Do you have a social media policy for your workplace? If you don’t, you better get cracking, because as this new survey from SilkRoad clearly shows, … Read more
NLRB Backs an Employer in Its First Facebook-Firing Decision
By Eric B. Meyer Look out for that flying pig! No, it’s true. The National Labor Relations Board actually sided with an employer on a social-media … Read more
Employees Make It Clear: Here’s What They Need to Really be Engaged
Thanks to a great article in HRZone.co.uk by Leslie Allen, I came across these interesting results of a recent Chartered Institute for Personnel and … Read more
States Starting to Define “Essential” Health Benefits Under New Law
California and Washington state will require coverage of acupuncture. Arkansas wants prevention counseling for women at high risk of breast cancer but not … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: How to Stay Objective During the Hiring Process
Your brain is a powerful instrument. Ask it for reasons why you should hire someone and it will respond with things like: She’s smart. He made a great … Read more
Want to Engage Me? Then Why Don’t You Give Me More Control?
Towers Watson’s latest Global Workforce Study expanded on the firm’s traditional employee engagement research, adding “enablement” and “energy” as two … Read more
Want to Drive the Bottom Line? It Takes Getting People Processes Right
I’ve written fairly often on research showing the connection between employee engagement or employee enablement and the bottom line. Thanks to a post on … Read more
My $1,200 Lesson When I Decided to Give Offshored Recruiting a Try
If you haven’t been contacted by a recruiting offshoring company yet, you can add yourself to a rare segment of Talent/HR Pros. Almost daily, I receive an … Read more
How HR Can Deal With Crazy – As Long As It’s Behind Closed Doors
In HR, we run into employees all the time that do “crazy” pretty dang good! I’m always interested in how we work around crazy. Almost never do we just fire … Read more
What’s Your Culture Telling Me? Do I Really Want to Work Here?
Have you ever walked into an organization and just got that “hmmm, something just doesn’t feel right” feeling? I know I have (more times than I’d … Read more