappy slogans, strategic plans, and solemn annual reports - th... More...

We are always busy, either doing something or doing many things at the same time. Because of our own affairs or of others’. Multitasking is fad. I know a few, if they are not busy, they are restive. The least they do to be at peace is, pretend to be ... More...

The IRS has issued Notice 2009-48 outlining the reporting and notice obligations for employer-owned life insurance policies. The new rules become effective June 15, 2009. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) added Internal Revenue Code section... More...

In a refreshingly practical decision, the California Court of Appeal reversed a tip-sharing verdict against Starbucks, erasing an $86 million dollar judgment. In Chau v. Starbucks Corporation, the Court of Appeal held that California law did not pro... More...

Posting a job on Twitter is an interesting proposal - if anything the idea a job posting will be under 140 characters is appealing. As any recruiter knows the whole job board industry expanded much like sub-prime housing loans; a similar demise for ... More...

Excerpted from Oklahoma Employment Law Letter written by attorneys at the law firm of McAfee & Taft by Rachel Blue Lately, we've seen a lot of employees walking out of buildings and plants with boxes of framed photos from their desks or lo... More...

On April 17, 2009, more than 7,000 workers went on strike at a Taiwanese-owned factory in Dongguan, China. Strikes in this southern Chinese city, in the heart of heavily industrialized Guangdong province, have become increasingly common in recent yea... More...

Employees surveyed from children’s hospitals have given “Job Stress” the same score as the national healthcare norm (64 percent favorable). Although the score illustrates that most children’s hospital employees rate their stre... More...

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Discovering Your Passion

Marketing Oneself

Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: How to Decide on a Job You Love and an Unsolicited Opportunity

New Safe Harbor 401(k) Guidance Helps Economically Distressed Employers

Torture or Trust. Is One Better? :)

Change Management and Employee Communication Strategies

“Public Executions” + Pre-employment Tests = Your Company Grows

Voice of the Employee * Overcome Morale Crisis with Recognition & Communication

Making Things Happen ( MTH) in Life

H1N1 Survey Results

Employee Free Choice Act: An Opportunity for Employers to Choose their Future

Ten Ways to Create an Employee-centered Workplace

Building a Culture of Appreciation? Avoid Negative Recognition.

Exempt employees not working 40 hours a week

Tests & Assessments for Career Direction: An Overview

Knowledge Infuser Poll of Day - June 4, 2009 - Updated with Results

Trust * A Powerful (and Fun) Form of Recognition

Keys to Delivering Outstanding Service and Quality Levels

The Kick of Silence

IRS Mandates New Reporting and Notice Obligations for Employer-Owned Life Insurance

Court of Appeal Reverses $86 Million Verdict Against Starbucks

Posting Jobs on Twitter

Losing More Than Just an Employee: Protecting Confidential Information

Labor Strikes Spread Through Taiwan and Southern China

Employees of Children’s Hospitals Just as Stressed but More Satisfied