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Workforce News of the Week:
Worldwide Worry: Retirement Angst Global
Four out of five U.S. respondents say that they are concerned on some
level about whether they would have enough money in retirement. The same
sentiment resonates with workers worldwide.
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Business Group Seeks an End to Employer-Based Health Coverage
A business group whose list of corporate donors includes Coca-Cola, IBM
and MetLife is calling for an end to employment-based health care, saying
that overhauling the U.S. health insurance system is necessary because
employers are unable to cooperate to reduce costs.
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Global Hiring Picture Cloudy as New Year Approaches
Human resources experts caution that hiring practices could change in
January, when new corporate budgets traditionally kick in.
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Convergys Wants to Help Employers Relate
The company's new method applies consulting services, analytic tools and
technology to generate more value from the interactions clients have with
customers and employees.
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Role of Workplace Stress in Turnover Undervalued
Whether it's Boise or Beijing, employers worldwide underestimate the role that stress plays in a worker's decision to leave a job. Almost 40 percent of employees participating in the study cited stress as the primary reason for resigning from a job.
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Delay, Dropped Charges in Ex-Brocade HR Chief's Backdating Trial Could
Mean Light Sentence for Former CEO
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More Training Urged to Fill 'Mid-Skill' Jobs
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UAW Ratifies Ford Contract
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HotJobs, N.Y. Newspaper Join Forces
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Quick Takes:
Corporate Party Zones Heating Up for Holidays
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No Way Know-How: Companies Struggling to Preserve Knowledge
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Better Employee Health Seen as Key to Profits, Growth
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Unhappy Logistics Employees Looking to Move
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Staffing Company Officers Nabbed in Immigration Sting
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Performance management
Feature: Compensation & Salary Forecast: Lackluster
Performance
Talent
retention and development are top priorities for CEOs and workforce management
executives, but salary budgets are flat and, at many companies, performance
management is only getting lip service. In a world of limited compensation
resources, making performance programs work is the name of the game for
2008 and beyond.
Read more of the compensation and salary forecast. >>>
Also:
Control and Customization >>>
Pushing Money Toward the Top >>>
Companies Using Compensation Consultants Pay
CEOs More, With No Shareholder Benefit >>>
Compensation Committees Relying More on HR
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New SEC Rules Put Spotlight on Selection of Compensation
Peer Groups >>>
Directors Are Shocked (Shocked!) at Sky-High
CEO Pay—Just Not at Their Own Companies >>>
Corporate culture
Trane Changes Its Business Climate
When
the heating and air conditioning company shifted away from a focus on
equipment sales and toward providing high-level service and expertise
for customers, it transformed its entire culture in the process.
Read more about Trane's corporate culture change.
>>>
Also:
Outside Experts Crunch Numbers for Luxottica
HR >>>
Workday Sport: Fantasy Football Hazing
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Trip to SAP Shows That Firm Is Walking the Teamwork
Talk >>>
GE's People Power: Conaty Made Jack Welch a Believer
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IBM's People Chief: A Leader in Leadership
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Discussion
No Teeth
Posted in the Legal Forum:
A reader writes: "I had a store manager call to ask me if it was
OK to turn down a qualified applicant because they didn't have any teeth!
(I have never run across this before.) They did not wear any false teeth
during the interview. We are a floral retailer. Any thoughts?"
Join the discussion >>>
Blogs: The Business of Management
When Is It OK to Spy on Workers?
Is it ever right to spy on workers, to follow them, read their e-mail and generally treat them like a suspected terrorist?
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Contributing blogger
The HR Capitalist
More on 'Employee Resigns—Walk Them Out the Door or Let Them Work
a Notice?'
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Workforce Washington
Workforce Training Fails to Break Through Campaign Clutter
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Global
Work Watch
Industrial Policy No Joke
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The Last Word
Meeting Malaise
I can't begin to
tell you how many brain cells I've lost over my career attending senseless,
wasteful, mind-numbing meetings.
Read more about mind-numbing meetings.
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Also:
Who's on the Bench? >>>
Office Training >>>
Silencing the Alarmists >>>
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