Posts Tagged ‘HR’
This week’s most clicked
Why did America’s 18th richest man bury a clock underground? Why did Pfizer’s former CEO get pushed out? How can you copy the Gipper’s leadership style? Find the answer to these questions and more in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Leadership: Lessons from Jeff Bezos’ $42 million timepiece Why Pfizer parted [...]
HR is ready for a visit from the Labor Department
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Thursday in our e-newsletter. Last week we asked: How prepared are you for a Labor Department wage-and-hour audit? Totally prepared — 46% Mostly prepared but would have to put a [...]
Benefits research starts at scattered times
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: When does your organization’s HR department begin researching your organization’s benefits choices for the following year? I don’t know – 33% Q3 [...]
This week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: The firing of Shirley Sherrod: An HR “fiasco” 3 body-language tricks every executive should know At Zappos.com, happiness is the key to wellness The key to better hiring? Behavioral interviewing How you’ll know when it’s time to cut someone loose 4 ways to build [...]
The changing face of SHRM, with Monster’s Eric Winegardner
I reported live from the SHRM annual conference out in San Diego last month, where I had the opportunity to talk with Eric Winegardner, Monster’s vice president of client adoption. Eric is a veteran of eight SHRM conferences. I sat down with him to talk about how this year’s conference was different. Recovery is in [...]
TalentWise’s Todd Owens on getting social-media recruiting right
Todd Owens is the general manager of employment at screening-solutions provider TalentWise. Here, he shares his perspective on how social media is changing recruiting and screening of talent. How is social media changing the way employers screen candidates? Social media — especially the more popular social-networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn — have [...]
Dave Ulrich on getting more than a paycheck out of work
While I was out at the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference in San Diego last month, I met with Dave Ulrich, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Dave is the author of “The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That Win.” I sat down with [...]
The week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: 4 tips for handling an argument How to conduct a great interview? Zip your lips Why managers can’t ignore bully employees Are your work-life-balance benefits unfair? When you ignore a poor performer it hurts the whole team
