Workforce Week Past Issues

Workforce Week

PAST ISSUES:

June 28, 2011 Who Owns Online Contacts; SHRM's Olive Branch; New CEO for SHRM
June 21, 2011 Wal-Mart and Employment Law; SHRM Protest; Help for a New Manager
June 14, 2011 Out of Site; Workers’ Comp and Dogs; Words to Avert Disaster
June 7, 2011 SHRM Show Snub; Immigration Law; Clean Hands and Bullying
May 31, 2011 Online Tests; New Facebook Post Suit; No Bad Days
May 24, 2011 Job Security; 2012 HSA Contributions; Slugging It Out in D.C.
May 17, 2011 Leadership Fire Drills; 401(k) Spike; Workplace Warning Signs
May 10, 2011 Performance Reviews; Risky Background Checks; Retaliation
May 3, 2011 Pot at Work; SuccessFactors Deal; Diversity and Compliance
April 26, 2011 Religion at Work; the Art of Complaining; Summer Interns
April 19, 2011 Big Brother at Work; Bloggers Sue; Why Workers File Claims
April 12, 2011 Crisis Management; Culture of Wellness; McD’s Hunger to Hire
April 5, 2011 Gay Discrimination; Medicare Age; Critical Culture Change
March 29, 2011 Deloitte’s Training Palace; Quicken Wins in OT; ICE Audits
March 22, 2011 The Sourcer Knows; Workplace F-Bombs; $34B in COBRA Costs
March 15, 2011 Armed With Data; Dismissed Claims Cost; Pride vs. Prejudice
March 8, 2011 Flex Work; Employer Liability Ruling; Job Description Ban
March 1, 2011 LinkedIn Legalities; Meritless Claims; Steve Jobs' Job
February 22, 2011 Peopleclick Authoria; Medical Pot; Harry Potter-Speak
February 15, 2011 Recruiters’ Apps; Facebook Post Case; Applicants’ Names
February 8, 2011 Hooked on Social Media; Voiding Reform; Managers on Guard
February 1, 2011 Women Leaders; Workplace Violence; Social Disgraces
January 25, 2011 Degeneration of Decorum; Horseplay Doctrine; Online Training
January 18, 2011 New Training Tastes; Bias Claims Soar; Dogs and Leaders
January 11, 2011 Viral Vents; Surge in Settlements; Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
January 4, 2011 Health Care Reform’s Cost; Superhero Safety; Cyberspace Leaks
December 21, 2010 HR and Globe-Trotters; Paying for COBRA; Trends in 2011
December 14, 2010 Dealing With Worker Stress; No Retirement; Stewing in Silence
December 7, 2010 Optimas Awards; Dressing Down; Don’t Spread Holiday Cheers
November 30, 2010 Pay Freeze Thaws Out; More Uninsured Adults; Modern-Day Sweatshops
November 23, 2010 Autism Benefits; Holiday Party Revival; E-Mail Dumpster Diving
November 16, 2010 Body Art at Work; NLRB and Facebook; Boss Behavior
November 9, 2010 An HR Villain; HSA Plans; No Customer Service?
November 2, 2010 Bedbugs at Work; Tech Firm Buying Spree; Doctors’ Pay Gap
October 26, 2010 Staffing’s Rebound; New Congress and Retirement; Wage and Hour
October 19, 2010 Optimas Award Update; Feds Defend Mini-Meds; More PR Than HR?
October 12, 2010 HR Phone Apps; McDonald’s Mini-Med Mess; Workplace Play
October 5, 2010 Smart-Phone Static; Cutting FLSA Risk; Disney’s Dress Code
September 28, 2010 Rewards Get Personal; JetBlue’s New HR Chief; Fighting FLSA Fears
September 21, 2010 Succession Software’s Holy Grail; 25 Apps per Job; HR Oath
September 14, 2010 Social Work; FSAs for OTC Drugs; A Tweet Too Far
September 7, 2010 ‘Invisible Disabilities’; Odd Workplace Behavior; IPOs and HR Strategies
August 31, 2010 Butting In on Health Benefits; Shifting Health Costs; Retirement Planning
August 24, 2010 The Road to Ethics Training; COBRA Enrollment Soars; Our Mission
August 17, 2010 Managing People at Amex; Frazzled Flight Attendants; Mark Hurd’s Sad Fall
August 10, 2010 Storing I-9 Files; Employers and Health Care; Busy Leaders
August 3, 2010 Reform and High-Deductible Plans; USDA Controversy; Assessing Round Pegs
July 27, 2010 A Strategic Move; Blinking BlackBerrys; ‘Good Enough’ HR
July 20, 2010 Workforce’s Next Chapter; Hewitt Joins Aon; Avoiding the E-Mail Trap
July 13, 2010 ‘Home’ Remedy; Domestic Partner Benefits; Texting and Privacy Rights
July 6, 2010 English-Only Workplaces; 11 HR ‘Commandments’; Employers and OSHA
June 29, 2010 Winners in SaaS Wars; Scaling Back COBRA; Recruiting’s Latest Metric
June 22, 2010 When Men Are Harassed; SHRM Heads to San Diego; The New-Hire Mojo
June 15, 2010 Diluted Diversity; COBRA Extension; A Thief at Work
June 8, 2010 Customized Tests; S.F. Health Care Law; Values vs. Risk Management
June 1, 2010 Improving Productivity; Best Places to Get Work Done; Hive Mind at Work
May 25, 2010 Diversity Programs; COBRA Extension; Starting HR From Scratch
May 18, 2010 HR Does Hard Time; Tiny Tweaks to Tests; Bring Back the Canaries
May 11, 2010 Leadership Formula; Aging-Parent Dilemma; What Would the Workforce Say?
May 4, 2010 Gossip at Work; Recruiting on Campus; Value of Soft Skills
April 27, 2010 ‘Body Art’ at Work; Using E-Verify; Disgusting Noises
April 20, 2010 Temps and Lawsuits; the Retaliation Puzzle; HR vs. Fear
April 13, 2010 Health Benefits Survey; Bedeviling Recruiting Details; Freelance Fears
April 6, 2010 Do Managers Matter?; Anonymous Tip Lines; Real-World Leadership
March 30, 2010 Workplace Bullies; Understanding Health Reform; HR’s Best Leaders
March 23, 2010 Pay Heed to Mentoring; Health Care Reform OK’d; Employer-Employee Contract
March 16, 2010 Employee Engagement; Steal Our Data, Please; Micromanagers
March 9, 2010 10 Social Media Rules; COBRA Extension; Five Biggest HR Lies
March 2, 2010 Health Care Reform Fails Working Poor; Background Checks; COBRA Subsidy
February 23, 2010 Online Reference Trouble; Strength in Diversity; DOL Crackdown
February 16, 2010 Tailor-Made Careers; Microsoft’s Benefits Redo; Leaving a Job
February 9, 2010 Talent War Truce; Prepping the DC Plan; DOL’s Enforcement Focus
February 2, 2010 The Backshoring Myth; Sensible Overtime; HR Tweetup
January 26, 2010 Understanding Outsourcing; H-1B Compliance; Clueless Management
January 19, 2010 Money Talks in 2010; Battling Swine Flu; Late-Night Badmouthing
January 12, 2010 Background Checks and the Law; Mobile HR Apps; Leaders Who Apologize
January 5, 2010 COBRA Complications; EFCA Comes Back; Ethics Trends
December 22, 2009 Key Company Positions; COBRA Extension; Pay Cuts Restored
December 15, 2009 Optimas Awards; Benefits Crucial in Staffing; Politics of Job Skills
December 8. 2009 Restoring Employee Engagement; Stay Up in a Down Economy; Road to Recovery
December 1. 2009 Nobels at Work; Contingent Staffing’s Future; Crying Out Loud
November 24. 2009 Worker Discontent; Testing for Legal Drugs; ‘Behavioral’ Prescription
November 17. 2009 COBRA Subsidy; Talent Planning Tech; Health Care Staffing
November 10. 2009 GM’s New Culture; Tweeting Health Benefits; Your Firm’s Jerks
November 3. 2009 Optimas Winners; Recession Changes Corporate Learning
October 27. 2009 Worker Privacy; On-Call Disputes; Obesity Bias
October 20. 2009 ‘Intexticated’ Workers; Training Upgrade; Tech Talent Squeeze
October 13. 2009 GM Shifts Gears; Jobing’s Rebound; Moonlighting Employees
October 6. 2009 Zappos’ Corporate Culture; Rewards and Recognition; HRO Shake-Up
September 29. 2009 Sourcing on Social Networks Discriminatory?; Paid-Sick-Days Bill
September 22. 2009 Specter Backs EFCA; NASA’s Workforce Relaunch; Employee Investment
September 15. 2009 Employee Testing After Ricci; Pound-Foolish; Jobing Buys Cheezhead
September 8. 2009 HR Bloggers’ Conflicts; GM CEO Responds; Workplace Suicides
September 1. 2009 Hiring Rebound; Highest-Paid HR Leaders; Strategic Workforce Planning
August 25. 2009 SHRM Restructures Leadership; New Labor Laws; E-Verify Expansion
August 18. 2009 Temp Workers Have Issues; Intern to Manager; Investigating Misconduct
August 11. 2009 Nonexempt Flex Hours; Training Before the Job Begins
August 4. 2009 GM Shakes Up HR; What the CEO Wants From HR; 5 Reasons to Leave HR
July 28. 2009 ExcellerateHRO Exits HRO; Ignoring the Jobless; Medical Marijuana Claims
July 21. 2009 Card-Check Vote; Going After Gossip; Leadership Insights
July 14. 2009 Mandatory E-Verify; EFCA Dead?; Planning in an Uncertain World
July 7. 2009 Wal-Mart Endorses Employer Mandate; Health Care Bill; SHRM Wrap-Up
June 30. 2009 Watson Wyatt, Towers Merge; HR on Edge; Time to Get Out?; SHRM ’09
June 23. 2009 SHRM 2009; HR in Tough Times; Opportunity in Adversity
June 16. 2009 Health Care Reform; Empowering Hispanic Workers; Government Work
June 9. 2009 Preview of Health Care Changes; Temp Execs; Electronic Records
June 2. 2009 Staffing Firm Indicted; Talent Plans: Caterpillar, Coke, McDonald’s
May 26. 2009 Medical Errors Kill, Cost Billions; Selling Interns; People-Proof Benefits
May 19. 2009 Gender Discrimination; Job Tweeting; Recession Recruiting
May 12. 2009 Job Angels; Co-CEOs; Food Safety Training; Investing in Employees
May 5. 2009 Swine Flu Resources; Wall Street Refugees; Downturn Opportunity
April 28. 2009 Employment Verification; Talent Tools Essential; The Power of Community
April 21. 2009 COBRA Worries; Diversity as Business Strategy; Data Breach Threats
April 14. 2009 Electronic Leashes; Digital Health Records; Corporate Battleground
April 7. 2009 H-1B Visas; Inexpensive Wellness; People Make the Difference
March 31. 2009 CEO Pay Cuts; Taming Twitter; HR Outsourcing; Wage Complaints
March 24. 2009 Leading in Tough Times; LinkedIn to Recruiters; Costly Buyouts
March 17. 2009 Job-Bias Claims Soar; Government Work; Killing Annual Reviews
March 10. 2009 Dealing With Unions; Dropping Health Care; LinkedIn Use Skyrockets
March 3. 2009 Obama Budget Raises Employer Issues; Engineering Better Care
February 24. 2009 The Bite of COBRA Issues; Dusting Off the Employee Handbook
February 17. 2009 Diversity Officers; Electronic I-9s; The Truth About Rewards
February 10. 2009 Obama’s Diversity Effect; Layoffs and Visas; Some Get Raises
February 3. 2009 A Ledbetter Day; More Labor for HR; Unemployment System Upgrade
January 27. 2009 Obama Begins; Pay Discrimination Bill; ‘Biggest Loser’ Lessons
January 20. 2009 SHRM Should Bail Out HR; Army Training; Salary.com Layoffs
January 13. 2009 LinkedIn’s new Tools; Smoking Ban Works; Jobs for the Recession
January 6. 2009 Health Care Reform Side Effects; Overseeing Overseas
December 30. 2008 Software Firms Trim; HR in 2018; Does Merit Pay Pay?
December 23, 2008 Managing Deadly Risks; Leader-Like Behavior; Salary Talk
December 16, 2008 Unhealthy Subsidy; Schedule Snafus; Viewing Video Résumés
December 9, 2008 Less Citi Severance; Cutting the Fat; Alzheimer’s at Work
December 2, 3008 Citi HR Head Bails; Recruiters Loot Bank Staffs; ADA Changes
November 25, 2008 Christmas Parties Take a Holiday; Workers’ Anxiety; Obama and HR
November 18, 2008 New Dot-Com Bust; Guns at Work; Spiritual Etiquette at Work
November 11, 2008 Card-Check Bill Lives; Big Oil’s Pension Deficits; Merit-Pay Myth
November 4, 2008 How the Downturn Stacks Up; Boomer Encores; Jellies Spread
October 28, 2008 Skimpy Raises; Optimas Awards; Contingent Staffing Report
October 21, 2008 Tax-Free 401(k)s in Danger; Van Pool Risks; Laid-Back Layoffs
October 14, 2008 Employee Economic Stress; Why Business Can’t Write; Ageism
October 7, 2008 Highest-Paid HR Execs; ‘Never Events’; Hospitality’s Focus
September 30, 2008 Bailout & Exec Pay; HR’s Liability; Virtual Workforce Connections
September 23, 2008 Wall St. Recruiting Frenzy; Family Succession; Sustainable HR
September 16, 2008 ADA Expands; Wall St. Melt Down; Presidential Prescriptions
September 9, 2008 E-Verify Fails; Taking Account of Learning; Optimas Awards
September 2, 2008 From CEO to HR; Rent a CFO; Generational Interaction Lacking
August 26, 2008 Firms Lack Talent Strategies; Are You a Change Agent?
August 19, 2008 HR Crucial in Tough Times; Pain at the Pump; Tattoo Policy
August 12, 2008 New SHRM CEO; No Wage Freezes; Workplace Gun Rights Battle
August 5, 2008 SHRM CEO Search; Five Sweet HR Jobs; Vegas Kicks the Habit
July 29, 2008 Benefits Trade-offs; HR Software Revolution; Info Overload
July 22, 2008 Wage and Hour Enforcement; Arizona’s Hard Line on Immigration
July 15, 2008 Monster Not Spooked; Women Not Leaving the Worforce
July 8, 20088 Telecommuting to Cut Real Estate Costs; Strangle Your Boss
July 1, 2008 Gas Price Crisis; HR at America’s Most Admired Companies
June 24, 2008 SHRM 2008; SHRM’s Messinger Bids Farewell
June 17, 2008 The Five Worst Jobs in HR; Flexible Work Gains Attention
June 10, 2008 A Career Killer for HR Pros; Snooping into Health Records
June 3, 2008 Libby Sartain Q&A; Wall Street Bloodletting
May 27, 2008 Genetic Discrimination; Stinky HR
May 20, 2008 HP Buys EDS; Fistful of Talent
May 13, 2008 Taleo Buys Vurv; HR’s Missed Opportunity
May 6, 2008 Chief Blogging Officer
April 29, 2008 Suspended for Smoking
April 22, 2008 Guns at Work
April 15, 2008 A World Without HR
April 8, 2008 Home Depot Slashes HR
April 1, 2008 Hiring HR Pros Who Will Fight
March 25, 2008 How Do You Know When It’s Time to Get Out of HR?
March 18, 2008 Demanding Workers Take a Vacation
March 11, 2008 Verbal Abuse as a Workforce Strategy
March 4, 2008 The Toughest HR Job in America
February 26, 2008 Kill the HR Speak
February 19, 2008 Avoid Hiring an HR Dud
February 12, 2008 E-Mail Recruiting is Dead
February 5, 2008 SHRM at a Crossroads
January 29, 2008 Pay Me Like a Rocket Scientist
January 22, 2008 Bosses Behaving Badly
January 15, 2008 Firing the Jerk
January 8, 2008 Record EEOC Settlement in Racial Bias Case

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How to Address Flagging Motivation?

How do I increase motivation levels in the department? How do I brand my business unit as an attractive place to work? I have top-notch IT professionals in my business unit who feel they are "children of a lesser God" because they are non-billable resources and do not get plum postings abroad, nor the glamour that goes with them. As a result, their motivation suffers.

—-- Feeling Their Pain, human resources generalist, software/services, Mumbai, India

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