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Keeping the Lid On Financial Stress
The current economic climate is enough to make anyone sweat. George Wassell shares ways to help cool down financial stresses.
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Mercer Issues Study of US CEO Compensation Trends
In 2007, performance-based long-term incentives became almost as popular as stock options - responding to shareholder demands that pay
be linked to performance, a Mercer study has found.
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The Red Tape Blues
Swimming in a sea of red tape is typical for most organizations. Charlie Wonderlic shares tips on how to tread through the bureaucracy.
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Ninth Circuit Rules that Hospital's Restriction on Nurses' Union-Related Buttons Violated NLRA
Should nurses be permitted to wear union-related buttons while working in patient care areas? Littler Mendelson shares this article on a recent battle in Washington State.
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Preventing Wage and Hour Class Actions Should Be Top Priority for Employers
Wage and class action cases have risen against Californian employers. Karen Clemes shares more.
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How Others Serve Internally
How do you create an organization that shares common beliefs about culture and relationships? Bob Livingston shares some suggestions.
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How to Get Employees to Behave Like a Bunch of 6th Graders
Kenny Moore shares the dramatics of lessons from the sixth grade.
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Management In Real Life: Driving Out Leadership Fear
Like anyone else in life, leaders tend to fall back on what they know has worked. It gives them a sense of security. But it's that security that may be holding the organization back. Kevin Herring explains.
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Are People Getting Smarter?
A colleague in HR once told me she thought people were getting smarter. This sentiment was echoed recently by a teacher in Toronto who
retired after working with children for thirty years. She felt that over time students became smarter - or they knew more. Aileen MacMillan shares more.
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Making the Right Hire: Assessing a Candidate's Fit with Your Nonprofit
Determining if a candidate can do the job is difficult enough, assessing whether a candidate will fit into the culture is a challenge. Norman Birnbach shares more.
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Recruitment and Retention Strategies: How to Attract, Keep and Motivate Today's Workforce
Many HR executives state the single greatest challenge they have in managing the workforce is their organization's inability to recruit and retain good employees and managers. Greg Smith explains more.
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Singapore to Implement New Regulations for Hiring Foreign Workers
New regulations will be placed on foreign workers in Singapore. Pacific Bridge has the details.
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Change for the Better: Marketing Your New Technical Support Team
You've built your technical support team and now it's time to unveil it. It is not enough to just describe what the team will do, you must sell it. Randy Miller shares the third part of his look at Change for the Better.
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Keep Workers Safe During Hot Weather
Training programs for employees should extend beyond corporate lessons. At-risk employees need to be trained to deal with the elements. M. Lee Smith Publishers shares this article by Jennifer L. Howard.
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This Week's Comic
Using Talent Management to Transform Your Organizational Culture
Whether you're part of a 100-year-old organization reinventing itself, or a newer organization establishing a corporate identity, Using Talent Management to Transform Your Organizational Culture will teach you how culture can help your organization remain competitive and ...
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Date: July 24, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
The Cutting Edge of Survey Research
Survey research has solidified its position as a critical strategic tool for effective information flows, enabling higher levels of
organizational performance and helping to determine the organization's strategic directions. Jeffrey Saltzman and Jeffrey Jolton, two long-term practitioners in the area of survey research, will ...
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Date: July 29, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
Predicting Future Wellness: Improve Employee Health and Cost Savings
Companies today realize that a healthy workforce increases productivity, decreases absenteeism and medical expenses, and
ultimately costs less to insure. Assessing employee health is the first step in any wellness program, but what type of assessment is best at identifying at-risk employees?
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Date: July 30, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
How Competencies Take the Pain out of Performance Management
Employees are more proactive and involved in the goal attainment process than ever before. They know what they want and will likely move on if they are unsatisfied. How do you keep up with employee demands and maintain a motivated and engaged workforce? In this webinar, we will explore "employee types" and typical scenarios to illustrate challenges facing managers today and provide tips on how best utilize your performance management program to retain and motivate a skilled, productive workforce.
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Date: July 30, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Get a Grip on the Green Card Application Process
Employment-based green cards play a crucial role in helping organizations recruit and maintain the global talent they need in order to remain competitive. Making the proper green card category selection,
understanding the requirements of the various stages and navigating the PERM process can be an overwhelming task…especially without a clear
understanding of the process. This session will introduce the steps involved in the green card application process highlighting the key
issues and best practices for employers including the use of technology to develop a recruitment and retention advantage for their organization.
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Date: July 31, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Targeting Top Talent
First SnagAJob.com gave you a general primer on the eight steps necessary for successful hourly recruitment. Then we showed you how to thoroughly integrate online methods into your hourly recruitment
strategy. Now, in our third webcast, we'll talk about how to parlay these revitalized tactics into better quality hourly workers. Now that
you have the tools to deliver desired hourly applicants, are you able to identify the best of the best - and retain these valued workers? We'll walk you through best practices for the assessment, interviewing
and on-boarding phases of hourly recruitment.
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Date: July 31, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Employee Stress: Why Organizations Care and What Can be Done About it
With health care costs rising and employers increasingly shouldering the burden, many organizations have looked to lower health care costs through wellness programs, and others have gone a step further by
rewarding physicians for effective treatment of mental health issues. In this webinar, we explore the current state of work stress, areas of employer liability, and what organizations can do internally to reduce
employee work stress, moving the discussion beyond wellness plans to job, role, and culture change.
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Date: August 5, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
Creating a Magnetic Culture™ at Your Organization - How to Attract and Retain Engaged Employees
With health care costs rising and employers increasingly shouldering the burden, many organizations have looked to lower health care costs through wellness programs, and others have gone a step further by
rewarding physicians for effective treatment of mental health issues. In this webinar, we explore the current state of work stress, areas of employer liability, and what organizations can do internally to reduce
employee work stress, moving the discussion beyond wellness plans to job, role, and culture change.
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Date: August 7, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
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