Blogs / 2010 / April

The plot: * scenario 1: new managers are not being challenged enough at work and change jobs often (due to lack of suitable training) * scenario 2: quickly promoted managers may lack emotional competencies that would enable them to be effective... More...

New story from TalentManagementTech.com published Daniel Pleasant April 30, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. HealthcareSource Unveils Winners of Talent-in-Talent(TM) Award HealthcareSource®, the leading provider of talent manageme... More...

New story from TMCnet.com published by Daniel Pleasant April 30, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Survey Shows Call Centers Are 'Exiting Survival Mode' A recent study from call center management software provider Knowlagent shows ... More...

New story from guardian.co.uk published by Daniel Pleasant April 30, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. E-recruitment - the Guardian Total Talent Management Turn your website into a recruitment centre for communication with candidat... More...

New story from Odgers Berndtson published by Mortimer Goth April 30, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Non-executives 'should play bigger role in remuneration' City minister Lord Myners has reiterated his view that non-executive di... More...

New story from guardian.co.uk published by Mortimer Goth April 30, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Neil Berkett paid £3.6m despite Virgin Media pay freeze Virgin Media chief executive Neil Berkett received a total remuneration pa... More...

New story from guardian.co.uk published by Mortimer Goth April 30, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Sir Martin Sorrell's pay falls to £2.7m The WPP chief executive, Sir Martin Sorrell, took a 23.6% cut in his total remuneration pa... More...

In 2000, when we started building our pyramid of organizational behaviors at The Loyalty Institute, we found that Affiliation was a key driver of employee commitment. In particular, the #1 driver in the U.S. as well as in other countries was the orga... More...

I work in a manufacturing plant. I’ve been working in the manufacturing environment for the last 7 years. In the manufacturing environment, there is a fundamental concept of “capacity”. I’m not a guru in this field, but what I find interesting ... More...

In a two part interview, Gallup questioned Douglas R. Conant, president and CEO of the Campbell Soup Company on his approach to engagement and how that helped him when he took over at Campbell Soup nine years ago when he company’s share price... More...

A woman from Australia recently called me on a cold call. She started by calling me ‘Sharon.’ For those of you who know me, I refer to myself as Sharon Drew. Folks who call me ‘Sharon’ are either making a cold call, or haven’t read my books or blog... More...

by Nanci Lamborn, SPHR Recruiters are very likely to have heard recently about the new Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (H.I.R.E.) Act which was signed into law in March (http://tinyurl.com/yaz4akc) and which offers what could amount to a f... More...

There’s an epidemic of frantic busyness, multi-tasking, project overload, way too many goals, and tyranny of the urgent. An old folk saying reminds us “the hurrier I go the behinder I get.” A theme running through many recent blog postings has been t... More...

New story from PRLog published by Daniel Pleasant April 28, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. StepStone Solutions upgrades its SaaS-based enterprise talent acquisition solution, i-GRasp, to v3.0 StepStone Solutions upgrades its Saa... More...

New story from The Grapevine published by Daniel Pleasant April 28, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Xandia launch Talent Management Service Xandia have announced that it has launched its Talent Management Service to help organisa... More...

New story from marketwire published by Daniel Pleasant April 28, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Demand for SaaS-Based Talent Management Solutions Fuels Plateau's 2009 Growth Plateau Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-clas... More...

New story from The Sydney Morning Herald published by Mortimer Goth April 28, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Executives win pay rise as Aristocrat loses millions David Simpson has seen a lot happen under his watch in six years ... More...

New story from Business Week published by Mortimer Goth April 28, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Nedbank CEO Is South Africa’s Best Paid Bank Chief (Update1) Nedbank Group Ltd.’s Tom Boardman was South Africa’s best paid bank ch... More...

New story from The Wall Street Journal published by Mortimer Goth April 28, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. RBS Holders OK New Exec Incentive Plan, Remuneration Report Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS) shareholders, includi... More...

I’ve followed and been involved in discussions too numerous to count on the proper definition of employee engagement, is engagement real or just the latest HR buzz word, and similar. The reality is well expressed by APQC in a recent Workforce Manage... More...

Some people voice resistance openly: "I'm not interested." "I don't think the idea will fly." "I can't give it my full attention until next year." Others gesture their resistance: clock watching, foot or finger tapping, playing with objects within re... More...

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which had rebounded in March, increased further in April. The Index now stands at 57.9 (1985=100), up from 52.3 in March. The Present Situation Index increased to 28.6 from 25.2. The Expectations Index... More...

One way I know that the economy is still in trouble is by speaking topic requests: a) recently I wrote about an after-dinner presentation on “Letting Go” for a career transition support group; to be tactful, many folks were “in between” jobs and b) ... More...

Early on in our work with managers, we learned that some managers are simply masterful at coaching, but most were not so great at it. Yet whether managers were good or bad at coaching, it became clear to me that when it comes to managing people, so m... More...

By Abby Anderson, MS, LPC, CEAP Solutions EAP Program Coordinator So here we are, stuck in the middle again! We’re looking at the beliefs we may have about that Activating Event. What are we doing at Point B when we experience the Activating Ev... More...

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Team Building and Affiliation

The Mathematics of Human Resource – The Anorexic Organization

Lessons in Engagement from Campbell Soup

How not to make a prospecting call

WHY SOME MAY NOT PLAN TO HIRE ANYTIME SOON: thoughts on the H.I.R.E. Act.

Thoughts that Make You Go Hmmm…on Reducing Priority Overload

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Defining Employee Engagement * It Is What You Need It to Be

Recognize Resistance in All Its Forms

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® Increases Index Rises More Than Five Points

“Letting Go” of RIF-ed Off Rage: Survival Stages and Strategies for Soon-to-Be Terminated Employees (as well as for HR Departments)

"Don't Wait for Problems to Start Coaching"

SOMEONE’S PUSHING MY BUTTONS! Part III

	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