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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 …New Jobs: 600 Million Needed In Next Decade
28/01/2012 Comments Off on New Jobs: 600 Million Needed In Next Decade
What the world needs now is jobs, a great many new jobs. Worldwide it’s all about jobs and work. From the jobless wake of Egypt democratic revolution to persistently high unemployment in Europe and North America work – or the lack of it – is a key issue. In fact, the world faces the “urgent […]
Continue reading …How To Succeed At A New Job – The First 90 Days
23/01/2012 Comments Off on How To Succeed At A New Job – The First 90 Days
By Penelope Trunk – The majority of people who fail at their job will fail in the first 90 days. So take special care to make a good start. Here are areas you need to manage carefully. 1. Assume everything in the interview was wrong. Don’t come to work with a preconception of your job description. […]
Continue reading …An OSHA of Contradictions: ‘Model Workplaces’ Not Always So Safe
01/12/2011 Comments Off on An OSHA of Contradictions: ‘Model Workplaces’ Not Always So Safe
By Chris Hamby, iWatch News First in a series, “Model Workplaces, Imperiled Workers,” by the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News In October 2005, a spark triggered an explosion at a Tropicana juice processing plant in Bradenton, Fla. Flames engulfed mechanic Rob Hackley and burned a co-worker who came to his aid. For weeks, Hackley clung […]
Continue reading …How To Avoid The Internet Shopping “Naughty List” At Work
22/11/2011 Comments Off on How To Avoid The Internet Shopping “Naughty List” At Work
With more employers blocking Internet shopping websites this Christmas season Robert Half Technology has four tips to help workers like you avoid getting on their company’s Internet shopping “naughty list” this holiday season: Play by the rules. If your employer allows shopping at work, know your company’s policy, including sites or hours to avoid, before searching […]
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Thanksgiving Day: 24 Nov. 2011 – In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims, early settlers of Plymouth Colony, held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest, an event many regard as the nation’s first Thanksgiving. Historians have also recorded ceremonies of thanks among other groups of European settlers in North America, including British colonists in […]
Continue reading …How to Manage Your E-Reputation And Stay Employed
14/11/2011 Comments Off on How to Manage Your E-Reputation And Stay Employed
Anything you say and do on the Internet can and will be used against you. Managing your e-reputation is critical in an era when anyone with a will and an Internet connection can gather a vast amount of details about nearly anyone in no time at all. This is increasingly true when it comes to […]
Continue reading …Flat Taxes Are Big in the Former USSR: Have They Worked?
10/11/2011 Comments Off on Flat Taxes Are Big in the Former USSR: Have They Worked?
By Braden Goyette, ProPublica GOP presidential candidates Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have all introduced proposals for flat taxes, which aim to tax everyone at the same rate. The idea is to simplify the tax code, getting rid of loopholes and reducing entitlements and deductions. Gingrich and Perry have both promised that Americans […]
Continue reading …Half a Million More Jobs Lost if Unemployment Insurance Extension Expires
09/11/2011 Comments Off on Half a Million More Jobs Lost if Unemployment Insurance Extension Expires
Analysis: For many of those seeking jobs in the United States, the reality is that there just aren’t enough jobs, period. As a result, like it or not, unemployment insurance payment are helping to save the nation from losing more than 500,000 additional jobs. Should a Republican-controlled congress decide to not extend unemployment insurance, consumer […]
Continue reading …Coping With Unemployment’s Emotional Toll
04/11/2011 Comments Off on Coping With Unemployment’s Emotional Toll
Few things in life can hit you as hard emotionally than being unemployed. Even if you’ve been laid off before or you knew the layoff was coming, the act of being rendered jobless stings. Fortunately there are many positive ways to cope with emotional toll that come with unemployment. Here’s one how-to take from four […]
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