Blogs / 2013 / July

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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 / 2013 / July

On Thursday evening, the city of Detroit declared bankruptcy. But what does that mean for the city, its people, and its workers? Income tax revenues for the city have fallen 30 percent in the last decade The cost of maintaining more » http://qualigen... More...

Should social media be used to engage with customers? According to a whopping 84% of CEO across the globe, no, it should not. A recent study by IBM revealed that only 16% of CEOs, surveyed in 64 countries, use social more » http://qualigence.com/majo... More...

For fast payback, Best Buy Mexico is deploying the solutions in the Kronos Cloud. http://www.kronos.com/pr/best-buy-mexico-deploys-kronos-in-the-cloud.aspx More...

Celadon Group will deploy in the Kronos Cloud to implement its workforce goals faster to achieve a rapid return on its investment. http://www.kronos.com/pr/celadon-group-deploys-kronos-in-the-cloud.aspx More...

Faced with the challenge of balancing a double bottom line of doing social good and managing limited budgets, YMCAs across the country are turning to workforce management solutions from Kronos Incorporated. http://www.kronos.com/pr/kronos-helps-ymca... More...

Kronos Incorporated today announced that Baptist Community Services, a continuing care retirement community, is deploying workforce management solutions in the Kronos Cloud to replace its current Kronos on-premise deployment. http://www.kronos.com/pr... More...

Director of The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated, Joyce Maroney, welcomes board members Dave Almeda and John Hollon as guests on Workforce Institute Radio to share reactions to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report, and discuss th... More...

Are you successful in spite of doing things that make no sense at all? by Marshall Goldsmith Walking under a ladder. Breaking a mirror. A black cat darting across our path. Whoa! Most of us scorn superstitions as silly beliefs of … Continue reading →... More...

Obsessing on your goal – may cause you to forget your mission. by Marshall Goldsmith In the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai , the main character, Colonel Nicholson, is a prisoner of war in Burma who leads his men … Continue reading → http://feedpr... More...

Try to change people who don’t care, and you end up wasting everyone’s time. by Marshall Goldsmith My mother was a first-grade schoolteacher back in Kentucky. In her mind, I was always in the first grade, my father was a first … Continue reading → ht... More...

We often dream about all the things we’ll do once we retire. What we don’t think about is how much we might not like it when we get there. by Marshall Goldsmith My friend Dave was bubbling with enthusiasm. His company … Continue reading → http://feed... More...

Accessible leaders can create dependency. Turn face time into get-out-of-my-face time. by Marshall Goldsmith The editor-in-chief of one of the top women’s magazines is a very dedicated and well-organized leader. In the past, she always took pride in ... More...

Instead of being a Monday-morning quarterback, focus on next week’s game. by Marshall Goldsmith “Feedforward” sounds like some eating technique you’d see advertised on late-night TV, guaranteeing weight loss with a faster metabolism. Sorry, folks: Fe... More...

Today’s guest blog post is courtesy of our board member, Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, ScD, FAAN, FACCWS. Tim brings a deep and informed perspective to the implications of the Affordable Care Act for workers, their employers and healthcare providers.... More...

I’m feeling twitchy about a quote I heard this week from Flipboard founder Mike McCue. McCue, according to a recent piece in The Atlantic, tells his employees to: “think constantly about their mothers’ reactions — real or imagined — to the things th... More...

Ah, summer. The kids are out of school and the beach or lake beckon. The vacation time has been carefully hoarded to take full advantage of beautiful weather and everybody wants to take advantage of the summer before it’s over. It gets increasingl... More...

I was listening to NPR on my way in to work this morning, and heard a truly terrific title – the Keeper of the Holocron - during a piece on the Star Wars books series. It turns out that LucasBooks, the publishing arm of Lucasfilm, has published over... More...

Software Advice is a consulting company that helps software buyers find the right software. They recently published this case study regarding Kronos customer Sulco-Lancer and their implementation of Workforce Ready, the cloud-based workforce managem... More...

Gallup recently released the results of their latest State of the American Workplace poll regarding employee job satisfaction and engagement. The headlines from this research indicate that 30% of the nation’s workers were actively engaged and inspir... More...

As our Legal Editor Heather Bussing says, "Really weird stuff happens at work." That's the focus of our feature article this week from Heather, When Harassment is Legal. Maren Hogan returns to the HR Examiner Editorial Advisory Board with her article... More...

Amy Ala is a Staffing Consultant with Microsoft, featured blogger for RecruitingBlogs.com, and mom to four great kids. After nearly 14 years in employment, Amy is convinced the #1 trait in successful recruiters is a sense of humor. http://feedproxy.g... More...

How did two wheels emancipate women? When bicycles became available in the 1880’s, women did not have to rely on men for transportation. “The bicycle became their freedom machine.” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HRExaminer/~3/xw1hvRAv0PA/ More...

Each communications channel implies a different mode of recruiting and a different cost per hire. Imagine a spectrum that ranges from active at one end to passive at the other. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HRExaminer/~3/zgcG3ntPtK4/ More...

If you are interested in the future of HR or the state of the art in American HR Technology, there is no other single event that serves it up as coherently. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HRExaminer/~3/0unRtuxC7BU/ More...

Workers learn more in the coffee room than in the classroom. Formal learning—classes and workshops—is the source of only 10 to 20 percent of what people learn at work. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HRExaminer/~3/OqLZdJmqKaQ/ More...

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At a Glance: Understanding the Detroit Bankruptcy

Majority of CEOs, Top Execs not on Social Media, Study Finds

Best Buy Mexico Deploys Kronos in the Cloud

Celadon Group Deploys Kronos in the Cloud

Kronos Helps YMCAs Manage the Double Bottom Line

Baptist Community Services Joins the Kronos Cloud

The Workforce Institute at Kronos Discusses the Importance of Employee Engagement in Response to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace Report

Avoiding the Superstition Trap

Goal 1, Mission 0

If They Don’t Care, Don’t Waste Your Time

Why Even Thinking About Retirement Can Be a Bad Idea

Get-Out-of-My-Face Time

Leave It at the Stream

Engaging Health Reform

The Mom Test?

Summertime Absences – Where did your employees go?

Who’s the Keeper of the Holocron in your company?

Happy Friday! Sulco-Lancer, Workforce Ready, and Willie Nelson

Is There Ever Too Much Employee Engagement?

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HRExaminer Radio: Episode #27: Amy Ala

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Communications Channels IV

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