While many HR professionals dream of someday earning the big company CHRO job, few will achieve it. After all, there are only 500 companies in the Fortune … Read more
Why You Need an Employee Handbook and What It Should Cover
A staff handbook (also known as a Policies and Procedures Manual) is something every company, regardless of size, should have. It is especially useful at … Read more
Court Says You Can Fire A Worker You Believe Made Up A Discrimination Claim
It’s not just people who fabricate complaints of discrimination at work who can be fired, but those whom you believe fabricated discrimination claims. … Read more
Driving Business Strategy With a People Focused Strategy
“Now, more than ever, the corporate strategy for large companies hinges on the people strategy.” This was a key takeaway from a summit of HR leaders and … Read more
DOL Pulls Back Policies on Worker Classification, Joint Employers
The Department of Labor this morning announced it was pulling back from two Obama-era policies regarding the classification of independent contractors and … Read more
More Than Just Diversity, HR Must Develop a Cultural Competence
We are facing a dynamic and consistent cultural shift in the U.S. Population research conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that by 2020 over 50% … Read more
Johnny Taylor To Be Next SHRM CEO
The Society for Human Resource Management has a new president and CEO. The society announced today it had selected Johnny C. Taylor Jr., J.D., SHRM-SCP to … Read more
Your Next Retreat Could Be A TEDx
I’ve been blindfolded a few times. And I’ve walked a tightrope or two. It’s the standard fare at a certain type of annual company meeting I became … Read more
The Case For Scrapping Your Long Term Incentives
If you’re like most companies, you provide stock options, restricted stock grants, and other long-term-incentives to your senior executives. But do … Read more
Your Employees Are Testing the Job Market
Jobvite’s annual Job Seeker Nation Study was published a couple of weeks ago. They took a whole new approach, given the current political environment in … Read more