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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...

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...

Dear Joan: My husband has been working in a contract position for a Minnesota telecommunications company for the past year. Due to technical issues not related to my husband´s performance, the completion date for the job has moved out ... More...

This is a message for Baby Boomers: Get ready to throw away some of your traditional notions about managing people. Generation Y, your future employees, are graduating from college right now, polishing up their very short resumes, and beating a... More...

I confess. I am an avid Red Sox fan and spend considerable (probably too much) time every week watching not only the games, but also the pre-game and post-game (only if they win, of course) shows. A side benefit of watching the interviews before and ... More...

The amount of information that enterprises create and store is growing at an alarming rate. In order to derive business value from this data and gain competitive advantage, decision makers must aggressively manage enterprise information and develop p... More...

Enron´s performance in 2000 was a success by any measure, as we continued to outdistance the competition and solidify our leadership in each of our major businesses. We have robust networks of strategic assets that we own or have contractual ac... More...

It is tough to be a middle manager. On the one hand, you are pulled by the centripetal force of senior management. This is the force that demands seamless and sometimes unquestioning execution of organizational strategy. It requires you to toe the ... More...

I met with employees last week who were complaining that their leadership doesn't have enough to do or suffers from organizational ADD. Doesn't matter. The effect is the same. Their bosses had just returned from an annual leadershi... More...

Excerpted from West Virginia Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson PLLC. Trouble employees - everyone has them. Employers are constantly faced with situations in which employees create unnecessary proble... More...

Dear Joan: I believe most employees are familiar with the general provisions (of ADA), but there is one question that comes up frequently that management seems reluctant to address. We all understand that more allowances are made for employe... More...

When we hear the words "pay attention", it reminds us of being children when our teachers and parents ordered us to do it. We hear it as a negative: "You´re not paying attention" or "I need your undivided attention". It usuall... More...

Dear Joan: I am responsible for yearly evaluations of a manager and a supervisor. How would you address the fact in the next evaluation, that neither one has improved themselves, nor taken the initiative to try to accomplish any of the goals that ... 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...

I recently flew to San Francisco and back on United Airlines. From Providence, that involves four planes through Chicago s O Hare Airport. Here is a brief report: 1. On the first leg, though I held a first class ticket as always, United rolled up ... More...

This article is the second installment of two articles on consensus. In the first article we distinguished between a 'consensus building process´ and 'achieving a consensus.' This article will focus specifically on how to proactively deal with ... More...

"What? Give them a choice? You must be crazy!" That was a corporate staff´s reaction to my recommendation for solving their problem. The corporate staff had met with me and asked what had gone wrong. They had installed a new software prog... More...

Finally, the Human Resources arena is being refined. While for the last two decades, the corporate and business world has demonstrated a proactive attitude in areas of technology advancement and operational management, the Human Resources agenda seem... More...

Some 44% of multinational companies increased the number of international assignments from subsidiary to subsidiary in the past two years. The percentage of female expatriates has increased significantly in the past five years, to 13% from 8% gl... 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...

I often work with teams to work through an issue or do some future planning. As a part of the process, we develop Groundrules for guiding our behavior during the meeting. Similarly, I am asked to help organizations with a cultural transformation. And... More...

I recently worked with the U.S. Army who is experiencing a severe retention problem. Highly skilled Generation X junior officers and enlisted soldiers are leaving in droves. The lure of higher paying civilian jobs is only part of the problem. Accordi... More...

I really like to visit our clients. They always teach me so much about how to better use the information we provide to better run their businesses. I also really enjoy the opportunity to get to know them as people. Sometimes the conver... More...

Despite their personal charisma and the latest presentation technology, corporate chief executives are increasingly failing to connect with their employees -- especially the youngest ones, according to a study by Novations Group, a global... 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...

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Poison Apples

The World of Internal Best Practices

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Hello, Goodbye

Tips for Hiring and Managing Gen Y

Another Management Lesson From Red Sox Nation

Info Management Key in a Knowledge Economy

Idiocy and the Four Traps

Middle Management´s Role in Managing Change

Not Another Program!

Handling Employees Who are Hard to Handle

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: When is Enough, Enough!

Paying Attention

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Reviews and Goals

HR Is a Key Player for Disaster Preparedness

It´s All About Trust

"So, Do We Have Consensus?" Part II

Management in Real Life: Involvement

Road to Inclusivity

International Assignments Increasing

Why put off what can be documented today?

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Setting Some Groundrules

Baby Boomer Versus Generation X Managing the New Workforce

Question of Respect

CEO Charisma Fails to Impress Employees

Frozen In Time