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Where Is The Employee Choice In The Engagement Equation?
19/03/2012 Comments Off on Where Is The Employee Choice In The Engagement Equation?
From Paul Smith’s Welcome to the Occupation blog– From Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to McGregor’s X and Y Theories, fromVroom’s Expectancy Theory to Gallup’s Q12, we spend a great deal of time trying to get into our employees’ head. The goal may be stated that it’s to make employees happier. But what we really want is for them to be […]
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From Paul Smith’s Welcome to the Occupation blog— This week I was faced with listening to someone use the word “rock star” to describe high performers in their organization. I understand the connotation behind this: the multi-platinum albums, the sold-out stadium shows, the cover of music magazines. These are signs of. But I unfortunately have […]
Continue reading …Executive, Professional Hiring To Keep Rising But Pace Slower
01/03/2012 Comments Off on Executive, Professional Hiring To Keep Rising But Pace Slower
Hiring in professional fields is likely to keep rising in the second quarter of 2012 but at a slower pace than forecast for the first quarter, according to a new survey by the staffing firm Robert Half. A net 2% of executives interviewed for the Robert Half Professional Employment Report plan to add full-time staff […]
Continue reading …TLNT Transform Displays Spirit of HR Transformation
29/02/2012 Comments Off on TLNT Transform Displays Spirit of HR Transformation
By PAUL SMITH via the Welcome to the Occupation — During Ron Thomas’s opening statements at TLNT Transform, he remarked that by virtue of attending this conference (in person or via online), we had become transformers. Because it was an HR conference, there was a further call for all of HR to transform. Though, this is easier than done. […]
Continue reading …Employee Engagement Measured In 12 Questions
30/01/2012 Comments Off on Employee Engagement Measured In 12 Questions
In the early 1990s the Gallup Organization, which conducts the often-quoted Gallup Polls, developed set of questions designed to identify and measure the elements of employee engagement that most closely affected the bottom line–things like increased sales, high productivity and creating customer loyalty. What emerged from Gallup’s decades of research, which eventually involved millions of […]
Continue reading …Burns Departs Mercer for Marsh & McLennan’s Policy Center
12/10/2011 Comments Off on Burns Departs Mercer for Marsh & McLennan’s Policy Center
Global professional services firm Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. has announced it is establishing a Retirement Policy Center and named M. Michele Burns as its executive director. Burns has been chairman and CEO of Mercer, a division of Marsh & McLennan, since September 2006. Mercer provides human resources and related financial advice, products and services. […]
Continue reading …Saudi Minister Seeks “Saudization” of Jobs Amid Unemployment
02/10/2011 Comments Off on Saudi Minister Seeks “Saudization” of Jobs Amid Unemployment
Saudi Arabia’s Labor Minister is seeking the “Saudization” of the kingdom’s private sector amid rising unemployment and unease following uprisings in other Arab nations. Saudi Arabia’s unemployment rate was 10.8% in July. The country will begin to pay unemployment benefits for the first time from November, Saudi Labor Minister Adel Fakieh, told Bloomberg News. In 2012 the […]
Continue reading …HR Expert Dave Ulrich Urges Vietnam to Emulate Singapore
02/10/2011 Comments Off on HR Expert Dave Ulrich Urges Vietnam to Emulate Singapore
From Viet Nam News — Ho Chi Minh City — Close cooperation between government, companies and educators is necessary for Vietnam to develop a national talent strategy, according to University of Michigan Professor Dave Ulrich. Speaking at an international seminar on human resources that took place 29 Sept. 2011, held by the PACE Institute of […]
Continue reading …Army HR Chief is First African-American Female Two-Star General
01/10/2011 Comments Off on Army HR Chief is First African-American Female Two-Star General
U.S. Army Human Resources Command‘s deputy commanding general, Marcia M. Anderson, became the Army’s first-ever female African-American officer to obtain the rank of major general Thursday, 29 Sept. 2011, at Ft. Knox, Ky. Maj. Gen Marcia M. Anderson’s background shaped her into the personable, successful woman she is today, according to the an Army press […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill