Blogs / 2013 / October

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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 / October

In the US, 57% say their performance management system needs work. This is an alarming statistic considering how important performance management is in helping employees thrive in their environment and ultimately contribute to the organ... More...

" Handling employee records is no longer a minor logistical headache. It's a legal minefield and one little misstep can literally blow your company - and career - away. " - Business Management Daily. What does this mean and how can you avoid it? W... More...

When most people think of corporate health and wellness, they envision programs designed to shore up problems among the least healthy employees within a company. By implementing programs to help overweight people shed excess pounds, or physically sta... More...

With large portions of our workforce under utilized, demoralized or simply out of work, it strains credulity to say that we are suffering talent shortages. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HRExaminer/~3/yzW276fJahc/ More...

If you are a Twitter superstar, say Ashton Kutcher or Oprah Winfrey, this post isn’t for you. (And if you are Justin or Oprah, thanks for visiting our blog. We had no idea you were interested in marketing to HR!) But if you're like the rest of us, tr... More...

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 :00am Your World of Work Stars Well Kept By Kevin Grossman It’s been a bugaboo of business for decades. Ever... More...

On September 9th we wrote about a new EEOC religious discrimination lawsuit which it filed in Denver against JetStream Ground Services. “The EEOC alleges that JetStream refused to hire or utilize numerous female Muslims to clean aircraft cabins, eve... More...

We borrowed the title of this post from the classic film National Lampoon’s Vacation, paraphrasing Marty the Moose. Much like the Griswolds, vacationers expecting to see the Lincoln Memorial or the pandas at the National Zoo will be disappointed to ... More...

Sometimes you just have to love and hate social media. As an HR professional you have you are always on guard, it is your job! You have to protect your company brand and your company’s engagement levels. Last night... More...

It’s a disease — one that quietly spreads throughout a company. While underperformance may begin with one person, it quickly infiltrates other aspects of the company and can infect entire teams. And while you may have the urge to hand out a bevy of p... More...

Study Finds That Technology Infrastructure at a Venue Can Determine the Success or Failure of an Event Planners say that tech issues have a big impact on meetings and incentive events St. Louis – September 23, 2013 – It’s no longer just about meeti... More...

" Let's face it, the talent pool is shrinking, it is getting harder and harder to attract top talent and just as challenging to keep our top talent motivated. Ceridian recently conducted their Pulse of Talent Survey and have uncovered some intere... More...

IRF Launches ‘Third Thursday’ Education Series Webcasts aimed at professionals in Recognition, Motivation and Engagement St. Louis – September 15, 2013 – The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) announces the creation of an ongoing education series ... More...

Breaking Bad can offer HR professionals some ironic insights into HR best practices, by highlighting both good and bad examples of employee management. The series Breaking Bad may be over, but few of us will soon forget the misadventures of Walter... More...

Last week was Oracle’s annual conference “OpenWorld” held in San Francisco. This year, Oracle held a separate conference exclusively for HCM and from the feedback I received, the event was a great success. The event was busy with announcem... More...

Recruiting professionals , what do you need to know to do your job effectively? People often ask APQC , "what do top performers in recruiting look like?" and "do top performers in recruiting cost (i.e., low cost) also have high-quality recruiting p... More...

Staffing Industry Analysts Names Four ManpowerGroup Leaders to Staffing 100 List MILWAUKEE, Oct. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Four ManpowerGroup executives have been named to the third annual Staffing 100 list. The report, published... More...

Could your organization use a clearer guide to using criminal history records in hiring without prompting complaints of employment discrimination? A team of civil rights organizations working with leading members of the background screening indus... More...

Last week I was able to attend Oracle Open World in San Francisco. One of the recurring themes that was the power of social media in HR. If you think about it, this makes a lot of sense. Both your current employees and potential employees spend ... More...

I recently read Dana Ardi’s The Fall of the Alphas . The most important parts of her argument are: 1. There are two models of organization: ... a. Top-down ( hierarchical, command and control) ... b. Lateral (networ... More...

More Australians changed jobs over the past year than workers in any other country. Yet, when we look at the list of the top ten countries in terms of worker attrition over the year, Eurozone nations dominate. In most recent survey of some 120,0... More...

We’re less absent at work than ever before, yet it’s still costing the economy £14 billion a year according to the latest CBI/Pfizer Absence and Workplace Health Survey , released in July 2013. The research revealed that, on average, we each take... More...

As a hiring adviser to many businesses in the Australian market, one of the most common questions I get asked is what is the biggest mistakes you can make when hiring. To be perfectly honest, there are many mistakes that can happen during any process... More...

Last Week the Managing Partner of one of EPIC Software Corporations clients, Derhak Ireland, a prestigious executive search firm and owner of RightFit Recruiting agency, conducted a webinar through HR.com, a global professional association for HR Lea... More...

“Say I am in year 2 of my employment and have received 25% of my total options are strike price $2. My company then goes public at $20. What happens to remaining 75% of my options that I am supposed … Continue reading → http://performensation.com/wha... More...

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Few organizations have confidence in the effectiveness of their performance management programs, Mercer survey finds

Online Employee Files Help HR Avoid Legal Minefield

3 ways wellness programs can benefit both ends of the health spectrum

Talent Shortages

Ignore Follower Counts — There's a Better Way to Identify Influencers

Your World of Work Stars Well Kept

Pray That You Don’t Get Sued: Religious Discrimination Cases Abound (And Update Alert! Abercrombie Just Won One On Appeal)

Sorry Folks, the Park’s Closed (and the EEOC too)

How to use Social Media for the good

Understanding the Why: How to Turn an Underperformer into a Top Performer

IRF Study Finds Technology Key to Meetings Success

Survey Uncovers Job Rewards Ranked #1 Engagement Driver

IRF Announces Webcast Series

5 HR Best Practice Lessons From “Breaking Bad”

Roundup of Announcements at Oracle HCM@OpenWorld

Recruiting Metrics and Trends with Elissa Tucker and Kris Dunn

ManpowerGroup Executives Recognized Among Most Influential in Industry

Conference on Best Practices Standards for Use of Criminal History Records in Hiring

Social Media - An HR Strategy That Shouldn't Be Ignored

The Endless Allure of Non-Hierarchical Organizations

Job changes more common in Europe

Record low for absence in the workplace but what’s the real cost on your health?

Top 10 Hiring Mistakes - #10 - Hiring on Skills Only

Derhak Ireland achieve the highest 24-Month Candidate Retention Rate of any Search Firm in Canada over the past 5 years… An Unparalleled 97.6%, This Webinar Will Show You How You Can Too

What if company goes public before my vesting period is over?