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You must be logged in to participate. Here's this week's featured Wiki: - Enterprise Learning Interference With Health Benefits Termination to prevent an employee from receiving health benefits? Hanft Law explains more. More... 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%. More... 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. More... 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. More... Does Drug Testing Work? Does drug testing really prevent drug use and workplace accidents? Don Phin investigates. More... 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. More... Tips For An Effective Conversation Keith Rosen shares his tips on having the deepest and strongest impact during every conversation. More... 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. More... 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. More... 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. More... Why Talent Management? Why is Talent Management an important, popular topic? Before we can answer why, we need to ask what. More... 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. More... 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." More... 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. More... | HR.com's 2008 Events Upcoming VIEW Online Conference & Expo Events: May 21 - Quality of Hire May 28 - Employment Branding: Becoming an Employer of Choice Each VIEW event delivers in-depth content on HR hot topics through live and prerecorded webcasts, white papers, articles, and market research. Our exhibitors' booths provide one-stop shopping, the ability to view demos, download information, and ask booth staff questions. HR professionals can login anytime from 9am to 6pm ET to participate at no charge. 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