By Eric B. Meyer Last month, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its “Final Regulation on Disparate Impact and Reasonable … Read more
Hitting a Home Run in Talent Management: The Key is HR Analytics
Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s General Manager, described in Moneyball the need to rethink his team’s business (baseball) and make a scientific investigation … Read more
Friday the 13th Not a Very Lucky Day for the NLRB
By Steven Bernstein and James Walters For months now, the business community has been bracing for the implementation of two key pro-labor initiatives on … Read more
Re-Staffing With Retirees: One Way to Avoid a Talent Brain Drain
What’s old is new again, as companies rediscover retiree re-staffing as a way of retaining the experience and skills of their Baby Boomer workers. … Read more
Overusing Email: A Workplace Issue, But Not Something We Need to Ban
Email is the workhorse of the workplace. Despite the talk that Millennials and younger workers are moving away from it, email continues to be a powerful … Read more
Do You Need to Really Post That NLRB Employee Rights Poster?
By Eric B. Meyer I’ve beaten the subject to death on this blog. The National Labor Relations Board created a rule that will require most … Read more
Offering a Hand: Who in the Talent Pipeline Are You Helping to Pull Up?
“As she climbs up the ladder she has the other hand extended to bring someone else along.” I was watching Oprah’s Lifeclass the other day, and one of the … Read more
Weekly Wrap: What Do You Do When Your Non-Smokers Smoke?
Here’s an HR dilemma. See if you can figure out the correct response. Under your organization’s health plan, your company gets better rates if … Read more
Volunteers at Non-Profits: Yes, They Might Still Be Seen as an “Employee”
By John E. Thompson A few readers were surprised by our April 4 post’s caution (Unpaid Interns at Non-Profits: Is Having Them “Volunteer” … Read more
SHRM Survey Finds Employee Engagement Is a Key HR Challenge
Employee engagement ranks high on the list of human resource challenges, yet fewer than half the companies in a SHRM survey said they track it. Of those … Read more