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Tuition Assistance is NOT just an Employee Benefit
Tuition Assistance Plans (TAP) are part of Talent Management and a Human Capital investment for the future success of your organization, writes Faith Ivory.

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Leadership
Thought Leader: Thomas Harrison on Tapping Your Entrepreneurial DNA to Achieve Your Business Goals
Tom Harrison is the author of the recently published Instinct, Tapping Your Entrepreneurial DNA to Achieve Your Business Goals published by Warner Business Books. He recently spoke with HR.com's Rich DiGeorgio about the book and his work.

 Featured Blog: Hey, What About Me?

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HR Measurements and Metrics
Methodology for Executive Development
A whitepaper about how the HR department can creatively develop an employee assessment and development program that will immediately appeal the CEO by identifying those "High Potential Employees"; from Peter Hanik, Pretium.

 Featured Blog: There is more to 'human capital metrics' than 'staffing metrics.'

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Human Resources Management
Managing the Paradox Between Performance and Adaptation: Building A Resilient Organization
A resilient organization maximizes performance over the long term, through changes foreseen and through disruptions that cannot be predicted, writes Hal Morgan.

Featured Blog: Vendor News

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Organizational Development
HR Is a Key Player for Disaster Preparedness
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 of many kinds, writes John Rossheim.

Featured Blog: Getting Ready to Be Ready (Short Version)

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Compensation
Pay for Pharmacy Personnel Continues to Rise
Mercer survey shows compensation for pharmacists varies significantly by metropolitan area.

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Performance Management
Waiting for Things to Gel
CEOs and Presidents often mistakenly treat key management personnel like Jell-O. They throw newly hired executives into the bowl, stir things up a bit, cool things off when things heat up and wait for things to gel, writes Roberta Chinsky Matuson.

Featured Blog: Cause and Effect

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Executive Coaching
What Raising a Teenager and Running an Organization Have in Common
Only half of all employees say senior management in their organization is working well together as a team, writes Bruce Katcher.

Featured Blog: Professionally Delivered 360-Feedback & Action Planning

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Staffing and Recruitment
Why Are So Few Women in Corporate Leadership, Asks Fortune Magazine
BPW/USA and BPW Foundation CEO Deborah Frett offers reasons and solutions.

Featured Blog: Lessons Learned from the RPO World.

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Workforce Acquisition
Reality HR: Mary-Jo Porcello with Stories from a Fast Growth Company
Having the right human capital strategies have helped fast growth technology company -- ascend to the top of their field. Mark McAuliffe recently spoke with Mary-Jo Porcello about some of the Human Resources challenges that need to be met.

Featured Blog: Attract Them with Gadgets!

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HR Outsourcing
Direct Correlation Between Outsourcing Satisfaction and Investment in Outsourcing Management/Governance
EquaTerra, a multi-national outsourcing and insourcing advisory firm, announced the results of its new study, 'Outsourcing Management and Governance: Building a Foundation for Outsourcing Success'.

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HRIS/ERP
Enterprise Risk Management Helps Avoid Non-Compliance Fines
Regulations such as the USA PATRIOT Act are forcing both public and private enterprises to address all types of risk; not just financial. IT leaders must be prepared because executives will soon turn to them for technologies that support these frameworks; from InfoTech Research.

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Training and Development
Learning Corporate Leadership in a Real-Life Classroom
UPS runs a unique leadership training program that builds better managers by teaching real-life lessons one would rarely learn in Corporate America.

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Labor Relations
Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: It Wasn't Me!
Friday, I learned that when a service contract lapsed he told another supervisor that I "couldn't find the contract". This is completely untrue.

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Legal
Supreme Court Punts: RICO Claim Sent Back to Lower Court
Even though RICO was originally targeted at organized crime, injured parties have creatively characterized the activities of various other targets as violations of RICO; from M. Lee Smith, by Nancy Wilson.

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HR.com Employers of Excellence National Conference 2006
Join us October 25-27, 2006 at the magnificent Red Rock Resort Spa & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The program includes a world class lineup of 6 keynote speakers, individualized custom tracks with workshops and roundtable presentations from leading HR Executives.
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Leveraging Partnerships to Maximize Talent Acquisition | June 29, 2006
Sponsored by: HRworks

Home Depot receives more than 17 million job applications annually and had revenues of more than $80 billion in 2005. The company's growth outpaced the number of qualified internal candidates for key management and leadership positions. Learn how an innovative version of outsourcing to third-parties can work for you and how to provide a seamless experience to candidates even while outsiders are handling many key staffing tasks.

Using Your Performance Management Processes to Support Pay for Performance | June 29, 2006
As more and more organizations move towards linking compensation and rewards more directly to performance, the need to implement sound performance management processes increases.

Whatever Happened to Job Evaluation? | July 5, 2006
This webinar examines what companies are actually doing with job evaluation these days and what the current best practices are.

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The Laws of Lifetime Growth | July 10, 2006
Catherine Nomura will discuss with us her sense of what the keys are to success as an entrepreneur. We will explore how the laws of lifetime growth apply to business success and explore what they really mean.

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Funding Workforce Training - The Massachusetts Solution | June 28, 2006
Training newly hired and current employees is an expensive yet important task. Some states ease the burden by providing employers with access to state sponsored financial grants and best-in-class educational resources.

Book Review: Workforce America!: Managing Employee Diversity As a Vital Resource - summary
By Marilyn Loden and Judy B. Rosener
Date: April 3, 2005

Management's function is to set performance at the levels the manager perceives appropriate, and to tie performance to the rewards that the employee deems equitable. Find out more.

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