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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 […]
Continue reading …Nepal Aims To Hold Outsourcing Firms Accountable For Expats
06/03/2012 Comments Off on Nepal Aims To Hold Outsourcing Firms Accountable For Expats
Nepal, home to the earth’s highest mountain, is also home to some of the earth’s deepest unemployment and poverty rates, forcing millions of Nepalese to seek work abroad. The government of Nepal has introduced the Foreign Employment Policy promoting safe and inclusive migration for the nation’s expatriate workers, according to a report from the Himalayan […]
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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 …Skilled Workers In Ireland Recruited By Canadian Companies
29/02/2012 Comments Off on Skilled Workers In Ireland Recruited By Canadian Companies
Canadian companies are taking advantage of Ireland’s economy, which reeling from a prolonged financial crisis, by actively recruiting skilled workers. The Star Phoenix newspaper in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Ca., reports that at least 26 firms from the province were taking a trip to attend the Working Abroad Expo in Dublin, Ireland, and then traveling to Cork […]
Continue reading …Stronger U.S. Job Market Seen, Global Unemployment Outlook Grim
27/02/2012 Comments Off on Stronger U.S. Job Market Seen, Global Unemployment Outlook Grim
By ROBERT SCALLY — The outlook for the U.S. economy is mostly unchanged from that of three months ago, according to 45 economic forecasters surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The economy continues to slowly improve, and should keep getting better for the next few years. The overall forecast for job growth and […]
Continue reading …10 Parents Benefits Employers Can Provide
25/02/2012 Comments Off on 10 Parents Benefits Employers Can Provide
Most jobs in the United States are offered with at least a minimal list of included benefits, such as medical insurance and vacation/paid time off. For parents who work full time, the needs are substantially different and, depending on the employer, those needs aren’t always addressed. There are many benefits specifically intended for working parents, […]
Continue reading …Analysis – Business Education, MBA Programs Helped Trash The Economy
20/02/2012 Comments Off on Analysis – Business Education, MBA Programs Helped Trash The Economy
By MARGARET HEFFERNAN– Business schools educate armies of bankers, investors and corporate finance executives. How come they don’t feel responsible for the financial havoc that has ensued? After the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, and then again, following 2008’s financial crisis, there was a brief flurry of soul-searching among business schools. Then poof — gone. […]
Continue reading …AllGov.com – Outsourcing Death In The Afghanistan War
16/02/2012 Comments Off on AllGov.com – Outsourcing Death In The Afghanistan War
During the past decade, working as an employee of a U.S. military contractor in Afghanistan has been one of the more dangerous ways to make a living. Private contractors have been front and center in the U.S. military’s involvement Afghanistan, just as they were in both wars in Iraq. Contractors have been responsible for supplying […]
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