Jack Stack – the founder/CEO of SRC Holdings, author of The Great Game of Business, and considered by many to be the father of open-book management … Read more
Is Health Care Reform Comic Worthy?
We love innovative ways to educate. Particularly around hairy concepts like health care reform. Check out these two we’ve recently discovered. New graphic … Read more
Protecting an Employee’s Pre-Eligibility FMLA Request: What You Need to Do
By Eric B. Meyer Back in 2005, a Pennsylvania federal court recognized in this opinion that an employee’s FMLA rights become sacrosanct upon … Read more
Pay Boundaries: Do They Empower Employees — or Just Frustrate Them?
One of the challenges in compensation design and management is building programs that reward workers fairly, competitively and in ways that engage them in … Read more
Medical Tourism: Why It’s a Smart and Growing Option For Your Employees
What are your thoughts on medical tourism? Would you travel abroad for a medical/surgical procedure? Would you do it if you could save 50 percent or more? … Read more
Key Question: Is Your Bonus Plan About Creating or Distributing Value?
I had a great conversation with a client yesterday who is working to shift her organization’s employee bonus plan from a purely discretionary one to … Read more
New Study Shows Why Workers (and Employers) Really Need Lab Tests
Quest Diagnostics is the leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services. Recently, Quest conducted a study to answer the question many … Read more
Is the Balance of Power Starting to Shift to Employees?
Even if burnt-out employees aren’t ready to quit, they certainly are not delivering top-level performance any more. Since the recession began in earnest, … Read more
Is This The Worst Thing You Can Ever Do to an Employee?
What is the worst thing you can do to an employee? According to management consultants Doug and Polly White, authors of the CFO.com article The Worst Thing … Read more
Weekly Wrap: How Empathy Can Help Ease Employee Job Burnout
As a long-time member of the workforce, I understand first-hand how easy it is to get burned out on your job. In fact, the problem of job burnout has been … Read more