Have you ever worked for someone who couldn’t understand that you don’t need to have your hand held through each of your tasks? I have encountered this … Read more
Want Engaged, Productive Employees? Start By Showing Them a Little Gratitude
Janice Kaplan’s new book The Gratitude Diaries examines the effects of gratitude in the workplace. She cites a London School of Economics paper that … Read more
Are Your Employee Relations Going Down the Toliet?
The HR lesson for this week is about a man who worked for a company for 15 plus years and may have let a little toilet paper get between him and his job. I … Read more
A Question From Both Apple and Amazon: Does a Workplace Have To Be Perfect?
By Howard Mavity I recently blogged about the debate on CEO and employee pay ratios. I urged employers to seize the high ground and decide what their … Read more
Better Engagement? It Trickles Down From Managers to Your Employees
I do not care whether anyone here likes me or not. Please do not come to me with this, I should be the last person that you come to with questions, go … Read more
Digging Into Executive Pay: Is It Really Out of Control?
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule this month that will require publicly traded companies to disclose the ratio of CEO pay to the … Read more
7 Ways Leaders Can Keep Their Promises (and the Trust) of Employees
Leaders make a lot of promises. They promise high-quality products and experiences to customers, careers that offer opportunity and purpose to employees, … Read more
The Three Hallmarks of a Dysfunctional Workplace
In Anna Karenina, Russian author Leo Tolstoy famously wrote “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same could … Read more
One Survey’s Focus: Lots of Growth, But Little on the Workforce and Driving It
Wait – what? I’m looking at a new survey analysis/report from KPMG titled Setting the course for growth: CEO Perspectives. Unlike every other CEO … Read more
A Dozen Reasons The Netflix Maternity Leave Benefit May Be A Bad Idea
Adding extraordinary benefits appears on the surface to be a generous move. I certainly support the practice, but corporate leaders need to realize that … Read more