By Eric B. Meyer Early in my legal career, a colleague taught me this expression: pigs get fed; hogs get slaughtered. Essentially, be aggressive. But push … Read more
A Culture of Recognition: It Will Rub Off on Everyone on Your Organization
Bob Sutton, professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and author of Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No Asshole Rule (among … Read more
New Source of Hire Study: Job Boards Are Leading Source of External Hires
A new study by HR technology provider SilkRoad shows that jobs search site Indeed.com is the leading source of external hires for its 700+ customers, … Read more
Burning Bridges: The Perils of Ripping Your Employer Heading Out the Door
In a very public resignation published Wednesday morning in The New York Times, former Goldman Sachs executive director Greg Smith blasted the investment … Read more
Talent Matters – Now More Than Ever
A quick look at the jobs data will tell you that while there is still high unemployment, companies of all sizes are hiring. This is great news, the … Read more
Does It Matter That American Workers Get So Little “Official” Time Off?
You know this to be true: American workers are among the most productive in the world, even if the the growth in U.S. productivity slowed somewhat at the … Read more
How to Prevent Conflict & Address Issues With Your Millennial Employees
Never is the generation gap more exposed than during conflict. It’s during these turbulent times when managers lose their cool with younger employees and … Read more
Why We Need to Burn the Annual Performance Review: Being Objective
Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 of a series (you can find Part 1 and Part 2 here) on why the annual performance review process needs to go away and what … Read more
HR Now Has Its First Official Standard: Cost-Per-Hire
For the first time in the history of the profession, human resource practitioners now have a uniform way to measure and compare one of HR’s oldest … Read more
Expiring Work Authorization: Do Employers Have to Say Goodbye?
By Kim Kiel Thompson As a rule, if an employee in the United States is unable to produce a valid, unexpired work authorization document to complete the … Read more