Blogs / 2011 / February

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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 / 2011 / February

Why people use Organizational Chart Software... (By using OrgChart Pro, you may never need to create charts again) Not everybody has to create organization charts, but those that do find the task tedious and never-ending. No sooner is the cha... More...

Many people go through life committing partial suicide –destroying their talents, energies, creative qualities. Indeed, to learn how to be good to oneself is often more difficult than to learn how to be good to others. - Joshua Liebman One of the... More...

"A true Master is not the one with the most students, but one who creates the most Masters. A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders." — Neale Donald Walsch Successful leaders understand the differ... More...

Despite all the trendy rhetoric about the importance of people, leadership, and values, far too many managers treat people in their organizations with about as much care and concern as so many numbers on a financial statement. They are just one more ... More...

Building a strong partnership between staff and council is essential to effective municipal management. In many instances this lack of harmonization is caused by lack of agreement on the defined roles for both staff and council members. When council ... More...

Buried in the publicity of a nasty airline strike was a vivid example of how misdirected management's service improvement efforts can become. To improve service, the airline ordered all attendants to attend three hour "Commitment to Courtesy" classes... More...

I recently blogged about the concern around the use of credit checks in background screening, and whether that practice might keep good people out of jobs. Similarly, there is a concern that society will develop an underclass of criminals if we conti... More...

Everyone’s looking for the recipe for employee engagement. How do you get motivated, happy and productive workers? To start, think about the six components to Employee Engagement listed below: 1. FIT: Is the employee a FIT with the organization–i... More...

Project management technology has been around for years now, so the problem of project execution must be basically solved, right? Wrong. The Standish Group has found that 68% of technology projects failed in 2009 . Does this mean that project mana... More...

This is an article that one of our writers recently put together for us, would love to get some feedback from the HR community. How much research is put into getting managers on the right management training course? As the corporate world emerges ... More...

www.electronici9.com On Thursday, the House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement held its second hearing on worksite and I-9 issues, with a particular focus on the pros and cons of E-Verify as well as its val... More...

Recognize This: Global integration of talent systems delivers 38% more Return on Equity (ROE). Why should you care if your talent management systems and programs align with your company values and strategic objectives? Simple – you’ll see a ... More...

The Basic Premise of Working Time under the FLSA First, let’s start with the basic premise of what constitutes work time under the FLSA. In simple terms, work time is any time an employee engages in work-related activities and a benefit is confe... More...

You’re thinking ‘OK, Catchy title, but what do you really mean?’ Well that’s exactly what’s intended, fire the hiring manager. I’m not talking about firing the person, but, rather, I’m suggesting we fire the role. It’s not a good role, and one that f... More...

Cost per hire : www.costperhire.biz Online hiring cost calculation,recruitment metrics,dashboard & Reporting analytics solutions. * Cost per hire is industry's first online solution exclusively focusing on hiring cost ca... More...

The twenty-something generation is a special bunch. Many set out to become entrepreneurs from the get-go, while others choose to build a career with a company. This generation is more motivated by education than by money, and respond very well to ack... More...

A.P. Labour Welfare Fund Act 1987 (India) The Andhra Pradesh Labour Welfare Board is constituted under A.P. Labour Welfare Fund Act., 1987 for the purpose of administering the Labour Welfare Fund. The Act came into force w.e.f. 01.05.1988. T... More...

In recent years there has been a significant take-up of Human Capital Management (HCM) applications into organisations to bulk out their legacy HR or ERP data and to align with the emerging Workforce Planning processes and policies. Some of the ku... More...

‘Everyday people get fired from their job; employees change their firms/ companies to meet and/ or benefit from new market opportunities; human resource department (HRD) in large enterprises is always looking out for trust worthy and efficient worker... More...

13 Project Estimating Pitfalls to Avoid Like the Plague You are hiring people who are having a terrible time estimating projects. The result is that project costs and schedules are overrunning the estimates by 100-300%. Your emplo... More...

Is Your Investment in IT Project Management and Software Process Improvement Paying Off? By Joe Kolinger, CTO - OfficeWork Software - 866-331-4534 A note from the author: Ok. It's not cheap to invest in project management personn... More...

Change management best practice has become the mantra of many organizations. I often hear someone talking about change management best practice as if it holds the secret to their success. That is why my colleague, Jacob Hallencreutz, and I have be... More...

Language is one of the earliest and often overlooked indicators that your change is on track. As I sit here looking at the snow outside my window in the middle of another Manitoba winter, I wonder if summer will ever come. Sometimes it feels the sam... More...

Recognize This: Intent without action is more than worthless – it could actually contribute to additional disengagement. Wrapping up our week-long look at the Economist Intelligence Unit/HayGroup study on employee engagement attitudes in t... More...

In my experience with Linkedin over the last several years I am seeing that recruiters have increased their use of the site to find candidates. Rather than using job boards like Monster and CareerBuillder, recruiters are seeing the value of s... More...

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Why do companies use organizational chart software?

Creating Powerful Partnerships with Agreements for Results

Leaders Invest in Growing and Developing People

Wise Managers Treat Layoffs as Last Resort

Bridging the Council-Staff Gap

Blame Management for Poor Service

What's Your Take on the "Ban the Box" Movement?

The Recipe for Employee Engagement

Can Technology Solve the Project Execution Problem?

Getting the best ROI on your management training course

House Panel Measures the Value of E-Verify

Global Integration of People Systems Delivers More to Your Bottom Line

Bad Pay Practices Costing Employers Millions! --- The Chronicles: Working Off-the-Clock

Fire the Hiring Manager

Cost per hire: www.costperhire.biz Online hiring cost calculation,recruitment metrics,dashboard and Advanced reporting analytics solutions.

Managing the Twenty-Something Employee

A.P. Labour Welfare Fund Act 1987 (India)

Building your HCM Workforce Planning Business Case – Total Cost of Ownership

New Start Ups on the Horizon - Recruitment Agency?

13 Project Estimating Mistakes to Avoid Like the Plague

What is the ROI for Investing in Project Management and CMMI?

Change Management Best Practice

What Is An Early Indicator That My Organizational Change Is Progressing

Overcoming Confusion, Fear and Complacency to Engage Employees

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