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Workforce News of the Week:
The Coming Leadership Crisis: In North America, 69 percent of companies
surveyed fear they will experience a dearth of executive talent. The study
also found that only 6 percent of organizations are confident of their ability
to assess their human capital and use it to make strategic decisions.
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Frank Urges Execs to Join With Washington to Curb Income Gap: Public
companies wishing to deflect rising shareholder demands for more rights
on everything from executive pay to nominating directors need to join with
Washington lawmakers to ‘diminish the excessive inequality that exists in
society today,' Rep. Barney Frank says.
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Say-on-Pay Law Could Mean Lawsuits Galore, Oxley Says: Proposed
legislation to give investors an advisory vote on executive pay, if passed,
would lead to the unintended consequences of messy litigation and more lawmaking
from Congress, says Nasdaq vice chairman and former congressman Michael
Oxley.
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Craigslist to Add Cost for Job Postings in Four New Regions: The
online marketplace currently charges fees in seven of the 450 regions where
it operates, including New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Washington,
D.C.
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CareerBuilder Acquires Greek Job Board:
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Morgan Stanley Settles $46 Million Discrimination Suit:
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Schwarzenegger Terminates California Mandatory Health Care Bill:
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Quick Takes:
Stressed Out but Not Mentally Ill
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Class Distinctions
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Job Candidates Using Video, Audio to Boost Credentials
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Size Doesn't Matter: Hiring Headaches
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Ad Reps Beware—You're Being Watched
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Identify-Theft Threat
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Management skills
Feature: Do You Have What It Takes to Manage Your Toughest—and
Often Best—Employees?
If you think leading employees
in your small business is hard, try being responsible for opera divas, television
news reporters, egocentric physicians, mercurial musicians or high-strung
brides. You know, the types whose pictures could appear next to "high-maintenance"
in the dictionary. It takes special skills to get such folks to perform
at their best. After all, the most accomplished and talented people don't
think they need guidance.
Read more about managing workplace divas.
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Also:
Keeping a Large Stable of Hard Chargers in Line
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How Do You Manage Real Divas? Take a Seat
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Guiding the Smart, the Opinionated and the Hard
to Please>>>
Normally Lax Musicians Step to the Beat of This
Director >>>
Hiring veterans
Employers' Legal Obligations to Employees in the Military
Hiring citizen soldiers has great benefits,
but there are also strict laws governing their treatment that every employer
needs to know.
Read more about hiring disabled veterans.
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Gearing Up for Active Duty
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Ready for Action
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It's the Law, but Not Everyone Follows It>>>
USERRA Final Regulations Published
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USERRA Verdict Affirmed for Reservist
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How the Work Gets Done
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Discussion
High-Potential Employees
Posted in the Training & Organizational
Development Forum:
A reader writes: "Does anyone work for a company that has a ‘model' for
how they identify high-potential employees? Or I am looking for any type
of research on this information. Ideas to share?"
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Blogs: The Business of Management
A Bad Workforce Trend, Revisited
Leave it to The New
York Times to flush out the re-emergence of a bad workforce trend: breakfast
with the boss.
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Contributing blogger
The HR Capitalist
Hiring Probability—Recruiting Is Not Over Until the New Employee Has
Logged Into Your E-mail We have a little game I like to play in our department.
It's called "hiring probability." It's like liar's poker, but no money changes
hands.
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Workforce Washington
Rep. Frank Takes Three-Quarters Loaf on Sexual Orientation Bill
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Global Work Watch
The Oracle of Internationality
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Conventions & conferences
Best in Shows 2007: Notes From Key Workforce Management
Conferences and Conventions
Ever wanted to attend
an important conference or convention but just couldn't make it? The staff
of Workforce Management will bring you reports from key workforce management
conventions and conferences throughout the year in this exclusive Web feature.
We'll report on the buzz at each show as well as highlights from selected
seminars, presentations and speeches. We hope that Best in Shows will be
the next best thing to actually being there.
Click here for the best in these shows:
HR Technology Conference & Exposition, October
10-12, 2007, Navy Pier, Chicago >>>
Pensions & Investments West Coast Defined Contribution
Conference, October 7-9, 2007, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco
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IDC Human Resource Forum, Talent Management: Attract,
Develop and Retain, September 17, 2007, Millennium Broadway Hotel, New York
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Taleo World 2007 (annual user conference, September
9-12, 2007, the Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco)
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Work Views
Don't Make Them Fight a War in the Workplace
Employers are facing the largest
re-employment of "citizen soldiers" in our nation's history. When disabled
veterans return home and try to resume their jobs, employers should be their
allies, not their enemies.
Read more about hiring disabled veterans.
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Also:
Rules on Listing Jobs for Veterans Released
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Veterans Job Boards Seek Federal Probe of Monster-DOD
Deal >>>
Toyota on a Military Mission>>>
Reporting to the Depot
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