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It's always been hard to manage people. Nowadays, it's harder than ever. The workplace has become more and more high pressure and the workforce more and more high maintenance. Meanwhile, the pendulum of management thinking, books, and training has sw... More...

The Hong Kong government is urging HR managers to develop contingency plans to keep their employees healthy and productive in the event of an influenza outbreak in the city. According to a November 2006 survey by the Hong Kong Institute of Human Reso... More...

Companies the world over are becoming increasingly aware of the existence of security threats and the need to guard against them. The foundation for addressing these threats is a clear set of security policies and standards. Knowing that security pol... More...

Earlier this year, Mercer Human Resource Consulting asked finance executives around the world to answer several questions about the management of their defined benefit (DB) pension risks. Topics included: Concern and actions regarding le... More...

Since transactional HR is going the way of the Dodo bird, the only handhold between here and oblivion is transformational work. Happily, this is a huge handhold, since organizations dearly need transitioning assistance, and the fact that they are hir... More...

The vast majority (81 percent) of more than 2,300 global executives surveyed say they are connected to work through mobile devices (cell phone, PDA, laptop or pager) all of the time, according to the latest Executive Quiz from Korn/Ferry Internatio... More...

On May 25, 2006, a compromise Senate bill, S-2611, increasing border security and placing illegal immigrants on a road to citizenship passed 62-36 after a week-long, fiery debate. In December of 2005, the House also passed an immigration reform... More...

There´s an insidious problem lurking in workplaces nationwide, and it´s not the obvious bad hires or misfits that simply don´t belong on the payroll. Those people are usually terminated during their probationary period and life goes... More...

Excerpted from Tennessee Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Miller and Martin Are you in compliance with the federal Anti-Cursing and Profanity in the Workplace Act? OK, before you call your lawyer asking why she hasn&acut... More...

Not long ago I was in a life and death struggle with a US Air ticketing kiosk in Orlando. I gave up and, in an ornery mood, explained my problem to the nearby ticket agent. He smiled and said, "Dr. Weiss, let me show you why those machines will ne... More...

Companies are investing more in health and productivity management (HPM) programs in an effort to stem rising health care costs, yet have found it difficult to evaluate their economic return, impact on employee health status and overall return on inv... More...

How would you feel about a company vision that looks something like this? "Our vision is to become a firm that pays the very lowest wages possible, charges the highest prices the market will bear, and divides the spoils between stockholders and senio... More...

Many managers are getting sucked into an incredible vortex of busyness and daily fire fighting. It's becoming a bigger and bigger challenge to keep themselves and others focused and strategic in this 24/7, always-on, Blackberry culture. This is a lar... More...

For major corporations with workers spread across the United States, big cities are the nodes on a network of opportunity and, occasionally, danger. So, the price for a company´s access to business opportunity is the need to plan for disasters ... More...

About a decade ago, I had an epiphany about whole systems thinking when my project team and I were asked to figure out why an effort to digitize the company´s backup data systems was failing. After reading about the business trends of com... More...

Excerpted from New York Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firms Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Charles "Slip" Shod has been employed by your company for more than two years, during which time you have received repe... More...

Like one of those ancient wooly mammoths that the Russians periodically extract intact from the Siberian ice, human resources seem perfectly preserved in time somewhere around 1965. The mammoths, of course, are items of special scientific and anthrop... More...

"Don´t sweat the small stuff." This seems like sound advice, but it doesn´t apply when the little things are the array of diminutive computing and communications gadgets that are proliferating in the workplace. Whether they´re pr... More...

Most employers will agree that flexibility breeds business advantage. In fact, 90% of the human resources executives who participated in the ASA´s 2005 Staffing Customer Survey noted that the more flexible staffing and recruiting firms ar... More...

Excerpted from Oklahoma Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, LLP During a four-year period, the number of uninsured people in America rose by nearly five million.... More...

Back in the 1980s, Malcolm Baldrige made the argument that quality goes hand in hand with improved productivity, lower costs, and increased profitability. In the years that followed, systematic quality control became the norm for US business. Today, ... More...

Managing an organization´s company cars and trucks is just one of the many tasks that can fall under the HR umbrella. Even when HR doesn´t have direct responsibility for the corporate fleet, it´s very likely that developing, communi... More...

The workplace landscape has changed significantly over the last decade. The mere fact that we have four different generations at work creates several challenges. Add to that the fact that individuals in each generation have a different value system a... More...

At a time when a number of the nation's largest employers are freezing their defined benefit (DB) pension plans, Mercer Human Resource Consulting is today launching a new comprehensive program, Mercer Frozen Plan Solutions, to help employers better m... More...

Dear Joan, I have an employee working for me that has the worst attendance I have ever witnessed. She started eight months ago, and during that time has had two negative performance reviews because of her attendance. As an example, in the last ... More...

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The Pendulum of Management Has Been Swinging in the Wrong Direction

Hong Kong: Flu Pandemic Preparedness a Serious HR Challenge

How to Craft Uncompromising Enterprise Security Documents

Global Pension Risk Survey

Where Can Transformational HR Make A Difference?

Too Much Time Connected

Immigration Reform: Myth or Reality

Poison Apples

Watch Your Mouth in the Workplace

The World of Internal Best Practices

Standards for Measuring Health and Productivity Management Program Efficiency

Management In Real Life: Visions

Who Is in Control of Your Time?

HR Is a Key Player for Disaster Preparedness

Avoid Piecemeal Pitfalls: Use a Whole System Approach to Achieve Diversity Results

Why put off what can be documented today?

Frozen In Time

Mobile Tech Gadgets Pose Challenges to HR

The Virtual Office for Business Advantage

Employee health insurance: Where are we headed?

Care Focused Purchasing Presses Ahead With Agenda

Employees and the Corporate Fleet: What Every HR Manager Has to Know...and Communicate

Shifting the Role of the HR Staff from Transactional to Strategic

New Mercer Program Helps Employers Manage Frozen Pension Plans

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Time to Take Charge