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The Business of Management
Workforce Management editor John Hollon analyzes and comments on business, management and the art of leading a workforce.
Workforce Washington
Mark Schoeff Jr. provides an insider's insights to the workings of our nation's capital from the workforce management perspective.
Global Work Watch
Staff writer Ed Frauenheim blogs about how companies worldwide marshal and manage their workers.
The Ethical Workplace
Former EEOC trial attorney Stephen M. Paskoff writes about ethical and legal issues on the job, and how to build respectful and inclusive workforce cultures.
Featured Blogs:
The HR Capitalist
Featured blogger Kris Dunn, who is VP of HR for a software company, started The HR Capitalist in 2006, to explore "the intersection of the HR practice, technology and business results in today's organizations."
The Human Capitalist
Featured blogger Jason Corsello is the Vice President of the Center of Excellence at the respected consulting firm Knowledge Infusion. He's one of the leading experts on human capital management, workforce transformation, and business process outsourcing.
New Learning Playbook
Featured blogger Jeanne Meister is an internationally recognized leader in creating innovations in the operation and management of an enterprise learning function. Her blog tracks the latest trends and innovations in learning among corporations, non-profit agencies and institutions of higher education.
Compensation Force
Featured blogger Ann Bares is managing partner of Altura Consulting Group, LLC. She has more than 20 years of experience consulting in the areas of compensation and performance management. She is an instructor for the University of Minnesota and has served as adjunct faculty at Concordia University.
Fistful of Talent
Fistful of Talent, presents all sides of the talent equation, offering opinions from recruiters, HR, consultants and corporate types on all things talent. Kris Dunn, author of the HR Capitalist blog, has assembled an all-star posse of posters who contribute to Fistful of Talent, including Paul Hebert of Incentive Intelligence, Tim Tolan of Sanford Rose Associates, Michael Wolfe of SourceMedical, Jennifer McClure of Centennial, Jessica Lee of APCO, Beth Kobermann of Honeywell, Kelly Dingee of AIRS and Maren Hogan of HCI.
Benefits Buzz
Dedicated to presenting benefits news and opinion from the viewpoint of the practitioner, Benefits Buzz features posts from professionals working in corporate benefits and HR functions nationally (Greg Dagley, formerly of Mercer and now working at a Fortune 50 company; Joan Gibson of the Veterans Health Research Institute; and Kris Dunn of SourceMedical), as well as subject-matter experts in areas critical to the performance of benefits programs (Tanya Barham from Recess Wellness; Scott Pechman from brokerage Willis; Jerry Kalish from National Benefit Services, a 401(k) services provider; and a team of health care analysts from Hewitt Associates).
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Opinions, commentary and analysis on workforce management.
10 Ways to Make Work More Meaningful
Meaningful work drives high levels of employee engagement, but such work is increasingly perceived as being scarce. If your organization doesn’t offer work with purpose, employees may leave to seek it elsewhere or might just save their energy and wholehearted effort for other pursuits. Here’s what you can do to infuse every position with a great sense of meaning and purpose.
13 Questions to Ask On-Site Clinic Vendors
Commentary: How can you evaluate which clinics are the best? Here, in the opinion of a health care analyst and clinic company advisor, are some questions and rationales to help identify the vendors that will be most likely to provide the best possible experience, quality improvement and savings.
The Last Word: Divorced From Reality
The first three executives featured on TV’s Undercover Boss seem to be caring individuals, but they also seem to be woefully ignorant of how their organizations work.
The Last Word: Accentuate the Positive
Focusing on what people do right is the way to get more of what's right out of them.
The Last Word: Foulness in the Air
The range of raw emotions that pour out of the soon-to-be-former workers in the George Clooney film Up in the Air will surely resonate with anyone who has actually had to sit across the table and do this to someone.
Making the Case for More Effective Workforce Planning
Commentary: Most companies did a poor job anticipating the recent downturn, and mass layoffs were one result. Don’t miss opportunities for improving your workforce processes in the upturn by continuing with a business-as-usual approach. Two Deloitte consultants say that HR and finance in some organizations are finding a better way.
Attracting Layoff-Wary Millennials
Commentary: Many workers under 30 have been stung by the recession and the layoffs that affected them and their friends and family. They’re wary of working in corporate America, but there are things your organization can do to mend fences with this important workplace generation when you begin to hire again.
The Five Biggest Lies in HR
Commentary: You hear them all the time: ‘Work/life balance is HR’s responsibility.’ ‘Our company wants only “A” players.’ And other falsehoods. HR has spawned narratives that make the function seem like a cross between Mother Teresa and Stuart Smalley.
Why You Won’t Get Rid of Your Organization’s Jerks
Commentary: You think you want to introduce the famous ‘No Asshole Rule’ to your organization? Here are six reasons why it’s not going to happen.
Why Forcing Managers to Interview Minority Candidates Is Good Business
Commentary: To strip the emotion out of the issue, you have to stop talking about affirmative action and start talking about how the world of hiring works. To do that, let’s replace ‘minority candidate’ with ‘internal candidate’ and evaluate the general merits of forcing interviews—even if it seems the hiring decision has already been made.
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