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Employee Engagement Surveys Boost Customer Satisfaction
30/11/2011 Comments Off on Employee Engagement Surveys Boost Customer Satisfaction
By Howard Deutsch – If you need to increase your company’s competitiveness and profit, where should you start? Should you focus on your employees first, or should you start by focusing on your customers first? In reality, you need to do both. It is almost always best to start by focusing on your employees first. Highly […]
Continue reading …Citigroup SEC Settlement Trashed By Federal Judge
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Citigroup SEC Settlement Trashed By Federal Judge
By Marian Wang, ProPublica – When the Securities and Exchange Commission struck a deal with Citigroup over a failed security that the bank sold to investors, we asked whether regulators had handed Citigroup too sweet a deal. Today [28 Nov. 2011] in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff appeared to reach that very conclusion: “If the allegations of the Complaint […]
Continue reading …How to Reduce Your Employee Stress in 8 Easy Steps
29/11/2011 Comments Off on How to Reduce Your Employee Stress in 8 Easy Steps
By Howard Deutsch Reducing employee stress could mean increasing profits and productivity. If you need to increase your company’s competitiveness and profit, where should you start? Should you focus on your employees first, or should you start by focusing on your customers first? In reality, you need to do both. It is almost always best […]
Continue reading …Five Costly Recession-Related Employee Retention Mistakes
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Five Costly Recession-Related Employee Retention Mistakes
By Ross Blake — Even though it’s an “employer’s market” with millions of capable people looking for work due to the recession, many employers are making these five costly employee retention mistakes. Mistake #1: Assuming employees “won’t dare leave now due to the recession.” Many organizations have discontinued their employee retention programs, figuring they aren’t needed […]
Continue reading …Droopy Rupee Aids India’s Outsourcing Firms
28/11/2011 Comments Off on Droopy Rupee Aids India’s Outsourcing Firms
With the rupee drooping to record lows versus the U.S. dollar, The Economic Times of India reports that major outsourcing firms Infosys Ltd and HCL Technologies Ltd are “poised to profit” from foreign-exchange hedging. During 2011 the rupee has fallen about 14% against the dollar, and is the worst performing Asian currency. A weaker rupee […]
Continue reading …From the Blogs: How To Achieve Problem Free China Outsourcing. Or Not.
27/11/2011 Comments Off on From the Blogs: How To Achieve Problem Free China Outsourcing. Or Not.
From the China Law Blogsigns of issues with making stuff in China: We are always preaching that if you 1) choose a good manufacturer, 2) use a good OEM contract, 3) engage in good quality control monitoring, and register your trademark, the odds are overwhelming that you will do just fine in outsourcing your product from China. The odds just went […]
Continue reading …From the Blogs: Recovering from Outsourcing – A CIO’s Tale
27/11/2011 Comments Off on From the Blogs: Recovering from Outsourcing – A CIO’s Tale
From the blog of technology consultant Eric D. Brown, a cautionary tale about IT outsourcing: The premise of the interview is this: At some point, the majority of the Canadian Pacific IT group was outsourced. This outsourcing destroyed their ability to function, destroyed morale, careers, ambitions and a long and thorough knowledge base held within the IT […]
Continue reading …Outsourcing Software Development to Eastern Europe: The Case for Slovakia
27/11/2011 Comments Off on Outsourcing Software Development to Eastern Europe: The Case for Slovakia
From Natasha Starkell, editor, GoalEurope: Slovakia is a pretty small country with 5.4 million inhabitants, but it has an enormous competitive advantage: Bratislava, its capital is located within an hour’s drive from the magnificent Vienna. One would think that the proximity to this established economy as well as its membership in the Euro zone would […]
Continue reading …Tips For Doing An Pre-Employment Background Screening Check
27/11/2011 Comments Off on Tips For Doing An Pre-Employment Background Screening Check
By Rudy Silva Are you in charge of hiring new employees? Do you know how to do a proper employment screening? Can you do a background check that will eliminate those employees that have some detrimental past activities that could harm your company? Here are some tips for you to use in your background checking […]
Continue reading …Screen Employees With Pre-Employment Background Checks
27/11/2011 Comments Off on Screen Employees With Pre-Employment Background Checks
By Jennifer Larson Pre-Employment Background Checks For Job Applicants These days it’s assumed that when you apply for a job, a pre-employment background check will take place before an employer will consider hiring any applicant. A pre-employment check looks back several years, mainly for any past and recent criminal activity. Almost every major corporation and […]
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