By Annie Lau With various reports touting China’s economic slowdown, China still experienced 7.6 percent growth in the second quarter of 2012. While … Read more
Can an Employee Wear Religious Items While on the Job?
By Eric B. Meyer “An employee walks into a hospital wearing a Jesus lanyard…” Well, they can’t all begin with a priest, minister … Read more
What The #$@%&*! — Half Of Employees Say They Swear on the Job
It did no good for Richard Nixon, whose famous mountain of secret White House tapes contains thousands of words described only as “expletive … Read more
2 Steps to Developing and Delivering Creativity on an Olympic Scale
I’ll hazard a guess that 100 percent of my readers watched the London Olympics opening ceremony, at least in part, or read about it, or saw elements of it … Read more
All-Out Campaign Underway to Raise FLSA’s Minimum Wage
By John E. Thompson We have previously reported on legislation introduced earlier this year to increase the federal Fair Labor Standards Act‘s … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Why You Should Let Your Workers Watch the Olympics
Do you expect to have problems with your employees wanting to watch the London Olympics at work? If it seems like a silly question (that is, you wonder why … Read more
SHRM Background Check Findings: How Survey Results Can Get Twisted
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) recently released their 2012 survey results on employers’ use of criminal background checks and we wanted … Read more
Why We Need to Change Performance Management to Talent Development
Performance management. Let’s think about that for a minute. When you Google the word “management,” here is what you get: The process of … Read more
Performance Management: Destructive Process, or an Innovation Imperative?
Performance management. What could be more critical to organizational success than guiding, aligning and – yes – assessing the performance of … Read more
Yes, You Can Reduce Employee Stress – and Maximize Performance, Too
Many managers mistakenly fear that efforts focused on reducing employee stress require reducing productivity, or creating a “country club” … Read more