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
Not Hiring Jerks Is A Workplace Trend I’m All In Favor Of
Editor’s Note: As I wind down as Editor of TLNT — I’m leaving next month— I wanted to share some of my all-time favorite TLNT posts. Here’s one from … 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
HR Roundtable: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Performance Reviews
The March HR Roundtable in Cincinnati sought to take a look at a topic that is highly polarizing right now – Performance Reviews. The difference in this … Read more
Employers and Gen Z: Time to Lay The Foundation For the Next Wave of Talent
Millennials were the primary focus of marketers and recruiters for most of the last decade. And for good reason: More than one-in-three American workers … Read more
Fired For Heckling — and, For Posting It on Twitter, Too
By Eric B. Meyer I was going to start the week with this story from TheLedger.com. But then, that whole HR getting sued for FMLA violations thing caught my … Read more