Human Resources: HR.com Leadership eBulletin for the Week of May 19, 2008

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Big Companies = Happier Employees, Study Indicates
Employees at larger companies are generally happier about their jobs than those at smaller organizations, according to a recent study.
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The Best Test in the World
A recent blog entry discussed the power of performance-based testing to assess the skills of job candidates. While there is a great deal of
excellent work being done to create assessments that measure people's
performance in simulations of real-world environments (such as call centers), computer literacy remains the one area where automated
performance testing is the unquestioned standard.
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Questions to Lead By
Motivating employees is a challenge for any leader and in the end the motivation only goes so far before the old dogs rely on their old tricks. Keith Rosen explains.
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HR.com's 2008 Events

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May 21 - Quality of Hire

May 28 - Employment Branding: Becoming an Employer of Choice

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Hiring Practices That Improve Employee Quality and Reduce Turnover

Hiring practices are commonly neglected as a key aspect of professional facility maintenance. Too often, personnel are hired as a matter of convenience with the aim of insuring a sufficient quantity of people on hand to perform needed services.

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This Week's Comic

The Employee Engagement Equation

Date: May 22, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

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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"HCM Interventions" - The Practical Use of Science & Data to Manage Game-Changing HCM Events

Date: May 29, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET

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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I-9s: What Employers Need to Know

Date: May 20, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

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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Using Workforce Analytics to Drive Strategic Employee Performance

Date: June 3, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

There are three levels of employee performance: 1. What happened 2. The intermediate effect (productivity-quality-service) 3. The organizational effect (profitability or mission accomplishment) This informative webcast will teach you how to use workforce performance analysis to strategically associate employee performance with ...
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Working Relationships: Using Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Effectiveness with Others - Summary

Working Relationships demonstrates to front line supervisors through C-level executives how emotional competencies are more important than training, IQ, and technical experience in determining who succeeds and
who fails in the business world.

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