For those of you who don’t know, I am a big sports fan. And even more so, I am a big fan of the National Basketball Association and the Portland … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Boeing Pension Battle, Defining a Son/Daughter, Racy E-Mails
Do you ever feel like there is just a lot more going on every day than you can possibly get to? That’s how I feel too, and that’s why I try to get to … Read more
Business Analytics: 4 Ways They Can Help – Now and In the Future
As an HR professional you’re asked to make decisions everyday to ensure compliance, improve your workforce and your company’s bottom line. But to make an … Read more
Are HR People Not Creative?
So I was reading through my issue of Fast Company magazine and they had an article featuring the 100 Most Creative People in Business. Some of the picks … Read more
Health Care Reform: A new Fact Sheet on the Health Care “Bill of Rights”
Remember how the new rules for “grandfathered” health plans were issued by the Obama Administration last week? Well, that was just a preview of the main … Read more
How can HR Capitalize on Complexity?
I have always had been a voracious reader of white papers. Because of the web, we now have access to all the top thought leaders in whatever discipline you … Read more
How Workplace Privacy Rights are Changing in the Digital Age
Privacy in the workplace is one of those issues that seems to be constantly changing in our hyper-digital age, and it just changed a little more, thanks to … Read more
5 Good Reasons Why ROWE Hasn’t Quite Caught On Yet
Results-Only Work Environment (or ROWE) has been something I’ve always been extremely fond of in theory but extremely skeptical of in practice. If … Read more
Chief People Officer: Seat at the Table, or Just Trendy Title Inflation?
I don’t know about you, but the title “Chief People Officer” gives me a headache. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the premise — that a real, … Read more
As Recession Wanes, More Employers are Focusing on Talent Management
Good news about the economy may be inconsistent and hard to find, but here’s a little bit that might give you some hope: employers say they are planning to … Read more