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Week of July 10, 2006

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Benefits
Most Workers Skeptical of Health Savings Accounts
Hudson survey reveals increased exposure improves perceptions.

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Leadership
Looking In the Mirror
Abhay Padgaonkar asks, If you are the top dog in your organization, what is your main job?

 Featured Blog: Making the Most of A Presentation

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HR Measurements and Metrics
Beyond Cost in G&A
In response to globalization, world-class companies move beyond cost in G&A. According to speakers at Hackett's 16th Annual Best Practices Conference, organizations improve speed & agility, enhance responsiveness, and inspire passion.

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

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Human Resources Management
The Power of Intuition to Inspire
Several times in my life intuition has acted as a beacon for inspiration and led me to explore new directions and new capabilities, writes Arupa Tesolin.

Featured Blog: Vendor News

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Organizational Development
Majority of Industry Leaders Say Graduate Business Schools do a Good Job Preparing MBA Students to Succeed in the Business World
However, few say they do an excellent job; one in five say they do only a fair job, according to a Pepperdine University Study.

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Compensation
Trends in Long-term Incentives for Executives - European Survey
The number of European companies using share options to award their CEOs and other executive directors has dropped significantly in the last three years, while alternative long-term incentive (LTI) vehicles have increased in popularity, according to a new survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

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Performance Management
The Goals Continuum: Helping, Negotiating, or Directing
Managing people is not always an easy thing to do. Take a look at this example, from Coert Visser and Gwenda Schlundt Bodien.

Featured Blog: Cause and Effect

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Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching: Smoothing the Transition
When his wife was diagnosed with cancer, Jim Newman, the fifth generation to head his family business, reevaluated his lifestyle. To make these transitions, Newman hired John Lazar, an executive coach, writes Marilynne Rudick.

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

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Staffing and Recruitment
Managing the Millennials: How They Will Change the Workplace (Despite Itself)
Human resource professionals need to understand this new generation, and how its attitudes and perceptions will affect the future of work, writes Dan Rasmus.

Featured Blog: Lessons Learned from the RPO World.

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Workforce Acquisition
NAM Welcomes Bill Increasing Access to Skilled Talent
America's economy, including the manufacturing base, is reliant upon access to skilled talent; from The National Association of Manufacturers.

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

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HR Outsourcing
Critical Characteristics To Demand From Your Timesheet Vendor
Timesheet software is not just for payroll anymore. Increasingly, project accounting and client billing are becoming important to professional organizations of all sizes, writes Curt Finch, Journyx.

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HRIS/ERP
Life after Go Live
So many articles focus on getting to Go Live or getting through Go Live, but very few give you any indication of what you are up for after Go Live, writes Jennifer Guitard.

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Training and Development
The Art of PINGing
Eighty percent of building and maintaining a relationship is staying in touch; from Strategic Business Network.

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Labor Relations
Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: When is Enough, Enough!
We all understand that more allowances are made for employees with disabilities, but is there any limit to what co-workers have to tolerate especially from an employee who is consistently rude to co-workers?

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Legal
Retaliation? Well, It Depends...
On June 22, 2006, the United States Supreme Court addressed the issue of retaliation for exercising rights under Title VII in Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White. Amy Nickell Jacobs explains the significance of the judgment.

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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?

Supporting your business strategy: Ten steps to ensuring goal alignment throughout your performance management processes - July 13, 2006
As stated on the opening page of the book "The Workforce Scorecard," by Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker and Richard W. Beatty, "Of all the factors affecting firm performance that CEOs and senior managers can directly influence workforce success - or the extent to which a firm can generate a workforce with the culture, mindset, competencies, and strategic behaviors needed to execute its strategy - is both the most important and most underperforming asset in most businesses."

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 Versatile Leader - Making the Most of Your Strengths Without Overdoing It - July 17, 2006
Is there such a thing as "too much of a good thing"? Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser think so, based on their work with leaders to help them become more effective. Join us to hear this conversation that explores their perspective on the strengths-based approach to development and why more is not always better and less is sometimes not enough.

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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