By Marc Effron and Miriam Ort Through our corporate and consulting experience, we have identified four talent-building barriers that organizations create … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Firing by Blackberry, Illegal Layoffs, and Dave Ulrich Speaks
I like to use Friday to catch up on things I might have missed during the past week, and if you’re like me, you do, too. That’s why I try to highlight some … Read more
Whatever Happened To The Four-Day Work Week?
If you’re reading this today (on a Friday), you’re probably not on a four-day work week (or you’re just an overachiever who likes to … Read more
Kill the Performance Review and Your Talent Management Strategy Won’t Survive Either
Earlier this week I read John Hollon’s post here at TLNT, “A Persuasive Argument for Getting Rid of Employee Performance Reviews,” with keen … Read more
Ask the HR Pro: Is This Policy Illegal, or Just Plain Stupid?
Welcome to a new feature here at TLNT — “Ask the HR Pro.” Each week, we’ll take a workplace or HR-related question sent to us by a … Read more
When Is a Strategy Not a Strategy?
By Jocelyn R. Davis, Edwin H. Boswell, and Henry M. Frechette, Jr. Even as the business environment has become increasingly complex, many strategies have … Read more
Do You Need to Be Certified to Understand Health Care Reform?
If you say the words “health care reform” to me, I get an instant migraine. I’m not sure what it is: the thousands of pages of … Read more
Salary Increases are Down, But That’s Not Driving Employee Engagement
It was only a couple of weeks ago that the Hay Group weighed in with their forecast on salary increases for 2011 – 3 percent, and slightly better than … Read more
Is Your Employees’ Health Their Own Private Matter?
My health is my affair, right? If I decide to stuff my face, never get off the couch, and chew tobacco until the cows come home, whose business is that but … Read more
Are Your Managers Prepared for the Seismic Shift in the Workplace?
As I paced back and forth, reviewing one last time what I wanted to say for my closing keynote,“The Hidden Gift Your Gen Y Employees Are Offering You,” my … Read more