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Widespread among employers today is a "neutral reference" strategy in providing references for current or former employees. In fact, many attorneys have urged clients to adopt this policy to decrease...

Employees who are anxious about their futures – especially during a challenging economy such as now – can adversely affect a company’s profitability by delivering poor customer service, being less...

The unemployment rate jumped to a five year high this August as more employers continue to cut jobs. This comes as no surprise with the weak economy and struggling financial markets. But what does...

Economic turbulence, demands for increased financial disclosure, changes in financial reporting and increased pension funding requirements are combining to make defined benefit pension plan risks...

In this situation, how can one ever address poor/weak performance without being labeled “not a team player”? I am a frequent (online) reader of Practical Leadership and would welcome any suggestions...

All leaders who participate in hiring decisions, pay attention! The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2010, there will be more members of the Millennial Generation than Baby Boomers...

Not enough passion in your organization? It’s costing you. Gallup estimated that the 22 million workers who consider themselves either actively disengaged or extremely negative in their workplace...

The importance of temporary and contract employees on the American work force can’t be denied. In fact, hourly employees make up about 60 percent of the U.S. work force. How companies manage the...

Have you seen the popular new television show-of-the-moment, Mad Men? This multiple-award winning cable program depicts life in an ad agency on New York’s Madison Avenue in the early 1960s. Aside...

One step forward; one step back; step together, and back again. To perform the job interview salary negotiation dance steps, you must have a good sense of balance. Knowing your value and your worth...

Most companies do not have a plan to manage and transfer knowledge and even fewer factor cross-generational challenges into business strategy, says a new report from The Conference Board, the global...

A new study by ComPsych Corporation revealed more than half of workers in their 60s have healthy diets, compared to only 17.7 percent of employees in their 30s. Employees in their 50s and 60s also...

Why buy a company when you can cherry pick the employees? Companies often acquire other organizations to attain talent, and do not realize all of the costs involved other than the initial sticker...

Rising oil and food prices and the global warming debate may have brought environmental responsibility solidly front-of-mind, but Wall Street shakeups and worsening unemployment statistics have yet...

Many organizations, including several of our clients, spend a lot of effort understanding how to increase the levels of employee engagement in their organizations. This is based on years of research...

Summary A successful employee development plan: • Must be tied closely to the work of the individual, the team, and the organization -- both the current work being done and the work that is...

Police administrators of small law enforcement agencies face great challenges as they seek to provide service with severely limited financial resources. An area often overlooked as having...

Employee training and development process Learning happens all the time whether or not you are fully aware of it. Are you a person who forgets to save your work on your computer on a regular basis?...

What is Organization Design? ________________________________________ A process for improving the probability that an organization will be successful. ________________________________________...

10 Essential Business Leadership Skills by Ben Yoskovitz Are you a leader? Truth be told, not everyone is a leader. It’s just not meant for everyone. And that’s OK. But more people are leaders...

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ntroduction For many Westerners, something about China is so intense and exciting that it’s a social glue among those who’ve spent some time there. We met through a mutual acquaintance who knew we...

Human resource managers spend enormous amounts of time helping both employees and upper management cope with everyday issues involving two or more stakeholder groups—often with conflicting interests....

Until recently, almost all writings on motivation were designed to give the manager techniques to motivate his or her staff. It was assumed that motivation was a one-way street that runs from top to...

Right after graduation from college, I was complaining about my boss to a circle of friends who are older than me, then I heard the best answer: The ideal job environment that you have installed in...

There are a growing number of dual-income and single parent families that depend on the income of working women. Meanwhile, these women may also be juggling childcare and eldercare responsibilities....

Sometimes managers will say to me the most difficult problems they have with employees often are intangible problems, like a bad attitude. How do you manage an employee out of a bad attitude? Well,...

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What is the difference between management and leadership? It is a question that has been asked more than once and also answered in different ways. The biggest difference between managers and leaders...

INTRODUCTION The challenge of global competition highlights the importance of the concepts such as innovation, flexibility responsive to ever-lasting change. Organizations seek new areas for...

Self-knowledge appears as the first principle, because most of the others build on it. It involves knowing your capabilities and your limits, your personal temperament and typical coping style, and...

Employer or Recruiter says overqualified and you say experienced. why wouldnt a company want to hire someone with more experie- nce and skills, an employer may be refused to recruite an applicant...

Organizational Citizenship Behaviours (OCBs) are a special type of work behaviour that are defined as individual behaviours that are beneficial to the organization and are discretionary, not directly...

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Dear all this is the second part of Developing Yourself as a Team Leader course THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE In other words, your job is as much about getting other people to do things as it is doing...

In business, there is little debate about the importance for companies to invest in their people by offering training and other learning opportunities. The premise is that money spent in training...

Millions of people will arrive at their 2008 holidays with unavoidable concerns about the state of the economy, the world, and their personal wellbeing. In addition to normal holiday stress,...

if you spend a lot of time at a desk, personalizing the space makes sense--whether it's a private corner office or a shared cubicle. But just as your clothes and body language make an impression on...

U.S. Trade Balance deficit widens by 4.8 percent, reaching -$42.3 billion As per the pulse of economies online, the U.S. Commerce Department released the trade balance for the month of May, showing...

Failure and success are two collateral or parallel results and might occur equally in our life. To change the possibility for any of them, it depends on how we invest the success in order to keep...

A recent report from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago found that a record number of U.S. employees are involuntarily working part-time as a result of a...

Have you seen the effects of success blindness? It is a condition where success can be your greatest impediment to growth and succeeding in the future. Success hides many ills. It masks...

North American HR executives are increasing their commitment to talent management and the HR technology supporting it, according to Towers Watson, the global professional services company. Their 13th...

A survey by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), a leading research and advisory services company, found that high-potential employees are increasingly disengaged and seeking new career...

Let's face it, in today's economic environment employees are stressed out, overworked, and dissatisfied, and yet we plan to increase productivity and bottom line profits with this group of...

An organisation requires a manager who can act as a leader to give direction to other team members to help them work efficiently and achieve higher sales revenue for the business. Several candidates...

Diploma mills are churning out tens of thousands of "graduates" each year. Their "alumni" armed with authentic looking Bachelors, Masters and Doctorates degrees worth no more than the paper...

Corporate Sustainability is defined as the business approach in which a green strategy is created. However, it doesn't only consider the environmental factor; it also includes the social, economic...