Although rotary dial phones and electric typewriters may not return to the workplace anytime soon, retention bonuses may be back in vogue. A small business owner in Charleston, S.C., is offering his employees a $50,000...
Should companies attempt to restrict their employees’ comments and activity on social media? Or should they give up the policy crusade and learn to embrace social media, as one HR professional recently recommended? After all, employers...
HR is in the midst of transforming from a reactive, process-driven department to a strategic organization that enables the organization's business plan. So far, most HR leaders have taken steps to implement holistic talent management...
Ninety eight percent of HR professionals say they're called upon to help resolve issues according to a survey by Denver-based Employee Development Systems. Worse still, 81 percent say conflict leads to turnover and 77 percent believe it causes absenteeism. So...
Companies' unwillingness to let employees grow into a job only amplifies their difficulty in finding the right talent, Peter Cappelli writes in The Wall Street Journal. Cappelli is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's...
HR professionals know that broken promises can erode morale and engagement. But now, there’s quantifiable proof that severe cost cutting can diminish employees' trust in company leaders and negatively impact the bottom line. Employees who don’t trust their executives are seven...
In its 10 trends and challenges for 2012, Gartner included the need to create an IT staff than can withstand the coming wave of retirements and deal with a less-loyal younger generation that might not...
When Ortho-McNeil told a woman to, essentially, stop mourning her daughter during working hours, it won its legal case, but may have lost in a wider sense. Cecilia Ingraham worked for Ortho in New Jersey when...
