Workforce Week®

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	February 25 - March 3, 2007 Vol. 8 Issue 9

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Workforce News of the Week
Feature: Don't Count on HR to Drive Organizational Change
Feature: A Compensation Reform Swarm Seeks Change
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Forum Post: Bringing Children to Work
Best in Shows: A Review of Conventions and Conferences
Commentary: How Great Leadership Traits Can Squelch Employee Commitment

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Workforce News of the Week:

Home Depot's New HR Leader Faces Tall Order: Home Depot's new human resources chief, Tim Crow, will have to hit the ground running to tackle two of the most pressing issues facing the building supply retailer: meeting an aggressive recruitment target of 15,000 hires and overcoming gaps in customer service.
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Pfizer Overhauls Talent Strategy: Hiring and development will emphasize skills rather than job roles to create a more versatile workforce.
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Can a Nap at Work Save Your Life?:
Two studies are at odds over whether napping helps or hurts cardiac health. Whether or not napping reduces the risk of heart attack, during the past decade some employers have started promoting napping.
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Creative Tricks for Defined-Contribution Enrollment
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Inappropriate Chatter
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Traveling on Business? Don't Forget the Pooper Scooper
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Executives Cash In and You Don't
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The Way Backward at Ford?
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Benefits Headache
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Feature
Continuity agent?
Forget Dave Ulrich: HR Doesn't Drive Organizational Change

Let's face it: By their very nature, the fundamental HR processes are aimed at safeguarding stability. But when you ask HR managers about the core competencies of their departments, they will tell you that the management of organizational change is at the forefront.

Feature
Excessive compensation
A Compensation Reform Swarm Seeks Change

Stirred up by Home Depot chief Robert Nardelli's $210 million severance package, high-profile compensation critics ranging from investors to the government to the media are intent on making executive pay a big issue in 2007.

Discussion
Bringing Children to Work

Posted in the HR General Forum:
A reader writes: "Does anyone have suggestions on how to handle a situation where employees bring their children to work because they cannot get a baby sitter? We do not have a day-care facility, nor do we wish to establish one. Employees will put their youngsters in the lunchroom and periodically check on them, thus taking time away from their jobs. We do not object to having a child dropped off after school and getting picked up within a half-hour. We do, however, object to having the children there for several hours when the employee is supposed to be working. What suggestions do you have to nip this in the bud before it becomes a common practice?"

Join the discussion. >>>

Over-compensation?
Regulating Executive Pay

The compensation of top execs increased an average of nearly 29 percent during 2006, according to the Economic Research Institute and CareerJournal.com. Much of the pay increase came in the form of lump-sum cash bonuses, which increased in size by an average of 42 percent. Executives' base pay increased about 1.7 percent. Lawmakers are already considering regulating executive pay via caps on deferred compensation and requiring shareholders to approve an executive's year-end bonus.

Should the government place limits on executive pay at public companies?
● Yes.
● No.
● I don't know.

Take the poll. >>>

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.

Read about the Work-Life 2007 Conference & Exhibition, sponsored by WorldatWork and the Alliance for Work-Life Progress; Pensions & Investments' 15th Annual East Coast Defined Contribution Conference; 2007 Deploy Solutions User Conference; The Conference Board 2007 Employee Health Care Conference. >>>

Also:
Best in Shows 2006 >>>

Work Views

How Great Leadership Traits Can Squelch Employee Commitment
Three leadership capabilities—strategic vision, supreme confidence and top-notch communication skills—go unquestioned as ones necessary to become the business world's next Jack Welch. However, this troika of traits actually can be toxic for business leaders.
Read more about dealing with overbearing leaders. >>>

Also:
HR's Burden of Proof >>>
Taking Time to Think: The Irony of Bill Gates' Legacy >>>
HR's Hand in Productivity >>>

Dealing With Workplace Violence

1. Is your organization adequately prepared to handle an incidence of workplace violence?
    32%: Yes.
    68%: No.

2. Has your organization had to deal with a workplace violence incident?
    35%: Yes.
    65%: No.