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Benefits
Demand From Employees for Identity Theft Protection and Legal Benefits on the Rise
Benefit Solutions by GE helps employers serve needs of their employees.

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Leadership
Thought Leaders: Dr. Steven Stein on Measuring Emotional Intelligence
Steven Stein is a clinical psychologist and is the founder and CEO of Multi-Health Systems, an internationally known test publishing company. He recently spoke with HR.com's Rich DiGeorgio about his work with Emotional Intelligence.

 Featured Blog: Making the Most of A Presentation

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HR Measurements and Metrics
Employment Status of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Beginning in October 2005, questions were added to the household survey to identify persons who evacuated from their homes, even temporarily, due to Hurricane Katrina. Hare some findings from Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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

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Human Resources Management
Who Is in Control of Your Time?
Many managers are getting sucked into an incredible vortex of busyness and daily fire fighting, writes Jim Clemmer.

Featured Blog: Vendor News

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Organizational Development
An HR Scorecard For Performance
Is your human resources department considered an activity-based administrative overhead or a profitability and productivity contributor? asks Tom McKenna.

Featured Blog: Play-Down Personal Style

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Compensation
IRS Issues Guidance to Hurricane Victims Claiming Casualty Losses
The IRS has issued a guidance to assist Hurricane Katrina, Rita and Wilma victims claiming casualty and theft losses on their individual income tax returns.

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Performance Management
Reality HR: David Koehn, Ph.D. on Create and Sustain a Learning Organization
David Koehn, Ph.D. has over 30 years' experience with almost every aspect of human resources. He recently spoke with HR.com's Aileen MacMillan about his work.

Featured Blog: Cause and Effect

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Executive Coaching
Ask the Coach - Issue 14: How to Position the Need for a Career Change?
Feeling bored? No longer energized by your work? Executive Coach Merry Marcus offers coaching to help you approach this subject with your boss and create a position that you can be passionate about.

Featured Blog: International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO)

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Staffing and Recruitment
THUD!? You're in, now what?
We all have many different things we value when looking for another job, writes Lehan Stemmet.

Featured Blog: Lessons Learned from the RPO World.

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Workforce Acquisition
Getting Past the Telephone Screening Interview
Better know how to get past the telephone screening interview since it's growing in popularity among HR folks, writes Robin Ryan.

Featured Blog: Home Depot - Supporting our Military at Home and Abroad

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HR Outsourcing
Tracking Employee Time: It's Not Just for Payroll Anymore
When payroll executives implement time and attendance systems to automate payroll, they often miss the chance to facilitate greater profitability throughout the entire company, writes Curt Finch, Journyx.

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HRIS/ERP
SarbOx for SMEs Now an Absolute Certainty
The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Chairman Christopher Cox has announced that small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) will not be exempt from key provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; from The InfoTech Research Group.

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Training and Development
Knowing What You Need
For our daily lives to have meaning and purpose, it's important to be aware of what our needs are. That sounds so obvious and simple and yet it isn't at all. It's often quite difficult to identify our real needs, writes Linda Adams.

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Labor Relations
Surviving the Storm
A half-day process to get your team back on track from Michael Goldman.

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Legal
Blogging: An Emerging Workplace Issue
This article by Rick Warren, Ford & Harrison LLP explores various issues you face when confronted with blogging at work.

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HR.com Employers of Excellence National Conference 2006
Join us October 24 - 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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Forget ROI: How You Should Measure the Outcomes and Operations of Organizational Learning | July 11, 2006
Just because Return on investment (ROI) is the most popular way of measuring the merits of any type of corporate spend does not mean it is the only way. Putting together accurate ROI figures is difficult for most L&D organizations, especially for those that are not tied in well with organizational goals.

Integrating Your Leader Selection, Development and Performance Management Strategies | July 12, 2006
We hear about companies aspiring to integrated talent management for leaders and yet, what does that really mean? How realistic is it to set that as a short-term goal? What are the advantages to integrating selection, development and performance management of leaders and aspiring leaders? What technologies exist to support this process?

Employment Brand: The Top 10 Steps to Developing an Integrated Employment Brand | July 19, 2006
Learn how your employment brand may just be your best tool in attracting and maintaining the best talent available. If executed on properly it becomes part of the corporate mantra and saturates every aspect of your organization.

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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.

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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