Blogs / 2012 / December

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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 / 2012 / December

Targeted Analytics January 15-17, 2013, Los Angeles two days total: starts at 1 pm on 1/15 and ends at lunchtime on 1/17 with Alec Levenson (CEO) and Mark Blankenship (Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Jack in t... More...

Recognize This! – All efforts to increase employee engagement will fail unless individuals clearly see the meaningfulness and value of their contributions and efforts. One of my go-to UK bloggers on all thing related to Human Capital Manageme... More...

Employee Resource Network Leadership Summit 2013 Employee Resource Networks as sources of innovation and growth Please save the date for the upcoming ERN Leadership Summit! Los Angeles June 17-18, 2013 with Theresa Welbourn... More...

Most progressive organizations today are using leadership competency models to outline the key skills and behaviors they want to see in their supervisors, managers, and executives. Leadership competency models can provide a structured framework for d... More...

Authors: Nancy Delogu and Steven Kaplan On November 27, 2012, in Scott v. Merck & Company, Inc.,1 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a jury verdict of more than $500,000 in favor of Jennifer Scott, a former Merck &am... More...

Authors: George Wood In Milhauser v. Minco Products, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 24938 (8th Cir. Dec. 5, 2012), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that reinstatement under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights ... More...

Authors: Darren Nadel and Katherine Hinde The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Brown v. ScriptPro, LLC, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 24364 (Nov. 27, 2012), recently clarified that discharging an employee within two days of a request for medical leav... More...

Employees who use smart-phones on the job are distracted from the task at hand. Also, their vision and/or hearing may be impaired while using the electronic device – resulting in an inability to perceive warnings and identify potential hazards.... More...

by Matthew Wong, Inc.com At the Mashable Media Summit in New York on Friday, founders of two social analytics start-ups--Parse.ly’s Sachin Kamdar and SocialFlow’s Frank Speiser--spoke on a number of emerging trends they’ve seen from the heaps of... More...

I have joined here to ask this one question re: a situation that is bothering me...... I left an employer at my choosing. I believe that the potential for that business is unlimited and although exceeding projections is being held down due... More...

by Robert Wynne There’s nothing wrong with amassing another hundred Twitter followers or a dozen more friends on Facebook or Google+, but for real social networking, nothing beats attending or creating a well-produced event. You know the goal... More...

Much of what children learn is taken in through observation and then demonstrated through imitation. As every parent knows, “social learning” can lead to some humorous, even unintended, results. But this method of learning isn’t just for children.... More...

In a recent survey, 72% of high performing workers were likely to solicit feedback in one-on-one meetings with their supervisors. These high performers thrived in an environment of substantive communication to advance and complete their job responsib... More...

First of all, let's divide the reasons for choosing a particular profession to external and internal. External reasons are related to environmental factors: the opinion of parents and friends, desire to achieve success, fear of condemnation. For inte... More...

Ever since IPC Section 377 was amended in 2009 to decriminalize homosexuality in India, a number of companies have stepped up their efforts to provide an inclusive workplace for the sexual minorities i.e. the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual (L... More...

The Eurozone crisis remains a source of economic turmoil across the continent—and beyond. Yet, even outside those countries directly impacted by high unemployment and budget cuts, economic resilience is being tested. Government austerity budgets l... More...

Writing about ‘Diversity’, I am reminded of an incident from several years ago when I was working with an MNC in Bangalore. Those were the days when the concept of diversity was relatively new in India and most MNCs had a diversity program just becau... More...

HR is ensuring that the company you work for has the employees that it needs and more importantly that it wants and that these employees are given advice on employment law, the health and safety aspects that the company enforces and or those required... More...

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell There are well-established boundaries for the creation and use of intellectual property. In the age of re-mix it is important to be very clear on ... More...

5 Profitable Strategies For Employers, Brokers, Wholesalers, Carriers, Service Providers For Dealing With PPACA/Obamacare! Profitable Solutions For The PPACA/Obamacare Disruptive Changes! Opportunities for 2013 and Beyond! PPACA/Obamacare has brou... More...

The news from Career Builder that more than 35% of respondents described the most common affects of bad hires as less productivity, lost time to recruit and train another worker, cost to recruit and train another worker and a negative affect on em... More...

Hi everyone, I've noticed that people seem to enjoy my "How to Create a Business Succession Planning" article on HR4free, spending quite some time on it, yet for some reason, it seems people fail to get to it...The mysteries of google referen... More...

Recognize This! – Managers must make the tough decisions – and the good ones – their role calls for. What’s the worst “people practice” you’ve heard? To borrow an American phrase, I’ve heard some real doozies in my career. And then there’s thi... More...

Watching HBO's WWII series Band of Brothers I was impressed by the fierce loyalty the soldiers had for their comrades in arms. Yes they may have been fighting for country or freedom or some higher ideal, but ultimately they were fighting for each oth... More...

Hyatt Legal Plans makes it remarkably easy to add a legal service plan to existing employee benefits packages. To learn more, watch this short video on Legal Plan Account Management . More...

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Targeted Analytics Workshop 2013

The Crux of the Employee Engagement Conundrum: Engagement to What?

Employee Resource Network Leadership Summit, June 2013

6 Reasons Many Leadership Competency Models Fail

Fourth Circuit Reverses Decision Holding Employer's Promise Not to Retaliate Modified At-Will Employment, Rejects Breach of Contract Claim

Eighth Circuit Rules that Termination of Employment Can Be a Proper Reinstatement Under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act

Tenth Circuit Upholds Employee Termination 2 Days After FMLA Leave Request

Are iPhones A Hazard In The Workplace?

5 Insider Tips for a Better Social Media Strategy

Help or not after leaving an employer

How to Socially Network... Really

Using Mentoring to Increase Social Learning

Are you optimizing your workplace mentorship program?

Common Mistakes When Choosing a Career

Are you really ready for Inclusion?

European Labor Risks in the Year Ahead

Dealing with Diversity

How Do I get a job in HR and what is Human Resources all about?

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BROKERS AND CARRIERS - PROFITING FROM THE PPACA/OBAMACARE DISRUPTIVE CHANGES!

Career Builder Survey on the Cost of Bad Hires No Surprise

Business Succession Planning - Sample

The Most Common Way Management Abdicates Leadership

Who's Got Your Back in the Workplace?

Responsive Account Management Makes a Difference