What typically happens when an employee leaves an organization? The employer and employee share a few laughs, celebrate the good memories and begin to … Read more
Get a Grip: It’s Madness Worrying About Workers and March Madness
How do I know it’s March? People are talking about productivity lost because of the NCAA basketball tournament and gambling in the workplace. I can … Read more
Resurrecting that Forgotten Incentive Program: It’s All About Communication
It is a story told and re-told all across the country when it comes to a corporate incentive and rewards programs. The company decides that they need to … Read more
Building a Better Boss? As Google Found, It’s Simpler Than You Think
Leave it to Google to be the company that believed they could figure out how to build a better boss. According to a story in Sunday’s New York Times, … Read more
Inside the Charlie Sheen Lawsuit: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
By John A. Gallagher We have examined both Warner Brothers’ March 7, 2011 termination letter and Charlie Sheen’s March 10, 2011 lawsuit, and have come to … Read more
HR and Developing Talent: Just What is Your CEO Thinking?
“Criminal neglect.” “We’ve gotten way too comfortable poaching.” “No one wakes you in the morning and says they want to go work in the advertising … Read more
Weekly Wrap: A Lesson from AOL – How Not to Do Merger Layoffs
Sometimes, you can glean some great lessons about HR and people management practices from just reading the news. Take the recent purchase of the Huffington … Read more
Should HR Be the Volunteer Police? Maybe It’s the Secret to Being Strategic
So, here’s the number – 2.7. It means an employee is 2.7 times more likely to volunteer (for charitable missions) if their boss volunteers as well. … Read more
Employers Rapidly Losing Confidence in Their Ability to Offer Health Care
If you want to know the future of employer-sponsored health care, you only have to look at this finding that literally leaps out from the 16th Annual … Read more
The Cost of Principle: What Charlie Sheen’s Firing Should Tell Us All
By John A. Gallagher Recently, we blogged on how employee’s Facebook posts, Tweets, etc. are being monitored by employers. These blogs observe that … Read more