Does your organization focus on women when they talk about having a more diverse workforce? Some do, of course, but the vast majority of businesses — … Read more
Rush to Judgment: Where was HR When Juan Williams got Railroaded?
I’ve worked in a lot of places and supervised all sorts of different people. As most managers, I’ve had to fire people for performance-related … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Bad Bosses, Dissing Federal Workers, and 85,000 Applicants
Anytime you get into a listing of the “best of” or “the worst of,” you know that the list is going to be highly subjective, frequently shortsighted, and … Read more
I Hope the EEOC Listened: Employment Credit Reports Have Value
This week, the EEOC held hearings to “explore” whether employers should be allowed to review a job applicant’s credit report before making a hiring … Read more
From the Energy Files: The Power of Optimization vs. Maximization
In most employee survey work, we work with scales, questions and indices that focus on maximization as the goal. Employee satisfaction or engagement, for … Read more
SHRM Almost Gets It Right On Credit Checks
What’s the saying? Close only counts in horseshoes or hand grenades? If that’s the case, then a valiant effort by the Society for Human … Read more
Bad Behavior at Work: Even “Animal House” Eventually Got Shut Down
See two (2) updates below. Remember the movie Animal House? You know, the 1978 John Belushi film about a rogue fraternity that held wild parties and … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Bad Survey for Boss Day, Starbucks Lines, and Just Say No
Well, today is that day that I know you and your staff has been anxiously waiting for – National Boss Day. I will celebrate by not ranting about the idiocy … Read more
Traffic Lights and Layoffs: How a U.K. Company Used One for the Other
Here’s a layoff story that has to be read to be believed: “All 16,000 employees of Everything Everywhere, the mobile phone company created by the … Read more
Stuck for a Boss’s Day Gift? 5 Suggestions If You Just Can’t Ignore It
Note: Some Fridays, we like to illuminate some of the funnier aspects of HR. Sometimes it will be a video, a picture, a story or satire but we hope it will … Read more