@HR | Workforce
Assessing Your Value as a Candidate In Dollars And Cents
I ASK ALMOST every applicant I screen the following questions: One, “What have you personally done in your career that has either saved your...
@HR | Workforce
Is It HR’s Role to Support the Company, or Its Employees?
Many HR people are familiar with Catbert, the “Evil HR Director” from Dilbert, the comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams.
Catbert is the...
@HR | Workforce
Recruiting and the Power of Astonishment
While in Shanghai a few weeks back, I was talking to one group of founders about the importance of recruiting. They mentioned two things:...
@BizEthics | Sustainability
You’re Fired-By E-mail?
Which of the following are ethically acceptable ways to fire an employee?
A) Text
B) E-mail
C) On the phone
D) In person
E) Facebook
F) Twitter
If your answer included...
@HR | Workforce
5 Questions Top HR Leaders Should Be Asking
As HR pros, our daily lives are surrounded by questions. Interview questions. Investigation questions. Comp questions. Why-would- an-employee-pee-on-the-bathroom-wall questions.
Have you ever taken time to...
@Gender | Diversity
The Critical Connection Between Resilient Workplaces And Diversity
The standard concept of sustainability is the capacity of biological systems to remain diverse and productive over time - like healthy wetlands and old...
@Careers | Job Search
Should Employers Ban After-Hours Work Email?
Earlier this month, two French employee unions decided to show how they felt about work/life balance by signing a legally binding agreement that would forbid employees from checking work email after a long day at their desks. The agreement will affect…
@HR | Workforce
It’s Time To Rethink The ‘Employee Engagement’ Issue
It’s time to rethink the concept of “employee engagement.” The days of the annual engagement survey are slowly coming to an end, to be...
@HR | Workforce
Proprietary Metrics — the Next Big Thing in Talent Management
I am a strong advocate of what I call “parallel benchmarking,” which is borrowing the proven best practices from completely different industries and functions....