You don’t like your company’s performance management plan? Join the crowd! Everyone’s getting into the act these days, bashing a process that has become … Read more
How to Avoid the Perils of Rewards Programs
A recent academic study is catching a few headlines, suggesting that award programs can have negative motivational spillover effects and actually lead to … Read more
What Do You Do When a Job Candidate Pushes Back on Salary?
It’s not unusual in the recruiting process for a candidate to balk at the company’s initial salary offer. Sometimes in their pushback they … Read more
Waking Up to Reality: Why Reference Checks Are a Total Scam
I remember when I started my first job in Talent Acquisition and HR. I totally believed checking references was going to lead me to better, higher quality … Read more
Tech Insights: With a New HR Initiative, How Will We Know If It Works?
The classic model for HR analytics is that you have some kind of data warehouse and you use it to answer a business question. In other words you start with … Read more
Why Do So Many Companies Have Such Awful Upward Communications?
The CEO and the CFO set in opposite corners of the room. But both stuck their hands into the air just as I called for questions at the end of my speech. … Read more
3 Ways to Take Your Peer-to-Peer Recognition to the Next Level
One of the challenges of implementing a social recognition solution is developing employees’ capacity and comfort around peer-to-peer aspects. That’s … Read more
HR as Employer? Yes, HR Directors Can Be Sued For FMLA Violations, Too
By Eric B. Meyer Guess what, you guys? HR Directors can be sued for FMLA violations too. “I didn’t sign up for this!” — Most of you. Yes, the HR Director … Read more
How to Set Your Millennial Employees Up for Great Success
This generation of Millennials, they can be a little difficult, right? I’ve hired them, I work with them, my children are them, so I’ve seen firsthand what … Read more
How to Get Leaders to Really Care About Employee Engagement
When a recent Gallup poll found that only 68.5 percent of workers consider themselves “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” at … Read more