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Key Mistakes Made When Administering an International Assignment Program
A quick checklist of the basic mistakes made by international assignment program administrators. From Carol Rutlen, ExpatEdge.

How to Learn the Truth About Yourself
Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach, says that sometimes you can deliver an important message on behavior by reaching people where they live, not where they work.

Leading by Example: Setting Personal Goals and Priorities
It's very hard to bring the discipline of a goal deployment system or other planning process to a team or organization if your own time management and personal organization is a joke, writes Jim Clemmer.

Optimize Professional Services IT Staff Allocation
Use these staff allocation survey results to determine how your organizational structure compares with other professional services firms. From InfoTech Research.

Taking Care of Business
ADVO wanted to advance its incentive compensation program from simply paying people for what they've sold to driving desired salesperson behavior. Synygy helped by managing the program and hosting the solution, writes Kelly Shermach.

How HR Professionals Can Avoid Six Common Errors in Background Screening
Despite the growing popularity of employment background screening and the technology that has made it an accessible tool, organizations may still make a lot of mistakes in their screening procedures and practices. From Ron Lashier, HireRight.

The Science of Strategic Hiring: A Critical Discipline for Today's Competitive Enterprises
Many top performing organizations focus on their employees as a "make or break" influence on the success of every corporate strategy. Designing and implementing strategic hiring processes is not a science... or is it? From Kurt Ballard, Qwiz.

Overcoming Barriers to Successful Knowledge Management
HR departments are now tasked with finding a way to capture knowledge of employees. Brian Platz writes that forward-thinking businesses today are protecting themselves against the loss of information assets.

Computer Time Management
When we think of time management, we typically think of ways to manage our clock time. Seldom, as Sylvia Henderson points out, do we hear about how to manage the ubiquitous tool known as our computer.

When Johnny Comes Marching Home . . .Will He Have a Job?
As the United States military commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to remain great, employers are faced with tough decisions concerning their employees with National Guard and reserve responsibilities. From Susan Sorrells, Employee Practices Solutions.

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Set Up to Fail
Why does my manager seem to want to get rid of me?

Are You Addicted to E-Mail?
Certainly email has provided some wonderful benefits, but at what cost? asks Mary Repetto, Management Essentials.

Hope For The Future? Follow The Kids!
Just think: a bunch of smart high school kids could create inspired political breakthroughs where leaders in government, industry, and non-profits have repeatedly failed. From Peter S. Adler and Mediate.com

Handle with Care
If you are in the business of Human Resources very long, you will experience the loss of an employee through death. This story highlights one company´s process for building a legacy for similar experiences to come. From Iris Sasaki.

Incentives Energize Employees - Just Ask HSBC
Five- and six-figure cash awards aren´t unusual for employees with great ideas that save the financial services firm money. From HSBC vice president of compensation Chuck Dwyer.

Board Member Responsibilities For ERISA Retirement Plan Management
The concept of risk management is often not applied to the management of defined contribution plans. That is unfortunate for plan participants and plan fiduciaries alike. Part 2 of 2 parts from Wayne Miller.

Analyst Update-Performance Management and Skills/Competencies Management
Aileen MacMillan, HR.com's Analyst covering Performance Management and Skills/Competencies Management, recently conducted her June 2005 analyst update as part of HR.com's webcast series. The following is a condensed version of that presentation.

The Staffing Files:Tradeshows and Conferences
HR.com's Staffing Analyst, Michael Moretti, takes a look at the industry. This week: Tradeshows and Conferences... To go or not to go, that is the question.

The Moonlight Cafe Case: When Can Workers Sue Employers in Federal Court?
A former waitress and bartender at the Moonlight Cafe in New Orleans will be carrying the legal hopes of perhaps millions of workers, many of them employed by small companies, by Lyle Denniston, Veritude.

100 Best Places To Work
How do you become one of the "best places to work?" James Mittler encourages organizations to communicate, communicate, and communicate.

Leadership Main
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Workers Satisfied With Compensation; Unsure About Performance Reviews
National Survey of 10,000 Workers Reveals Tenure Trumps Performance for Determining Pay; from Hudson.

Global Investment Management Firm Implements SuccessFactors' Performance Management Technology
SuccessFactors, Inc., announced that T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., the global investment management firm, has implemented SuccessFactors´ performance management technology.

Sage Software Expands Presence in Online Services Market with Sage Payroll Services for Mid-Market Companies
Sage Payroll Services to Compete with Offerings from ADP, Intuit, Paychex

Clutter, Clutter, Everywhere, And Not A Space To See
Clutter begins with fear and doubt.� If we don't examine and then challenge these unconscious beliefs, we will stay stuck, writes Abby Anderson, Solutions EAP.

Plateau And Skillsoft Announce First Integrated Content And Learning
Offering from Plateau significantly reduces time to access and administer learning content.

Records Retention Tips and Techniques
When it comes to retaining employment records, wouldn't it be easier to follow the IRS rule and just hold onto those documents for seven years in case you get audited? Not a good idea. From Theodore C. Simms, and MLeeSmith.

Employee Retention Key in Competitive World
Use this Trends & Predictions note from InfoTech Research to get to the bottom of employee turnover and find out more about how retention initiatives may help keep competitors at bay.

Top 10 Items in Employee Handbooks
Excerpted from Tennessee Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Miller & Martin.

Minority Businesses Lean on Each Other
When MPS Group CEO Roderick Rickman reviewed bids to upgrade the computer network at his Detroit-based industrial services company, he was pleasantly surprised ...

Hiring Students for Summer Jobs? Update Yourself on the New Child Labor Laws
If your company employs anyone under 18, be aware that federal child labor laws, as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), have changed. Here is a summary of the current federal regulations; from G.Neil Corp.

Outsourcing Benefits: A Matter Of Trust
Robert Fripp asks us to keep this analogy in mind: many people drive cars safely without knowing what happens under the hood. Technology is essential.

Analyst Insight: Will Leadership Development Evolve Any Consistency?
Although many programs may be consistent in teaching "leadership", the diversity of content generates a great lack of clarity for many people about what leadership is.

New Employee Orientation
It is HR''s job to make the first few weeks of an employee''s life good ones.

Thought Leaders: Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood on Intangibles and Market Value
David Creelman spoke with Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood about their book, Why the Bottom Line Isn't: How to Build Value through People and Organization.

The Staffing Files
-This week: The e-Recruitment Business Case in Tight Times.

Nightmare on Institution Street
You don´t need a Corporate University. Great ideas are the name of the game! Or at least the beginning of the game, says Nathan Greeno.

Thought Leaders: Pat Zingheim and Jay Schuster on Compensating SuperKeepers
Pat Zingheim and Jay Schuster are two of America's best-known compensation consultants. David Creelman spoke to them about an approach to compensation that focuses on retaining "superkeepers".

Analyst Insight: Analytics - The Next Phase in the E-Learning
While analytics have been used in business for years, analytics tools are just now being introduced in the learning management space and vendors are touting the tool as the answer to a Training Director´s prayers.

The Numbers Game: Nine Steps to Making the Most of your HR Metrics
The collection and analysis of data has evolved from the preserve of a small number of dedicated number crunchers into a tangible and highly visible tool, able to play a crucial role in strategic decision-making.

The Staffing Files: I do not want what I have not got.
Michael Moretti, HR.com's Staffing analyst, gives an example of what far too few people in this business actually accomplish in their work lives.

Reality HR: David Wexler; Oscar Winning HR
Alias's success is rooted in people. HR.com spoke to its director of global human resources, David Wexler.

The Enthusiastic Employee
Here are 33 traditional and voguish beliefs that, on the basis of their research, David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Irwin Meltzer of The Enthusiastic Employee say have little or no basis in reality.

Case Study: City Public Service, San Antonio, Texas
Aileen MacMillan, HR.com''s Enterprise Performance Management and Competencies Analyst, spoke with representatives of City Public Service about their experience implementing an EPM solution.

Pay for Performance-The Importance of an Integrated Approach
An outline of why aligning pay with performance is so important. Sponsored by Authoria - leading provider of Human Capital Solutions.

Training Doesn't Work: It's Time We Ask the Right Question
The corporate intelligence business has a great void of definition for the term "Organizational Learning," writes Nathan Greeno.

10 Ways To Use Time Better
One of the areas where we strive to spend time is on our own needs. Yet we seem to leave this time allocation for last, often never achieving it.

Critical Periods at Work: Lessons About Commitment From Turkeys and Ducks
Joni Johnston discusses the critical periods in an employment relationship and what employers can do to create an ongoing sense of organizational fairness and employee commitment.

Email In The Workplace: Avoiding Legal Landmines
There is a perception that an email is like a private, person-to-person communication. Inappropriate employee use of the company email system can create a host of problems for an employer.

What You Need to Know Before You Buy a HRIS
This is not meant to be an exhaustive monologue on the subject but rather a brief collection of ideas concerns and things to think about as you are involved in the process of finding the right HR system to meet your needs, writes John Enyedy.

Interview Questions - Business Sales Manager
This free sample template is to assist HR professionals with forming suitable questions when interviewing Business Sales Managers.

Interview Questions - Retail Sales
This is a free sample template to assist HR professionals in forming suitable questions when interviewing Retail Sales Representatives.

Interview Questions - Optimization Technician
This free sample template is to assist HR professionals with forming suitable questions when interviewing Optimization Technicians.

Interview Questions - Account Manager
This is a free sample template to assist HR professionals with forming suitable questions when interviewing Account Managers.

Interview Questions - Analyst
This free sample template is to assist HR professionals in forming suitable questions for interviewing Analysts.

Interview Questions - Product Manager
This free sample template is to assist HR professionals with forming suitable questions when interviewing Product Managers.

Interview Questions - Field Technician
This is a free template of interview questions suitable for Template interview questions - field technician

Interview Questions - Sales Coordinator
This free sample is to assist HR professionals with creating an Interview Template for a Sales Coordinator.

Interview Questions - Business Sales Representatives
This is a free sample template of questions for interviewing a potential business sales representative.

Affirmative Action Recruitment Report Form
This free sample is to assist HR professionals with creating an Affirmative Action Recruitment Report Template.

Disciplinary Action Policy
This free sample template form is meant to assist HR professionals with forming a Disciplinary Action Policy.

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There was a lot of interest in how to develop a Training Needs Assessment (TNA). Next week, we´ll post a new case. Please join this discussion in the WaterCooler!

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