After a full on rebranding, new strategic direction, and massive organizational changes designed to reinvent the retailer and improve profits, JC Penney … Read more
Mediocre Employees: Are They Disengaged, or Just Role Players?
Does your organization really need — or want — role players in your workforce? The easy answer is “of course we do,” but what if … Read more
Resetting the Organization: What if Your Employees Became Free Agents?
What if you made your employees eligible to become free agents every three years? That is the intriguing question that HR executive and blogger Andy Porter … Read more
How to Find and Recruit the Best Hourly Employees
Editor’s note: Sometimes, readers ask about past TLNT articles that they have heard about but may have missed. That’s why every Friday we’re republishing a … Read more
What’s Your Achilles’ Heel When it Comes to Leadership?
At one time, Achilles was considered the strongest of all Greek warriors, except for his pesky heel problem. To give you a Greek mythology refresher, … Read more
Engagement: Why Silly Events Show a Lack of Company Commitment
In the employee engagement effort, one comment that never fails to give me pause is: “We have our employee engagement event scheduled for next Friday.” … Read more
Are You The Very Model of a Modern HR Leader?
NOTE: If you haven’t seen a great production of “The Pirates Of Penzance,” then the title of this post may not make any sense. If … Read more
When Leading and Managing, Don’t be Like Hatfields & McCoys
The History Channel just aired a mini-series called Hatfields & McCoys; did you happen to catch it? This lengthy and notorious family feud was a way of … Read more
Study: Employee Engagement Has Stablized, But Just Barely Improving
It’s another sign of our somewhat depressing and sluggish economic times that an ever-so-slight uptick in employee engagement is heralded as a big … Read more
Total Rewards: Maybe We Need to Just Execute Rather Than Innovate
Design is a hot topic now, spurred in no small part by Steve Jobs’ legacy (certainly that was one of my key takeaways from the Walter Isaacson … Read more