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‘The 27 Challenges Managers Face’
Bruce Tulgan I just came across an advance copy of a book due on shelves Sept. 15 that takes a pretty interesting stab at itemizing and enumerating every key challenge a manager will face in his or her...
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About to be Asked for a Raise? Feed the Source
A paper is being presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Philadelphia, which ends tomorrow, that I thought you might find interesting. It seems, according to researchers Emily...
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Early Birds vs. Night Owls: Which is More Ethical?
Despite what you may have heard, the likelihood that an employee will make an ethical decision in the morning more than the evening has as much to do with his or her “chronotype” as it does the actual...
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Increasing Pay, Increasing Challenges
Not sure how you’ll read this, whether you’re the full-glass or half-glass sort, but this latest survey from Mercer shows pay raises are growing steadily … albeit in .1-percent increments. According to...
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‘The Death of Customer Service’
Came across an interesting blog post with the same title as my header here, written by Rick Conlow, leadership expert and CEO/co-founder of Minneapolis-based WCW Partners. He believes customer service...
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Christmas Gifts for 1 Million: Jobs
There’s a movement afoot to put a million people to work by Christmas that does seem a bit outside your standard hiring approaches. First off, understand, this is not a company looking for employees....
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Could Gen Zers Help Solve STEM Skills Gap?
More good news for employers when it comes to Gen Zers, the next generation — those now in high school and college — soon to enter the workforce en masse. This just-released report from Chicago-based...
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Dangers of Social-Media Discipline
Employers should be concerned by the National Labor Relations Board’s latest decision pertaining to social media and work. If not concerned, then taking very special note of, at the very least. This...
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Bullying Touches All Races and Roles
A fairly comprehensive — and concerning — report on bullying was released by CareerBuilder on Thursday, showing office bullying knows no partiality when it comes to who the victims are. The survey of...
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Yes, a ‘Cantankerous Jerk’ Can Be Fired
Can a person be lawfully terminated just for being a hard-core grump? Yes, says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case of Matthew Weaving v. City of Hillsboro. Weaving, an officer...
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New Workforce Data Explored at HR Tech
Based on new research released Wednesday at the 17th Annual HR Technology® Conference and discussed in Thursday’s opening general session, employers and HR leaders seem to have some exciting new...
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Recruiting Beyond Traditional Social Networks
An interesting little recruiting story came out of a late-afternoon session at the HR Technology® Conference in Las Vegas Thursday. Slugged “How Red Hat Approaches Hiring Beyond Traditional Social...
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Cannabis Business Charges Full Steam Ahead
It came to my attention recently — actually in the writing of a news analysis last month — that there’s a big business growing around marijuana, with 23 states now allowing for its medical use and two,...
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Microsoft CEO Touts Equal Pay after Apology
It seems Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (at right) is still in apologetic mode after making some ill-advised comments at a recent conference that, in essence, discouraged female...
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Career Management Missing the Mark
For all the stories we’ve written through the years about the merits of career management, you’d think the practice would have gotten a bit more efficient than it apparently has. The latest indication...
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A Most Notable 2014 Class of NAHR Fellows
The National Academy of Human Resources ushered in yet another impressive class of Fellows at its annual dinner and induction ceremony Thursday night in New York. From left, James Schultz, chair of the...
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EEOC Adds Pregnancy Cases to Controversy
Just an update for those who are following the recent pregnancy-discrimination guidelines issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — despite the controversy some think the agency created...
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Unemployment Discrimination Rears Head Again
Haven’t seen one of these for awhile. With the economy slowly, but surely making its way back (at least for now), cases involving unemployment discrimination have taken a back seat to recruiting and...
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Stop Buying Into Boring HR-Tech Hype; Focus More on Trust
I was so struck by the simplicity of a recent post on the Horses for Sources website, run by IT and outsourcing expert Phil Fersht and his team of global-sourcing analysts, that I was compelled to...
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Would the Real CHRO Please Emerge
When HRE Senior Editor Andrew R. McIlvaine posted here last month about a study written up in the Harvard Business Review detailing the similarities in traits between chief executive officers and chief...
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