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Interference With Health Benefits

Termination to prevent an employee from receiving health benefits? Hanft Law explains more.
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Employees Rank Pay as Their Biggest Concern, Says Study
Employees are most unhappy with their wages and concerned about the lack of development opportunities within their organizations, according to a study by The Beacon Group.

Compensation & Benefits was the lowest scored item on the survey with
a failing grade of 49%. Learning, Growth & Development only fared
slightly better with a score at 51%.
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Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Being the Target

How do you handle a long standing employee who seems to feel threatened by the changing employee base of the company?  And he/she
appears to need a "target" to create conflict?   Joan Lloyd shares her advice.
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Choose Carefully: All Mediators Are Not Created Equal
Choosing mediator is not as easy as it sounds.  Choosing the best mediator for your case is a challenge.  Mediate.com shares this article
by Lee Jay Berman.
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Does Drug Testing Work?

Does drug testing really prevent drug use and workplace accidents? Don Phin investigates.
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Misinterpreting Gender Differences:   A Recipe For Organizational Failure

Trying to find a way to bridge the gap of gender differences?   The answer may lie in the brain. Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis share
this excerpt from their book Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Sciences to Create Success in Business.
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Tips For An Effective Conversation
Keith Rosen shares his tips on having the deepest and strongest impact during every conversation.
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Character Counts

Does your organization strive to improve the lives of your customers? Does your workforce really understand what that means?  John Baldoni shares this lesson of building the company character.
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Employees Cry Out:  Please Tell Me How I'm Doing!
Feedback could be the most important process you have in your organization.  Employees need direction and guidance and they thirst for positive feedback.  Bruce L. Katcher explains.
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3 Games Managers Play - That Result in Hiring Losers
Are you on your hiring game? Dr. Michael Mercer gives the play by play on hiring practices that result in bad choices.
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Why Talent Management?

Why is Talent Management an important, popular topic? Before we can answer why, we need to ask what.
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HRISes Don't Live Up to the Hype
A survey of reader attitudes toward their HRIS systems by HR consultant James G. Meade, author of the leading text on HR software selection.
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How do Metrics and KPIs Differ?
Metrics are defined on About.com: Management as "a set of measurements that quantify results." The same website defines key performance indicators (KPIs) as "quantifiable measurements, agreed to beforehand, that reflect the critical success factors of an organization."
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Education and Communication Build Commitment
Managers routinely underestimate the amount and quality of education and communication required to make changes and improvements. Jim Clemmer explains.
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Data versus Insight - Not Just a China Problem

The American Chamber of Commerce in China just issued their 2008 China Business Climate Survey. Meanwhile, the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research (CAMR) also released their own reports on the overall development of the Chinese economy.

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Understanding the Talent LifeCycle: Why employees join, stay and leave their organization
Learn why employees join, stay and leave organizations and what you can do to attract the very best and increase retention rates.
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Date: May 20, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

I-9s: What Employers Need to Know
This webcast will explain employers' rights and responsibilities in regards to the completion and maintenance of Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification.
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Date: May 20, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

The Employee Engagement Equation
Based on recent research involving more than 7,500 people worldwide, BlessingWhite will provide insights into the current state of employee engagement and a framework for assessing and improving engagement levels in your organization.
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Date: May 22, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

Global Compensation Structures
Companies expanding internationally face new challenges in administering salaries. This seminar is designed to highlight some of those problems and offer solutions.
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Date: May 22, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

Rethinking hourly recruitment
An informative introduction to the hourly recruitment process, this first in a series of webcasts will present the eight steps necessary for successful hourly recruitment. Our speakers will also show how these tenets fit into a proactive, holistic approach to ...
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Date: May 22, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET

Drive to succeed in choosing the best employment test
There are several decisions to make before hitting your first drive on the golf course: what obstacles are in your way, how far is the hole, what are your competitors doing, what are the environmental conditions (wind, elevation, etc.)? When it comes to ...
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Date: May 27, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET


Expanding Your Talent Pool Through Networking Sites
In this webcast you will hear from recruiting experts who will demonstrate how to begin mobilizing social networking sites AND how to effectively and assertively communicate with these newly sourced candidate prospects. Add value to your ...
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Date: May 29, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET


"HCM Interventions" - The Practical Use of Science & Data to Manage Game-Changing HCM Events
This webcast will endeavor to reverse the long-standing organizational practice of allowing potentially game-changing workforce events such as large scale re-alignments and restructurings to be largely governed by
instincts and scarce or anecdotal data. Whether associated with an ...
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Date: May 29, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET

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