You know you have big workforce problems when you have to introduce screening software to make sure that your 30,000-plus employees don’t use profanity or … Read more
How Will Employee Training Change In a Free Agent Nation?
A concept that still gets quite a bit talk is this idea of a free agent nation. I remember reading about it in college but the concept was dated even then. … Read more
The Key to Engagement: Figuring Out Why We Work – and Why It Matters
Humans work for more reasons than money — and money is not even at the top of the list. What is at or near the top of the list for people is to feel like … Read more
ENDA is Coming – and Employers Need to Start Thinking About it Now
For years, human rights activists and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) community have sought a more comprehensive law that would expand … Read more
Want to Retain Good, Young HR Pros? You Better Recognize Them!
You’ve heard it before. Gen Y is the trophy generation (this mythical belief that every kid got a trophy). They’re entitled and spoiled and … Read more
A Great Summer Activity: Trading Work Spaces (Even With the Boss)
Here’s a great idea you still have time to put into place this summer: getting the staff to swap work spaces. I saw a story in The Boston Globe about a … Read more
What I’ve Learned About Managing Creative People
When Newsweek published an article this month headlined “The Creativity Crisis,” I was intrigued. After all, I’ve spent my life directing and managing … Read more
Three Days for Death (or Why HR Policies Make No Sense)
This past week a member of my husband’s team suffered a devastating loss: his one-year-old daughter died, which sent my husband — his manager — looking … Read more
Why it’s Good to Learn from a Bad Boss
Anyone who has spent much time managing knows this to be a management truism you can’t avoid: you learn more from a bad boss than you do from a good one. I … 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