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Has Your Office Gone to the Dogs? Maybe it Should
You've maybe had a few dog days at the office, but what about your faithful pet? Melanie Rembrandt has the scoop.
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Health Care Costs Increase at Slower Rate in 2008
Although most U.S. organizations saw an increase in their health insurance premium, the average premium increase is decreasing,
according to the preliminary results for the Compensation Data 2008 annual survey. The results showed the average premium increase was 7.2 percent for all plan types this year.
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Executive Stamina: Essential Skills for HR professionals
How's your stamina? Marty Seldman and Joshua Seldman share tips on how to maintain an Executive Stamina Plan.
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Appeasement and Diplomacy
Peter Adler reports on Appeasement and Diplomacy: When There is a Tempest in a Teapot, Keep Your Eye on the Teapot! Mediate.com shares this article.
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What Motivates an Employee's Lawyer?
Jeff DeGraffenreid shares an inside look at what motivates a lawyer representing an employee.
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Companies lack direction in "war for talent"
Earlier this year The Beacon Group, an HR advising firm, conducted a study on the state of Human Capital in Canada. We asked 4,070 Canadian executives about talent management in their companies.
The message was clear: Executives and managers across the nation sounded an important warning regarding the lack of strategic direction for Canadian companies. Some key points from the survey results...
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Commit Commit! Where Discipline Meets Action
Do you have the discipline and training to commit to action in your life? Waldo Waldman explains.
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Guard Your Hive
Experienced workers are resources worth protecting, says Roberta Chinsky Matuson. She shares her knowledge on how leaders can hold on to wisdom.
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Linking Pay and Performance
Remember the saying "I owe, I owe, so off to work I go?" Although compensation is the reason people work, why they choose to work at a particular place involves other factors such as the availability of training, the supportiveness of the workplace and workplace culture.
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The Future of Job Postings
So many times we see the same type of job postings on job boards and newspapers and wonder why employers even bother posting them in the first place. Stating that a position requires X years of experience doing this, and Y years of experience doing that rarely attracts the
top-quality people that employers want to hire.
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Recruiting, Retention and Recession; How to Recession-Proof Your Business
Donald Breckenridge Jr. shares tips and facts about Recruiting in a Recession.
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Labor Strikes Threaten Foreign Manufacturers in Vietnam
Vietnam is experiencing a growing number of labor actions against local and foreign companies. Pacific Bridge shares more.
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Why the Talent War is Dead and Training is the Real Deal
Who needs a talent war when skills can be fixed and training can fast track talent? Arupa Tesolin explains more.
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> Linking Pay and Performance
What role does pay for performance play in attracting and motivating workers? According to a 2007 Forrester Wave™ report, "performance and compensation is the linchpin of strategic HR."
> Knowing When To Quit
I was reading an article today about a famous women tennis player Justine Henin who retired from the game of tennis at the ripe old age of 25. I'm sure there are a number of us who wish we could have retired at such an early age.
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Improving Employee Engagement - a WebMD/Workscape Webcast
Engaging your employees to take action utilizing health care decision support, personal health management, and wellness program tools doesn't have to be a struggle. In fact, getting your employees motivated to
take action might actually be easier than you think. Please join WebMD and Workscape Wednesday, June 18th to learn about and discuss the...
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Date: June 18, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET
Excel Tips for Compensation Professionals
Over 60% of companies use Excel for compensation yet many software vendors have adopted "escape Excel hell" as their unofficial mantra. Come learn tips, tricks, and techniques that can help you escape many of the hellish challenges of an Excel based process, without actually abandoning excel.
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Date: June 19, 2008
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Automate, Educate, Integrate - A Three-Step Approach to FMLA Compliance
Many companies who have automated FMLA tracking and administration have taken the first step toward improved FMLA compliance and cost control, but may still be at risk if the organization is not fully trained on how to ...
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Date: June 19, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Improving the Performance Management Process
This webcast will discuss business and operational changes affecting the performance management component of a talent management strategy. Impact of these changes will be highlighted as well as recommendations to help organizations prepare for these changes.
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Date: June 19, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Change Management – Effectively Managing Organizational Change Initiatives
Organizational change can be challenging, but Kenexa's Transform™ Change
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Date: June 24, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
Case Study: How United Stationers is Integrating Performance and
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Tune in to this webcast to hear about the integrated talent management vision at United Stationers, which includes Learning, Compliance, Knowledge, Performance, Succession, and Compensation Management. Michelle Schroeder and Hillary Johnston of United Stationers will describe their continuous journey to ...
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Date: June 24, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Preventing "Post-Mortem" Performance Management!
In every organization there are two aspects of a performance management system - the formal and the informal. The formal process
usually includes year-end or mid-year performance review documents that summarize performance. Too often the report on performance comes to ...
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Date: June 26, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
The Benefits of Balance: Combating Stress in the Workplace
The stress that employees face in their personal lives is only just a part of their struggle to maintain a healthy work/life balance. When everyday workplace stress is added to the equation, this balance can
seem unattainable, and productivity suffers. As an employer, there IS ...
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Date: June 26, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
A Better Way to Manage Employee Absence
Did you know that employers today spend 15% or more, on average, of total
compensation on absence-related costs? It's true. And the array of paid and unpaid time-off policies and programs you are saddled with have no ...
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Date: July 10, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
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